Showing posts tagged “Hammer No More the Fingers”
Spencer Griffith ·
17 Jul 2009, 3:24 PM ·
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Sure, there are plenty of great shows you could catch around the Triangle tonight, but none deserve your attendance more than a five-deep bill of top-notch local indie rock at Tir Na Nog. It’s more than just another great line-up trotted out by the downtown Raleigh pub that has become known for its weekly Local Band-Local Beer series: all proceeds from the $5 cover charge—totally a bargain for this stacked roster—benefit HopeLine of North Carolina, a twenty-four hour crisis line that fields calls on suicide, child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault and substance abuse, amongst other issues. The non-profit also lends an ear to teenagers through a round-the-clock hotline and makes daily check-in calls to senior citizens who live alone.
Tir Na Nog’s Chris Tamplin explains the non-profit’s urgent need for funds: “Hopeline relies on public funding as well as private donations, and with the economy the way it is, a lot of people aren’t opening up their wallets to charities.” Tamplin added that Hopeline representatives will be in attendance to provide information about the organization’s programs, answer questions, and collect donations above and beyond the five-spot collected at the door. “Hopeline really needs the help. They’ve been around since 1970, and to lose an organization like this would be devastating to our community.”
Even if it wasn’t a benefit, this event would still deserve your attention. In the second spot, bouncy pro-pop/anti-folk scene leaders The Future Kings of Nowhere plays its last full-band show in the area before frontman Shayne O’Neill moves to New York City. They’re bookended by a pair of indie pop sets: synth-centric Terpsikhore noobs On Photon bats leadoff at 9:30 p.m., while Chapel Hill’s power-pop princes (and princess) I Was Totally Destroying It follows the Future Kings. Durham’s Hammer No More The Fingers are in the penultimate slot, pulverizing its pogo rhythms with power trio crunch, while Lonnie Walker wraps the night up, blending ramshackle Americana with raring indie rock.
You Should Do This Future Kings of Nowhere, Hammer No More the Fingers, I Was Totally Destroying It, Lonnie Walker, on photon, Tir Na Nog
Bryan Reed ·
25 Jun 2009, 12:19 PM ·
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Red star.
In defense of Twitter: There are some pretty sweet tweets floating around, including one yesterday from @hnmtf. “We just released a new track from the looking for bruce recording session Do the Human - FREE!,” it read, offering a link to a bit of Web 2.0 marketing shared between Windows and ReverbNation—wherein one could, as promised, download “Do The Human.”
For local fans, “Do The Human” isn’t entirely new: It was (but isn’t any more) offered as a digital bonus for folks who ordered Hammer’s J. Robbins-produced Looking For Bruce directly from Churchkey Records, and I swear, I heard a demo of this song floating around more than a year ago. Hammer’s Duncan Webster backs me up. “‘Do The Human’ was actually the third song we ever wrote. I think we wrote it in January of 2007. It was on our demo CD.” Continue reading »
New Music Bull City, Churchkey Records, Future Kings of Nowhere, Hammer No More the Fingers, Microsoft, ReverbNation, Schooner, Sponsored Songs, Windows
Grayson Currin ·
16 Apr 2009, 7:21 PM ·
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Ready out of the gutter: Superchunk at Cat's Cradle, Wednesday, April 15.
Superchunk, Hammer No More the Fingers
Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro
Wednesday, April 15
I’ve been trying to remember the last time Superchunk played, you know, a normal hometown gig, and I’m drawing a blank: Last year, they gigged for Barack Obama outdoors under the warm spring sun and for Cy Rawls inside a sweaty Cat’s Cradle; previously, there was the show with then-labelmates Dinosaur Jr. in which both bands only pulled from their first three albums, a Tsunami benefit, an Alejandro Escovedo benefit and Merge’s 15th anniversary party almost exactly five years ago.* But when’s the last time the quartet—closing in on two decades of two lineups and two names—simply got up on stage and played a casual set for the locals? Last night, April 15, actually.
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Live Actions: Reviews Churchkey Records, Hammer No More the Fingers, Merge Records, Superchunk
Bryan Reed ·
5 Apr 2009, 10:40 AM ·
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Viking Storm, pt. II (Hammer No More The Fingers, The Future Kings of Nowhere, The Dry Heathens, Deleted Scenes, The Beast)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham
Saturday, April 4
Hammer No More The Fingers could have been upstaged.
Hammer No More The Fingers storms the Duke Coffeehouse (Photo: Allie Mullin)
There was the matter of the 16-foot Viking warship—resting across the Duke Coffeehouse stage, adorned with shields representing each of the nine bands that comprised the Viking Storm lineup. Then there were the Future Kings of Nowhere, resurrected as a team of lanky (Minnesota) Vikings, purple jerseys and crisp white football pants included. And, of course, a Final Four victory for the Tar Heels.
But the night, as expected, belonged to Hammer. And the standard for album releases in the Triangle, as expected, was raised.
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Live Actions: Reviews, Uncategorized Deleted Scenes, Duke Coffeehouse, Future Kings of Nowhere, Hammer No More the Fingers, Looking For Bruce, The Beast, The Dry Heathens, Viking Storm
Bryan Reed ·
4 Apr 2009, 12:41 PM ·
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Viking Storm, pt. I (Tooth, Caverns, The Bronzed Chorus, Pink Flag)
The Pinhook, Durham
Friday, April 3
Mere observation be damned.
As Durham powerhouse Tooth packed itself onto the cramped Pinhook stage—rightfully headlining night one of Viking Storm—the band’s charged gallop churned every body, mine included, in the front half of the room to a flailing froth. It’s a testament to the band’s intensity and deep, cutting grooves that they could drive a room full of people to hurtle themselves at one another at a show where moshing had no precedent prior to the headliner’s set. Mere observation was impossible. Continue reading »
Live Actions: Reviews, Uncategorized Caverns, Hammer No More the Fingers, Pink Flag, The Bronzed Chorus, Tooth, Viking Storm
Guest Band ·
1 Apr 2009, 12:11 PM ·
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Tuesday, March 24
Detroit, Mich.
We’re driving to Chicago right now. We’ve just finished listening to Stephen Colbert’s audiobook I Am America & So Can You for the second time. It’s 5 a.m. in our world, but we just crossed into the Central time zone, so technically it’s 4 a.m.. We decided to leave Detroit after the show tonight so we could make it to Chicago for an 11:00 a.m. interview with Heave Media. We thought about staying in Detroit, but we were afraid we might hit rush-hour traffic in the morning and miss the interview. Continue reading »
Hammer No More the Fingers: Tour Diary, Uncategorized Hammer No More the Fingers
Guest Band ·
1 Apr 2009, 11:57 AM ·
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Monday, March 23
Pittsburgh, Penn.
Nightly entertainment
We woke up around noon on Monday morning, still in Johnstown. We had only an hour and a half drive to Pittsburgh, our shortest drive yet. We left our equipment set up the night before at 709 Railroad, so we had a little band practice before packing everything into our Honda CR-V. It was fun playing new songs that we haven’t yet had the balls to play live on tour. We then drove to Pittsburgh, passing a huge (nuclear?) power plant. Continue reading »
Hammer No More the Fingers: Tour Diary Hammer No More the Fingers
Guest Band ·
1 Apr 2009, 11:45 AM ·
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Sunday, March 22
Johnstown, Penn.
Tonight is our ninth show of the tour. So begins what we consider the “second leg” of our 15-date quest. We’re leaving the east coast and heading to part of the country where none of us has spent much time, let alone played music. Continue reading »
Hammer No More the Fingers: Tour Diary Hammer No More the Fingers, Red Collar
Guest Band ·
1 Apr 2009, 11:39 AM ·
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Saturday, March 21
Manhattan, N.Y.
I (Joe Hall, guitarist) woke up at my cousin’s apartment at a less than respectable 1 p.m. He lives right in the heart of the Lower East Side on Houston at Avenue A. I only had to walk out of his building to get right where I wanted to be for the day. My band mates were still in Brooklyn, so I had the afternoon to myself, a rare thing when you’re on tour. Continue reading »
Hammer No More the Fingers: Tour Diary Duke, Hammer No More the Fingers, UNC
Guest Band ·
1 Apr 2009, 11:35 AM ·
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Friday March 20
Brooklyn, N.Y.
As we approached New York City, we decided to drive through Staten Island instead of fighting Friday evening Manhattan traffic. We crossed the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge, which offers the most radical view of the entire city of New York as you head into Brooklyn. You forget how dense and crazy this place is. We drove on to the Brookyln-Queens Expressway, which whizzed us straight to Brooklyn’s hipster haven, Williamsburg. Continue reading »
Hammer No More the Fingers: Tour Diary Hammer No More the Fingers
