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VIDEO: Bowerbirds & Megafaun (Together!) Live at the Arts Center, 8.22.09

Andrew Hibbard — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:00:57 +0000

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 Rosebuds to Play DAC Benefit April 24

Jessie Tang — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:02:39 +0000

Courtesy GoldenBelt

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.

XX Merge Details Emerge

Andrew Hibbard — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:15:05 +0000

Courtesy Merge Records.

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.

Blogotheque in a Van

Andrew Hibbard — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:55:44 +0000

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.”

CyTunes & Flute Flies

Andrew Hibbard — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:55:32 +0000

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.

(Hat tip: Triangle Music Blog)