Brad Cook played with Megafaun and Bowerbirds at last night’s show, earning the hard-worker award. And for “The Ticonderoga,” Phil Cook joined Bowerbirds. Bowerbirds, who headlined, closed out their encore (and tour) with all of Megafaun joining them on-stage as they performed a cover of the Rosebuds’ “Hold Hands and Fight,” dedicated the Rosebuds’ Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, both in the audience.
The poster says it all. Local indie favorites and Merge band the Rosebuds and special guests Midtwon Dickens come together for a benefit concert hosted by Golden Belt April 24 at 9 p.m. All net proceeds go to support Durham Arts Council. Tickets are $12 a pop, and those basking in the return of OnlyBurger can get there fix at the show.
Sorry to be a little late on this (Full Frame all day). Merge has released some details on its 20th anniversary festival, XX Merge. The event is a centerpiece of the local label’s year-long anniversay celebration.
Four nights of the July 22-26 festival will be held at the Cradle, with a fifth at UNC’s Memorial Hall. Bands include Spoon, Superchunk (0bviously), the Broken West, the Rosebuds, Polvo (!!), Destroyer, Guv’nur, Spent, M. Ward, Connor Oberst, Pipe and “many more expected & unexpected.” It’s a solid set list, but who else is still holding up for a Neutral Milk Hotel reunion?
Five-day passes are available for $150. Passes go on sale April 8 at 10 a.m. More details are available here.
Vincent Moon’s La Blogotheque has 10 new performances, called the “In a Van Sessions.” It’s like Black Cab Sessions with more space. Among the session are Bowerbirds playing “La Denegracion” and the Rosebuds, who are playing at the Cat’s Cradle tonight, with a cute-as-ever version of “Bluebird.”
I should have read about this and posted it a while ago, but no time is better than the present, right?
Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds, Schooner’s Reid Johnson and Zeno Gill of Durham’s Pox World Empire have created a Triangle supergroup by the name of Flute Flies. The band was created this past summer to support the late Cy Rawls, a fixture of the local music scene who died this past October due to a brain tumor.
Chris Rossi of Durham’s Spacelab Recording Studio hatched the idea for a new music service to honor Rawls. CyTunes is a new music service that offers exclusive content–live and studio–of many local bands.
Not only is it the only place to find music from bands like Superchunk, I Was Totally Destroying It and Flute Flies, but it supports a good cause. All the proceeds (that’s everything but the cost of running the site–no artists are getting paid here) go to Duke’s Tisch Brain Tumor Center. I haven’t used the site yet, but it went live a few weeks ago and looks like it has some really great stuff.
In other news, the Rosebuds are playing a show at the Cat’s Cradle on Saturday, Jan. 24 with Megafaun and the Love Language.
