Raleigh Undercover: It's on

I Was Totally Destroying It will be going into the studio soon to finish up its second album. But lately, the group has been spending less time working on its own material than boning up on another band's songs -- an unidentified group whose songs IWTDI will perform Saturday night at Raleigh Undercover.

"We've been practicing a whole lot," says guitarist John Booker. "We started in December, twice a week, and it's gone well. The first time we played through it, we were going, 'Wow, that already sounds like it should!' So we've continued playing; not fine-tuning so much as going through it so we don't forget it. We're the exact opposite of most bands -- we sound better on cover songs than some of our own. I have no explanation for this."

Curious? Read more about it here; and head for Tir Na Nog any of the next three nights.

ADDENDA: Valient Thorr covered Funkadelic, and it was definitely worth the wait. I Was Totally Destroying It, meanwhile, did My Bloody Valentine.