June 14, 2008

8 Days A Week

Chapel Hill
Luego, Paleface
The Cave—Luego frontman Patrick Phelan and Paleface couldn't sound more different: Phelan's voice is a smooth Neil Young drawl, resting comfortably in the upper register, and Paleface carries a deep, sore-throated instrument, like tires that have been treading the same gravel daily for a few decades. But the two match musically, both kicking up dust-cloud shuffles of mid-tempo Americana, Luego with a fine-grained smoothness in its strings and Paleface with a grittier back-porch rollick. Paleface kicks it off at 10 p.m. —Bryan Reed

Chapel Hill
Red Collar, Future Kings of Nowhere
Hell—Before Red Collar gets a chance to play to the late crowd anthems they'll feel like they've known for years, Pennsylvania's Endless Mike and the Beagle Club will have played a raggedy sort of punk, like a drunker World/ Inferno Friendship Society; The Future Kings of Nowhere will have turned relationship anxieties into frantic choruses; and you'll realize that a dark, smoky bar with PBR on tap is custom fit for this triple bill. Get in free at 9 p.m. —Bryan Reed

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