Gemma Ray has a voice like Polly Jean Harvey, plays guitar licks like Chris Isaak, and owns a pair of red vintage t-strap heels that I covet beyond belief. Also, her upcoming album Island Fire is going to be amazing and she absolutely slayed at the Local 506 last night, despite a tiny and polite…
Category: opinions about concerts
flesh wounds @ all day records
I rarely understand what’s going on musically when Flesh Wounds play, and there’s a very real chance that I shall perish mid-job at some point when Montgomery cracks me in the skull with his guitar, but that just makes me love Flesh Wounds more. Full set here.
craig finn & some guns @ local 506
Craig Finn told what has to be the most Chapel Hill story ever last night before he got started on his set: he was excited to watch the Carolina/Duke game in Chapel Hill, but he didn’t realize you had to get somewhere three hours early to get a table. So he wandered around Carrboro, watching…
dex romweber duo @ local 506
There are plenty of things I always remember about Dex Romweber: that he’s a great songwriter and a phenomenal guitarist, that his hair will always flop forward into his eyes two songs into the set, that he’s been kicking around the Triangle for ages and probably knows everyone in Chapel Hill and then some. I…
heartless bastards @ cat’s cradle
I wanna be Erika Wennerstrom when I grow up. The nice married gentleman standing next to me up against the Cradle stage said that his young son calls her the little woman with the big voice, and it’s an utterly correct description — Erika Wennerstrom is a slight woman, not weighing much more than her…
leland sundries @ the cave
Leland Sundries is the brainchild of Brooklyn songwriter Nick Loss-Eaton; it’s a showcase for his exceptional songwriting, his wide-ranging musicality, and his excellent beard. On the recently released The Foundry EP, he takes on everything from a sea chanty about the burning of the Greenpoint warehouse district to a straight up country rocker about giving…
they might be giants @ lincoln theatre
I could write another post about this weird and amazing life of mine would delight and awe my sixteen year old self, but isn’t that kind of getting old? Here’s what I can say instead: They Might Be Giants can still rock the hell out of a room, even though they’re all sort of old…
dex romweber duo @ duke coffeehouse
Before February 1, I hadn’t set foot in Duke Coffeehouse in four years … circumstance, booking, a bad website, my inability to use Facebook, whatever. But now I’ve been there twice in 10 days, and both shows were great. Last night’s hardcore-punk-surferrockabilly triple bill was fantastic, just the short of shattering electric guitars that I…
the vaudevillain revue: the bootlegger’s ball
Full set here. Another amazing night.
americana revue at the station: sst and steph stewart
I’d missed the last two Americana Revues at the Station, their second Thursday of the month residencies for bands — Sinful Savage Tigers took over for the Magnolia Collective last November, and in both December and January I had elsewhere jobs that kept me from being there. Last night’s Cradle show, however, started early and…
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