Blood Feathers perpetuate America's most important export, Rock 'n' Roll music. Sailing the same tradewinds that brought rhythm to the New World and shipped gospel, blues, and jazz back as a thank you note, they write songs that snug into the grooves of your grandmother's 78s. After hustling open mic nights in NC's Triangle for years, Lions at Lunchtime are ready for prime time.

So you think you know it all, smarty-pants? You say you can get from Kevin Bacon to the avarage annual rainfall in the Amazon valley in three degrees of separation? Well, come on out and prove it!

Manray are "all algorithmic progged-out sounds, all spastic time-changes and atonal chord voicings."
-Jeff Tobias, Flagpole Magazine

Dirk Quinn is a Philadelphia based guitarist who has utilized nearly a decade of steady performing to develop a unique and progressive style - one that sits somewhere between jazz, funk and rock. Odd Birds Local 219 is a co-op band of multi-instrumentalists who record at home and wanted to play their songs live.

Charming Gardeners are 60's pop for the 21st century. Big grooves and big guitars and a big voice. Weinberg, Cole & Underwood open.

Local singer-songwriters Brandon Herndon (Twilighter) and John Pardue (Puritan Rodeo) give you a taste of what drives their respective bands. Come out, maybe play a tune of yours!

With more than a tip of the synth drum in the direction of Depeche Mode , New Order , Numan and Visage Makeupbreakup are a deadly combination of the first wave of electronic pop and the 21st century MDMA fueled wave of electroclash.

Need something to laugh at other than the existential abyss? Well, Michelle Maclay can help!

The Bastages are a punk trio formed in late 2009 by Durham-area veterans of great punk and indie bands past and present (Ugly Americans, Mind Sirens, Simeon, etc.). The band plays mostly loud, mostly fast anti-Fascist punk rock on their own terms -- deal with it. A Rooster for the Masses are moody Brit-influenced dance-pop that sounds like it stems from that same uneasy period in the early 80's that found Gang of Four experimenting with disco, and Joy Division morphing into New Order.

Old-school blues from Lee Gildersleeve and the crew.

They can jump, they can swing, they can flat out rock, they play the blues, they play from the roots, they are tight, they are loose, they are Too Much Fun!

Crooning-psycho-surf-rockabilly-garage-punk. Dexter Romweber (Flat Duo Jets, solo albums, the Kamikazes) has done it all, and will again this night.

What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as? What ws the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms. Marsh? What city did the last Pony Express ride end in? Where are your pants? Find out the answers to these and more at Misty's Trivia!

Yes that Stu Cole, of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame, is bringing his thing (and some friends) to our very own Cave to host a Ballroom Jam session.

Johnny Cook invites you to laugh your butts off with up and coming comics, then re-attach them with the super-glue of funny.

Open-Mic original music with our host, John Saylor. His dedication in promoting original music is one of the reasons this is the best open-mic event in the Triangle.

Killer Filler plays entirely instumental music; some lounge, some funk, some pop, etc. Emphasis on the "etc." The Mission Creeps are a surf goth horror rock trio with a one-of-a-kind style founded on a love for the bare-bones garage punk compositions of The Cramps, as well as the psychologically spooky imagery of David Lynch.

Kate Edwards is a sensitive asshole with lots of love to give to the right people and once in awhile to to the wrong people. Tony T. Raver is back in town with a bottle in one hand and a heart on his sleeve. They want to get close and personal in the Ballroom.

The Underscore Orkestra is a Portland OR based band, playing a blend of Balkan, Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz and Swing, with a repertoire consisting of both original and traditional material.

Long ago at the age of 5, Blaine Ziglar sat on a church pew and asked his grandmother where Jesus lives. She pointed up and away saying up there, not realizing that she was actually pointing at a P.A. speaker in the corner of the church. For the longest time thereafter, he believed that Jesus resided in the P.A. speaker itself.

Twilighter is on world tour - if your world is the Cave. Don't call it a comeback, they've been on those bar stools for years. eteran singer-songwriter Rodie Ray continues to use her southern wit and quizzical girlish charms to reel in large devoted audiences around the Southeast.

See No Weevil is a funky little trio that delivers an infectious (insectious?) mix of eclectic music, most of it with a blues and R&B flavor.

Puritan Rodeo Show is down home good time music with honky tonk swagger, a bluegrass rollick, and a songwriter's sincerity. Balthrop, Alabama, population 11 or so, straddles the fine line between antebellum and antifolk, reconstructing indie pop with songs of love, dead people, and dead people in love.