Phil Cook and His Feat – Cook’s Feat are actually just his feet, lightly whomping on a homemade stompbox. He’s alone and yet not, conversing with a pantheon of American innovators who favor expressivity over flash: people such as slide guitarist Ry Cooder, the fingerstyle guitarist John Fahey, and the shapeshifting Bill Frisell. (Pitchfork, 7.5)
Goat and Faun – Robinson was torn from his mother’s womb with the umbilical cord wrapped twice around his neck. It was the hottest day Madrid would endure that year. Since then, moods have improved all around. He grew into something of a sing-songer, his influences ranging from Woody Guthrie to the Wu-Tang Clan. Convention obliges him to refer to his music as “folk”, though he’s always been uncomfortable with the term. Give a listen, and categorize it yourself.
The Fooligans – The Fooligans are a three-piece alt rock band hailing from the Carrboro, North Carolina D.I.Y. music scene. Historically comprised of guitarists Ian Leinbaugh and William Taylor, bassist John Colvin and drummer Tom Dobrov (previously of The Stiffs & Oxbow), the group champions an eclectic sound, harnessing the raw, in-your-face power of punk with the mellower rhythms and grooves of southern rock. Think The Clash meets Tom Petty, or The Kinks meet The Band
Free Electric State – Record Release! Often big, often lush, the group’s engrossing sound is generated by guitarists Koslowski and Williams’ wall of blissfully dense guitars, while drummer Tony Stiglitz steadily pounds out heavy, driving rhythms. Singer/bassist Shirlé Hale’s mournful voice adds a somber element to her dark and often impressionistic lyrics of loss, lust and regret.
Filthybird – Filthybird has an eclectic sound that could easily be filed under literary folk, Americana, psychedelic country, or indie rock. Although their sound references all of those genres, the music the quartet makes is rather hard to pin down. The band’s evocative and unlikely title is taken from a lyric by Robyn Hitchcock, “A happy bird is a filthy bird,” another artist with an eccentric worldview, so it’s best not to read too much into their moniker. – All Music
Last Remaining Pinnacle (Custom Made Music Records) – “A lot of bands say they’re influenced by the Velvet Underground and early Pink Floyd. However, few bands that make this claim actually send you on a timewarp to a slightly more awesome version of the late ‘60s.” Eric T. Miller – Magnet Magazine
Rowdy Rowdy Square Dance!
Uh oh, its time for another one of these. Lessons, real country calling, and a massive amount of calorie burning dancing to the glorious sounds of the Five Points Rounders. Caller: AnnaLena Phillips
Hot damn old time music by:
FIVE POINTS ROUNDERS
David Bass: fiddle
Colin Booy: banjo
Steve Kruger: guitar
Rob VanVeld: gut bucket
The Triangle Folk Jam!
The Triangle Folk Jam is a group of people that gather in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area to play and/or sing music of all sorts, including, but not limited to, folk, blues, bluegrass, traditional, oldtime, country, country rock. Mostly, but not limited to, acoustic stringed instruments. This group has been active for over 10 years and includes all of the the Triangle community. We have an open format and new members are always welcome and encouraged.
Group email : triangle-folk-jam@googlegroups.com
William Tyler (Lambchop / Silver Jews)Pitchfork Review (8.6) – You might recognize Tyler’s name from his long stint as a multi-instrumentalist in Lambchop, or from album credits alongside Charlie Louvin, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Silver Jews, andWooden Wand. Lambchop’s oeuvre should give you some hint as to what makes Tyler special. Just as Lambchop’s pan-American indie incorporates soul, rock, country and outsider music into one weirdly warped mold, Tyler integrates a dozen different approaches. He’s as comfortable with an electric as an acoustic, as accomplished conducting a long, coruscated drone as he is gliding through fingerpicked hymns. The English folk of Pentangle and the American hum of Tom Carter are clear references, as are Indian ragas and Appalachian ballads. Unlike the work of fellow polyglot Sir Richard Bishop, though, Tyler engages all of those muses at once, consistently folding them into surprising revelations. – Grayson Currin
Hiss Golden Messenger – “Fans of Will Oldham and Bill Callahan will find much to admire in the work of MC Taylor, a revivalist who also lectures in folklore.”- Guardian UK
Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor, in partnership with multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The pair have been playing music together for nearly two decades. Poor Moon is the fourth proper Hiss Golden Messenger release, and serves as the best summation thus far of Taylor’s lone journeys through the dark night of the soul. “God is good, and it’s understood,” he sings. “But he moves in mysterious ways.”
Celebrate Spring w/ Bike Movie Month! Presented by Seven Stars Cycles!
Bike to the Pinhook and get $1 off your first purchase.
Durty Art Collective presents: Love Hz 3An electronic dance music night with Alex Kotch, Chocolate Rice, Trademark
Baudelaire in a Box, Episode 4: Bad Luck
Featuring New Town Drunks, Dexter Romweber, J Kutchma and The Fiths, & Curtis Eller – Chicago’s Theater Oobleck presents Baudelaire in a Box, a serial cantastoria project based on 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleur du mal. Visual artist Dave Buchen and musicians New Town Drunks, Jason Kutchma and the Fifths, Dexter Romweber and Curtis Eller are tonight’s 21st century vehicles of his work.
Trivia!!!
This is NOT the kind of trivia where you need to know all the members of Napoleon’s War Cabinet. We cover current events, miscellaneous facts, and each game has a theme round. Win a round, win a pitcher of draft beer. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages for the theme, so you can do some research!
Celebrate Spring w/ Bike Movie Month! Presented by Seven Stars Cycles!
Bike to the Pinhook and get $1 off your first purchase.
Churchkey Records Presents – First One’s Free
Whatever Brains (Sorry State Records) – Whatever Brains’ display of creativity and ambition in the face of conservative rhetoric and retrograde social politics is a rare, if not singular, triumph. [Their songs] accentuate hope alongside melodies, before the social barometer became so completely fucked. Whatever Brains succeeds in creating a complex, synthetic portrait of gear-grinding anthemic rock and arrogant but utterly free worldviews. And it’s OK to ask them if that’s enough. – Dusted
Gross Ghost (Grip Tapes) – The 11-songs that make up Gross Ghost’s Brer Rabbit are the culmination of two years packed full with disconnected phone lines, unreliable transportation/gear, lost jobs, friends and family members and yet, some undeniably fun times for the band. The album is a collection of previously released tracks from the bands first two EPs, all remixed and remastered, in addition to a handful of new songs. Over the last couple of years in the lives of Mike and Tre, the duo behind Gross Ghost, these songs were written during found hours, in between tireless jobs and sketchy paychecks. A vessel for an escape of any kind was what brought these songs to life. It’s been a long time coming, but we hope you find something to take from their scant retelling of how they saw the sights around them.
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Look Out Mama is the result of almost two years of Alynda and the Tumbleweeds criss-crossing the USA, playing over 100 shows in small bars and clubs. Recorded in Nashville by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), Look Out Mama is an exploration of classic American music as interpreted by Alynda lee Segarra. From the Swamp Pop of “Little Black Star” to the Classic Country of “Look Out Mama”, to the Psychedelia of “Ode to John and Yoko” and even the Surf-Rock of “Lake of Fire”, Look Out Mama covers a wide array of musical ground, with every song unified by Alynda’s soulful vocals and expert songwriting.
Spirit Family Reunion – Spirit Family Reunion play homegrown American music to stomp, clap, shake and holler with. Ever since they started singing together on the street corners, farmer’s markets and subway stations of New York City, their songs have rung-out in a pure and timeless way. When Spirit Family Reunion gather to sing, there is communion. Strangers and neighbors come to rejoice in the sound, and there is no divide between performer and spectator.
Broken Wing Routine – The Broken Wing Routine hearken back to a simpler time when Rock N’ Roll, Honky Tonk and Soul music were pure and reigned supreme. The band originally formed as an acoustic duo of teenaged dropouts: Sam Doores and Cameron Snyder, who traversed the country together, writing and performing in the footsteps of their heroes Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and Hank Williams. Today, with the addition of new bandmates: singer/songwriter Alynda Lee of Hurray for the Riff Raff, and guitarist Nick Leonard (Sam’s high-school band mate), the BWR brings new influences together, combining their 20′s- 40′s country-gospel-blues sound with a kick you out of your chair 50′s and early 60′s style of raw, stripped-down Memphis soul and rock n’ roll, and New Orleans R & B.
Triangle Folk Jam!
The Triangle Folk Jam is a group of people that gather in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area to play and/or sing music of all sorts, including, but not limited to, folk, blues, bluegrass, traditional, oldtime, country, country rock. Mostly, but not limited to, acoustic stringed instruments. This group has been active for over 10 years and includes all of the the Triangle community. We have an open format and new members are always welcome and encouraged. Group email : triangle-folk-jam@googlegroups.com
Trivia!!!
This is NOT the kind of trivia where you need to know all the members of Napoleon’s War Cabinet. We cover current events, miscellaneous facts, and each game has a theme round. Win a round, win a pitcher of draft beer. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages for the theme, so you can do some research!
Presented by Bull City Records!
Pop 1280 (Sacred Bones) – New York foursome Pop. 1280 are not shy about showing their hand– they take their name from a Jim Thompson crime novel about a killer cop, and they’ve given their first full-length album the self-explanatory title of The Horror. Pop. 1280 wallow in the same pool of pigfuck sloppy seconds as East Coast contemporaries Pissed Jeans and the Men, but where those bands respectively soften their blows (somewhat) with wry observations about domesticity and knowing classic-rock references, Pop. 1280 offer no such salve. – Pitchfork (7.5)
Wood Ear – Record Release! Wood Ear is a band that revolves around the songwriting of Nate Tarr, whose dark but redemptive odes are wrapped up in daydream-y distorted folk rock. It’s the kind of thing that feels distinctly modern—and also distinctly American.
Spider Bags – “Sure, you’ve heard bands like Spider Bags before; on first contact, you’d swear they were some half-remembered mid-1990s band that got lost in the college-radio shuffle among the Silver Jews, the Grifters, and Ass Ponys. But it’s been an awful long time since you’ve heard a band pull off this sort of southern-fried slop-pop with such charm, craftiness, and self-deprecating wit.” – Pitchfork (7.6/10)
WoWolfoL – Wowolfol is a crew of familiar Durham music misfits organized together as a vehicle for Rich James’ stoner country songwriting. James is most well known as a guitarist/songwriter in Tooth and currently the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter for the mighty Hog. He’s assembled a cut-throat, gotta-see-it-to-believe-it band from pieces of Hammer No More the Fingers, Future Kings of Nowhere, The Screwtapes, MAKE and Systems. The sound is an ominous, eerie twang not too far off from Arbouretum, Pontiak and Bonnie Prince Billy. Really. – WNnG
Grass Widow (Kill Rock Stars) – Dating back to the 1500s, the out-of-use term “grass widow” primarily referred to a woman whose spouse or lover was alive but absent—out to sea, off to war. There are no male players in the San Francisco band of that name, and their stellar second album, Past Time, sure isn’t longing for any. The three women who make up the band are close-knit, nearing the point of hive mind, all singing on every track, all contributing lyrics, purpose, and above all, melody. And what odd, lovely melodies they are. The band professes love for the multi-part, honey-soaked harmonics of British Invasion bands like the Kinks or the Move. – L Magazine Fresh off of a tour with The Raincoats / working musically with Portlandia, Grass Widow chose Durham and The Pinhook as a stop for their upcoming tour.
Flesh Wounds – Laura’s long-lost punk band Thee Scab Eaters got shelved when its other founding member had kids, so she recruited new guys for a loud rock band. Montgomery only knows chords and shrieks and really likes 1950′s R&B, so the band is really chordy and shrieky and likes to play songs from the 1950′s. Dan is really good on guitar and has been studying Chuck Berry for years, but his drum playing is the band’s ace-in-the hole since it lets Laura and Montgomery sing songs at the same time and pretend to be X. Yes, the band is named after a line from Monty Python. Look for a cassette’n'download release some time around April, the cruelest month.
Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship – “An unwieldy, shifting assemblage of horns, strings, percussion and voices, one minute graced with wistful melancholy, tempered with cautious optimism the next, they’re one of the most curious and original bands in America.” -Gabe Soria, MOJO Magazine
North America – The Hasko brothers first musical experiences were sitting at their grandmothers organ sharing headphones playing for hours while the family ate sunday dinner in upstate NY. Later in childhood, on Casio keyboard at a beach house in Cocoa Beach Florida. Jesse went on to study art, while Josh studied classical guitar. After breaking down in Albuquerque, NM whilst living in a VW van, they settled into life in the desert. Channeling influences of childhood, formal studies, and the desert they formed North America.
Trivia!!!
This is NOT the kind of trivia where you need to know all the members of Napoleon’s War Cabinet. We cover current events, miscellaneous facts, and each game has a theme round. Win a round, win a pitcher of draft beer. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages for the theme, so you can do some research!
Viva la Venus – a female-fronted guitar rock band from North Carolina founded by vocalists/guitarists Wendy Brancaccio and Susan Darney. The two began writing music that combines powerfully seductive vocal melodies with complex and intricate guitar leads wrapped around sexy rhythm guitar hooks. Mary Anne Barckhoff soon joined with grooving bass lines, adding rhythmic vocal harmonies and occasionally trading bass and guitar duties with Susan. Trey McLamb’s thunderous drumming intensified the Viva la Venus sound: not quite metal, certainly not pop, but well-written, solid rock songs to keep your body rocking and mind rolling. The band quickly gained popularity through constant touring, radio airplay, press, and winning “battle of the bands” competitions.
Jamie Anderson – Touring since the eighties, singer-songwriter-parking lot attendant Jamie Anderson has played her warm and witty songs in hundreds of coffeehouses, concert halls, colleges and festivals in four countries and forty seven US states. She has ten recordings and her music has been featured on Good Morning America, the Dr. Demento radio show, NPR’s Car Talk, and stations all over the world. Jamie loves being a musician, so she doesn’t really park cars, but her mama said she should have something to fall back on.
Triangle Folk Jam!
The Triangle Folk Jam is a group of people that gather in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area to play and/or sing music of all sorts, including, but not limited to, folk, blues, bluegrass, traditional, oldtime, country, country rock. Mostly, but not limited to, acoustic stringed instruments. This group has been active for over 10 years and includes all of the the Triangle community. We have an open format and new members are always welcome and encouraged. Group email : triangle-folk-jam@googlegroups.com
Trivia!!!
This is NOT the kind of trivia where you need to know all the members of Napoleon’s War Cabinet. We cover current events, miscellaneous facts, and each game has a theme round. Win a round, win a pitcher of draft beer. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages for the theme, so you can do some research!
