This Week's Local Band Local Beer: Richard Bacchus, Maldora & Prison Book Club

This week's (January 26) free WKNC Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh features a trio of rock bands, two from Raleigh and one coming all the way from West Virginia.

Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls will headline with Maldora and Prison Book Club (from Shepherdstown, WV) getting things started. Check out some music from Bacchus below along with a full stream of Prison Book Club's self-title album.

As always, the show is ages 21 and up and the music starts at about 10 p.m.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Small Ponds & The Tender Fruit

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog, on January 12, will feature two fantastic local folk / Americana bands. The Small Ponds and The Tender Fruit will take the stage.

Checkout music from both bands below, including the entire 2010 album Flotsam & Krill by The Tender Fruit, which was produced with a little help from Phil Cook and Justin Vernon.

The music will start at about 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Airstrip & Lake and Hennepin

The year is upon us and the free Local Band Local Beers shows at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh keep on rolling.

This week's show, on January 5, features two local bands with familiar members, Airstrip and Lake & Hennepin. Airstrip is the new project of Matthew Park, formerly of Veelee. Lake & Hennepin features Reese McHenry of The Dirty Little Heaters.

Stream or download the songs "Middle of the Night" and "Magician's Assistant" by Airstrip below.

As always, the music starts at about 10 p.m. and the show is 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Debonzo Brothers & Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores

There is just one last free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in 2011 on December 29 and it will feature two local folk rock bands.

Raleigh's Debonzo Brothers and Chapel Hill's Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores. Srteam Debonzo Brothers' Places EP as well as Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores' self-titled EP below.

As always, the music starts at about 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: River City Ransom, Dark Water Rising & The King's English

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show on Thursday, December 22 will give you one last chance to cut loose before the craziness of Christmas weekend begins.

This week's bill features Raleigh bands River City Ransom and The King's English as well as fellow North Carolinians haling from Pembroke, Dark Water Rising.

Check out a bunch of music from River City Ransom and Dark Water Rising via the widgets below.

As always, the show is ages 21 and up and the music starts at about 10 p.m.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Temperance League, The Last Tallboy & Oulipo

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh on Thursday, December 15, features a triple bill of North Carolina bands.

The lineup features Temperance Leagues from Charlotte and The Last Tallboy and Oulipo, who both call Raleigh home.

Check out the song "Ain't Nobody Listening" by Temperance League below. You can also check out a video of The Last Tallboy performing at The Pour House in 2009 below as well (video shot by Mann's World). And last but certainly not least, stream the EP That Is What I Said (And I Dove Into The Water) by Oulipo at the bottom of this post.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff & The Bayonets

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog (on December 8) features Chapel Hill country folk band John Howie and The Rosewood Bluff along with Winston-Salem rock band The Bayonets.

Check out a number of songs from John Howie Jr. and The Rosewood Bluff via the widget below as well as the song "Hesitate" by The Bayonets.

As always, the music starts at about 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Music Tapes, The Toddlers, T0W3RS & Depressed Buttons

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog on Thursday, December 2, is a special one. It's the celebration of the day that tickets go on sale for the 2012 Hopscotch Music Festival.

The evening will start earlier than usual, at 8 p.m. The Music Tapes, Julian Koster's group, will start things off, followed by The Toddlers, T0W3RS and Depressed Buttons.

Stream The Music Tapes new EP Purim's Shadows (The Dark Tours the World) HERE. Stream the song "OUR5!" by T0W3RS below.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Gross Ghost, Lilac Shadows & Exquisite Corpse

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, this week's free Local Band Local Beer will be happening tonight, Wednesday, November 23, at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh.

This week's show packs a punch with Gross Ghost, Lilac Shadows and Exquisite Corpse. Check out "Devious" from Gross Ghost and "A Shallow Madness" from Lilac Shadows after the jump.

As usual, the show starts around 10 p.m. and is 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: I Was Totally Destroying It & The Ethnographers

It's Thursday (November 17), so that means tonight there will be another free show at Tir Na Nog as part of the Local Band Local Beer series. This show is a doozy featuring local rockers I Was Totally Destroying It with The Ethnographers from Greenville.

I Was Totally Destroying It will be playing their EPs The Beached Margin and Done Waiting in their entirety. Stream or download "The Witch Riding Your Back" from The Beached Margin below. Check out some songs from The Ethnographers below as well.

As always, the show starts around 10 p.m. and is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Luego & Skylar Gudasz & the Ugly Girls

It's Thursday (November 10), so as always, there will be a another great free Local Band Local Beer show tonight at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh.

This week's show will feature a some pop rock from Luego and folk/alt-country from Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls. Check out a smorgasbord of songs from Luego via the first widget below and the entire 7-song album, Two Headed Monster, from Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls via the second widget.

As always, the music will start around 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Loners & The Stars Explode

This Thursday, November 3, will bring another great free show to downtown Raleigh as part of the Local Band Local Beer series. Local rockers The Loners and The Stars Explode will play at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh, set to start at the usual time, 10 p.m.

Check out three songs from The Loners and a whopping thirteen from The Stars Explode via the widgets below.

Don't forget, these shows are ages 21 and up only, so the younger folks will have to sit this one out.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Toddlers & The Cellar Seas

It's Thursday, so that means there will be some fantastic free music tonight (September 29) in downtown Raleigh as the weekly Local Band Local Beer show hits Tir Na Nog.

The show will feature a pair of Triangle bands, The Toddlers from Chapel Hill and The Cellar Seas from Raleigh. Check out music from each band at their respective MySpace pages (The Toddlers HERE and The Cellar Seas HERE).

As always, the show is limited to those 21 and up and the music will start around 10 p.m.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Static Minds & Pink Flag

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog tonight, September 1, will feature a pair of local garage rock bands.

Durham's all girl trio Pink Flag will share the stage with Raleigh's The Static Minds. The music gets at about 10 p.m. and the shows are 21 and up.

Stream Pink Flag's new King of Scene EP below (and check out our review HERE). Check out a recent video of The Static Minds Performing at Kings below as well.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: The Charming Youngsters, Goodbye, Titan & Lake Isle

With a new school year kicking in and Chris Tamplin back booking the shows at Tir Na Nog, we're reviving our weekly posts about the free Local Band Local Beer series every Thursday night.

Tonight's show, August 18, will feature Triangle bands The Charming Youngsters and Goodbye Titan and Greensboro band Lake Isle. Things, like always, will get started around 9 p.m.

Stream the latest release from The Charming Youngsters, Fortescue EP, via the widget below. Stream music from Goodbye, Titan and Lake Isle below too.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Stella Lively & Jessica Long

Jessica Long
photo by Matthew Perez

It's Thursday (June 2), so it's time for another free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh.

Tonight's show will feature some folky music from Raleigh band Stella Lively and poppy folk from Durham singer-songwriter Jessica Long. As always, the music gets started around 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

Check out music from both of tonight's performers below.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Outside Soul

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh, tonight, May 26, will feature Raleigh R&B and soul band Outside Soul. As always, the show will get started around 10 p.m. and it's ages 21 and up.

The evening will also feature a birthday party for the company Kinder Soles, which is celebrating it's one year anniversary of making environmentally friendly shoes.

Checkout a video of Outside Soul performing the song "Music Is Worthy" at Port City Java in Raleigh below.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Cola Freaks, Fossils & Double Negative

This week's free Local Band Local Beer show on Thursday, May 19 at Tir Nag Nog in Raleigh will be a loud one, featuring Cola Freaks and Fossils, both all the way from Denmark. Rounding out the bill will be local thrashers Double Negative.

Like usual, things get started around 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.

Check out a video below of Cola Freaks performing the song "Uppers and Downers," which is the opening track from their self-titled album due out digitally in the U.S. on May 31.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Mumu Tutu & Sex Panther

This week's Local Band Local Beer show Tir Na Nog in Raleigh on Thursday, May 12 will feature the local sounds rock bands Mumu Tutu and Sex Panther. The latter bills itself as the "Ultimate 80's Rock n Metal Party Band!"

Check out a video of Mumu Tutu performing the song "Snitches Get Stiches" in Greensboro last year. Also check out a video of Sex Panther performing AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long," which sounds pretty rough, but is fairly amusing.

As always, the show starts at about 10 p.m. and is ages 21 and up.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Modern Skirts & Oulipo

Instead of posting about all of the free Local Band Local Beer shows during a given month like we usually do, we're going to start post about each individual one, mostly because the schedules are being rolled out slower than in the past.

With that said, this week's free show at Tir Na Nog on Thursday, May 5 will feature Athens, GA band Modern Skirts and Raleigh's own Oulipo.

Download the song "Bumper Car" from Modern Skirts' latest album Gramahawk below and check out our review of the album HERE.