Franklin’s Crow vs. Hawk and Crowhop unite tonight at Riverblaze Bakery for what is rumored to be the last Crowhop show on this side of the Atlantic Ocean for a while. Free show at 8pm.
Meanwhile in Sylva, Lily Savitsky opens an art show at Signature Brew Coffee at 8pm, followed by a performance from Ukele Me Down (a rather radical departure by former members of Elbow Deep). Also free!
So whichever side of Cowee you’re on, you’ve got Friday night plans.
Andrews, North Carolina is located in the outlying western corner of the state, a place far away from major roads and cities—a place that on a map looks like the middle of nowhere. Andrews’ Main Street is a narrow row of aging brick that, apart from a coffee shop and a few thrift stores, mostly houses empty store fronts. But at 982 Main Street you’ll find the space that served as the town movie theater in the fifties and the town soda fountain in the seventies. Today it hosts Dean’s, a specialty record store owned by Dean Williams.
Inside Dean’s you’ll find shelves stacked with CDs and vinyl records, antique furniture and random curios. But most likely your attention will be immediately grabbed by Williams’ artwork, hanging canvas-atop-canvas on the exposed brick walls. Ghoulish faces, serpentine figures nestled in labyrinths of geometric shapes, haunting images of devils and angels, dark wintery woods and olives with eyes that seem to wink at their own inexplicability loom from paintings stacked up to the high ceiling.
Far-western NC is about to have a very musical Halloween weekend. To wit:
1) Prog-punks Solito will play a Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed set on Friday at Tuckasegee Tavern in Bryson City.
2) If you prefer to be simultaneously edified and terrified, an ensemble featuring members of the legendary Moolah Temple String Band and The Imperative will be providing a creepy soundtrack for the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (pictured), showing at 8pm Saturday at the Jackson County Public Library.
3) Elbow Deep will provide a punk-rock horror show Saturday at 10pm at Guadalupe Cafe in Sylva.
4) And of course PMA will be mellowing out the 3rd Annual Cullowheen at Avant Garden on Saturday night.
Friday night: Noonday Sun — featuring the impressively busy stylings of official Sylva guitar heroes Tommy Dennison and Chris Cooper — blows up Soul Infusion starting at 8:30pm. As Cooper astutely puts it, that’s “approximately 1,321,483 notes for $3.00.” A true volume discount!
It’s also Mr. Dennison’s birthday celebration, so buy him a beer or something.
On Saturday, Cullowhee’s Avant Garden hosts the Cullowhee Local Art and Craft Show, featuring, presumably, the works of artists and craftspeople from the Cullowhee area. Admission is free, and there’s no telling what wonders and/or horrors visitors might encounter.
UPDATE: Admission may in fact be two dollars, because there will be live music of some sort. The grapevine yields no further information on the matter.
Frequent visitors from Athens Eureka California will be back at Guadalupe Cafe this Friday for their last stop on a month-long, national tour that took them all the way to… yes, the actual Eureka, CA.
Joining them on Friday will be Wyla, an Asheville-based band that’s been generating quite a bit of that coveted “blog buzz” with their unusual brand of guitar pop. (Read their recent write-up in Shuffle Magazine here.)
Just guessing, but you probably want to check this one out.
…then you probably hadn’t considered the possibility that its blight might consume an additional frequency.
WCU and a brigade of lawyers are trying to wrangle the rights to broadcast at 95.3FM, which the FCC has tentatively awarded to the Sylva-based environmentalist group The Canary Coalition.
The Smoky Mountain News has done some interesting reporting on the issue from the Coalition’s side here and from the University’s side here. Continue reading
The Power at Absolem's Hookah Spot
File under “things Quiet should have covered but didn’t”: The Power will be playing their final show tonight (9/2) at Bubacz’s Signature Brew Coffee in downtown Sylva.
Had we written a review after their uproarious debut show in February at Signature Brew, it might have read something like this:
“The Power could just as easily have called themselves Chinese Fire Drill, and we wouldn’t be surprised if they’d been insensitive enough to do it.
“This song was written before the USDA got their hands on organic standards!” announces the voice booming over the loudspeaker. It’s a Friday night in late April and the attention of the crowd gathered around the outdoor stage at Sylva’s Soul Infusion Bistro is centered on bass player Adam Bigelow.
“And we in no way endorse USDA organic standards!” Bigelow continues. “Buy local from someone you know! We support the Jackson County Farmer’s Market—because we’re for real!”
At six foot four, with a distinctive baritone voice and seemingly permanent smile, Adam Bigelow is one of Jackson County’s most recognizable local musicians. He may also be one of the busiest. Continue reading
This Saturday at Guadalupe Cafe in Sylva:
Lost Trail (from Raleigh) – minimalist post-rock
Tall Fields (from Highlands) – chilled-out, atmospheric electronica
Watch The Skies (of the Sylva diaspora) – heavy, harmonic post-rock
Note: Watch The Skies features Matt Heisler of Libianca, about whom you may have read in Quiet Magazine #4.
(Click the image at left to view the Facebook event.)
Pandora’s Box is now open, and the following glorious evils have issued forth:
Unawarewulves, Go Devils, and the Killbillies
at the Party Zone on Saturday, April 30th.
Crow vs. Hawk, Angela Faye Martin and Red Collar
at the Carl Slagle Memorial Building on Friday, May 21st.
Macon County represent!
