Lunchbox Records celebrates three years

Charlotte-based Lunchbox Records has reached its third year of successful operation, spitting in the face of the music industry's wings-ablaze descent to what seems like inevitable bankruptcy. If ever there were cause for celebration, this is it. And what better way to do so, than to throw not just a show, but two--including what might turn out to be the best punk show you're likely to see all year.

The festivites kick-off with an in-store show at Lunchbox's Central Avenue headquarters, featuring Graf Orlock (CA), Lewd Acts (CA) and Lowbrow (Charlotte).

Then, it's time for the main event at The World Famous Milestone Club. The show will be headlined by the long-running (and p4k-endorsed) Fucked Up and Raleigh's HC-revivalist heroes Double Negative. Local support comes in the form of Grids (featuring Lunchbox clerk Rob Davis) and Planet Piss (featuring Lunchbox honcho Scott Wishart).

Fuck yeah.

CyTunes launch party in Chapel Hill

As previously reported, CyTunes.org, the Triangle-based music download retailer founded in honor of local music's fallen friend Cy Rawls, is up and running, offering exclusive recordings from area heavyweights including Polvo, Superchunk, Sorry About Dresden, The Rosebuds and Double Negative. But wait! There's more! Tonight at Chapel Hill's Local 506, the site celebrates its launch with a free party featuring DJs, karaoke and performances by The Magic Babies and The Flute Flies (which features The Rosebuds' Ivan Howard, Schooner's Reid Johnson and Zeno Gill of The Sames).

Shuffle wholeheartedly approves of this event.

Also, check out the CyTunes write-up on Pitchfork.

CyTunes launches at midnight tonight (12/12/08)

Cy Rawls, a longtime friend and fan of the Triangle music scene, lost his battle against a malignant brain tumor in early October. But his friends haven't forgotten. CyTunes.org, a digital music retailer started with the intention to benefit Cy's mounting medical bills couldn't be completed in time, but the organizers soldiered on anyhow, shifting the site's monetary benefactor from the Raws family to the Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University.

Here is a list of artists whose music will available on CyTunes at launch:

Studio Tracks:

All Night
Chew Toy
The Dirty Little Heaters
Evil Wiener
The Ex-Monkeys
The Flute Flies
Greenades
Hammer No More The Fingers
I Was Totally Destroying It
Josh Zaslow
Mercury Birds
The Nein
Red Collar
Ryan Pound
Starmount
Wes Phillips

Live Tracks:

Superchunk
Polvo
The Rosebuds
Birds Of Avalon
Cantwell Gomez and Jordan
Fin Fang Foom
Magic Babies
Double Negative


** For more info on what CyTunes is about: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_cytunes.html

**For more info about Cy Rawls: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_cy.html

**For more info about the Tisch Brain Tumor Center: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_tisch.html

Brian Walsby on NPR

Since moving to Raleigh in 1986, Triangle music veteran Brian Walsby has built quite the reputation. He counts among his musical credits Patty Duke Syndrome (Ryan Adams' pre-Whiskeytown rock band), Polvo and the ATP-bound Double Negative. He's releasing a compilation of songs from his old bands, Siberian, Daddy and The Patty Duke Syndrome, called Brushes With Fame, which comes with a three-page booklet of background on the bands.

But he's also a reputed cartoonist, whose book series Manchild was greenlighted for a fourth issue last month.

Walsby was also featured on Frank Stasio's NPR show, "The State of Things," yesterday. Downloadable and streamable audio is now available online.

Double Negative plays ATP in the UK

The All Tomorrow's Parties-sponsored Nightmare Before Christmas Festival, curated by the Melvins and Mike Patton, might be the loudest ever. Aside from the curators (Patton, operating with Fantômas), the line-up includes, among others, Isis, Torche, Butthole Surfers, Big Business, Mastodon, The Locust, The Dirtbombs, Monotonix, The Damned, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Raleigh's ferocous Double Negative.

Double Negative takes it's melee of a live show to the festival with its Raw Energy EP still fresh--and awesome.