Howdy y'all, This Thursday, July 31st The Hall Monitors will be warming up the stage at the 9:30 Club for the Chapel Hill's legendary good-timers Southern Culture on the Skids! For those of you who have yet to experience a live SCOTS show - oh boy, you sure are in for it. Their greased-up blend of surf, rockabilly, and garage is likely to unleash your inner hillbilly. So much so, you may end up covered in fried chicken or banana pudding. We're not kidding, either. As an added bonus, our friend Mark Williams (aka The Kaiser) will be spinning some bang-on-the-wall good tunes between sets. Many of you will recognize him from DC Soundclash, Taking the Piss (both at Marx Cafe), and Procedure (which is happening at Saint-Ex this coming Wednesday, btw). The doors for this show open at 7:30, the damage is $15, and the Hall Monitors hit the stage at 8:45. We hope to see you there!

Check out this rock-u-mock-men-tary video featuring Hall Monitors' Mike and Matt with The Neanderthals at Maxwell's May 9, 2008! The Neanderthals "The Neanderthals are four numbskulls who claim to be real Cavemen! They dress up in leopard skin furs and play silly looking longhorn guitars to get their trashy sound. When asked to describe their "music" one dimwitted member explained "Duh,I dunno it's just rock'n'roll." Their "music" actually is a primitive stomping rock 'n' roll reminiscent of 60's garage frat-rockers The Sonics and The Trashmen with a little Chuck Berry and Link Wray thrown in. They sing about girls in hot rods and monsters in spaceships. No poetic introspection or post modern angst here. Rumor has it that the members include guitarist Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets) and singer Johnny Rabb, who's usually too drunk to give coherent interviews, but is a wild showman who has been known to disrobe onstage when gotten too excited! So there you have it. If wild guitars, stompin' beats and wildmen dressed like The Flintstones playing real rock 'n' roll rattle your primordial bones then a Neanderthal show promises to be the most fun you're likely to have this millennium. -- http://www.theneanderthals.com Lovely Videographer: Sean Crowley Editor: Stokely Baksh