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!

Boat Burning is an experiment in live music composition using amplified guitars, cello, drums and chance.

Johnny Cook invites - no, begs, bids, brings on, calls, commands, courts, draws, encourages, entices, entreats, gives an invitation, insists, inveigles, lures, persuades, petitions, prays, prevails on, proposes, requests, solicits, summons, supplicates, tempts, urges, vamps, welcomes, and woos you to laugh your butts off with up and coming comics. Or he'll hit you upside the head with his new thesaurus.

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.

Local singer-songwriters Brandon Herndon (Twilighter) and John Pardue (Puritan Rodeo) give you a taste of what drives their respective bands.

Studio Gangsters been gettin' shell in this mofo for ten years and see no reason to stop now. Recognize. The Dirty Little Heaters are three like minded people making VERY LOUD rock music.

What is a Happitizer? It's a small bite to eat. It's tapas courtesy of Elaine's on Franklin. Support the early show and get a snack while you're at it.

So, you need to laugh at something other than the existential abyss? Well, Johnny Cook will take care of that!

Instant Jones are danceable yet intelligent, profound yet catchy and invariably from a sincere and honest place in the human heart. The Alcazar Hotel play straight up Rock & Roll, no qualifier.

The words "Pagan Hellcats" coupled together translates into beautiful, raw songs, jittery intensity mixing with good neighborly sentiments with pretty male/female pagan harmonies that pop up generally in the second set.

It's super-group night as Inspector 22, which includes Mike Glass of Fin Fang Foom on drums, former Spider Bagger Chris Girard on guitar, Ryan Richardson of the Kingsbury Manx on bass, and Todd Emmert on guitar and vocals join Wild Wild Geese, secretive ex and current members of Americans in France, Rongo Rongo, and Spider Bags to make some noise.