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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/14-20

Writer Greil Marcus stops into the Pinhook this Wed, 2/16Here because you can’t be trusted to know where to be every night of the week.

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Gimme Five! The Brand New Life

Uniting eight different musicians and a world of music, The Brand New Life has found a life of its own bouncing back and forth between its bases in Greensboro and Chapel Hill and fluttering out to all manner of cities beyond to share the band’s African inspired music.  So, sure they’ve got the chops to bring their world influence to North Carolina, but can they handle facing down these five questions? See for yourself after the jump.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/7-13

Sure, it’s choose your own adventure as usual, but why not hit at any number of open mics to kick off the week, laugh it up with the NC Comedy Arts kids, and then let one of these local faves close it out?

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Gimme Five! Justin Williams of Twelve Thousand Armies

He may not be a decorated officer, but Justin Williams is master and commander of his own band of brothers, Twelve Thousand Armies.  Luckily, the lads (typically Josh Moore, Carter Gaj, Ryan Gustafson, Josh Pope, James Wallace, Jeff Crawford, Tom Simson, and sometimes Mark Simonsen) of his crew play with instruments, not guns, and are set to release a record, North Carolina, this spring.  But before Williams and co can get there, we figure it’s about time he face down the five.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/31-2/6

A few places to find yourself and the music you’ll hear when you get there.

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Gimme Five! Missy Thangs of Soft Company

When not playing keys with dream-pop rockers The Love Language, Missy Thangs has been quietly creating her own Soft Company to indulge her own musical proclivities–and now, to face down the  five.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/24-30

Shake off your winter blues with one of these shows. It’s bound to raise your spirits.

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Gimme Five! Cantwell and Gomez of Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan

Bull City’s Dave Cantwell, Ann Gomez, and David Jordan have ripped, broken, and re-imagined their fair share of musical conventions, but how might they handle these five hard-hitting questions?  Keep reading to find out.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/17-23

Get up. Get out. Let us know how it was afterward.

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Gimme Five! Last Year’s Men

Fresh off last year’s Churchkey Records release Sunny Down Snuff, the boys of Last Year’s Men– guitarist Geoff Schilling, drummer Ian Rose, and singer/songwriter Ben Carr–are taking to the road, but first they’re facing down the five hardest questions in faux business.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/10-16

A few places to find yourself in the week ahead (assuming of course you aren’t lost in the snow).