Sail On!Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8pm
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Sail On!Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!MONDAY, MAR 15, 2010 7PM
The Sea Around Us
Philadelphia-based drummer, Ricardo Lagomasino, has been playing music longer than he hasn't been playing music. While pursuing a music degree, he studied with Billy Hart, Ralph Peterson, Joe Chambers, Jamey Haddad, and Michael Rosen and got to play in bands led by Joe Chambers, Roscoe Mitchell, Wendell Logan, Marcus Belgrave and soundpainter Walter Thompson. He has toured US, Canada, Europe and the UK with Many Arms, Joe Lally, Capillary Action and Hulk Smash. He has been seen on stage with Lee Jaewon, SHREDfest, Circles, George Korein, Verity In Stereo, Pads & Steel and DCIC.

It's Just Vanity
By way of Chicago and New Jersey, but calling Chapel Hill home, It’s Just Vanity draw on the indie rock influence the town has become so famous for, while keeping the basement scene work ethic they grew up with. It's Just Vanity's first EP "The Strangers" helped the band recognize their sound -- half old school emo, half instrumental post rock -- and get their name out through a free download, promoted on east coast tours to message boards in Sweden, Japan and the United Kingdom. Their debut LP, Here's What You Remember From A Coma, combines the intricacy of math rock, with the heavy, epic tones of post rock and throws in memorable choruses to let audiences remember that indie music isn't boring. The atmospheric indie rock quartet formed less than a year ago and are now on the cusp of their debut LP release - Here's What You Remember From A Coma - and will be making their third tour of the east coast in support of the record. "Their tracks balance hypnotic, drifting passages with chunky indie rock churn... remarkably well-realized music, offering plenty of promise." - Chris Parker, Independent Weekly

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Sail On!Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7pm
In Grenada
The New Motels

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Sail On!Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 8pm
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Sail On!Friday, March 19, 2010 at 9pm
Ghost Stepper (featuring Jesse Miller, Luke Miller and Mike Greenfield of Lotus)
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Sail On!Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 9pm
Playing "The Bends" in its entirety with full light show provided by Pulse Lighting.
With special guests:
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Sail On!Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7pm
The New Music Series welcomes:
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Sail On!Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 8pm
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Sail On!Friday, March 26, 2010 at 9pm
Sunny Day Music & 104.5 FM welcome:
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Sail On!Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 9pm
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Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!MONDAY, MAR 29, 2010 7PM
Tristan
Occasionally, Nashville gets a migrant or two that do well at reminding us that some folks really do come here to make better music. One such shining example is singer/songwriter Tristen who arrived recently by way of Chicago. The single-named songstress has been bandying a simple, straightforward pop influenced folk style around town for the past year now. Backed by a revolving door backing band, Tristen takes a classic approach to melody sounds neither modern nor retro, but rather takes on a timeless quality that seems it could have come about at any given year between now and 1972.

Charles Latham
Charles Latham wields an acid tongue and a poison pen, crafting social criticism and brutal self-analysis into three and a half minute ramshackle pop songs. His songs are often exercises in duality: he finds humor in horror and horror in humor, the profane in beauty and beauty in the profane. In a live performance, his audience often laughs and smiles, but he rarely does. His lofi home recordings compliment the harsh honesty of his lyrics; his guitar buzzes and rings, and his snarling voice leaps, cracks and cries.

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Sail On!Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 7pm
The New Music Series welcomes:
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Sail On!WEDNESDAY, MAR 31, 2010 7PM
Giant Mind
Giant Mind is the newly formed band of Philadelphia musician Greg Puglese. Performing behind his new full-length self-release, Holes in the Ground, the band delivers a unique style which combines warped hip-hop and soul samples, dynamic guitars, drum machines, and spacey electronics to create uniquely crafted pop songs. With five members from multiple Philadelphia neighborhoods, Giant Mind have no trouble pulling a large local crowd. A diverse lineup, each member brings not only an individual element of musical styling, but a unique performance background to the table.

Early Ape


Post Post

Post Post is an indie rock band comprised of four college juniors who met and formed at Bryn Mawr College, an all-women's liberal arts college outside Philadelphia (they wouldn't let Kevin in, he had to go to Haverford instead). Zauner fronts as a magnetic lead vocalist and songwriter, drawing upon her experience in her solo act Little Girl, Big Spoon. Her knack for writing catchy pop melodies is set off by her emotional, often clever and introspective lyrics, a rare blend that simultaneously appeals to both sides of human nature. As Little Girl, Big Spoon, Michelle shared stages with a number of prominent indie voices, such as Menomena, Man Man, Deerhoof, M. Ward, and Kimya Dawson.

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Sail On!Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 8pm
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Sail On!Friday, April 2, 2010 at 7pm
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altSaturday, April 3, 2010 at 9pm
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Sail On!THURSDAY, APR 08, 2010 7PM
100 Monkeys
featuring: Jackson Rathbone, Ben Graupner, Jerad Anderson, and Ben Johnson

These robot monkeys are notorious for improvising tunes and acting like loons. Since their original banding in the tree tops of sunny California these monkeys have grown and are hitting the road. In the coming months they will be caravanning their Doors-style rock show to ever so randomly selected locations in the U.S. and Canada. Keep your peepers peeled, the monkeys might be in you bushes sooner than you think.

TBA


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Sail On!Friday, April 9, 2010 at 9pm
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Sail On!Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7pm
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Sail On!Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7pm
tba
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Sail On!THURSDAY, APR 15, 2010 8PM
Grubby Little Hands
Grubby Little Hands is a collaboration between song-writers Brian Hall and Donnie Felton. The duo met in a music theory class and, rather than doing their homework, decided to start writing the body of work that led to their first album, Imaginary Friends.

Sky Ship
"As befitting their moniker, the fine Philly [quartet] Sky Ship adds a psychedelic edge to their electronics-tinged indie-rock with the occasional backwards-sounding guitar, cosmic keyboards, fuzzy vocals and trippy imagery. Frontman Matt Stein’s vocals are sometimes reminiscent of XTC’s Andy Partridge, but mostly the threesome sounds like a distant cousin of the Flaming Lips or a band that could nest nicely with the likes of Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo and a few other Elephant 6-affiliated acts."-M.A.G. Philadelphia Weekly

Jubel Jenkins


The Soft Pencils


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Sail On!Friday, April 16, 2010 9pm
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Sail On!SATURDAY, APR 17, 2010 9PM
Rubblebucket
A wild young band from Boston, Brooklyn, and Burlington, Vermont (i.e. Ver-brook-ston) that currently tours as an 8 piece. Their banging horn sounds and dance beats provide a backbone for the mesmerizing vocals of lead singer, Kalmia Traver. Rubblebucket's trip-rock sound has been compared to Talking Heads, Bjork, Fela Kuti and Portishead but what's in the bucket is completely their own.

Frank Cervantes (members of The Once Was)

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Sail On!THURSDAY, APR 22, 2010 8PM
Roman Candle
Roman Candle is one of the best, most complete American rock bands to surface in a decade ... After all, (they are) better at what they do--writing imaginative pop songs and building them into captivating four-minute Southern-air epics with the unleashed spirit of The Replacements and unorthodox intuition of Wilco--than any other "band on the verge" in memory. - Paste Magazine

Roadside Graves
"Roadside Graves' seven members stamp up a roadhouse-gospel-soul sound with John Gleason's naturally pinched, uneven voice pitched uneasily but tunefully over it. The result is like a more unsettled version of The Felice Brothers, letting lots of raggedy spontaneity seep into the band's folksy, approachable songs."-The Onion AV Club

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Sail On!Friday, April 23, 2010 at 9pm
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Sail On!Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 9pm
All original tickets honored at the new date.
 
Sail On!SATURDAY, MAY 08, 2010 9PM
Philebrity and Sunny Day Music welcome:
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
In his 1970 Playboy Interview, Ray Charles described soul as “people who do things from the heart.” In performance and on record, there is no question that JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound are 100% soul. Like Otis Redding fronting the Stooges, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound get crowds twisting and writhing on the floor, something that’s been sorely missing from live music.

Born in the great melting pot of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood in 2007, guitarist Billy Bungeroth, drummer Kevin Marks, and bassist Ben Taylor (Beat Down Sound/September Sessions soundtrack) joined forces with the Lowdown Horns to lay a ferocious foundation for the soulful shouts of Mr. JC Brooks. The son of a Jersey funk diva set adrift by the disco era, he’s renowned for his take-no-prisoners stage style, leaving audiences with no other choice than to get up and move! JC Brooks is determined to become the next in a long line of classic Chicago Soul singers; Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Syl Johnson - JC has learned from them all, and he's got no illusions about what it takes to become a classic.


TBA


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Sail On!Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9pm
Sunny Day Music & 88.5 Y-Rock on XPN welcome:
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Sail On!Friday, May 21, 2010 at 9pm
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