Stay Up to Date on Upcoming Live Music in Boone

(Ever changing and adding shows, this calendar does not reflect all live music in Boone)

BooneLive is working towards documenting an increasing variety of live music in Boone town. In the mean time, check out some of the following shows coming up in the down town areas of Boone, North Carolina. Don’t forget to share these live music musings with your friends on the Facebooks and the smartphone things and the sexting and the twitters and the new my spaces! DO it! Support local bands, local venues, local shops, and live music in Boone!

Jul
5
Fri
TONIGHT! Art Crawl with Raleigh jazz ensemble Blue Lunar Quartet at Espresso News @ Espresso News + Low Wine Bar
Jul 5 @ 9:30 pm – 12:30 am

At last! Live jazz returns to Espresso News.

From the capital, led by sax-wielding helmsman Carter Harris, we bring you the impossible cool of Blue Lunar Quartet:
www.bluelunarquartet.com

:: 9:30 pm
:: All-ages
:: Drink Specials for those of legal drinking age.
:: $5 SUGGESTED DONATION (to help the touring band pay for gas on their trip to and from Raleigh)

Jul
11
Thu
TONIGHT! LA LUZ (Seattle, Burger Records) w/ Drag Sounds and Viewfinder at Black Cat @ BlackCat Burrito
Jul 11 @ 10:00 pm – 1:00 am

LA LUZ – All-female, surf-soul from the pacific NW, on Burger and Suicide Squeeze records. Need some motivation, read below…

“Frontwoman/guitarist Shana Cleveland shreds through surf lines as effortlessly as if she were brushing her teeth. Marian Li Pino’s minimalist rolling drums shimmer—initially appearing to be a calm river, the undercurrent is constantly moving forward and pulling you along, threatening to submerge you in its catchy, hypnotic pulse. Plus, there’s Abbey Blackwell on bass and Alice Sandahl on keys, easily pulling off the full-on ’60s sound, the kind of sweet surf rock with a touch of melancholy that should be the soundtrack to the slow-dancing-at-prom scene in every teen movie. During the two live shows that I’ve seen La Luz play so far, I’ve heard ‘This band is totally gonna be famous’ or ‘Dude, they’re gonna be so big'” -The Stranger

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14906-sure-as-spring/

>>> http://laluz.bandcamp.com/

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DRAG SOUNDS – Like Television, but weirder. From the piedmont of North Carolina.
>>> https://soundcloud.com/drag_sounds

VIEWFINDER – Dreamy Boone hunks dreamily shoegazing.
>>> http://viewfinder.bandcamp.com/

:: $5
:::: 18+
:::::: 10:00

Jul
12
Fri
TONIGHT! Other Colors (Baltimore) // Naked Gods // Lollipops // Black Cat @ BlackCat Burrito
Jul 12 @ 10:00 pm – 1:00 am

“Other Colors began as the bedroom pop project of Will Ryerson. From these beginnings it bloomed, broadening in scope from homespun 4-track hiss into soaring, mystically enhanced spectral pop. These songs manage to exude undeniable uplift vibes. It’s a carefree, adventurous spirit. Will has a particular gift for birthing earworms, too. They burrow your head for days, almost to the point of being annoying. Testimony of this comes in the song ‘Dark Things’, an effortless bit of refined guitar-pop.” -Faster Louder (Australia)

“I’m constantly amazed by how much weird, awesome music is generated in the dilapidated neighborhoods of Baltimore, my neighboring gritty city. This simple pop will draw you into the ”future folk-rock” hand-crafted by this trio…” -Yvynyl

“As the guitar plays, something else creeps up…an entity…a being…a force…a horn…an organ…an idea…taking the life of this lonely sparsely beautiful rock and haunting it hard. Baltimore’s Other Colors’ solitary magic and expansive lo fi rock is something to take ahold of now. Their S/T album was recorded during last year’s blizzard, and that walled in mystique flows through this gem.” -Pasta Primavera

“Completely fallen for this lonesome, melancholy-dripping ‘spectralist pop’ gem… a slow-burning tune with devastating harmonies drenched in a low-profile, restrained fog of noise and reverb.” -No Fear of Pop

http://genpoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/other-colors

Lollipops
http://thelollipops1.bandcamp.com/

$5
::::::18+
::::::::::Real cheap beer

Jul
16
Tue
TONIGHT! Slopes & Katterwaul tour homecoming w/ Meridian at Espresso News @ Espresso News + Low Wine Bar
Jul 16 @ 9:30 pm – 12:30 am

Music show

SLOPES ///
Shoe gazing haze ripping alt-pop

KATTERWAUL* ///
Primitive garage-soul

MERIDIAN ///
Voluminous cave-wave

*Katterwaul’s full-length cassette debut, “Gimmie Fever” CS-32 ($5 includes limited ed. patch and download).

Surplus flyers from past shows will be available for free, and Light Jockey Wright will be slinging light beams for your viewing pleasure.

:: $5 entry
:::: 9:30 pm
:::::: All-Ages

Jul
18
Thu
TONIGHT! Chemical Peel (Columbia SC, Northampton) // Southern Femisphere // Brain Paint // Black Cat @ BlackCat Burrito
Jul 18 @ 10:00 pm – 1:00 am

Chemical Peel –
http://chemicalpeel.bandcamp.com/

Southern Femisphere –
http://southernfemisphere.bandcamp.com/

Brain Paint –
(come and find out)

5 Bucks
10:00 pm
::::18+

Jul
25
Thu
Sediment Club (NYC rhythm and noise) // Tinder Fungus // Brain Paint // Mans Trash (Athens, Ga not pop) // Black Cat @ BlackCat Burrito
Jul 25 @ 10:00 pm – 1:00 am

Sediment Club- Funky noisy post-punk/ no wave for fans of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Pop Group, and the Minutemen.

New 45 split with Guerilla Toss
http://sedimentclub.bandcamp.com/

Full-length produced by Ivan Jullian of Richard Hell and the Voidoids! Ask your record store clerk about it.
http://softspotmusic.bandcamp.com/album/time-decay-now

Brain Paint – New Boone band featuring members of Slopes and Hats.

5 Dollar Cover
Ages 18+
Dollar pbrs

Jul
27
Sat
TONIGHT! EX-CULT (Goner) // OBN IIIs (Austin) // Katterwaul // Nerve Endings (Bristol) at Black Cat
Jul 27 @ 10:00 pm – 2:00 am

EX-CULT – Memphis, TN
“…a punk rock sweet spot that incorporates angular post-punk, flying saucer fuzz guitar, snotty vocals and bash-your-head-in energy. A real stone groove! Killer linear punk à la Wire, Urinals, Australia’s X or something, man! A show at SXSW caught the attention of indie wonderkind Ty Segall, and the two began making plans to record in San Francisco,” resulting in their s/t Goner release.

OBN IIIs – Austin, TX
http://www.avclub.com/articles/obn-iiis-make-garagepunk-thats-best-heard-in-a-vac,92735/

KATTERWAUL – Boone, NC
Primitive, 2-piece, garage-soul helmed by Tucson transplant Brittany Katter and Slopes’ Tyler Hoskinson on drums.

THE NERVE ENDINGS – Bristol, TN

$5 advanced tickets available from 641 RPM, Black Cat Burrito, and Devon Tuttle (919-200-5629)
$7 at the door.
10:00 pm sharp!
Cheap beer
18+

Jul
28
Sun
TONIGHT! Cloud Becomes Your Hand (Brooklyn) // Drippy Inputs // + Potluck // Stump House
Jul 28 @ 9:00 pm – 12:00 am

Cloud Becomes Your Hand- seriously wild band from Brooklyn. They played at Loven House a couple of years ago.
“Avant-prog bumping insect rock & roll”
“A renaissance faire acid trip underwater in grandma’s winnebago.”

Here’s a video of the last Loven show:


http://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcamp.com/

Drippy inputs- Boone Americana

Potluck at 7
Music at 9
5 dollars for the touring band

Aug
10
Sat
Summer of Loven Slim Pickins Mixtape Swap
Aug 10 @ 9:00 pm – 12:00 am

Here at LHU we believe music is best when shared with friends. Compile your favorite summer anthems on cassette. I’ll be drawing names July 19th, swapping tapes August 3rd. This time its reciprocal, so you recipient also makes a tape for you.

Aug
23
Fri
Technicolor Teeth (Wisconsin) w/ Viewfinder and more at Black Cat @ BlackCat Burrito
Aug 23 @ 10:00 pm – 2:00 am

TECHNICOLOR TEETH – Wisconsin, feat. members of Tenement

“Wisconsin’s Technicolor Teeth is the first band I’ve seen categorized as “Nightgaze”, and the name suits them quite well. Though the spacey sounds created by the trio’s six-string assault are lightweight and misty, heavenly isn’t quite the best word to describe them. Try hellish. Technicolor Teeth put an unnerving spin on My Bloody Valentine’s gravelly ambience, giving their debut album, Teenage Pagans, a ghastly but beautiful sound.” -via half-gifts

http://technicolorteeth.bandcamp.com/
http://gimmetinnitus.com/2013/07/music-video-technicolor-teeth-drips/

VIEWFINDER – Boone, NC
Space cadets playing loud punkgaze.

https://www.facebook.com/ViewfinderNC
http://viewfinder.bandcamp.com/