TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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Also, I should stop posting on this thread. 3 out of my 6 all time neg reps have come from this thread.
Oh yeah, I refuse to be subtle about name dropping Beth Murphy even though she's not even really super famous. When I met her she was an art student who had never even picked up an instrument. Now she is a rock star for a living -- that's her job. Fucking crazy. Good artist, too.
Baller namedrop. I really like the new TNV.
Line-up is out. I'll admit -- I've seen the Flaming Lips before in Raleigh, and while they put on a pretty bitchin' show, it wouldn't have been my first choice. Townie, will expect a full rundown of some of these smaller acts:
The Flaming Lips
Guided By Voices
Drive-By Truckers
Superchunk
The Dodos
Swans
Yelawolf
Japandroids
J Mascis
Black Lips
Earth
Twin Shadow
The Love Language
Rhys Chatham G3
The Foreign Exchange
Krallice
Cold Cave
The Necks
Toro y Moi
The Budos Band
John Vanderslice
Weekend
Oxbow
Future Islands
Liturgy
Kort
Lost in the Trees
Little Scream
Disappears
Lower Dens
Beans
Julianna Barwick
Xiu Xiu
Royal Bangs
Braids
Bombadil
Oneohtrix Point Never
Beach Fossils
Barn Owl
Lonnie Walker
Jeff the Brotherhood
The Light Pines
Bird Peterson
Annuals
Royal Baths
Ford & Lopatin
The Old Ceremony
Generationals
Cheyenne Marie Mize
Woodsman
Reading Rainbow
Mount Eerie
All Tiny Creatures
Frontier Ruckus
The Prayers and Tears
Apex Manor
Bandway
Fight the Big Bull
Sir Richard Bishop
Dinosaur Feathers
Wooden Wand
Des Ark
Grandchildren
Man/Miracle
Mouthus
Horseback
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The Body
Prurient
Frank Fairfield
Flight
Gauntlet Hair
William Tyler
Duane Pitre Sextet
Jennyanykind
Spider Bags
Tyvek
Dawn Golden & Rossy Cross
Andrew Cedermark
Mandolin Orange
Chip Robinson
Apache Dropout
Hog
Last Year's Men
PC Worship
Jon Lindsay
The Super Vacations
Onward, Soliders
Empress Hotel
Steve Gunn
Dustin Wong
Whatever Brains
David Daniell
Mount Moriah
Organos
King Mez
Apple Juice Kid
Thien
Jesse Sparhawk & Eric Carbonara
Invisible Hand
Carlitta Durand
Old Bricks
Black Twig Pickers
Dylan Gilbert
The Tender Fruit
Twelve Thousand Armies
Filthybird
Yair Yona
The Tomahawks
Caltrop
Wesley Wolfe
Shit Horse
Heads on Sticks
Gross Ghost
Justin Robinson & The Mary Annettes
Embarrassing Fruits
Family Dynamics
Yardwork
Soft Company
SPCL GST
The Loners
Cassis Orange
Wembley
Bustello
L.E.G.A.C.Y.
Charlie Smarts
The Strugglers
Jack the Radio
The Moderate
Peter Lamb & The Wolves
Man Will Destroy Himself
Dan Melchior Uno Das Menace
Le Weekend
Dulipo
D&D Sluggers
The Caribbean
Agreed 100% about the Flaming Lips, Guided by Voice, Superchunk, Drive By Truckers, and Swans, which are the other big names. None of those are really hot bands and I feel like they appeal to an audience that is about 5-10 years older than me, and I'm not particularly young.
Spider Bags is the first name I can recall offhand from the bottom of the list up, because we saw them open for Titus Andronicus. They were a fun middle aged local punk band from Raleigh-Durham.
I have to admit that referring to Spider Bags as a middle age punk band cracked me up. All the guys are basically in their late 20s/early30s. Is that the new middle age?
as for the Hopscotch line-up. Yawn. Half the line-up is comprised of locals bands which play around the Triangle quite frequently and the other half are semi popular indie bands that come through here on tour two or three times a year already. The one notable exception would be Swans since their show will be part of a relatively short reunion tour.