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Wednesday August 20 Oh No! Oh My!, Royal Bangs, Antenna Shoes Local 506, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: Royal Bangs

Thursday August 21 The Cartridge Family, Birds of Avalon, Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies, Huguenots Outdoors, Downtown, Raleigh Birds of Avalon sent along this info: The venue is exactly in front of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts located at Two East South Street in downtown Raleigh. 5:15-6:00 - The Huguenots 6:30-7:30 - The Cartridge Family 8:00-9:00 - Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies 9:30-10:45 - Birds of Avalon music in the groovo.org player: The Cartridge Family, Birds of Avalon, Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

Thursday August 21 Savage Knights, Future Kings of Nowhere CCB Plaza (aka The Bull's Balls), Durham These Thursday-afternoon shows at the CCB Plaza get started early, like around 5:30. Savage Knights are a Raleigh band who're equally at home covering the Melvins, and Ethiopian jazzman Mulatu Astatke. Future Kings of Nowhere are an acoustic pop-punk band from Durham, whose fans are tied with Red Collar's for the title of most-fanatic. photo: Future Kings of Nowhere - Bull City Headquarters Grand Opening - March 10, 2007 music in the groovo.org player: Savage Knights, Future Kings of Nowhere

Thursday August 21 Regina Hexaphone, Schooner Tir Na Nog, Raleigh Regina Hexaphone & Schooner have been saving gas lately by touring together, and now they bring their tour all the way down I-40 to Raleigh. photo: Sara Bell - Regina Hexaphone - WXDU - Sept. 19, 1999 music in the groovo.org player: Regina Hexaphone, Schooner

Thursday August 21 Oneida, Dirty Faces, The Tiny Meteors, Bolmongani The Werehouse, Winston-Salem In case you're gonna be busy on Friday night, and thus might miss Oneida at the Local 506, you can head to Winston-Salem tonight instead. music in the groovo.org player: Oneida

Thursday August 21 Teh Vodak, Pariah Beat The Cave, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: Pariah Beat

Thursday August 21 Colossus, Tooth, Grappling Hook Local 506, Chapel Hill Anybody who witnessed Cy's star turn as Glenn Danzig at the Kings Cover-Up a few years ago knows how much Rawls loves metal. Tonight metal returns the love; you've got NWOBHM lovers Colossus, avant-garde space-metallers Grappling Hook, and the finest metal band in the Triangle, Tooth, all playing to benefit Cy Rawls. photo: Tooth - Bull City Headquarters - June 21, 2008 music in the groovo.org player: Colossus, Grappling Hook video(s) on their page(s): Grappling Hook

Thursday August 21 Red Collar, The Trousers Pour House, Raleigh music in the groovo.org player: Red Collar

Friday August 22 The Ghost of Saturday Nite, Black River, Greg Rice Sadlack's Heroes, Raleigh music in the groovo.org player: The Ghost of Saturday Nite

Friday August 22 The Ex-Monkeys, Dollface Pizza Palace, Durham The Ex-Monkeys are 2/3rds of the '90s-era live trip-hop band Friend Side Monkey.

Friday August 22 The Gates of Beauty, The Scott Waite Debacle, Cairo, Clawform Bull City Headquarters, Durham Anne Gomez outlined this show thusly: The Gates of Beauty is me on bass, Wendy Spitzer (Lemming Malloy, Felix Obelix) on bass and Shannon Morrow (Scene of the Crime Rovers, Mahasamatman) on drums and occasional keyboard. We all 'sing,' sometimes simultaneously. We would like to think we sound something like the Ruins and the Slits having a drunken tea party, but that might be setting the bar a little too high. The Debacle is a punk/prog trio headed by Seattle import Scott Waite [Rob and Eleni of Beloved Binge have been on a mission to move their friends here from Seattle after Beloved Binge relocated here a few years ago; they were successful with Scott, to our benefit]. The Debacle is definitely a 'punk rock' band, but it's got a King Crimson/Return to Forever/Mahavishnu Orchestra vibe going on that will satisfy your hidden love of jazz fusion. And I kinda hear a little Steely Dan in there too. How can you go wrong? Cairo is a band containing another of Rob and Eleni's recent transplants from Seattle. I don't know what Cairo sounds like, but I'm hoping for some mixture of Beloved Binge and The Debacle, with a little Mudhoney and Stone Temple Pilots thrown in for good measure. I hear Eleni might be playing drums. Clawform is Colin Booy's solo metal banjo project - not to be missed. And maybe, if we're lucky, he'll wear his hot pants. In fact, I'm making a special request. photo: Clawform - Bull City HQ - July 13, 2008 music in the groovo.org player: The Scott Waite Debacle video(s) on their page(s): The Gates of Beauty

Friday August 22 International Grapevine, Blanket Truth Nightlight, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: International Grapevine

Friday August 22 Oneida, Dirty Faces, Bolmongani Local 506, Chapel Hill Oneida are still the masters of Brooklyn freakout organ-drone spazzrock. music in the groovo.org player: Oneida

Saturday August 23 Maple Stave, Red Collar, Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan Bull City Headquarters, Durham It says on the calendar that this is a Maple Stave CD-release show, but I swear it's only been maybe a year since the last Maple Stave EP, and I kinda thought they were on the 3-year plan. EP or not, these are three of the best bands in Durham, and all three are totally in their element onstage. photo: Maple Stave, Joe & Jo's, Troika Music Festival 2005 music in the groovo.org player: Maple Stave, Red Collar, Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan video(s) on their page(s): Maple Stave, Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan

Saturday August 23 Arrogance Cat's Cradle, Carrboro This is billed as "an evening with," complete with both an acoustic and an electric set. music in the groovo.org player: Arrogance

Saturday August 23 Blag'ard, Hate Prose The Cave, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: Blag'ard

Saturday August 23 Oxford Collapse, Love As Laughter Local 506, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: Oxford Collapse

Saturday August 23 Magic Babies, Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies Slim's Downtown, Raleigh This is a benefit for Cy Rawls, with the Badfingery Britrock of the Magic Babies and the wall-o-girl-group sound of Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies. photo: Charles & Galen, Magic Babies, Cat's Cradle, August 17, 2008 music in the groovo.org player: Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

Monday August 25 A/V Geeks Local 506, Chapel Hill The name of this show is "S is for Sissies," and it's also a benefit for Cy Rawls.

Monday August 25 Blood Red River, The Barberries, The Howlies Slim's Downtown, Raleigh music in the groovo.org player: Blood Red River, The Howlies

Not enough for you? There are fun interactive maps to the clubs via the Google Maps API. (Last time I checked, it worked everywhere except for IE. It even halfway works in IE, except for the really kewl "get directions" part, which is broken. Maybe one day I'll care enough to fix it. Until then, get a better browser.) 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) 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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