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.
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.
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!
You’ve probably got at least $7 to your name so you should go see Those Darlins at The Grey Eagle tonight (Thurs, Jan 7). The bio of these ladies suggests that they like to defy convention and labels, but I’d call it country-twinged garage rock and they are suppose to put on an awesome live show.
If you miss them tonight, you can come with me to see them at Down Home in Johnson City on January 28th.
Also appearing tonight are locals Kovacs & The Polar Bear and If You Wannas. I’ve somehow missed seeing either of them before, but they both sound like a welcome addition to the night.
If you are still awake after all that, Labiators will make some noise at Broadways with Jimmy and the Teasers starting whenever they feel like it…a lesson I learned after a raucous Reigning Sound show last night.
