Formed by Troy Brian Hancock in early 2011, spawned from earlier solo projects and bands started in Raleigh NC. After taking about a year and a half off from doing music Troy decided to resurface with a fresh new sound that was always clinging with, now with support from friends and a handful of local musicians he is more than ready to show what he has to offer
Facebook

Bellows

Bellows is the musical project of songwriter Oliver Kalb, started during the winter of 2010, after a blizzard hit the Hudson Valley and left the area deeply covered in snow. Bellows was a return to small thoughts, an attempt to exorcise feelings of loss and detachment into a living space, allowing the songs to breathe their own air and evolve naturally. The sound of Bellows is sensory and delicate, subtle and quiet but erupting with frantic wobbling drums, large orchestral sections and bursts of noise that defy the limitations of pop and folk. Though the origins of Bellows are bleak, the music is meant to be an encouraging listening experience, an embrace of something dark in the hopes of bringing new light into life.
Website

Focus Group

3 Brained Robot

FB Page

This ain't your Grandaddy's game nite! No cribbage or Kick The Can here. So bring your game face!

On April 25th, starting at 6pm, gather your friends and come to the Motorco Garage Bar (723 Rigsbee Ave, Durham, NC) to play an assortment new and innovative Board and Video games sure to keep everyone on their toes until the last drop of your pint! It's free, and guaranteed to be more fun than your little sister flipping over the table when she lands on your Boardwalk hotels.

Never seen a board game? Afraid of controllers? We'll have friendly folks walking around to help you and your friends get set up with something perfect for you. And feel free to bring your own favorite games to play and share!

Here's just a taste of some of the games we'll have lined up to play:

Video Games:

• Johan Sebastian Joust
• Trials Evolution
• Proteus

Board Games:

• Ticket to Ride
• Settlers of Catan
• EPIC SPELL WARS OF THE BATTLE WIZARDS: DUEL AT MT. SKULLZFYRE
• Cards Against Humanity

... and oh so, so much more.

So, don't miss out on Community Game Nite in the Garage Bar. Because you can't be a player if you don't have a game!

In the Garage Bar
Doors @ 5:00 PM
Starts @ 6:00 PM
ALL AGES!

Too Much Fun has been playing it's unique style of rootsy, rocking, rhythm and blues for the last twenty five years and with the release of their latest album, they are at the top of their game. Great grooves, great lyrics, great playing.
Too Much Fun is American roots, rock, and rhythm & blues at it's finest.
Website

Swang Brothers

Country - Rockabilly - Vintage pop from Carrboro, NC.
ReverbNation

• Bloody Mary ($6)
• Dark & Stormy ($5)
• Mojito ($5)
• Moscow Mule ($5)
• Vodka Orangeade, Limeade or Lemonade ($5)

(Note, you can upgrade to top shelf liquor on all of our cocktails, except the Dark & Stormy which uses Gosling's Rum)

Come get one(s) of our Best in the Triangle Bloody Marys and/or our refreshing fresh-squeezed Orangeade/Lemonade/Limeade

KoKyu BBQ

Our friends KoKyu BBQ will be there as always serving up their delicious Korean BBQ based street-food. World's best food off a truck! KoKyu starts serving around noon as does Motorco bar service.

Sarah Shook is known for scorching country originals, belting out Hank Williams numbers with ease and drinking Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey by the half gallon. Jon Baughman has become a force to be reckoned with when he slaps that 1964 Kay bass and clicks them strings til you just can't take the heat. Eric Peterson's guitar and Phil Sullivan's lap steel harmonies are so tight they ain't got an inch of daylight betwixt 'em.

Son, if you like smokin’ vocals, savory lap steel, badass bass and come-on-back-y’all geetar you'll be so damn pleased you'd sell your soul just to hear a hair more.

ReverbNation

Mary Johnson Rockers

Mary Johnson Rockers is her name, not a band. But with the Spark behind her, she delivers “great, roving Americana with pipes to spare,” ranging from soft twang with impeccable harmonies to driving rock rhythms full of late-night swagger. Their 2011 release Hummingbird Heart gained them traction, dubbed “a triumph,” full of “catchy, well-written and eclectic” songs (Chris Parker, Independent Weekly) together with a score of solid performances throughout their local NC Piedmont. Mary is joined by longtime friend and vocalist Miriam Chicurel-Bayard, contributing songwriter Jim Kremidas on vocals, guitar, pedal steel, and dobro, bassist FJ Ventre (Swang Brothers, Jon Shain, The Stars Explode, Tom Maxwell) and percussionist Robert Cantrell (Hobex, Tim Smith Band, Greg Humphreys, Samba Jovem).

Juniper Rising

Based in Brooklyn, Diana Potakh and Holly Overton, formerly of American Sun, felt the urgency to create music experimenting with their obsession with early country music like Loretta Lynn and Waylon Jennings. At a sunny Summer beach gathering, they asked bass playing friend Andrew McNey, formerly of The K-Holes, to join in. Kevin Faulkner, of The Men, maximizes the experience with eerie and beautiful lap steel licks. They love to tour because of the wonderful people they meet along the way.

Tumblr
FB Page
Soundcloud

• Bloody Mary ($6)
• Dark & Stormy ($5)
• Mojito ($5)
• Moscow Mule ($5)
• Vodka Orangeade, Limeade or Lemonade ($5)

(Note, you can upgrade to top shelf liquor on all of our cocktails, except the Dark & Stormy which uses Gosling's Rum)

"This is the blues kids used to sneak away from their parents to hear. This is the blues that used to get banned from the radio. This is is the blues said the things that god folk didn’t have the guts to hear."
ReverbNation page

John Howie & the Rosewood Bluff

When North Carolina's honky-tonk heroes the Two Dollar Pistols broke up in 2008- leaving behind a legacy that included five full-length CD's, an EP of duets with Grammy nominee Tift Merritt, and several US and European tours- lead singer/songwriter John Howie Jr. already had the seeds planted for a new group, one that would continue the Pistols tradition of making soulful honky-tonk based music for contemporary times. Bringing drummer Matt Brown over from the Pistols, John recruited pedal steel guitar ace Nathan Golub, christened the new band John Howie Jr and the Rosewood Bluff, and set about writing a new batch of songs.

Mat Quiring & the Lesson

Country music is supposed to empathize with people that have lost their houses, wives, trucks, or dogs. They never said anything about losing your old punk rock albums. Mat Quiring (Of Whiskey and Blood, Allied Threat) and Adym Roy (Kennebec, Red Engine), are straddling the line between honky tonk and "Fuck you" and so far, its working well. Acoustic guitar, pedal steel, accompanied by Lindsey and Ben Halliday (Scarlet Virginia) on accordion and bass, singer/songwriter Troy Smith of Red Engine on electric guitar and lite percussion, Mississippi native Jason Elliott on drums and percussion, and whatever else they feel like throwing on stage that night, these Raleigh musicians are keepin' it old school, to new school, to no school. For fans of Ben Nichols, Murder By Death, Johnny Cash.

B-Side Project

B Side Project is a rock trio from Durham, NC. With Lightnin' Rick on bass, Chris Conley on drums, and Stefan Rogers on guitar, B Side Project blends garage rock with a little old school punk and a some rockabilly to produce hard driving, high energy sound. --- Garagabilly!
Website