Downtown Live addition: Joan Jett
She’ll play Moore Square Park July 11. I’d make the requisite pun about loving rock ‘n’ roll here, but Deep South’s e-mail blast beat me to it: “I Love Rock N’ Roll! Joan Jett Confirmed!”
Still holding out for OMC!
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Raleigh Downtown Live announces more bands: Filter, Charlie Daniels Band
Charlie Daniels Band comes down to Moore Square on July 25. That sounds like fun, actually. But Filter on June 13, two weeks after Candlebox? Again, that’s the best we can do?
Oh, well: I’m still holding out for a visit from OMC myself.
Merge Records announces 20th anniversary celebration
Five days of indie rock from July 22-26, says Merge: “XX Merge will be the label’s party to mark this anniversary: five days of music by Merge artists past and present in the summer heat of sunny North Carolina.”
Full release beyond the break:
New Triangle Band: The Flute Flies
In four notes…
1: Started in order to write songs for CyTunes, the digital music store started to help pay the medical bills of Cy Rawls, the long-time local music booster who died in October.
2: The project of Ivan “Rosebud” Howard, Reid “Schooner” Johnson and Zeno “Pox World Empire” Gill.
3: Your band name is probably not as good as the band name The Fruit Flies.
4: I sorta wish more bands tried to combine the genres the band’s MySpace mentions: Electroacoustic, black metal, healing & easy listening.
Raleigh rock at … The Bassment?
Raleigh rock band The T’s will play The Bassment—the Glenwood South club that splits its space with The Pourch and sits next to Helios—on Wednesday, Dec. 3. The show is sponsored by Red Bull.
Music that you forgot that you knew the lyrics to including, Air supply and Journey to Beastie Boys De La Sol with a little Aerosmith and Def Leopard thrown in for good measure. At the Bassment they have the best of the past and the current stuff, including: Justin Timberlake, Buck Cherry, Kid Rock, Gwen Stefani and so much more. Our music will cover the past five decades of sing at the top of your lungs, Bounce out of your seat music!
Disaster waiting to happen or a little across-the-aisles Raleigh socializing? We’ll see… Also, The Loners and The Rosebuds at The Pour House Wednesday, too.
Last minute show: Howe Gelb @ Carrboro’s The Station
Giant Sand mastermind Howe Gelb flies into RDU around 10 p.m. tonight. He’ll go onstage in trio-form to at 11:30 at Southern Rail. The secret show was set up by his new label folks at Yep Roc.
Duke Basketball season starts tonight
…but we’re guessing Reggie Love won’t be in the stands.
(From Huffington Post: Former Duke basketball and football star Reggie Love, center and facing)
But we will be: Follow the action at Triangle Offense.
The Rosebuds add Raleigh date
As expected, The Rosebuds have tacked a Raleigh date onto its current national tour. The Rosebuds will play The Pour House Wednesday, Dec. 3, with The Loners. The announcement follows the band’s Friday show for Troika Music Festival in Durham. It sure was nice to see Casey Burns (ex-The Nein) on a Triangle stage again. He’s currently playing bass for The Rosebuds, with Matt McCaughan, who’s fresh from a Bon Iver tour, on drums.
Did Patterson Hood say anything political last night?
Yesterday afternoon, I sat in on an interview with Drive-By Truckers guitarist Patterson Hood for an upcoming documentary about the broad appeal and influence of AC/DC (more on this later). The producer complimented Hood on his shirt, a blue Barack n’ Roll T draped by a jacket. Hood said that, following his show with The Hold Steady at The Lincoln Theatre, the band’s two buses would head north, where they’d park and have a block party of sorts to watch election returns tonight: “Hopefully, it’ll be a celebration, not a drink-your-beer-and-cry type thing.”
It surprised me, then, when Hood emerged for the evening’s show without his T-shirt, instead wearing long sleeves during the sold-out, hot-as-hell gig. What’s more, aside from a mid-song quip about there being no bailout for Main St., he didn’t say anything about today’s election. That said, I left before the encore to drive to Fuquay-Varina (again, more on this later). So did I miss Hood’s political spiel, or did he simply forgo it after donating after giving a political song to his fans and his endorsement to Obama yesterday?
And when has The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn ever been reticent?
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