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lailg ®ar Hrel DIVE RECOMMENDS Album from the Vaults: The Replacements, Stink: On this 1982 gem, seminal slackers The Replacements loudly lament being "White and Lazy,"announcing the group's arrival in a big way. Movie from the Vaults: “The Birds”: Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller about birds who turn into vicious killers retains most of its, suspense despite its outdated special effects. Great for both laughs and scares this Hallows Eve. Events: THURSDAY Dan Bryk Nightlight | Dan Bryk crafts quirky and catchy, piano-driven pop songs that explore the frustrating little ironies of life, and his charming stage banter makes him a hoot live. Parallax and Doppler, the laptop driven electric side project of SNMNMNM's Seamus Kenney, opens. 9 p.m., $5 FRIDAY Pink Flag and Rat Jackson Jack Sprat | Pink Flag and Rat Jackson lend their highly entertaining rock chops to Jack Sprat's Halloween blowout. The girls of Pink Flag pump out delightfully spunky punk while Rat Jackson trade in good old rock'n' roll sleaze. 10:30 p.m., $5 SATURDAY N.C. Rocks For Change Graham Memorial Terrace | Get your vote and doughnut on as a bevy of musical talent puts on an exceptionally great and early show for the last day of early voting. Billy Bragg, Superchunk, Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds, Megafaun, Portastatic and I Was Totally Destroying It will play acoustic sets. 9 a.m., FREE, with doughnuts and coffee SUNDAY Times New Viking Cat's Cradle | Combining enough distortion to blow your eardrums with enough irresistibly chic art school angst to keep you interest ed, these Ohio rockers bring their brand of "sh*t gaze" to the Cradle stage. 9 p.m., sl4 &EG A L CINEMAS BARGAIN SHOWS IN ( i * Pss> ’ DiscountTic*et Pes'.ncJioos Aoply TIMBERLYNE 6 933-8600 Weaver Dairy at Airport Rd, BM-FANOA-NG0174.14 Adv. Tlx on Safe MADAGASCAR 2: ESCAPE TO AFRICA (PG) ★ Adv. 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(Fri 6:00,8:30) 7:00,9:30, SAT-SUN 2:00,4:30 1 Weaver Dairy 1 HP CPn T tmberfyne vilvlOCCl 968 3005 RACHEL GETTING MARRIED 6:50,9:10, SAT-SUN 1:50,4:10 THE SECRET UK OF BEES 7:00,9:30, AT-SUN 2:00,4:20 RIU6BUWS 9:20, SAT-SUN 4:30 THE DOCHESS 7:15, SAT-SUN 2:15 $20,000 BONUS FOR SPECIFIC JOBS ; MVSIQSHORTS I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT DONE WAITING EP ickictrtk POP/ROCK Throwing down an EP in advance of a full-length is usually a tactic to get some mileage out of the tracks that didn’t quite make the cut for the main project.' If that’s the case with Chapel Hill quintet I Was Totally Destroying It, then the group’s forthcoming new album looks to be incredible. On its self-titled debut the group was a ramshackle ensemble produc ing catchy but sometimes bland pop rock with pleasing synth garnishes. But on this release, Rachel Hirsh’s keyboards are woven into the fabric of the music, giving the album a densely satisfying melodic quality. Showing great wisdom the group gives Hirsh more of the spotlight, as she splits vocals evenly with gui tarist John Booker. She is terrifyingly sassy on the menacing “Teeth” as she delivers lines such as “And I don’t think I regret a thing/I just lick the stains off my teeth.” In these and other lines, the lyr ics find the middle ground between specificity and generality, making the record universally cathartic. The group also breaks new sonic ground mixing synth-pop and country stomp on the propulsive “Like Cavalry.” “I’m Broke And So Is Everything I Own” rides a slinky keyboard line and a cabaret “La-di la” bridge to create a scalding indict ment of music scenesters. V 300 E. Main Street • Carrboro I - 30TH BOUNCING SOULS, STRIKE ANYWHERE, the 1 19 WE AMY RAY w/ Jennifer O'Connor" (sls) Casting Out, Gimme Drugs" (sls/sl7) 31FR EVERVBODVFIELDS w/ Katie Heizig" ($lO/sl2) | 2O JED. 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Katie's Pretzels (Carrboro). * Buy tickets on-line: www.etix.com For phone orders CALL 919-967-9053 I www.catscradle.com BEST Diversions And while not every song is an absolute knock-out, there’s nary a dud to be found. Tight, furious and accessible, the EP is a great preview of what looks to be an impressive sophomore effort -Jordan Lawrence DANIELSON TRYING HARTZ irtckirk FOLK Wildly exuberant and almost uncomfortably cheery are two ways to describe Trying Hartz, Danielson’s retrospective rarities collection 14 years in the making. Combining freak folk with invig orating praise, the veteran folkster highlights a career rich in shape shifting lineups and incarnations. From collaborating with his siblings on the Danielson Famile project, to working with fellow Christian folk artist Sufjan Stevens, to this col lection, which is a mixture of those projects and Daniel Smith’s work under the name Brother Danielson. For the most part, these songs are relatively sparse, but don’t remain that way for long, making plenty of time for the pace and vol ume to get kicked up, almost always providing purgative results. There is something inherently charming about Danielson’s falsetto. Honestly, it sounds like some sort of strange toy and works way better on his quirky songs of praise. I’m not sure why, but I’m drawn in more than I can explain. The album is most certainly based on Danielson’s faith, but in the least self-serious way possible. No one will be beaten over the head with anything, and beliefs are not a barrier to enjoying the album. -Jamie Williams YO MAJESTY FUTURISTICALLY SPEAKING ... NEVER BE AFRAID irkitirk HIP-HOP/PARTY RAP On its full length debut, Yo Majesty tries to make its claim to the throne but can’t seem to decide which robes to wear for the coro nation. Futuristically Speaking ... Never Be Afraid is the trio’s follow up to the bangin’ Kryptonite P***y EP that dropped earlier in 2008. The album pops open with the furious “F***ed Up,” a slow grinder that lumbers along menacingly while the girls scream their lungs out But the beat just isn’t hype enough to support this kind of delivery and it rains the anthemic call to arms that the group is obviously going for. This sets the tone for the rest of the record an underlying sense of potential that never surfaces. “Booty Klap,” is by far the high light here. The single is a mammoth ghetto tech bass stamper that brings back memories of early DJ Assault. This sort of lowest common denominator club music is what this group'was made for, as evidenced by the success of “Kryptonite P***y,” which is noticeably absent from the •' ' 7 T * t'" ~ .zM k y m C: *Mf' I^7: FRIDAY, OCT 31 „„ LEGENDARY PINK DOTS rwJUSon’.SJIL? 1 .... LOCAL 506 EVERYBODYFIELDS t' * 4 , SUNDAY, NOV 2 DEERHUNTER i/mi iik sfe /ill w MONDAY, NOV 3 MONDAY, NOV 3 DRIVE BY TRUCKERS THE HOLD STEADY LINCOLN THEATRE LINCOLN THEATRE £ Sf'jj mm - v v a ~ ™ ' MONDAY, NOV 3 WEDNESDAY, NOV 5 SATURDAY, NOV 8 MURS KAKI KING MARK KOZELEK - - I f T THURSDAY, NOV. 13 WEDNESDAY, NOV 19 SUNDAY, NOV 23 BADFISH AMY RAY METHOD MAN / REDMAN MAKE SOME NOISE! record. The album suffers for it. Despite all its talent, the group can’t hold this LP together, making this shot for hip-hop’s throne fall well short of that lofty title. -Ben Pittard LITTLE JOY LITTLE JOY ROCK Picture yourself riding a bike on a crisp fall day as the leaves cover the street, gliding aimlessly through the town square. Little Joy’s new release is the perfect soundtrack for this scene out of the 19505. Fans of The Strokes shouldn’t fear this new release from drum mer Fabrizio Moretti’s side proj ect. Morreti met current bandmate Rodrigo Amarante in Lisbon, Portugal. The two were subse quently inspired to write music —— n a 3 h t/I I z t-t ■ I l l career jump start, and up to a $20,000 bonus for specific jobs. All this as a member of the Air Force Reserve with no prior military experience needed. AIR FORCE RESERVE AFReserve.com/TalkToUs thursday, October 30,2008 that was not associated with their respective bands, The Strokes and Los Hermanos. As they hoped, Little Joy bears little resemblance to The Strokes, as the group crafts soft melodies which sound unaffiliated with the songs of the popular New York band. The songs seem more like back ground music, lacking a strong sense of originality and falling into the recesses of listeners’ minds. Upbeat, without desperate screaming and loud drum solos, the album relies on simple and light hooks to carry listeners into a state of complacency. The vocals whisk listeners into a state of relaxation and allow them to foiget their troubles. Despite the romantic worries conveyed in the lyr ics, listeners can look past the mean ing and simply enjoy the sound. So while the album is not likely to make many top-ten lists, it does give listeners a passable soundtrack for the relaxing moments in life. -Rachel Arnett Boost your GPA! We’re talking about your Graduation Plan of Attack. Do it with 100% Tuition Assistance, low-cost healthcare, a supplemental paycheck, a 7
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