Centro-matic with Elephant Micah Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m. $12 Kings, 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091 kingsbarcade.com The bad show wasn’t Chapel Hill’s fault: By the time the long-running Denton, Texas rock band Centro-matic first visited the college town in the summer of 2000 for a show at Local 506, their cross-country trek was […]
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How New Zealand’s The Clean became American cult favorites
The Clean with Boogarins Monday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m., $15 Cat’s Cradle Back Room Tally Ho!,” the debut single of ruddy New Zealand pop band The Clean, sports all the sonic grace of music transcribed to an Edison wax cylinder. Recorded for $60 in 1981, the two-and-a-half-minute track skips and sputters to an approximation of […]
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Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple have a problem with being consistently excellent
Acid Mothers Temple with Perhaps Saturday, April 26, 9 p.m. $10–$12 Kings kingsbarcade.com After almost two decades, the ever-morphing psychedelic collective Acid Mothers Temple has achieved their ultimate goal: They are now Japan’s answer to the Grateful Dead. This analogy doesn’t have much to do with the band’s sound: Though Acid Mothers Temple includes several […]