Friday, August 6, 2010

Tonight: The Old Ceremony, Schooner, and American Aquarium @ The Raleigh Music Hall

I can't figure out if The Raleigh Music Hall is now called Kings or what, but tonight the downtown venue is offering up one hell of a lineup. Triangle darlings, The Old Ceremony, will deliver their potent mix of period pieces, ballads, and high energy pop rock led by the always affecting Django Haskins. Carrboro's Schooner produces a blend of meditative pulsing sounds with straight ahead indie rock unlike most other bands typically lumped together with them. the bill also includes Raleigh's American Aquarium, a band which takes hints from traditional country to use as part of their concoction of rock and haunting western music with a genuinely southern identity.