Indy Picks Saturday 11/08/08::
Chapel Hill
Dom Casual, Ghostwriter
The Cave—For
more than a dozen years, Dom Casual's strutted about town like it owns the
place, affecting an ice cool surfabilly slink dotted with moments of baroque pop
shimmer, lounge-bound brass and '60s garage-pop verve. Early this year, the band
released only its second album, Espanta Muerto, which further honed its
retro sound. This is the band's last show with long-time guitarist Sean Murphy.
Opener Ghostwriter harkens even farther back, all the way to tar-paper shacks
and front porch sounds. Created by Steve Schecter six years ago, Ghostwriter's
scruffy, lo-fi, blues-punk sounds like John Spencer Blues Explosion gone solo,
with Schecter kvetching, "People/ Can't live with 'em/ They turn everything into
some sort of schism." Plop down $5 at 10 p.m. —Chris Parker