You should be really excited right now because Troika 2009 starts today. What looks like the best iteration of the Troika Music Festival tonight kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Durham Central Park with the Beast and Megafaun. We previewed some of the shows you should definitely check out (the aforementioned one among them) in today’s recess. You can check it out here:
Also noteworthy (I could go on about all the shows–Pipe!–but Trekky has a good guide here) is the Rock Paper Scissors art/music event Saturday afternoon. If nothing else, you can be a humanitarian and buy some of Red Collar drummer Jonathan Truesdale photos to help him work out some medical bills caused by CMJ (see the story for clarification).
See you at Troika.
[Photo of Bowerbirds in Paris by Oliver Peel. Courtesy Flickr.]
Megafaun just released the video for “Impressions of the Past” from Gather, Form and Fly, which, to anyone who was at the Arts Center show in August, will seem pretty familiar. Nonetheless, it’s pretty great and an excellent song. Also, be sure to catch them Thursday in downtown Durham for the Troika kick-off (the Beast opens.)
New, however, are It’s Just Vanity playing with Antarctic and Greensboro’s the Bronzed Chorus and Princeton (which I believe has been advertised on the door for some time so not quite new) Oct. 16. The big announcement is Former Ghosts, fulfilling the Coffeehouse’s annual Jamie Stewart visit requirement. In addition to Mr. Xiu Xiu, the new super group includes This Song Is a Mess But So Am I’s Freddy Ruppert and Zola Jesus’s Nika Roza. Openers for the latter shows are TBA. In a more meaningful presentation of information:
Oct. 3 – The Lovely Feathers w/ Rural Alberta Advantage, $7
Oct. 9 – Former Ghosts w/ TBA, $5
Oct. 10 – Princeton w/ TBA, $10
Oct. 16 – The Beast CD release party w/ Carlitta Durnad, Kooley High and Freebass 808, Price TBA, 8 p.m. Show
Oct. 17 – It’s Just Vanity w/ Antarctic and the Bronzed Chorus, $5
Nov. 1 – Islands w/ Jemina Pearl and Toro Y Moi, $10
Nov. 5 – TROIKA (Future Islands, EAR PWR, The ExMonkeys, Molly Bancroft)
Nov. 6 – TROIKA (Birds of Avalon, I Was Totally Destroying It, the Pneurotics, the Ringing Cedars)
Nov. 7 – TROIKA (Lonnie Walker, the Travesties, Maple Stave, the Bronzed Chorus)
As always, shows are free to Duke students, doors are at 8:30 p.m., shows at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Three nights. Nine venues. A ton of bands. The schedule for the 2009 Troika Music Festival has been released over at the festival’s Web site. You can check it out here, and make sure to buy your passes too (only $20).
This year’s Troika Music Festival just got a lot better and there are 15 reasons why. The lineup now includes 15 more bands, among them Megafaun, the Love Language, Red Collar, Pipe (!) and Butterflies. The schedule for this year’s festival will be released later this week. Ticket sales for Durham’s November 5-7 music festival will also begin later this week. Check back her for further updates and below for the new additions to Troika.
