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Boston art-hardcore veterans Fat Day are coming to the Werehouse (the former PS211) in Winston-Salem on Thurs., Aug. 26. As a matter of full disclosure, I must admit that I was in college radio with these gentlemen a decade ago in Boston, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they put on an intense, intelligent show and have many great records. I fondly recollect many Fat Day shows in the basement of Fat Day house in Somerville, MA; opening for national acts at the Middle East club in Central Square; in the basements, common rooms, squash courts, and residence rooms of Harvard; and down in the old Mem. Hall basement studios of WHRB. They have been together for going on 12 years now, and they now have out a new collection of all their singles on their own 100% Breakfast! Records called Snarl of Pulchritude. They also have a new record coming out on Load Records in September. I understand that they still have quite a following among the kids in certain hardcore circles, and they are big in Japan. Certainly catch them if you can because it isn't every day they make their way down to North Carolina. Other North Carolina dates are:

Wednesday, August 25--Asheville, NC at Vincent's Ear: www.vincentsearcafe.com
Friday, August 27--Charlotte, NC at Queen City Underground: http://www.solidgoldempire.com/