Review: Katastrophe

The header from San Francisco's Wiretap Music, where Katastrophe is a 'featured band':

"Full of passion, anxiety and honesty, the iconic wordsmith’s music has often been described as “emo-hop.” It’s a hybrid sound mixing old school hip-hop with new and underground styles, thickly layered beats and some real poppy hits. There is a clear musicality there, as well—maybe that’s some of the emo influence, maybe Katastrophe is just a genre-fucking musical genius, maybe both."

Show: Jews and Catholics at Krankies/The Werehouse

Triad folks! Awesome Jews and Catholics show!

When: Tonight!! Fri, July 10
Who: Jonathan McCarthy, Jews and Catholics, Goodnight Man
Where: Krankies/The Werehouse (211 E 3rd St. Winston-Salem, NC)

Show: Future Kings of Nowhere [solo] at Snug Harbor

who: The Lights, Flourescent, Hammer No More the Fingers, Future Kings of Nowhere [solo]
when: Friday, July 10th @ 9:30pm
where: Snug Harbor in Charlotte, NC

What a killer lineup, you Charlotte folks should make sure this show is inked on your calender!

Pistil with Humble Tripe @ The Cave in Chapel Hill, Sunday July 12, 9:30pm

Pistil with Humble Tripe July 12 @ The Cave 9:30pm


Pistil, n.:1. Indie Pop Punk overdosed on fun. Comprised of Megan Dawson,
Anne Starling, and Ian Kleinfeld. 2. The website for the above band,
www.pistiltheband.com. 3. The female sex organ of a flower.

Humble Tripe, n.:
1. Americana Country Bluegrass group with a serious Indie twist. Featuring
Shawn Luby, Stud Green, Melissa York (formerly of The Butchies), Kadji Amin,
& Jess Shell. 2. The stuff found at www.myspace.com/humbletripe.
3. A cow stomach without a whole lot of ego.

Flyer at http://www.mishagos.com/pistil/ht800.gif

Show: Birds and Arrows at Local 506

Pete and Andrea are playing at the Local 506 in Chapel Hill tomorrow night (WED. JULY 8th). It's a Connolly family show! They are playing with their nephew Ross's band the Butterflies and their other nephew Neil's band Morrow from Bloomington IN. They are also having a special guest sit in with them on the pedal steel...their friend Thomas Moorefield from Sleepless Nights.

The show starts early!

Show time is 8:30pm. Cover is $7.00

Here is the lineup for the evening

8:30pm Permanent Waves (Reed Benjamin)

9:30pm Birds and Arrows

10:30pm Morrow

11pm Butterflies

Let Feedback Ring!

Corbie Hill of Battle Rockets and the Roam, Buffalo, Roam blog has but together a delightful festival, where nine bands from all around North Carolina converge on Raleigh for an all-day outdoors show. Come early, stay all day. Admission is free.

The show has to be over at 10:00! Afterwards people will be heading to Tir Na Nog for the Red Collar & Caverns show.

2:30 - Spy Satellite (Asheville)
3:00 - Once and Future Kings (Raleigh)
4:00 - Blag'ard (Chapel Hill)
5:00 - Battle Rockets (Raleigh/Pittsboro)
6:00 - Free Electric State (Durham)
7:00 - the White Cascade (Raleigh)
8:00 - Irata (Greensboro)
9:00 - Goodbye, Titan (Raleigh)

Links to all these bands' music can be found conveniently at myspace.com/letfeedbackring

Sadlacks can be found on Hillsborough Street directly across from the NC State bell tower (corner of Hillsborough and Enterprise).

And the Indy gave them coverage.

Show: Birds and Arrows at The Pinhook

Where: The Pinhook in Durham, NC
When: Friday July 3rd @ 10pm
Who: Birds and Arrows, Tin Star, Gray Young

Check out all the bands music at:
www.myspace.com/birdsandarrows
www.myspace.com/tinstarnc
www.myspace.com/grayyoung

Yes it is exciting!

Hi,



In about two weeks we will have The Worst Amazing, Katastrophe's new record back from the manufacturing plant. Yes, two little weeks!

While we wait we are working on getting all of our ducks in a row for his Team Clermont project. Did you know you had to write out all the lyrics to the record for press? I guess I did but I never really thought about it when I was looking at the 17 item song list.

CD release you say....October, yep. So many more details on that to come. Partly because he is on the west coast and we are here in Durham. Either way it will be an event to remember.

Stay tuned.....

MT

p.s. we are also working with Altin Village based in Dresden Germany to put out Future Island's Wave Like Home on vinyl. I got the art work and master from William now we just need to put it all together and ship it off.

Support local music!

I'm sure some of you must be aware of this by now, but Window and ReverbNation have teamed up to for a promotional experiment. For the bands participating they get 50 cents per unique download.

Who's participating? A metric fuckton of NC bands, including our very own Future Kings of Nowhere.

Want to find them all? James Hepler (IWTDI) and Adam Eckhardt (A Rooster for the Masses) started a Facebook group called Team Triangle Reverbnation Sponsored Songs Program. A nice short name with an easy to remember acronym...

Anyway, hit the Facebook page where you will find a post by Jed Carlson, co-founder of ReverbNation, with links galore for your listening (and downloading) pleasure!