Good call. I had totally forgotten about it.

10/13/2007 1:56:45 PM

Tomorrow Ghostland Observatory is on Conan. I heard about them from the Music of 2007 thread. Also, PJ Harvey is on Leno. Word.

10/16/2007 12:41:52 AM

bttt shins tonight

10/19/2007 7:37:39 AM

Cat Power in Savannah tonight!

10/19/2007 12:33:51 PM

Film school @ local 506 tonight .

10/20/2007 10:36:41 AM

I just saw that Stars sold out for next Friday so I hope yall got your tixs.

10/20/2007 1:13:38 PM

How about the Shins opening their encore last night with Pink Floyd's "Breathe".... holy shit!!

I cannot believe that Stars sold out. That new album is god awful. Has anyone found anything redeeming in that pile of shit?

10/20/2007 1:41:34 PM

had a super time at the shins concert. has anyone got some good pics/vids of last night?

10/20/2007 1:46:23 PM

I don't like the new album either but I'm willing to bet we get 5 songs at most off the new one.

10/20/2007 1:51:01 PM

figure it's time to put the troika schedule up. 305 South is noticeably absent this year as a venue. apparently the city finally shut them down because of their restroom situation.

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"Thursday, November 1 Duke Coffeehouse Crowell Building, Duke's East Campus, Durham, NC All Ages — BYOB/Coffee Bar/Snacks $8.00 • The Dry Heathens 11:15 pm • Shakermaker 10:30 pm • Bull City 9:45 pm • Sleep Sound 9:00 pm James Joyce 912 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 21 and Over — Menu/Bar Free • Hundred Air 10:30 pm • Nathan Oliver 9:45 pm • Regina Hexaphone 9:00 pm Bull City Headquarters 723 N. Mangum Street, Durham, NC All Ages — Alcohol-Free Space Free • Melissa St. Pierre 11:30 pm • Megafaun 11:00 pm • Hazerai 10:30 pm • Push Pull 10:00 pm • Maple Stave 9:30 pm • Future Islands 9:00 pm Broad Street Cafe 1116 Broad Street, Durham, NC All Ages — Food and Bar $8.00 • Malcolm Rollick 10:00 pm • Dom Casual 9:15 pm • Sound of Singles 8:30 pm Marvell Event Center 119 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 18 and Over — Bar and a good time! $8.00 • Quitzow 11:15 pm • Setting Sun 10:30 pm • Can Joann 9:45 pm • Wedlock 9:00 pm Alivia's Durham Bistro 900 W. Main Street, Durham All Ages — Bar and good food! Free • Mingus Young 12:00 am • Resist Not 11:15 pm • Thought Speak 10:30 pm • Ships 9:45 pm • The Busy World 9:00 pm Friday, November 2 Duke Coffeehouse Crowell Building, Duke's East Campus, Durham, NC All Ages — BYOB/Coffee Bar/Snacks $8.00 • Luego 11:30 pm • Fontana 10:45 pm • The Future Kings of Nowhere 10:00 pm • The Lodger 9:15 pm • Gray Young 8:30 pm James Joyce 912 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 21 and Over — Menu/Bar Free • Beloved Binge 10:30 pm • Citified 9:45 pm • Carol Bui 9:00 pm Bull City Headquarters 723 N. Mangum Street, Durham, NC All Ages — Alcohol-Free Space $8.00 • Dirty 5 Thirty 11:00 pm • Kerbloki 10:30 pm • The Scott Waite Debacle 10:00 pm • Lam! Lam! 9:30 pm • Sawteeth McTweety and the Particles 9:00 pm • Nicky Click 8:30 pm • Anaturale 8:00 pm Broad Street Cafe 1116 Broad Street, Durham, NC All Ages — Food and Bar $8.00 • Gambling the Muse 11:30 pm • Soft Company 10:45 pm • Dan Bryk 10:00 • Oscar Begat 9:15 pm • The Pneurotics 8:30 pm Marvell Event Center 119 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 18 and Over — Bar and a good time! $8.00 • Armored Uprise 11:15 pm • Livalie 10:30 pm • Expire 9:45 pm • Glorydive 9:00 pm Alivia's Durham Bistro 900 W. Main Street, Durham All Ages — Bar and good food! Free • Mark Doughtery 12:00 am • Noncanon 11:15 pm • Dylan Gilbert 10:30 pm • Sequoya 9:45 pm • The Watercallers 9:00 pm Ringside 308 Main Street, Durham, NC 18 and Over — Bar $8.00 • Grappling Hook 11:45 pm • Jew(s) and Catholic(s) 11:00 pm • Pulsoptional 10:15 pm • The Late Virginia Summers 9:30 pm Saturday, November 3 Duke Coffeehouse Crowell Building, Duke's East Campus, Durham, NC All Ages — BYOB/Coffee Bar/Snacks $10.00 • David Bazan 11:15 pm • All Smiles 10:30 pm • Plumerai 9:45 pm • David Karsten Daniels 9:00 pm Bull City Headquarters 723 N. Mangum Street, Durham, NC All Ages — Alcohol-Free Space Free $10.00 • The Everybodyfields 11:00 pm • Bodies of Water 10:00 pm • Phosphorescent 9:00 pm • Ben Davis and The Jetts 8:30 pm • Bellafea 8:00 pm • Ex-Members 7:30 pm • Richard Bacchus and The Luckiest Girls 7:00 pm • New Dawn Fades 6:30 pm • On the Take 6:00 pm • Opening Flower Happy Bird 5:30 pm • Midtown Dickens 5:00 pm • (BREAK) 4:00 - 5:00 pm • Eberhardt 3:30 pm • Sweater Weather 3:00 pm • Fan Tan 2:30 pm • Simple 2:00 pm • Betty and The Boys 1:30 pm • The Drowsies 1:00 pm"

http://www.troikamusicfestival.org/schedule.html

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 4:02 PM. Reason : link]

10/23/2007 4:00:37 PM

future islands FTW

cant wait to see them this saturday at the design school halloween bash

10/23/2007 4:29:19 PM

and of course two of the nicest (and my favorites) maple stave and megafaun at the same venue/time. and evan of mplstv says push pull and hazerai are damn good too. i'm looking forward to it. too bad the sets are only 30 minutes, but it is a good way to see a lot of good bands in one night.

10/23/2007 4:56:03 PM

Better of Dead --Grateful Dead cover band 10/26---The farmhouse

10/23/2007 5:17:06 PM

Interpol on Kimmel tonight and Stars at CC tomorrow. That looks like to be the last show of the year for me.

10/25/2007 6:29:04 PM

^ last show of the year? Not a fan of Josh Ritter, Band of Horses or the return trip by Polyphonic Spree? (November 5th, 1st and 13th in the order listed).

Also, those who went to see Stars last night, thoughts? My girlfriend went and she loved it, but I avoided that show like the plague because I thought the new album was such shit.

She also said the crowd was really into it, which is surprising considering how shitty the Cradle crowds have grown over the years.

10/27/2007 9:13:20 AM

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"future islands"

man I totally forgot they were even together.

they were fun as hell when it was art lord and the self portraits

10/27/2007 10:17:50 AM

^^ Nope, nope, and nope.

The Stars crowd was really into and they only played 5 songs from the new album.

10/27/2007 11:04:04 AM

what about all the troika shit neal? that one i bolded should be a really good time.

10/27/2007 11:41:47 AM

I really do like Megafaun and Maple Stave but I gotta work Thursday night (I took off this past Thursday).

10/27/2007 1:06:24 PM

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"Saturday, November 17 R. Keenan Lawler, Mike Tamburo, The Hem of His Garment, Horse Operas Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill All are welcome at an evening concert of experimental, electroacoustic, folk, and rock improvisation in historic Gerrard Hall on UNC's campus on Saturday November 17 at 7:30 PM. Performers include: R. Keenan Lawler, Mike Tamburo, Horse Operas, and The Hem of His Garment. Gerrard Hall, originally built in 1822 as a campus chapel, will provide an inspired setting for an evening of tonal and melodic exploration. The concert is FREE with a UNC One Card; general admission is $5.00. Presented by the Carolina Union Activities Board [CUAB], the UNC Curriculum in Folklore, and WXYC 89.3 FM."

If you're into lots of awesm noise that will churn yr guts.

11/11/2007 12:23:00 AM

I LUV AWESOME NOISE

HEY JUDE BEGIN

11/11/2007 3:58:37 AM

saw modest mouse last night

what the fuck has this band come to? that was awful

11/11/2007 10:18:16 AM

polyphonic spree @ CC..this TUES

11/11/2007 10:19:13 AM

Anyone know who the two acts were that opened for The Future Islands on Friday night at Raleigh Music Hall? One was a solo accoustic and the other was a last-minute replacement for Tron Valdez.

[Edited on November 12, 2007 at 10:35 PM. Reason : ]

11/12/2007 10:34:17 PM

first off, there is no "the" in future islands

i have no idea who the first guy was but i think i heard he was the roommate of the sound guy

he sucked

the second band was lonnie walker

11/12/2007 10:57:17 PM

Sorry, didn't mean to offend.

I only ask the name of the first guy because my friends and I can't stop talking about how terrible he was. "Come on down to Lovetown/Goin' to Lovetown/Lovin' Love in Lovetown/A' Fuckin' You Lovetown."

Lonnie Walker was great.

11/12/2007 11:03:44 PM

tift merritt is playing a short show at schoolkids tonight (7 pm)

11/13/2007 8:16:57 AM

Polyphonic Spree TONIGHT!

11/13/2007 7:14:32 PM

If any of yall are going to see Polyphonic Spree, come on out to The Library on Franklin St. afterwards! my band is playing around 12:30am and its a benefit battle of the bands for the childrens hospital

11/13/2007 8:30:40 PM

The Hem of His Garment is playing at Gerrard Hall in Chapel Hill in about 2.5 hours, bitches.

$5. More noise per buck than you're likely to get elsewhere.

11/17/2007 5:15:27 PM

WHO IS OPENING FOR REGINA SPEKTOR?????

her websites reveal nothing, or i just can't find it, and the duke box office is closed...

and thanks in advance

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 7:06 PM. Reason : ]

11/19/2007 7:04:59 PM

"Only Son" http://www.myspace.com/only_son

Supposedly.

11/19/2007 7:08:29 PM

ok cool...muchos gracias planning to get there 8:45ish, but just wanted to make sure there was an opener before i gulped down this food and choked on it

11/19/2007 7:13:37 PM

Read in the local paper that Springsteen will be playing at the Greensboro Coliseum next April.

11/26/2007 9:35:40 PM

not quite as indie as most listed on here but....

Killswitch Engage w/ Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Parkway Drive

January 17th @ disco rodeo

11/27/2007 11:10:16 AM

great show tonight @ Disco

MWY & Thrice were amazing, Brand New was lame as always. Srsly, do they think they're so good they don't have to entertain? Sheesh.

The whole show was 100dB too loud, thank heavens for earplugs.

11/29/2007 1:08:37 AM

So, maybe this was already said...but where would I go to get tickets for This Will Destroy You w/Unwed Sailor at Vintage 21 on Dec. 10th?

11/29/2007 6:37:57 AM

actually, thrice and brand new were both awful. i'm embarassed to say that i went to that show, although mewithoutYou was really great.

11/29/2007 10:41:36 AM

i seem to remember tere being something about vintage21 on etix.
check there

11/29/2007 10:50:25 AM

i thought they were both decent

i almost fell asleep during the middle of brand new's set though and yea i couldn't hear shit after the show

i still don't understand why thrice was not headlining

11/29/2007 11:23:56 AM

^^ Nothing on eTix about it.

11/29/2007 12:41:14 PM

yea sorry, its just some show for the 8th on there

11/29/2007 1:56:32 PM

^^ seems like Brand New thinks they're the best of the 3. I just that "mightier than thou" vibe from them for whatever reason.

but yeah, straight up MWY was the best. the drummer played for awhile with a beanie over his eyes, and then like half a song with a hoodie engulfing his arm. high-larious

11/29/2007 3:22:58 PM

Hadn't heard MWY before but their music was awesome. Wish they'd have muted the damn lead singer though, he fucked it all up.

Thrice kicked some serious ass.

Why was Brand New even there?

That encore they did with all three bands up on stage was absolutely incredible though, I'd never seen that before.

12/6/2007 1:02:40 PM

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12/6/2007 4:14:07 PM

Anyways...

I got my Dan Deacon tixs and I'm amped about that!
Local 506 just announced Tilly and the Wall on March 18th so I'll definitely check that out.
The Yo La Tengo show could be interesting. I've never enjoyed a lot of banter or storytelling among bands mostly wanting to just hear the music but I might give it a chance.

12/7/2007 10:41:37 AM

yeah i'm pumped about dan deacon too

i cant decide if i want to go to yo la tengo or not, i'm leaning towards yes because i still have never seen them

12/7/2007 12:51:08 PM

MWY's lead singer took me AWHILE to get used to. Musically, they're amazing tho. His voice does make 'em "unique," FWIW

And:

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"That encore they did with all three bands up on stage was absolutely incredible though, I'd never seen that before."

crap. I was so pissed at how poor Brand New was we left early. argh

12/7/2007 12:54:42 PM

anybody want my two tickets to the Christmas show at the Cradle tonight?

Portastatic, Ivan from the Rosebuds, Annuals, Schooner, I Was Totally Destroying It, etc etc?

12/19/2007 5:09:19 PM

I have no concept of how Portastatic can be so incredibly bad when Superchunk is so good.

12/19/2007 5:23:44 PM