In the 1980s, Ken Friedman compiled three volumes of music called Tobacco-A-Go-Go—lost '60s garage rock singles from North Carolina. Today Friedman drums for Thee Dirtybeats, a Chapel Hill foursome that draws heavily from those archives. In their recordings, they've managed to capture the rudimentary psychedelic explorations and ragged rock 'n' roll of the Nuggets era via low-fidelity production that suggests that these, too, are lost '60s gems. Their purism is infectious. New kids on the block, Los Naturales just released their debut 7-inch but have already proven their mettle with rambunctious shows full of punk abandon, early rock 'n' roll bluster and smart-guy references (like the blown-out Guitar Wolf-down-South jam "Cage, Reich & Riley"). Greensboro's retro-rocking Malamondos also play. —Bryan Reed
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Local 506
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