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Motorco Patio, Shows, Drinks, Food - http://motorcomusic.com
Menu - https://partsnlabor.com/menu/ Beautiful Music Venue & Bar with a large selection of beer and liquor.
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Featuring food from Parts & Labor serving until 12AM every nite.

ANNOUNCING! BEAR GHOST - Sat Oct 3 @ MOTORCOwith SARAH & THE SAFE WORD / SPACEMAN BOBGET TIX - 12PM FRIDAY, JUNE 5 @ mot...
06/01/2026

ANNOUNCING! BEAR GHOST - Sat Oct 3 @ MOTORCO

with SARAH & THE SAFE WORD / SPACEMAN BOB

GET TIX - 12PM FRIDAY, JUNE 5 @ motorcomusic.com/event/bear-ghost



"BIOS ARE FOR THE WEAK!" Bear Ghost cried as they meekly tapped out a Spotify bio, pausing every minute or so to recover from a productive sob. Productive in the sense of how many fluid ounces of mucin, glucose, sodium, etc. they produced, but little else. Their fingers pruned to the bone from the tears veiling the keyboard they feverishly clicked away at.

The room was dim. An overhead light flickered and danced to an eclectic rhythm of a song that had not yet been written. But would be written. By Bear Ghost, probably.

"Why must you torture yourselves?" mewled their manager, fearing for their sanity as they neared day 11 without sleep. His fingers pruned to the bone from his fondest hobby: sundrying plums with his bare hands.

Bear Ghost rose to their feet, eyes swollen. They looked calm now. Resigned but resolute. "How else will they know?" they pleaded, faltering as their knees begged to give way. "How else will they know that Bear Ghost is an Adventure Rock band that fuses fun and quirky musicianship with complex melodies, phat harmonies, heavy riffitude, and pop structure to deliver a sound purposely crafted to fill all booties, tall and small, with righteous boogie?"

The room was still, but undeniably changed. The air somehow tingling. Light and effervescent with the anticipation of something new, something fresh, something that could maybe, just maybe, save the whole wide world.

"You did it," choked their stunned manager. "I'll get the president on the phone."

NOW ON SALE! QUICKSAND / BANE - Tue Aug 4 @ MOTORCOGET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/quicksand-banewith SOUL BLIND
05/29/2026

NOW ON SALE! QUICKSAND / BANE - Tue Aug 4 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/quicksand-bane

with SOUL BLIND

NOW ON SALE! feeble little horse - Sun Jul 12 @ MOTORCOGET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/feeble-little-horsefeeble little...
05/29/2026

NOW ON SALE! feeble little horse - Sun Jul 12 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/feeble-little-horse

feeble little horse is naturally delighted to present their third full-length LP, bitknot. The album was written, arranged, produced, and recorded by Sebastian Kinsler, Lydia Slocum, and Jake Kelley across their respective homes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A spirited investigation into the unnatural space created between human nature and a culture of convenience, a synthesis of dirt and digital, bitknot by feeble little horse creates a language wherein one can re-imbue a sanctity of interdependence away from consumptive “self-sufficiency” and materialism. “The album art is based on the coincidental core memory matrix, which was used in old computers to store memory / access information using 0s and 1s. Each core, or ‘bit,’ is accessed through the grid of wires, like a knot that stores secret details and memories.” bitknot asks that we find new modes of being through this grid, entrusting one another with the collaborative construction of these knots. This negotiation with an ever-developing hybrid reality is expertly exemplified in the album’s production — the buoyancy of Kinsler’s arrangements provide a perfectly balanced surface tension for the weight of Slocum’s meandering introspection as they playfully harmonize against saccharine hooks, walls of noise, a supercharged car battery’s worth of synths and samples dropped in the ocean of their guitar-driven songwriting framework, and some of Kelley’s most laser-focused drums to date to create a sonic chimera that is as likely to be found nascently developing in the early aughts as some unknown, chromatic future.

Rhymes written with sidewalk chalk that refuse to be erased in the Anthropocene’s acid rain of destructive relationships, Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man manifest through the spirit of a young woman born in the shadow of the Steel City’s industrial ghosts, a study of the clumsy alchemy of IRL and WWW — it is within these rhizomatic contradictions that bitknot proliferates.

NOW ON SALE! CHANEL BEADS - Sun Oct 11 @ MOTORCOGET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/chanel-beadswith MECHATOK / CAR CULTURE...
05/29/2026

NOW ON SALE! CHANEL BEADS - Sun Oct 11 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/chanel-beads

with MECHATOK / CAR CULTURE

Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come (out 4/19 on Jagjaguwar), and shares the lead single/video, “Idea June.” Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

NOW ON SALE! TOKYO TEA ROOM - Sat Oct 10 @ MOTORCOGET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/tokyo-tea-roomTokyo Tea Room are a ba...
05/29/2026

NOW ON SALE! TOKYO TEA ROOM - Sat Oct 10 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/tokyo-tea-room

Tokyo Tea Room are a band from Margate, UK, who strive to create music inspired by human emotions, exploring themes of longing and the ephemeral nature of existence. With a warm, hypnotic sound shaped by introspective songwriting and production from Daniel James Elliott, the project carries a distinct and immersive sonic identity. Tokyo Tea Room is a timeless project whose message transcends the music itself, arousing passions and emotions and taking listeners on a journey within a tender, comforting bubble.

Their debut album No Rush established them as one of the most compelling emerging acts in alternative music, resonating with a growing global audience. With millions of monthly listeners and a sold-out debut North American tour, the band are quickly building momentum - particularly in the US, where their audience continues to expand.

With new music on the horizon, Tokyo Tea Room are entering a defining new chapter, evolving their sound while staying rooted in the emotional depth that defines their work.

NOW ON SALE! ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM - Wed Oct 7 @ MOTORCOGET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/robert-lester-folsom PresentsUnl...
05/29/2026

NOW ON SALE! ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM - Wed Oct 7 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX @ motorcomusic.com/event/robert-lester-folsom

Presents

Unlike similar iconoclasts with crystal vision who held forth with the oppressive thumb of a musical dictator, Folsom was ever in service of song, standing equally aside his collaborators, which uniformly engendered affinity and respect lasting to this day. While a tick higher than the second-tier, the mountaintop was always narrowly out his grasp. Though, with the right set of opportunities, bolstered by talent and drive, Folsom, if not as a stand-alone, star-quality artist, could have led the career of any number of songwriters behind the curtain who rode the magical musical continuum across the decades with faceless success. Perhaps it was Robert and company’s playing “weird spacey stuff and ballads,” as guitarist VanBrackle describes, in small town Georgia skating rinks, bowling alleys, and school dances expecting Top 40 dance-ready hits which held them down. Perhaps it was simply location. Though, the music of Sunshine Only Sometimes is composed of an intrinsic ability to hear the music truly playing, as opposed to the space in air heard by the lay-ear, which places Folsom’s music in a timeless space primed for perennial (re)discovery.

SUPPORT ADDED— Nigerian Canadian soul artist TOBi supports PawPaw Rod at Motorco in Durham on June 14!! found.ee/andPawP...
05/28/2026

SUPPORT ADDED— Nigerian Canadian soul artist TOBi supports PawPaw Rod at Motorco in Durham on June 14!! found.ee/andPawPawRod

ANNOUNCING! CHANEL BEADS - Sun Oct 11 @ MOTORCOGET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/chanel-beadswith M...
05/28/2026

ANNOUNCING! CHANEL BEADS - Sun Oct 11 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/chanel-beads

with MECHATOK / CAR CULTURE

Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come (out 4/19 on Jagjaguwar), and shares the lead single/video, “Idea June.” Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, he blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artifacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless.

ANNOUNCING! ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM - Wed Oct 7 @ MOTORCOGET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/robert-lest...
05/27/2026

ANNOUNCING! ROBERT LESTER FOLSOM - Wed Oct 7 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/robert-lester-folsom

Presents

Unlike similar iconoclasts with crystal vision who held forth with the oppressive thumb of a musical dictator, Folsom was ever in service of song, standing equally aside his collaborators, which uniformly engendered affinity and respect lasting to this day. While a tick higher than the second-tier, the mountaintop was always narrowly out his grasp. Though, with the right set of opportunities, bolstered by talent and drive, Folsom, if not as a stand-alone, star-quality artist, could have led the career of any number of songwriters behind the curtain who rode the magical musical continuum across the decades with faceless success. Perhaps it was Robert and company’s playing “weird spacey stuff and ballads,” as guitarist VanBrackle describes, in small town Georgia skating rinks, bowling alleys, and school dances expecting Top 40 dance-ready hits which held them down. Perhaps it was simply location. Though, the music of Sunshine Only Sometimes is composed of an intrinsic ability to hear the music truly playing, as opposed to the space in air heard by the lay-ear, which places Folsom’s music in a timeless space primed for perennial (re)discovery.

ANNOUNCING! QUICKSAND / BANE - Tue Aug 4 @ MOTORCOGET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/quicksand-banew...
05/27/2026

ANNOUNCING! QUICKSAND / BANE - Tue Aug 4 @ MOTORCO

GET TIX - 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ motorcomusic.com/event/quicksand-bane

with SOUL BLIND

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723 Rigsbee Avenue
Durham, NC
27701

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Monday 5pm - 12am
Tuesday 5pm - 12am
Wednesday 5pm - 12am
Thursday 5pm - 12am
Friday 3pm - 2am
Saturday 12pm - 2am
Sunday 12pm - 12am

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