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Big benefit in the works for Hurricane Katrina victims at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 25, a weekend that already includes several benefits and on a day that includes Triangle stops by Sufjan Stevens, Los Lobos and The Posies. The bill is shaping up something like this, though several more bands may be added: Chip Robinson and the Anti Carpetbaggers League, Six String Drag, Arrogance, Tres Chicas, Patty Hurst Shifter, The Woods, $2 Pistols, Hobex, The Hanks, The Bleeding Hearts. This will mark the first Six String Drag show since the massive Alejandro Escovedo Benefit at Martin Street Music Hall (then, Retail) in November, 2003.
Details to follow. Mayor Meeker, organizers say, will be on hand to speak.
Sadlack’s pal Bridget Munger called today to let us know about a Hurricane Katrina relief show she’s organized for Cornerstone Shopping Center at the corner of Davis Drive and High House Road from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Kenny Roby & The Mercy Filter will headline the benefit with Patty Hurst Shifter, The Countdown Quartet, 33 1/3 and Liquor Pop rounding out the bill. Expect a silent auction, face painters, a white tiger on display, magic, balloon art, a cartoon tent, a henna booth and Old King Cole & The Queen of Hearts to raise the good times and assistance to new levels.
This from Indy music writer Joe Vanderford:
Burning in Technicolor
The most fascinating jazz these days emanates from edgy musicians who can play it either way: inside-out or outside-in. Like an eye-catching reversible coat that’s green one day and blue the next, multi-chromatic bands like Burnt Sugar and the Satoko Fujii 4 are both fashionable and functional. The line between composition and improvisation blurs. Blink and—damn!—it’s changed clothes.
This week, all the action’s on the Duke campus. The Saturday, Sept. 10 show at Baldwin Auditorium stars Burnt Sugar as part of Duke’s “The Word on Music Symposium.” They blend Africana, vintage funk, proto-bop and most anything with a sturdy, mahogany grain. Joined together by the texts of writer Greg Tate and techniques pioneered by conductor Butch Morris, BS is a big, rollicking house-party on wheels that can turn on a dime.
Then, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Fujii quartet arrives from New York with bristling, big-city energy and one of the best rhythm sections in the biz. Pushed by the chattering drums of Jim Black and the sexy crawl of bassist Mark Dresser, Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura will wiggle and wail. Don’t be shocked at the sheer intimacy of piano-brass conversation; Fujii and Natsuki are wife and husband, musically and otherwise.
This from Alltel
Raleigh, NC (September 9, 2005)- Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek announce today that the Saturday, September 10th show featuring Coldplay has sold out.
Fans are welcome to come early and car pool; the early arrival parking lot (Lot G) will open up at 3:00pm and the venue gates will open at 6:00pm. The Red Cross & the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC will be on site collecting for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, so fans are encouraged to bring in their donations.
Def Leppard With Bryan Adams at Alltell Saturday, October 15. Tix go on sale Saturday.
Stand by for the new iTunes phone thingy.
Gatemouth was one of the greats—a pleasant man who could play those old swamp pop horn licks on an SG like it was nobody’s business.
I like yr single, W.
Edit 1: Oops, forgot to mention the makers: www.k-otix.com, aka The Legendary K.O. Also, it would seem difficult to rock this song for the last two weeks, now wouldn’t it?
. . .we must be havin’ Lucky Charms for breakfast!
An amazing, time-wasting assortment of 200 or so performers’ riders from smokinggun.
We’ve had a lot of calls and e-mails about Hurricane benefits. I’ll try to stay up on when and where, but please post any shows you know of to this thread.
Thanks.
I’m off to the airport now to head to New York. I’ll be touring with Little Brother until Sunday, so stay tuned here for updates from the tour. Expect a big story on it soon.
It’s one of the most electrifying things I’ve ever seen: More than four hours into a sold-out show in Times Squares’ B.B. Kings, Phonte, Big Pooh and DJ Flash hit their headlining slot to a crowd that was absoluetly loving it. Backstage, minutes before, members of The Justus League that had already been on stage—L.E.G.A.C.Y. and Darien Brockington—provided the reconaissance, saying that the crowd was tired after such a long show in such a hot venue. But the crowd exploded when LB walked on, and they stayed as loud for the entire hour-and-a-half set. Plenty of guests were in the house: Casual from Hiero, Smif & Wesson (who helped close out The Away Team’s set with “Come on Down”) and plenty of Atlantic Records workers, who Phonte thanked by saying he needed to hear a “thunderous…rapturous…round of applause…if you want to keep seeing Little Brother records and videos.” Speaking of videos, Phonte dished a smart slam on B.E.T. during a freestyle, and—speaking of the fumbling media—former Source editor Fahiem Ratcliffe stood onstage the whole night, backing the trio he’s backed the whole time, even at the expense of one of the most important jobs in hip-hop.
T.I. was in the house, too, and he needed no introduction (Phonte had mentioned that he was in the crowd and even teased him a bit with one his own hooks) when he walked onstage mid-set with 9th Wonder, gave high fives to the front row, turned around and walked out of the club.
Tonight: Boston.
No reports from Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint…Several others, including the guys from Galactic, are on tour and homeless…Best wishes.
Update: Fats has been found, rescued from a flood in the city. Update 3: He’s got a place to stay, too.
Update 2: Alex Chilton of Big Star is also missing, according to a searchable database of the Times-Picayune.
Big props to the Lake Eden Arts Festival folks for helping out the efforts by the Tipitina’s Foundation and other to help NOLA musicians.
Marianne Taylor of The Pour House has been one of my favorite folks in the Raleigh booking business for a while now, and she’s come through once again. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans early last week, she reached out to many of her New Orleans musician contacts and offered them shows, especially if they had been displaced and were unable to return home. Louisiana singer-songwriter Jeremy Lyons, his family and his band lost everything they had, save what he could fit in a pickup truck. In a last minute booking, he will open for Sarah Borges tomorrow night to try and earn money to support himself and his homeless family. Go help.
In other post-Katrina news, New Orleans band Los Hombres Calientes—scheduled to perform at NC State’s Stewart Theatre on Friday, Sept. 16—will perform as planned, according to NCSU’s Mark Tulbert.
New records from The Rosebuds and Little Brother and Shannon O’ Connnor out today, one of the biggest Tuesdays of the year.
Other releases include: Shawn Amos, Arizona, Amp & Alternator (Howe Gelb), Devendra Banhart, Blue Rodeo, Sam Champion, Cave-In, CocoRosie, The Dandy Warhols, Freakwater, Giant Drag, David Gray, Annie Haden, Iron & Wine/Calexico collaboration, The Juliana Theory, Lake Trout, The Like, Damian Marley, Paul McCartney, Opeth, Charlie Sexton, Sigur Ros, Soulive, Stellastarr, Stretch Armstrong, Switchfoot, The Vandermark 5 and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice.
Little Brother is already causing quite a stir, first with The Source, now with BET.
Some of my fondest memories of living in New Orleans was listening to Billy Dell’s Records from the Crypt on WWOZ and, given that the station is in Armstrong Park on the edge of the Vieux Carre, I was pretty worried.
Thanks to some help from WFMU, the station is back up. There’s an interesting tale on the FMU blog about it.
The ripple effects of the Hurricane Katrina disaster reach into the arts and music that make New Orleans what it is. One relief effort among many is the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund established by Preservation Hall.
Those ear buds may not be your ears’ buds.
Hearing specialists say they’re also seeing more people in their 30s and 40s many of them among the first Walkman users who suffer from more pronounced tinnitus, an internal ringing or even the sound of whooshing or buzzing in the ears.
Try to come up for air every now and again to give your ears a break.
Fats Domino’s been rescued.
Used to drive by his place—always a nice Caddy in the yard.
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This week in the Independent Weekly
 Cover Story:Whitewash
Barry Yeoman on how Helms’ new memoir attempts to rewrite the past
Helms through the years: In his own words
Hurrican Katrina: The disaster that shouldn’t have been: Warnings about FEMA fell on deaf ears By Jon Elliston
A flood of facts in the perfect storm: TV gets it, the N&O doesn’t
New Orleans is gone and I don’t know if I’ll be back‘: A newspaper editor ponders his future By Gambit Editor, Michael Tisserand
Last call: One man’s odyssey out of New Orleans
Katrina relief: How you can help
Columns:
Upfront: Funk prophecy
Derek Jennings: Welcome to the Terrordome
A&E/ Music/ Movies
 WLOL: Jon Wurster, professional crank caller
Breaking Records: Tennis & the Mennonites, Art Lord & the Self Portraits
Bo at The Durham Blues Festival
No Depression Magazine celebrates 10 years
Junebug
Interview with Phil Morrison and Amy Adams
Best Bets: Fiesta Del Pueblo, Durham Blues Fest, Occupation: Dreamland
Get Outs
Eight Days A Week
If you noticed odd accents from three men and three women on 9th Street in Durham today, they may have been from Iceland. Sigur Ros and longtime collaborators and openers Amina ate sushi at Whole Foods and drank espressso at Bean Traders today, a few hours before their sold-out set at Carolina Theatre later this evening.
“I couldn’t imagine a better working relationship,” one member of Amina told me today, sitting outside of the theatre before soundcheck. “I think this is our twelfth or thirteenth tour together, and we never fight and never argue. It’s amazing, really.”
Yes, I’m excited for the show. If you don’t have a ticket, I’m sure there will be some changing hands outside the door. Good luck.
I’ll let you know how it goes later tonight.
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