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Thursday April 24 Dan Croll, Panama Wedding Cat's Cradle Back Room, Carrboro

Thursday April 24 High Spirits, Widow, Colossus Slim's, Raleigh Chris Black is from Chicago, and he specializes in making metal bands that pay loving tribute to specific styles/eras of metal. His band Dawnbringer is an amazing NWOBHM throwback, and High Spirits is (more or less) his homage to 80s hair/glam metal. He records & plays pretty much everything on the records himself, but he puts together a band when he plays live, so this should be the real deal. photo: Colossus - Local 506 - August 21, 2008 music in the groovo.org player: Colossus permalink

Thursday April 24 Turchi, Mark Holland Local 506, Chapel Hill

Thursday April 24 Jonas Sees in Color, Headfirst for Halos, Almost People Motorco Music Hall, Durham

Thursday April 24 David B. Dollar, The Vineyard Tir Na Nog, Raleigh

Thursday April 24 Fields of Mars, Houda Idrissi The Pinhook, Durham

Thursday April 24 William Fitzsimmons, Leif Vollebekk Pour House, Raleigh

Thursday April 24 Supreme Fiction, Aloud, Strange Faces The Cave, Chapel Hill

Thursday April 24 The Record, Waking April, Bears in the City Deep South (The Bar), Raleigh

Thursday April 24 Infinity Shred, Away Msg, j.ji Kings, Raleigh

Thursday April 24 Vannevar, Dan and Rachel The Kraken, Chapel Hill

Fri-Sat April 25-26 Art of Cool Festival various downtown venues, Durham This is the inaugural outing for Durham's own Art of Cool Festival, an ambitious 2-day festival celebrating the intersection of jazz and contemporary beat-based music. A complete lineup & schedule can be found at their website. permalink

Friday April 25 Jon Langford CAM, Raleigh This is an evening with Jon Langford, longtime Mekons frontman who is now just about as well known for his visual art as he is for his rock-n-roll-n-punk-n-country. He'll be showing off both talents here tonight. permalink

Friday April 25 Government Flu, Red Death, Holder's Scar, Skemata Nice Price Books, Raleigh Punk shows at Nice Price are all ages & start sometime between 7 and 9 or 10 or whatever. Skemata are a brutal new metal/hardcore crossover band from Raleigh. Government Flu are here all the way from Poland. permalink

Friday April 25 Chuck Ragan and the Camaraderie, Jonny Two Bags Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

Friday April 25 Jimbo Mathus, Fantastico Cat's Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Jimbo Mathus used to be one of the primary members of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, but in the years since their demise he has immersed himself much more deeply in the delta blues. permalink

Friday April 25 Made to Break Kings, Raleigh Made to Break is a new ensemble led by modern-day saxophone titan Ken Vandermark and featuring Tim Daisy, Christof Kurzmann and Jasper Stadhouders. permalink

Friday April 25 The Polish Ambassador, Wild Light, Saqi, Ayla Nereo Pour House, Raleigh

Friday April 25 River City Ransom, The Hell No, Vannevar, Chris Lazarek Deep South (The Bar), Raleigh

Friday April 25 The Old Laws, Blanco Diablo The Maywood, Raleigh

Friday April 25 The Charming Youngsters, Aloud, Needle Points, Wharves Slim's, Raleigh

Friday April 25 Phatlynx The Kraken, Chapel Hill

Not enough for you? There are fun interactive maps to the clubs via the Google Maps API. Other ways to get this info: 1) The handheld-optimized version of the site, or a new simplified text version of this page, for you lo-fi fans. 2) An RSS feed. AND! A weekly oggcast! (OK, it's just my WXDU radio show.) 3) 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. 5) For you web 2.0 fans, we have a facebook app *and* a Twitter account. 6) This amuses me:

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