MAY.

Wed, May 1st
Gary War (MA), The Woodsman, Soft Opening @ Blackout Effectors, 9pm

Friday, May 3rd
Ingrown Fest Day 1 w/ Xambuca, Nest Egg, Cult of Riggonia, way more @ Apothecary

Juniper Bends Reading Series! words by Mandy Gardner, Collin Garrity, Rose McLarney and Jerry Stubblefield @ Downtown Books, 7pm, it's free

Saturday, May 4th
Ingrown Fest Day 2 w/ Clang Quartet, Medicine Calf, Bank of Christ, way more @ Apothecary

Zombie Queen, Ivan the Terribles, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent @ LAB, 9pm
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Monday, May 6th
Moonrises (Chicago), cadaVernous, Ouroboros Boys @ Blackout Effectors, 9pm

Thursday, May 9th
Party! w/ DJMRTHEBEST, Housefire, Curtains, Delta Quadrant @ Static Age, 

Friday, May 10th
Implodes (Chicago), Villages, Nest Egg (LP Release) @ Broadways, 10pm

Saturday, May 11th
Art and Music for Gordon remembrance w/ Housefire, Tony Wain & the Payne, Loud Crowd, OHITSUJIZA, Chris Ballard/Ross Gentry, Matt Harmon, Cheaton, Tyler and Enoch @ Odditorium, 7pm

Sun, May 12th
the return of Tony Wain & The Payne! w/ State Hospital Wilderness @ Double Crown, 10pm

Monday, May 13th
Broken Water (Olympia), Flies Around It (last show!), That's A Thing @ Emerald Lounge, 830pm


Thurs, May 16th
Cheap Art (Atl), Ennui, Church Jerks, Toxic Nostalgia @ Skanktuary

Three Brained Robot (G-boro), Judas Horse, Justin Whitlow, Merryl, Housefire @ Apothecary

Fri, May 17th
Crank Sturgeon (ME), Kima Moore (AVL), Duo Alta (Tashi & Alston) @ Apothecary, 8pm 

Metal Massacre night with We Kill Kids, Dead Oaks, Blood Junkie, Terrigan Mist @ The Boiler Room, 8pm  


Mon, May 20th
Distances (MD), Passengers (MD), Dead In The Dirt (ATL), King Dirt (here) @ Odditorium, 9pm


Wed, May 22nd
Metal show w/ Amnesis, Skinn Jakkett, Dead Light Pulse, Skylight Heights @ Odditorium, 8pm

Thurs, May 23rd
Mark Hosler (of Negativland!), Thomas Dimuzio (sound genious, SF), Bank of Christ, Xambuca @ Apothecary, 8pm

Saturday, May 25
Test Dream (TN), Cash Langdon (AL), Dustin & the Furniture, Soft Talk, Comet West @ Skanktuary, 7pm

Sun, May 26
COLISEUM and US CHRISTMAS @ Static Age, 8pm sharp! 

Tues, May 28th
Ex-Breathers (FL), Direct Effect (FL), Soft Talk (SC), more tba @ Apothecary 

Common Visions, Curved Dog (NOLA), Future West @ Odditorium, 9pm 

Triple Headway Release party w/ Tashi Dorji, Gardener, Gnomadze @ Broadways, 10pm

Wed, May 29th
Lazy Magnet, Housefire, Merryl @ Static Age

Fri, May 31st
Moira Scar (SF), Bank of Christ (membs of KLS), more tba @ Static Age, 8pm

Josephine Foster @ Apothecary, 8pm

April 2013

it's been a year, and oh what a year.

Here's some things going on

Monday April 1
Recreant (FL),  Commonwealth of American Natives (TN), Joey Molinaro (NY), The DiMarcos, Leer @ Odditorium

Toxic Nostalgia & more for Wes's birthday! @ Crescent St.

Teepee (FL), Soft Opening, Cavepainter @ Blackout Effectors

Tuesday April 2
Vampirates (NV), Killing Solves Everything, The Warship Christ, Suicidal Crack Babies, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent @ Goblin Hole, 8pm!

Wed, April 3
Vampirates (NV), Objectum Sexuals (UK), The Vignettes (TN), The Budget, Church Jerks @ Skanktuary

Thurs, April 4
(Definitely cancelled!!!) Lost Tribe (VA), Toxic Nostalgia, Ennui @ Static Age

Bill Maltba Experience @ Town Pump

Fri, April 5
Pleasures of the Ultraviolent, Southbound Turnaround, Lions to Lambs @ Grey Eagle

Sat, April 6
Feral Babies (FL), Just Die!, Suicidal Crack Babies @ Static Age, 8pm

Low Down Sires (hot jazz), Resonant Rogues @ Jack of the Wood

Sun, April 7
The Shirks (DC), Nutter (Wilson punk),  Hot Mess Monster, Thee Loud Crowd @ Odditorium

Iyez (NY), Ouroboros Boys, Cadavernous @ Broadways

Mon, April 8
I'm An Intestine (FL), Toxic Nostalgia, Church Jerks, Ennui @ Goblin Hole

Wed, April 10
 Spirits & the Melchizedek Children, Meghanz, Jaye Bartell @ Static Age

Bob Band, Pawtooth @ Pulp

Thurs, April 11
 Street Gnar (NY), The NEC (Atl), Nest Egg @ Blackout Effectors

Fri, April 12
Underscore Orkestra, Resonant Rogues @ Toy Boat

Pawtooth (local wavers), Featured Creeps (Minutemen jams), Dharmamine (alt.punk shed rock), Full Tilt Sleaze (Hendersonville punk trio) @ The Boiler Room, 9pm.

Sat, April 13

Telecine (indie rock), Machiavillians (neo-No Wave jams) @ The Odditorium

Sun, April 14
Hobey Ford's Animalia (Western NC's master puppeteer, truly amazing stuff) @ Orange Peel, 4pm

Mon, April 15
Neptune, That's A Thing, Housefire @ Apothecary

Wed, April 17
Twin Tigers (GA), Future West @ Odditorium, 9pm 

Todd Killings (Athens, GA), Little Gold (NY), Morgan Stickrod, Toxic Nostalgia, Snake Prophecy @ Crooked Wood, 8pm
Thurs, April 18
One Timers (TN), Ol' Scratch (TN), Hot Mess Monster @ Static Age, 8pm

Fri, April 19
THRONES (Joe Preston of Earth, Melvins!), Common Visions (the champs), Lunar Creature (Dave & Meg!) @ Static Age, 9pm

Hollywood Kills (TN), The Campaign 1984 @ Odditorium, 9pm

Savagist (Athens, GA), Downbreak, Beasts of Legend @ Odditorium, 9pm

Sat, April 20
RECORD STORE DAY!  Go to Static Age or Harvest Records!  They got things going on.


Sun, April 21
Rivernecks (FL), Kreamy Lectric Santa, Ouroboros Boys @ Static Age

Holy Wave (Austin TX), Soft Opening, Dispersants @ Tiger Mountain

Mon, April 22
Daniel Bachman (excellent guitarist from VA), Wes Tirey, Shane Perlowin, Chris Head @ Izzy's, 9pm

Banned Books, That's A Thing, Doomster, Merryl @ The Odditorium, 9pm

Wed, April 24
Chris Corsano, David Daniell, Shane Perlowin & Tashi Dorji @ Apothecary, 9pm 

Fri, April 26
Landbridge (FL), Autarch, Body Father @ Odditorium...Jason's Birthday, Autarch's tape release and tour kickoff!

Zomes (ex- Lungfish), Mendocino, Gardener @ Apothecary

Sat, April 27
Akron/Family @ Grey Eagle

Mon, April 29
Dick Dale, Krektones @ Asheville Music Hall 

Abril Idiotas

sorry bout the lateness. there's still some goodness happenin the second half of this month though.

Thurs, Apr 19
Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks, Locust Honey String Band @ Bobo Gallery, 9pm

Fri, Apr 20
Art Opening featuring music by Matt Evans & Old Flings @ Gallery MIA, 7pm

Dig Shovel Dig (the return!), Jovontaes, Tony Wain, Niche @ Get Down, 9pm

Sat, Apr 21
RECORD STORE DAY!
@ Static Age: music by Dig Shovel Dig, Ahleuchatistas, Doom Ribbons, One Timers (Chatt), Tony Wain (Chatt), Jovontaes, The Treatment, and storewide discounts! starts at 11am!
@ Harvest Records: annual blowout with music by Hiss Golden Summer, food by Eatbox and much more! starts at 10am!
afterwards...
No Tomorrow (wilmington crust), Autarch @ Get Down, 10pm

Sun, Apr 22
CRAWLEYFEST AW SHIT! w/ Aren't They Queer? (Chatt), Common Visions, Kreamy Lectric Santa, Blood Summer, The Treatment @ Crawley Gardens

Mon, Apr 23
Post Teens (Gainesville, members of Asshole Parade and Torche), Flies Around It @ Static Age, 8pm

iAMogb, ER Airplane, Free Lunch @ Murder Basement, 8pm

Doom Ribbons, Common Visions @ Bobo Gallery, 930pm

Fri, Apr 27
STUDZ (the reunion!), Babies, iAMogb, The Budget @ South French Broad House, 7pm

Headway @ Izzy's 10pm

Sun, Apr 29
Pile, Albert Adams, Ugh God, Grammer School @ Murder Basement, 7pm

Judas Horse, Albatross Party, Free Lunch @ Get Down, 9pm

Things to get really excited about in May:
5/2: Rose Cross (FLA), Fletcher C Johnson, No Children @ Static Age
5/3: Bombino (Middle Eastern axe shreddin!) @ Grey Eagle
5/18: PIERCED ARROWS! (OH MY GOD), DON'T (ex-Wipers), Kreamy Lectric Santa @ LAB

MARCH

Sat. Mar 10
Just Die, Zombie Queen, Pleasures of the Ultra Violent @ Orange Peel, 8pm

Krektones (7" release!), w/ DJ Lorruh @ The Get Down, 8pm

Sun, Mar 11
JUCIFER, Hurlbat, Old Mountain @ The Get Down, 8pm

Wed, Mar 14
Collapse (Tampa, FL crust), Bellow (MN, doom metal), Autarch @ Get Down, 8pm

Thurs, Mar 15
Appalucia (CLT), Cletus Got Shot (Arkansas folk punk) @ GetDown, 8pm

Ahleuchatistas, Albert Adams @ Craggie Brewing, 9pm

Fri, Mar 16
GECK, Priapus, Spew @ Get Down, 8pm

Sat, Mar 17
Crossbones, Inc. (KY), Killing Solves Everything, Infinite Boner @ Get Down, 8pm

The Campaign 1984, Old Flings, Collapse @ Grey Eagle, 8pm

Antiseen (yep), Zombie Queen, Gutterhound @ Broadways, 10pm

Mon, Mar 19
VAZ (Brooklyn, dark noise pop), Flies Around It, more TBA @ Get Down, 8pm

Thurs, Mar 22
Swearin' (NY, ex-Bad Blood, PS Eliot), Blood Summer, The Treatment @ Murder Basement, 7pm it's JD's birthday!
Sloppy Seconds, DiMarcos, Zombie Queen, Drunk In A Dumpster @ Get Down, 8pm, BBQ precedes!

Sky Lake, Sundown @ Broadways, 10pm

Fri, Mar 23-25
Runaway Circus Annual Community Show! Fri and Sat doors at 630, show at 7. Sun: parade at noon, doors at 130, show at 2! same schedule next weekend the 30th-1st @ Odyssey Community School,  90 Zillicoa St.

Sat, Mar 24
The Swan King (ex/current Pelican, Asschapel, Planes Mistaken For Stars), Old Mountain, Temptation's Wings @ Get Down, 8pm

Sun, Mar 25
Chattanoogy Acoustic Takeover w/ Anna Banana (7" release!), Rymodee (This Bike), Leah Yeppi (Rowdy Downstairs) @ Rosetta's, 8pm
Mon, Mar 26
Nailbiter, Recreant, Old Mountain @ Get Down, 8pm

Wed, Mar 28
Hurray For The Riff Raff, Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks @ Get Down, 8pm

Thurs, Mar 29
Nature Boys (Kansas City), Kreamy Lectric Santa, Common Visions @ Static Age! 8pm

Ed Schrader's Music Beat (Baltimore), The Treatment, Plucky Walker @ Broadways, 10pm

Fri, Mar 30
Rubrics, Old Mountain, Hurlbat @ Murder Basement, 7pm

APRIL!
1st - Sickoids (ex Witch Hunt, Gov't Warning), Sunshine SS, The Budget, Sleepeyed Fuk @ Goblin Hole on Argyle, 7pm sharp!!!!
-Babies, Fine Peduncle, Free Lunch, Housefire, Sun Duel @ The Lab, 9pm
2nd - Red Warlock (Italy!) @ Get Down, 8pm

FEBRUARY 2012

the calendar is undead

Wed, Feb 1
Future Islands, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Fine Peduncle @ Broadways, 10pm 

Thurs, Feb 2
The Mountain Goats @ Grey Eagle, 9pm 

Friday, Feb 3 - Sat, Feb 25
"The Decade in Polaroid" photographs by Erin Fussell @ Artery Gallery, 346 Depot St.

Sat, Feb 4
"A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" Opening Reception w/ food, drink and tons of local ART @ Flood Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Building. 6-9pm 

Mon, Feb 6
The Ataris (they covered that Don Henley song), Old Flings, The DiMarcos, On The Take @ Get Down, 8pm 

Friday, Feb 10
Juniper Bends Reading Series @ Downtown Books & News, 7pm

Headway! w/ Plaens, Housefire, Anubis Rude @ Izzy's, 10pm

Sat, Feb 11
Big Eyes (Seattle/NY), Traveling (ex-One Reason), Yes Ma'am, Morgan Stickrod @ Get Down, 8pm

Wed, Feb 15
Landbridge (FL, ex-Crow's Foot), Autarch @ Get Down, 8pm 

Friday, Feb 17
Screaming Females (NJ), Kreamy 'Lectric Santa (debut of Asheville configuration!) @ Harvest Records, 8pm

Saturday, Feb 18
FUK as PUNK Fest w/ The Budget (tape release), Skat Attak, Killing Solves Everything, Bob Band, more! Pinball Tournament & Ollie Competition! @ The Get Down, 8pm

Sun, Feb 19
Your Pest Band (Japan!), No Qualms (FL hardcore), Knife Hits (FL), Sleepeyed Fuk, Old Mountain @ Goblin Hole (Argyle St), 7pm sharp! bring firewood

Wed, Feb 22
Swordmasters of Ginaz (sci fi metal from Carrboro), ENTS, Autarch @ Goblin Hole (Argyle st), starts at 7pm sharp! 

Thurs, Feb 23
Wolves & Jackals (ATL metal), Paralyzer (TN thrash), Shadow of the Destroyer @ Get Down, 8pm

Sat, Feb 25
Acoustic show w/ PJ Bond, Matt Evans and Ryan Sheffield @ Pessimansion (69 Riverview Dr), 7pm

The Pilgrim (ex-Wake Up On Fire), Slow Burn (ex-Born Against), Humungus (RVA thrash), The Asound (Hickory) @ Get Down, 8pm

Sun, Feb 26
OPERATION: MIXTAPE - a benefit for the Indonesian punks who are being detained and put through "re-socialization training" BULLSHIT!  come support our friends in the South Pacific! Donations of zines/patches/cds/tapes/t shirts/studs/spikes/general punkery are encouraged!  BANDS ARE: Sunshine SS, The Budget, Skat Attak, Killing Solves Everything, Krucial Fiction and Sleepeyed Fuk @ Rosetta's, 6pm

Mon, Feb 27
BBQ House Show! w/ I'm An Intestine (FL hardcore), Flies Around It, Just Die! @ Hanover Street of Haywood. Party starts at 6pm!  

Tuesday, Feb 28
 Wooden Tit, Yes Ma'am, The Treatment @ Grey Eagle...Taqueria Con Cuida's opening party! free food @ 7pm, bands @ 8pm.

Catheter (Grind), Laughing Dogs, Spew @ Get Down, 8pm 

YUCKTOBER

dang someone take this over.

Tues, Oct 18
Hot Graves (Gainesville), Pox Americana, The DiMarcos @ Get Down, 9pm

Thurs, Oct 20
Dead Dog (Athens), Blood Summer, Yes Maam @ South French Broad, 7pm

Sun, Oct 23
Great Cynics (UK), NONA (PA), Matt Evans @ The Lady Nest (40 Magnolia off Broadway), 6pm

Mon, Oct 24
Warcry (members of Tragedy/Hellshock), Ripper, Kakistocracy (are back!!!), Sleep Eyed Fuk @ The Boiler Room (change o' plans), 8pm

Fri, Oct 28
Bad Cop (TN), Majestico (TN), Free Lunch, ENTS @ Fish Tank, 8pm

Oct 28-31
FOOGMESS II @ various locations!

Mon, Oct 31
HALLOWEEN COVER SHOW @ The Arcade

SEPTEMBRRR

oh, Wed, AUG 31st:  MUCH WORSE (hardcore from MN), BRAIN TUMORS (MN), POX AMERICANA, THE BUDGET @ The Get Down, 8:30

dang, i need to get to some shows...maybe i'll make it to these...

Fri, SEP 2:
Whiskey Shivers, Blind Boy Chocolate & Milk Sheiks, John Wilkes Boothe & Black Toothe @ Emerald Lounge, 10pm

Sat, SEP 3:
Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? (NOLA), Common Visions @ Get Down, 9pm

Tues, SEP 6: 
Emperor X, The Front Bottoms @ Harvest Records, 7pm

Thurs, SEP 8:
Roz Raskin & the Rice Cakes, Just Die!, Curtains @ The Get Down, 9pm
EARTH!, Mount Eerie @ Grey Eagle, 8pm

Fri, SEP 9:
Slaw, The Dispersants, Manray @ LAB, 9pm

Soft Opening, Apache Dropout (Bloomington), Thee Open Sex (Bloomington) @ thee Get Down, 10pm

Sat, SEP 10:
Drunk In A Dumpster (Raleigh), Killing Solves Everything, The Budget, Speedball @ The Get Down, 9pm
SWANS, Sir Richard Bishop @ The Orange Peel

Acoustic Show! w/ PJ Bond, Andrew Virga, Ryan Sheffield, Horrible Harvest @ Pessimansion, 7pm

Sun, SEP 11:
Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks, Hunter Holmes, Clifton Hicks @ The Bywater, 5pm!

Dirty Marquee (SF, folks from Black Rainbow, Grumpies, Shotwell, more!), Cheveu (France!), The One Timers (Chattanooga!), The Dispersants @ The Get Down, 7pm pre-karaoke

Mon, SEP 12:
Hail Seizures (Olympia), Chin Up Merriwether (Olympia, as well), Chris Head (solo and awkward) @ The Get Down, 9pm 

Wedd, SEP 14:
Noose, Villages, Slaw @ BoBo, 10pm

Thurs, SEP 15
The Shakes (Seattle, poppy grungy awesome), Lindseys (Seattle), Rogue's Gallery (FL), Yes Ma'am (here!) @ Get Down, 9pm  

Fri, SEP 16:
Young And In The Way (Charlotte, heavy as hell), Old Mountain (local sludgers), more tba @ Get Down, 9pm

Sun, SEP 18:
Kreamy 'Lectric Santa (CA to Asheville), Xambuca, Common Visions, Damned If I Do's @ Rosettas, 7pm! 

Reigning Sound @ The Get Down, 10pm

Mon, SEP 19
Acid Baby Jesus (Athens, Greece), Hell Shovel (mems of King Khan & The Shrines, Demon's Claws), Stockpile (Philly, ex-Witch Hunt), Sunshine SS (record release!) @ the Get Down, 9pm

Wed, SEP 21
Pile, Free Lunch, Critters @ LAB, 930pm

Thurs, SEP 22
Cough (RVA doom), Horseback, Soft Opening, Slaw @ Get Down, 9pm

Sun, SEP 25
Cross Stitched Eyes (ex-UK Subs, Ballast, more), Pox Americana, more tba @ Get Down, 7p-10pm 

Mon, SEP 26
Bobby Joe Ebola & the Children MacNuggits (CA), Tornado Rider, Keanu Phoenix @ Get Down, 9pm

Wed, SEP 28
Matt Evans, Justin Whitlow and Joshua Carpenter...playin us their songs! @ Family Night Records, 9pm