Welcome to the New Year and with any luck a hundred new reasons to get out of your house and into the mix.
Thurs – 1/7
- “Paper or Receipts” New Work by David Winton Art Show @ The Nightlight $FREE! (and show up early for ping pong!)
Fri – 1/8
- Erie Choir / Audubon Park / Butterflies @ Local 506 $8
- Old Bricks @ The Cave – If their myspace is any indication (and lord, I hope it is), old bricks makes raw, resolute folk music with an edge. It’s an impercise definition, but it’s a lot of promise delivered in a few streaming songs– which makes for a good bet that checking them out at the old tavern may be an incredible way to break into the new year. $5
- The Rosebuds / Megafaun / Lonnie Walker @ The Pour House – Word is that tickets are darn close to sold out for this triple bill of the area’s best and most promising indie rollickers. Don’t waste time, just on the Megafun train, just $10 adv / $13 at the door.
Sat – 1/9
- Transportation / North Elementary / The Library / Adam Price and Matt McMichaels @ Local 506 $6
- Midtown Dickens / Humple Tripe / Malcom Rollick @ The Nightlight
- The Bros Marler @ The Cave – Ummm… allegedly they sound like, “the beatles went drinking with led zepplin, got into django rheinharts car that bob dylan stole and had a huge car pile up with so many vehicles that all that was heard was the mystical harmony of this perfectly bad situation; while on the street corner was a whino playing a harmonica, hovered over a can fire with a homeless barber shop quartet intermittently swapping stories of love, loss, good times, and better days,” but I don’t know what the hell that means. $5
- The Rosebuds / Megafaun / Hammer No More The Fingers @ The Pour House – This show is sold out online, but a few tickets are apparently still available at Schoolkids Records. $10 adv / $13 at the door
Sun – 1/10
- The Blind Boys of Alabama / Preservation Hall Jazz Band @ UNC’s Memorial Hall
Anywhere else we need to be?