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Sunday May 20 Penguin Prison, Class Actress, Omar & Tanaka Motorco Music Hall, Durham

Sunday May 20 White Life, Cassis Orange, Habitat Kings, Raleigh Another in the DiggUp Tapes Presents . . . series. permalink

Sunday May 20 P-90s, Sal Bando Slim's, Raleigh

Monday May 21 William Beckett, The Mansions Local 506, Chapel Hill

Monday May 21 Donkeys, Buxton, Troy Hancock Kings, Raleigh

Monday May 21 Swampcandy, Alesana Slim's, Raleigh I can't even remember the special name Alesana coined for their brand of dyed-black-hair crabcore/screamo hybrid, but it's irrelevant in this instance anyway because they're playing this show "acoustic." permalink

Tuesday May 22 William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger The Pinhook, Durham William Tyler is the adorable & brilliant guitarist for Lambchop, and he has been doing a solo-guitar thing long enough for me to have seen it 3-4 times. Hiss Golden Messenger put out one of the best albums of 2011. permalink

Tuesday May 22 Frank Smith, Mary Johnson Rockers & the Spark Local 506, Chapel Hill

Tuesday May 22 Damien Jurado, JBM, The Cellar Seas Kings, Raleigh

Tuesday May 22 T0W3RS, Weed, Wesley Wolfe Nightlight, Chapel Hill The new T0W3RS album is a dark & swirly affair (as are their live shows). photo: T0W3RS at the Cave, September 1, 2011 permalink

Wednesday May 23 St. Vincent, Shearwater Cat's Cradle, Carrboro Loved that St. Vincent album from a couple of years ago. Still haven't warmed up to the latest one, which is perhaps because it's a darn chilly record. But live she is pretty freakin mindblowing. permalink

Wednesday May 23 Jeb Bishop/Tim Daisy Duo, Regina Hexaphone Motorco Music Hall, Durham Jeb Bishop used to live in Raleigh, years & years ago, and was in the freaky band Angels of Epistemology with Sara Bell of Regina Hexaphone. Now she lives here in Durham and Jeb lives in Chicago or someplace else that actually maybe supports jazz trombonists at least slightly. photo: Sara Bell - Regina Hexaphone - WXDU - Sept. 19, 1999 music in the groovo.org player: Regina Hexaphone permalink

Wednesday May 23 Black Dice, Prisms, Robes Local 506, Chapel Hill

Thursday May 24 Stag, Animal Alphabet The Station, Carrboro

Thursday May 24 Maps & Atlases, The Big Sleep, Sister Crayon Local 506, Chapel Hill music in the groovo.org player: The Big Sleep

Thursday May 24 Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores, The Catch Fire Tir Na Nog, Raleigh This week's Local Bands, Local Beers. permalink

Thursday May 24 Diali Cissokho and Kairaba, Brand New Life The Casbah, Durham

Thursday May 24 Man Forever, Le Weekend, Conspicuous Convulsion Nightlight, Chapel Hill Man Forever is the drum-only side project of Kid Millions from Oneida. Le Weekend are the most "pop" band on this bill & even then it's a stretch to call them that. Conspicuous Convulsion is Jason Aylward (Valient Thorr), Drew Robertson, Kenneth Ells (Thunderlip, Church of Zann) and Crowmeat Bob (Savage Knights). photo: Le Weekend - debut show - Duke Coffeehouse - Nov. 11, 2006 music in the groovo.org player: Le Weekend video(s) on their page(s): Le Weekend permalink

Thursday May 24 Death of Hawn, HJMS, Dreams West, Brooklyn Airlift Kings, Raleigh

Not enough for you? There are fun interactive maps to the clubs via the Google Maps API. Other ways to get this info: 1) The handheld-optimized version of the site, or a new simplified text version of this page, for you lo-fi fans. 2) An RSS feed. AND! A weekly oggcast! (OK, it's just my WXDU radio show.) 3) An iCal feed of all the listed shows, updated nightly. 4) This listing is posted once or twice a week to ch-scene, the mailing list which is itself a mirror of alt.music.chapel-hill. 5) For you web 2.0 fans, we have a facebook app *and* a Twitter account. 6) This amuses me:

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