Asheville’s favorite garage rockers, Reigning Sound, are playing a benefit tonight at The Grey Eagle for Open Doors.
Open Doors of Asheville Inc. is a new not-for-profit that breaks the cycle of poverty by connecting local children with an active individualized support network and providing them with opportunities for higher level education.
Suttree will also lend their songs for this good cause.
Rock and roll benefit? Sign me up.
After the jump, photos from when Reigning Sound played the Actionfest awards ceremony, which was a story in and of itself.
In amazing WTF concert news, Gillian Welch (and we’ve heard Dave Rawlings) are playing a last minute show at The Grey Eagle on this upcoming Monday night. Tickets are $25 and available at Harvest Records, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle, and online.
On a personal note, my wife and I have officially moved back into town after a misguided attempt to live somewhere else. There are a lot of amazing shows coming up and I’ll be at most of them. They’ll be a lot more posts coming. Get ready.
Hockey, the band not the sport (I wonder how many times a day they hear that), is playing at The Grey Eagle tonight. Pitchfork nails it saying they sound like “the precise midpoint between the Strokes and LCD Soundsystem.” I’m not sure if they meant it in a good way or bad, but for $8 I’m tempted to check it out.
Looks like they are the only band playing tonight so you could definitely check it out and then do something else afterwards.
Lost in the Trees, a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill, is playing the Rocket Club tonight. From a quick listen they remind me of a film score to an quirky indie drama directed by Tim Burton that doesn’t actually exist. This promises to be an interesting show to say the least.
While the Rocket Club predictably has little information about the show, the dude on the phone said the show would start around 10pm and cost about $8.
Despite the snow freakout, Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes will be playing The Grey Eagle tonight. Put on some long underwear and strap on your snow shoes. I think it’ll be an awesome intimate night of music.
Sure, Urban Outfitters rips off independent artists and is generally evil, but today is their grand opening and shouldn’t we all go and support them eat their free food and see some bands.
Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers are coming back to The Orange Peel for two nights in April, specifically Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th. They sold out two nights in January 2009 and I’m betting it’ll happen again. Get your tickets early, but not this early because it’s not even posted to the Peel’s site yet. Langhorne Slim will open those shows.
DBT is also coming out with a new album, The Big To-Do, on March 16 so you can memorize all the songs and get ready to sing along. Listen to a new track over at Blurt.
In about 30 minutes, Abigail Washburn will be doing an intimate performance at Laurey’s Catering (near the Orange Peel and Mamacita’s). You may know her better as Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet that featured Ben Sollee and Bela Fleck.
Looks like she’s doing a series of these small, pass-the-hat shows around the region and will be back next Monday for an encore performance.
Bowerbirds are back tonight at The Grey Eagle. Since they were last in town, they came out with an amazing album, Upper Air. The new songs seem fuller and more intimate, but lack some of the rawness I liked about Hymns For A Dark Horse.
Jagjaguwar artist Julie Doiron will open the show. I don’t know about her, but the couple tracks I’ve heard sound good, she collaborated with Mount Eerie (ex-Microphones) in 2008 on Lost Wisdom, and her 2007 album, Woke Myself Up, was nominated for a Polaris Prize!
