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04.18 RESIST NOT, STRAIGHT 8S @ THE CAVE
Durham's Resist Not boasts one of the year's best songs in "Choice Means Choice," a teen pregnancy parable told in the first-person. In it, Aaron Ward gives personality and empathy to hot-button issues, presenting social politics with the very specific life of one scared, young girl. Here, Ward's quartet of rabblerousers—more often irreverent than overtly political—promises to complement the revivalist rockabilly of Hillsborough's Straight 8s with its own rollick, rooted in anti-folk's spare sound and the clattering one-two of the Tennessee Three. 7:30 p.m. —Bryan Reed

Independent Weekly, 4/15/09