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Thursday January 26 Spider Bags, Paint Fumes, Flesh Wounds, Brainbows, Snake La Salamandra, Durham This is a benefit for Letha Melchior Rodman, a local musician & artist who is grappling with cancer and struggling to stay afloat financially, despite having some basic form of health insurance (you know, the kind that most independent artists can afford, with high premiums and minimal coverage). You can learn more about that here. Or you can just go to the show & check out a handful of the most genius bands around, including three of my current live faves: Spider Bags, Flesh Wounds & Brainbows. Show starts at 9:30. photo: Spider Bags - Pinhook - August 21, 2009 music in the groovo.org player: Spider Bags permalink

Thursday January 26 Kenny Roby, Mark Holland The Station, Carrboro

Thursday January 26 Onward Soldiers, Hammer No More the Fingers Pour House, Raleigh photo: Hammer No More the Fingers - Cat's Cradle - October 6, 2007 music in the groovo.org player: Hammer No More the Fingers video(s) on their page(s): Hammer No More the Fingers

Thursday January 26 Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls, Maldora, Prison Book Club Tir Na Nog, Raleigh photo: Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls, The Pinhook, April 30, 2009

Thursday January 26 Big Daddy Love The Casbah, Durham

Thursday January 26 CJ Boyd, Bicameral Mind, Daniel Chambo Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Thursday January 26 Chris McFarland, Saints Apollo Motorco Music Hall, Durham

Friday January 27 John Howie, Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff, The Magnolia Collective, Lake and Hennepin The Cave, Chapel Hill One comparative old-timer (John Howie, formerly of the $2 Pistols); one band of upstarts (Magnolia Collective, who are actually mostly old-timers as well); and one side-project of Reese McHenry of the Dirty Little Heaters. photo: John Howie, Jr, and the Rosewood Bluff - The Casbah, Durham, Dec 18, 2010 permalink

Friday January 27 Whatever Brains, Day Creeper, The Toddlers Kings, Raleigh You can never go wrong if you're choosing Whatever Brains. photo: Rich Ivey - Whatever Brains - Layabout House - Sept. 25, 2010 permalink

Friday January 27 Kangaroo, Yandrew, Andrew Marlin Nightlight, Chapel Hill Yandrew is presumably Yan & Drew from Lost in the Trees, since it was billed as a drums/cello duo. permalink

Friday January 27 Benji Hughes, Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores Local 506, Chapel Hill

Friday January 27 Jon Shain, Lizzy Ross The Casbah, Durham

Friday January 27 Colossus, Mortal Man Chapel Hill Underground, Chapel Hill photo: Colossus - Local 506 - August 21, 2008 music in the groovo.org player: Colossus

Saturday January 28 Megafaun, Mount Moriah, The Beast Motorco Music Hall, Durham This is the annual Save Our Arts benefit for the Central Park School for Children. So not only do you get a mind-blowing lineup, but you get to help out Teh Kids as well. photo: Megafaun - Bull City HQ - August 2, 2008 permalink

Saturday January 28 The Plow, WhiteKnuckle BlackOut, Annabell Leigh, Eugenic Death The Casbah, Durham This is a free "metal night" which should not be confused with the Bull City Metal Fest the following weekend. permalink

Saturday January 28 Goodbye, Titan, Prisms Kings, Raleigh This is the album-release party for the new Goodbye, Titan album, "Real Life Awaits Us." permalink

Saturday January 28 The Sea Wolf Mutiny, Joie, Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends The Pinhook, Durham

Saturday January 28 Fantastico, Jimbo Mathus & Tri-State Coalition Local 506, Chapel Hill

Saturday January 28 Iselia, Defiant, Forget Me, Torch Runner, Among the Buried Volume 11 Tavern, Raleigh

Saturday January 28 Orobourus, Dogbane DIVEbar, Raleigh

Sunday January 29 Systems, Girl Fight Chapel Hill Underground, Chapel Hill

Tuesday January 31 Rosedale Motorco Music Hall, Durham

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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