by Budd Wilkins I’ve been made aware that many Avant Greensboro readers are Wes Anderson fans, eagerly awaiting the May 25 release of Moonrise Kingdom. Fresh from Cannes, I’m pleased to report that Moonrise Kingdom’s opening scenes are classic Wes Anderson. It’s a forthright continuation and, what’s more, intensification of the rigorous aesthetic preoccupations and
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As always, if you have any contributions, add them to the comments! THURS -#avantonair @ WUAG 103.1 FM // WUAG.net, 7-9pm -Laura Boswell @ The Green Bean, 8pm -Imperial Blend @ The Blind Tiger, 10pm FRI -Amelia’s Mechanics @ The Blind Tiger, 7:30 pm -Laila Nur, The Microphone Cables, Jackknife Stiletto, and Like Handshakes @
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As always, if you have any additions, leave them in the comments! THURS MAY 10 -3 Brained Robot, Forget The Times, Bubblegum Octopus, Br’er, and Cost Ghost @ The Karate Dungeon, 8pm -Drunken Prayer @ The Blind Tiger, 8pm FRI MAY 11 -Big Attack, Dirty Gs, The Radio Reds, and The Raving Knaves @
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by Budd Wilkins At intervals throughout the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman quietly unveiled the loose trilogy Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998). Chronicling the lives and loves of the “urban haute bourgeoisie,” a hitherto little-known species Stillman anatomized with equal measures earnest identification and affable chastisement, these low-key films were
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The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra performed Friday May 4th at the Green Bean for a small, enthusiastic crowd. Scales refers to his music as jazz/rock fusion, a genre/style that some of us older folks grew up with. Fusion jazz came to life as a style with Miles Davis. The album “In a Silent Way” laid most of
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THURS MAY 3 -Space Capone @ The Blind Tiger, 8pm FRI MAY 4 -Trioscapse, The Bronzed Chorus, and Drag Sounds @ The Broach Theater, 8pm -Lungs for Lee: Decoration Ghost, Ronnie Levels and His Genius Band, The Piedmontsmen, and Gray Yong @ The Blind Tiger, 8pm -Jonathan Scales Fourchestra and Mamadou’s Fantastic Band @ The Green Bean,
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by Tina Wilkins Calling all filmmakers, actors, sound techs, crew members! The 48 Hour Film Project comes to Greensboro on the weekend of June 22 – 24, 2012. Filmmakers from all over the Greensboro area (and beyond) will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film
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“Greensboro bad boys, Casual Curious hit it one more time at the Blind Tiger. Joining them will be Banned Books, bringing noise pop from the nor’east, along with Greensboro’s brightest young indie power trio, Black Santa. Also, the Three Brained Robot is going to pick at your brain before the rock n’ roll.” –
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De Äter Sin Egen Gud (or “They Eat Their Own God” on most days), from Columbia, SC opened the show (Russ from Dread Fabrik filled-in on bass.) Then came a two-shot round of a dynamic duo bands: Dumpster and Dickwolf. This couple of couples are two Greensboro bands in my top 5 acts YOU MUST
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Fun Fact on Record Store Day: bands can play as cover-band versions of themselves. Switchblade 85 brought 1,000 cc’s of hard rain on CFBG for Record Store Day. …excuse me, I mean “Kool and the Switchlade” or “HalenBlade 85″ or whatever moniker to celebrate the fact that Kool and the Gang and Van Halen were literally two blocks
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