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Friday
July
3
Skull Buckle, Left Outlet, The Ts, Birds of Avalon, American Aquarium
Pour House, Raleigh
Birds of Avalon just released their second full-length, Uncanny Valley, and the one song I've heard, "Your Downtime Is Up," moves them even more in the spacey-swirly-psych direction hinted at by the Outer Upper Inner EP of last year. Given what monster guitarists Paul & Cheetie are, I'm guessing the live show is still massive.
music in the groovo.org player: Left Outlet, Birds of Avalon


Friday
July
3
Tin Star, Birds & Arrows, Gray Young
The Pinhook, Durham
12:00 - Tin Star
11:00 - Birds and Arrows
10:00 - Gray Young

Tin Star are about to release an EP, Bettie Lane, which is an interesting mix of Louis Botta's chiming, arpeggiated guitar & Jamie Miyares's piano and high, precise vocals. They navigate (and master) the usually-deadly midtempo, by leaving just the right amount of space between the notes.


photo: Tin Star - The Pinhook - May 20, 2009
music in the groovo.org player: Gray Young
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Saturday
July
4
Battle Rockets, Virgo 9, Free Electric State, Goodbye, Titan, Blag'ard
Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh
This is the Let Feedback Ring festival, an all-afternoon affair put together by the gtr/drums instrumental duo Battle Rockets. The complete lineup (probably not in order, but I'm unsure):

Goodbye, Titan
Irata
The White Cascade
Free Electric State
Battle Rockets
The Virgo 9
Blag’ard
Once and Future Kings
Spy Satellite

Starts around 1:30; should be over in time to make it to the Red Collar show at Tir Na nOg.
music in the groovo.org player: Virgo 9, Blag'ard
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Saturday
July
4
Evil Wiener
The Cave, Chapel Hill
It's the 8th Annual Evil Weiner Roast hosted by Evil Wiener (only 8th? seems like longer). There is nowhere I'd rather be on a July 4th than at the Cave, listening to Evil Wiener's skewed takes on all the patriotic classics, plus more.

photo: Evil Wiener
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Saturday
July
4
Red Collar, Caverns, The Demon Beat
Tir Na Nog, Raleigh
Red Collar are a leaner, meaner rock&roll machine, thanks to a few months of near-nonstop touring. They are an American success story, regardless of how much "success" they actually attain.

photo: Red Collar - 305 South - Feb 4, 2006
music in the groovo.org player: Red Collar
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Sunday
July
5
The Curtains of Night, Trophy Wife, Invisible
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill's Curtains of Night & DC's Trophy Wife are kindred spirits, for sure (or twins separated at birth): big screamy all-women guitar-drums duos. They're joined here by the bizarre/wonderful Greensboro band Invisible, whose homebrew instruments are equal parts musical instruments & art-objects. Here's a great flash slideshow from the N&O.

photo: Curtains of Night, Bull City Headquarters, October 12, 2007
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Sunday
July
5
Clang Quartet, Peter Woods, Instinct Control
Nightlight, Chapel Hill
 

photo: Clang Quartet - Local 506, Chapel Hill - July 3, 2006
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Sunday
July
5
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls, The Cheats
Slim's Downtown, Raleigh
Richard Bacchus is a wicked elf, a denim-clad rock-n-roll showman, the kind of man who might just comb his hair with beer even when he's *not* onstage.

photo: Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls, The Pinhook, April 30, 2009
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Monday
July
6
Japandroids, Mount Weather
Local 506, Chapel Hill
Show of the week: Japandroids are from Vancouver. Yes, they're yet another gtr/drums duo, but you wouldn't know it from the great washes of guitar (and huge tom-heavy drum sounds) coming off their debut, Post-Nothing. It's summertime music (lotta songs about girls) but fuzzed-out, exploded, pushed through a filter of Vancouver drizzle and Sonic Youth crackle.

Check out Heart Sweats for a taste of their more beat-heavy/aggro side (but note the strategic "oooh"s as well).
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Tuesday
July
7
Middle Distance Runner, Drink Up Buttercup
Local 506, Chapel Hill
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1) The handheld-optimized version of the site, or a new simplified text version of this page, for you lo-fi fans.

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3) NEW! An iCal feed of all the listed shows, updated nightly.

4) This listing is posted once or twice a week to ch-scene, the mailing list which is itself a mirror of alt.music.chapel-hill.
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