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La Roux Update!
The La Roux show has been rescheduled for The Tabernacle on November 5! All previously purchased tickets will be honored and additional tickets are available by clicking here.
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$27.50 advance / $30 day of show
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The voice of progressive rock giants Yes for more than 40 years, Jon Anderson continues his SOLO - Works In Progress tour with fall dates. Jon is a consummate live performer, whether with Yes or doing solo shows. His falsetto voice is known the world over as one of the most powerful and endearing in rock.
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$26 advance / $28 day of show
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During the late '80s and early '90s, Big Head Todd & the Monsters (the Colorado-based trio of guitarist/keyboard player Todd Park Mohr, bassist Rob Squires, and drummer Brian Nevin) built their audience through constant touring, playing college towns across the country. With these tours, they built a solid fan base before they had even signed to a major label. Although they have released several records, they haven't been able to completely transfer the live appeal of their laid-back, slightly jazzy, blues-based pop to tape. Nevertheless, each of their records contains many fine moments, and 1993's Sister Sweetly, which went gold and stayed in the charts over a year, showed that they were continuing to improve their songwriting as well as their playing. Their latest release is Rocksteady.
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$18 advance / $20 day of show
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The luminously lovely indie-folk-tronic duo CocoRosie consists of the Casady sisters, vocalist/guitarist/flutist Sierra and vocalist/percussionist Bianca. Both sisters had an early love of music that they pursued as they grew up, albeit in different ways: Sierra began operatic vocal training while she was in high school, while Bianca sang and wrote songs but kept them to herself. That is, until she reconnected with Sierra, who joined Bianca at her Paris apartment, and they started playing and recording songs together. The fruits of their labor, La Maison de Mon Reve, was released in spring 2004 by Touch & Go, and was predated by a string of dates in New York with Devendra Banhart, the Gena Rowlands Band, Battles, and Ratatat. Their second album Noah's Ark, which featured cameos by Devendra Banhart and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, arrived in fall 2005. Their newest album, Grey Oceans, was released in May.
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$25 advance / $27.50 day of show
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Few bands can claim to have been instrumental in 20 years of musical history. James are one of them. From their early EP’s for a youthful Factory records, through their pivotal place in the mid to late 80’s indie scene, the early 90’s Manc-centric baggy scene and the mid 90’s brave new world of guitar bands breaking the top 10 and playing arenas, James have been at the forefront of British music. After a decade long hiatus, the band is back with a new release, Night Before, in stores September 14.
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Famously independent as a recording artist, Aimee Mann hit new artistic levels when she decided to release her music on SuperEgo Records in 2003. She'd started her career in music as the singer for 'Til Tuesday and subsequently been demoralized and under-represented by every label she dealt with, including Epic, Geffen, and Imago. Her post-2003 music, though, is pop music that's beyond standard musical categories, sometimes sparely played and always sung in her distinctive, rounded-corner voice. Mann has a mordant touch in her lyrics, unafraid of dissecting human subjects because the process sounds so fabulous in her hands.
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$15 advance / $17.50 day of show
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Atlanta's Deerhunter will celebrate the release of their new album with a return to the Variety Playhouse. Deerhunter began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. Their live performances almost always leave audiences polarized, and have been referred to by Karen O of the yeah yeah yeah's in NME as bordering on "a religious experience." Band leader Bradford Cox has worn sundresses and has performed with fake blood smeared over his face and hands, their live show being "much more savage" than their albums. In his explanation of the sundresses Cox has said, "I don't like the idea of going around stage in just jeans and a t-shirt. It seems anticlimactic."
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$20 advance / $22.50 day of show
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It’s title is loaded – simultaneously ambiguous, intimate, troubled, and peaceful. It evokes the power with which romance is able to eclipse everything that conspires to destroy it, and also the residue of sadness that remains in the calm aftermath of conflict. Five Ghosts, the name of Stars’ fifth, newest – and, without question, best – full-length album, is mysterious, grand, and multi-faceted. Which is fitting, because the marvelous songs collected under that name are as well. Each and every one of them. “What is the darkest possible situation that I could try to turn into a beautiful pop song?” Stars frontman Torquil Campbell asks. “That was sort of my mission with this record. If you could make horror movies that were like love stories, that would be my ultimate genre.” Which isn’t to say that Five Ghosts is dark or difficult music. On the contrary, it may be the most nakedly euphoric-sounding collection the band has made yet. |
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The Books' story began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong experimented and plunked away with sound. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created what would become their debut record, Thought for Food, in 2002. Within a year, the Books relocated to Hot Springs, NC, and recorded and released The Lemon of Pink. With a lot of favorable word of mouth and critical buzz from the first two records, the Books relocated again in winter of 2004 and recorded in an old Victorian home in North Adams, MA. With the release of Lost and Safe in April of 2005, the Books prepared to tour with their unique blend of samples and acoustic music. Their latest album, The Way Out, was released this year. |
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Singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart is often associated with the subgenres known as freak folk, psych folk or New Weird America. Essentially his music is gentle and twee and a little bit strange, with latest album What Will We Be? (2009) being especially experimental. He started a recording career in 2002 and first got noticed after second album Oh Me Oh My. Third full-length Rejoicing In The Hands (2004) was widely acclaimed and nominated by many publications as one of the best albums of the year. Niño Rojo (2004) and Cripple Crow (2005) further boosted his reputation. 2007's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder was hailed by critics as the best experimental album of it's year.
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$25 advance / $27.50 day of show
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The piano-playing chanteuse Sara Bareilles combines the sweet with the scruffy. While her jazzy pop melodies are radio-ready, her relationship-oriented lyrics can be unexpectedly salty ("Bottle Up" and "Come Round Soon" from Little Voices wouldn't pass FCC muster). A little profanity here and there, however, doesn't indicate tough-girl attitude as so much as a desire to express herself freely. As Bareilles explains in "Love Song," "I'm trying to let you hear me as I am." (Not surprisingly, her degree is in communications.) Fans of Sarah McLachlan and Alicia Keyes will find much to like here. Sara's new album, Kaleidoscope Heart, comes out on September 7.
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Menomena, the Portland, OR, based experimental rock trio will release their new album, Mines, on July 27, their second release on Barsuk Records. Menomena shines Northwest indie songcraft through a Chicago post-rock lens, illuminating the quiet recesses with an unpredictable, experimental light. Danny Seim, Justin Harris, and Brent Knopf perform, sing, arrange, create, and destroy Menomena songs. On stage, Danny usually plays drums and sings. Justin usually plays bass, saxophone, MOOG, electric guitar, and sings. Brent usually plays keyboards, bells, guitar, and sings. They’ve released two previous albums on Portland indie label Film Guerrero, I Am the Fun Blame Monster, (which garnered a rare 8.7 rating from Pitchfork and inspired them to say: “Menomena are a hugely creative band, and they've managed to make an album that's extremely accessible yet entirely unconventional”) and Under An Hour, which consists of three lengthy instrumental compositions and is the soundtrack to a modern dance performance choreographed by a friend.
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$28 advance / $30 day of show
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Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel has a professional career that spans over four decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers. As a solo performer, Tommy’s dazzling performance, flawless guitar skills and voluminous repertoire never fail to amaze and engage his legions. Emmanuel's flair and unforgettable showmanship have created an enviable fan base that continues to grow even larger every year. |
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$30 advance / $32.50 day of show
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Richard Thompson is the product of a working class London family, teenage founder of British musical pioneers Fairport Convention, creator with then-wife Linda Thompson of a series of critically acclaimed musical masterpieces in the 1970's and 80's, and proud owner of an ongoing legacy of great solo albums that continue to this day. He was named by Rolling Stone to their top 20 all-time guitarists list, and is the recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Looking somewhat like Dracula's nasty little brother who spent some hard years drinking and working as a carnival barker for a second-rate freak show, Unknown Hinson translates that vibe to his style of country and western-tinged psychobilly. Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, this red-necked crooner gained regional popularity with a self-produced television show in 1992 and soon was touring nationwide, wowing audiences with his outrageous and campy, white-trash persona and freewheeling, sleazy tone. Hinson’s most recent CD release, Target Practice, melds weepy twang and searing guitar riffs and lyrics that speak of love-gone-bad and the dark side of the honky-tonk lifestyle.
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$15 advance / $17.50 day of show
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If you come to the new Los Campesinos! album Romance Is Boring with too many preconceptions, please leave them at the door: this album may not be what you expect. Last year's mini-album We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed debuted a firmer, harder sound, the giddy sugar rush of "You! Me! Dancing!" metabolized into nervous adrenaline and lyrics spiked with jealousy, angst and paranoia. But Romance Is Boring feels like a band that's - well, not so much grown up - let's say "fully realized." It's a record that's bigger, deeper, more complex and more direct than anything Los Campesinos! has recorded to date. There are huge choruses ("There Are Listed Buildings") and squalling, Blood Brothers dissonance ("Plan A"), sheets of twinkling electronic ambience ("Coda: A Burn Scar In The Shape Of The Sooner State") and more great lyrics than you could ever hope to pin down in a press release. Ask yourself this: how many indie bands make a second record that's better than their first, and then make a third record that's better than their second, all in little over 18 months? Think about that one for a bit. Romance Is Boring is filled out with added brass, strings, drum machines and electronics, packed with guest spots from the likes of Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls and Jherek Bischoff of the Dead Science, it is nothing if not ambitious.
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Incognito is recognized as one of the best funk/jazz/soul/dance outfits in the world. A pioneer of the "acid jazz" movement who has delighted listeners and dancers for decades, Incognito has scored hits with versions of Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" and Ronnie Laws' "Always There," selling more than a million records worldwide in the process. Their latest release, Transatlantic RPM, features some very special guests including Chaka Khan (on two tracks), Mario Biondi, the legendary Leon Ware, Al McKay of Earth Wind & Fire, Christian Urich of Tortured Soul, Ursula Rucker, and Los Angeles rapper Luckyiam. Also featured is a rare lead vocal performance from Bluey, who closes the album with "Tell Me What To Do."
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$25 advance / $27.50 day of show
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The Script is made up of three Irish lads from Dublin who are now currently based out of London, England. The trio's music boasts the kind of artful twists sure to turn all preconceptions on their head. This is a whole new brand of Celtic Soul, blending Hip Hop lyrical flow with Pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art R&B production with anthemic Rock dynamics, classic song construction with gritty contemporary narratives. It's got all the emotion and passion you would expect from across the Irish sea, but it is glittering in its modernity, universal in its singalong addictiveness and global in its syncopation, music for the feet, heart and head.
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Blonde Redhead are comprised of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amadeo Pace. The band's unique sound - combining spare otherworldliness and bittersweet tension has grown stronger, clearer and more distinctive with every record that they have made. Their reward for this has been an audience whose numbers have quietly grown over the course of their career, almost entirely by word of mouth. Their latest release, Penny Sparkle, drops on September 14 on 4AD records. |
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The progressive genius of Grupo Fantasma, now in the tenth year of its long and intriguing musical journey, comes to life on their new record, El Existential. Known as the funkiest, finest, and hardest working Latin orchestra to come out of the United States in the last decade, the band has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for their adventurous albums, prudent songwriting and unprecedented live shows. “Grupo Fantasma is as tight as one would expect from a band that routinely backs up Prince” exclaimed LA Weekly and the Washington Post affirmed that “the ten members represent a new generation of latin music.” Their last effort, the Grammy nominated Sonidos Gold (2008), further trademarked the ensemble’s innovative sound and scored a cover feature in Pollstar Magazine, radio spots on NPR’s “Day to Day” and PRI’s “The World”, top ten status for several months on the CMJ radio charts and extensive press coverage throughout North America and Europe. |
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Of Montreal is many things. Of Montreal is one of the stalwarts of the Athens, Georgia pop scene. Of Montreal is the recording and performing project of one Mr. Kevin Barnes. And of Montreal is one of the many bands still in operation with a tie to the loose Elephant Six collective of the late '90s, a group of like-minded bands centered around that incredibly fertile Southern college town. of Montreal is not, however, predictable. Whereas the majority of the Elephant 6 collective drew their influences from 60's pop icons, Barnes was taking Of Montreal in an altogether different direction. While paying homage to these groups, he also began incorporating vaudevillian elements not only into the band's music but also into their live performances. Teaming up with Grammy-nominated producer Jon Brion (Kanye West, Fiona Apple), Kevin Barnes traveled to famed Ocean Way Recording (Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra) to record False Priest, his self-professed masterpiece. As discussed in features in Rolling Stone, SPIN, Under the Radar and Pitchfork, False Priest is speaker-rattling heavy on the low end and features appearances by Janelle Monáe and Solange Knowles (Beyoncé’s sister). The album also marks the return of organic instruments -- with live drums, strings and pianos replacing the midi sounds and sequencers of previous albums.
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Native sons of Tulsa, Oklahoma, HANSON has been making music together for nearly two decades. Thirteen years ago, their out-of-the-blue, soul-inspired brand of American pop-rock‘n’roll was introduced to the world. Unaffected by charts or fads, they’ve spent more than a decade building a community of fans connected to one another and fueled by the energy and craftsmanship of three brothers and their music. Their fifth studio album, Shout It Out, was released on June 8th 2010 on their label 3CG Records. They deliver a powerful group of soulful, melodic tunes that will leave you with a contagious sense of optimism for the future and welcomed reminiscence for American rock ‘n’ roll.
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The indie rock combo Wolf Parade formed in 2003 in Montreal, where the band's first show saw them opening for Arcade Fire. From there, bandmates Dan Boeckner, Spencer Krug, Hadji Bakara, and Arlen Thompson recorded and self-released a four-song EP, followed by a six-song recording in 2004. They eventually gained the attention of songwriter Isaac Brock, who doubled as the frontman of Modest Mouse and an A&R rep for Sub Pop Records. Brock helped the band secure a deal Sub Pop while serving as a stylistic touchstone for Wolf Parade's emerging sound, which merged indie rock with post-punk. Expo 86, the band’s thrid release for Sub Pop, hit in July 2010 to much critical praise.
What Did My Lover Say (It Always Had To Go This Way)
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 Motion City Soundtrack perfect their trademark blend of indie rock riffs, bittersweet melodies, driving synths, and droll-yet-earnest lyrics on My Dinosaur Life, the 2010 release from the American Punk Pop band. My Dinosaur Life marks the band's major label debut and finds them reuniting with producer and friend Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, who first teamed up with the band when he produced their hit record Commit This to Memory. Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Sonic Youth) was brought in to mix the album and the end result is another step forward: 12 new songs that are lyrically contemplative and poignantly honest while still cleverly culturally astute and music that harkens back to early Motion City Soundtrack while employing the musicianship and maturity the band has gained over the past seven years.
 Say Anything's self titled third album feels like the record the band has been destined to make: one that your Jonas Brother worshipping 12 year old sister and your quarter life crisis Arcade Fire fan big brother can both somehow enjoy. The record explodes with the gnarled, chunky chords of its fierce opener "Fed to Death," defining the band's crusade against both nihilism and fundamentalism. The Clash-meets-Queen single "Hate Everyone" cheekily captures the first stage of personal renewal: waking up on the wrong side of the bed. "Do Better" is an orchestral do-good-feel-good anthem for the mentally perverse. "Mara and Me" finds Bemis declaring to fight his alienated nature over a frenetic Mike Patton-eque musical landscape replete with mathcore flourishes, circus music and a "surf" breakdown. "Property" tells the story of the world's worst boyfriend, skewering modern gender politics and serving an evil 50's doo wop love song over a punk rock beat. "Crush'd" satirizes Justin Timberlake and Lil Wayne, while at the same time evoking a sweaty, Jewish Coldplay. The proverbial hooks keep coming all the way to an epic resolution, the "Hey-Jude" meets Minor Threat hymnal "Ahhhh....Men." The record tells YOUR story: it's both a strange romantic epic and a call to arms.
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26 year old Brooke Fraser is a pop phenomenon in New Zealand and Australia, where sales of her album Albertine and debut What To Do With Daylight have together sold over 225,000 units. Brooke recorded Albertine in Hollywood with renowned producer Marshall Altman (Train, Marc Broussard & Matt Nathanson) and is now ready to conquer the rest of the world. Her solo album songs appeal to fans of mainstream artists like Sarah McLachlan, Ingrid Michaelson and KT Tunstall. To date she has over 3 million plays on her Youtube channel, over 730,000 plays and 30,000 friends on her Myspace page. Her third album, Flags, will be released in October, just before the tour.
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Since they met in a Cambridge folk club 9 years ago, The Weepies have progressed from an indie duo playing house concerts, to ranks on the Billboard Charts. Though they now have sales in the hundreds of thousands, the Weepies have kept a surprisingly low profile; they haven’t toured at all since 2006.
“Our son was born right as we finished Hideaway in 2008,” says Steve Tannen. “Touring was out. It was a huge change from the 180 shows of the Say I Am You release.” The band was kept in the spotlight by dozens of uses in TV shows and films, including a prominent campaign ad for Barack Obama. Crystallizing their organic acoustic sound and pop harmonies, the California duo has come up with their deepest, most accessible record yet, Be My Thrill. Third in a trilogy for Nettwerk Records, The Weepies once again worked with drummer Frank Lenz, guitarist Meg Toohey and string player Oliver Kraus, adding bass legends Tony Levin and Larry Klein to the mix. Be My Thrill is a showcase for the duo’s powerhouse songwriting and unique harmonies, ranging from the Cole-Porter-Esque “They’re in Love” to the Dusty Springfield-like “When You Go Away.”
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$35 advance / $40 day of show
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While Nick Cave's music has evolved from the harrowing post-punk wail of the Birthday Party to the eloquent and often poetic approach he explored on the albums The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part with his group the Bad Seeds, the troublemaking noise merchant of his youth has never entirely gone away, and in 2006 Cave founded Grinderman to give this side of his musical personality a new outlet. Grinderman came to be when Cave was writing material in 2004 for his acclaimed album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Tired of writing in his office at home and then presenting the material to the Bad Seeds, Cave decided to try a new approach by teaming up with band members Martyn Casey on bass, Warren Ellis on violin and guitar, and Jim Sclavunos on drums and working up songs as a group. With Cave improvising lyrics and playing guitar while his band mates built melodies around them, the musicians began veering off into more experimental territory. Whipping up a potent dose of elemental music rooted in blues, punk, and no wave, the foursome created something wholly separate from the Bad Seeds, with an energy and emotional fury that pointed to the path breaking music of their pasts while belying the maturity of the participants.
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“Antifogmatic” is a bit of bygone slang that mandolinist Chris Thile and his bandmates stumbled across, “an old term,” explains the Punch Brothers founder, “for a bracing beverage, rum or whiskey, that one would have in the morning before going out to work in rough weather, to stave off any ill effects.” It’s an apt title for the Punch Brothers’ second Nonesuch disc. This ten-song set of collectively written material takes a clear-eyed view of those things less tangible than booze that can make us woozy: the pleasures and pitfalls of romance, the seemingly limitless possibilities and multifarious temptations of life in the big city. The band also engages in some unexpectedly beautiful harmony singing, smoothing out the compelling melodic twists and turns of “Welcome Home.” “Me and Us” and “Woman and the Bell” both have a dream-like quality; the former, in fact, was inspired by those jumbled, thought-filled moments before sleep sets in, and the instrumentation keeps pace with the ever-shifting imagery. In contrast, “Don’t Need No” and “Rye Whiskey” are foot-stomping barroom boasts and “Next to the Trash” is the closest the band gets to traditional bluegrass, even as the lyrics tug the piece in a more surreal direction. Former Nickel Creek singer and mandolin player Chris Thile and his band of cohorts have topped the high bar set by their 2008 debut album, Punch.
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Though it may sound like hyperbole, the simple truth is this: there's no other band quite like the Infamous Stringdusters. Emerging from a lively community of friends and colleagues that's taken root in Nashville, they're six musicians poised at the point where youthful energy is balanced with maturity, inspiration with discipline and creativity with experience—exactly the sweet spot where the greats of bluegrass have made their most lasting marks. Schooled in tradition, yet able to stretch out in jam band style improvisation, endowed with razor-sharp vocals, fiery instrumental abilities and a rapidly growing repertoire of well-crafted original songs and tunes, the Infamous Stringdusters are as fresh an addition to the bluegrass—make that, the music—scene as has come along in many a year.
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Trampled by Turtles is an acoustic quintet from Duluth, MN. Based on their instrumentation, the initial instinct is to view the band as a bluegrass or new-grass outfit, but spend more than a cursory moment with their music and it’s clear this tag doesn’t really fit. Trampled by Turtles exist beyond the box of categorization. For those who are simply fans of music, not bound by rules or forms, Trampled by Turtles take pieces of it all and just play from the heart. Call it alt-bluegrass, nontraditional string, indi-folk, rock-grass, punk-grass or anything else, they don’t care what name you put on it, just show up with an open mind and it won’t be long until you fall under their spell. Like all of us, where they were raised has influenced what they are and these guys didn’t grow up in southern roots country, they come from way up north where folks do it a little different.
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Thursday, Dec 30
$22.50 advance / $25 day of show for under 21 & $20 advance / $22.50 day of show for age 21 and over
New Year's Eve
$27.50 advance / $30 day of show for under 21 & $25 advance / $27.50 day of show for age 21 and over
2 day passes available for $45 for under 21 & $40 for age 21 and over
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The genre-spanning band Perpetual Groove has had a “record” year in 2010. With the release of two new studio projects, Heal, a full length record, and Honey Cuts, an EP and a slew of sell out performances, the band has been reinvigorated with the addition of new keyboardist, John Hruby. Hailing from Athens, GA, this legendary band has once again reinvented their sound. A line-up adjustment and a change in scenery have given way to a beautiful, timeless set of recordings and live show that signifies the rebirth of a band that’s carved out their own unique sound by performing nearly 1000 live shows in their brief career.
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At The Fox Theatre
668 Peachtree St Downtown Atlanta
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High Violet, the new full-length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger’s singingwild, half-broken, slyevokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may be The National's most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate.
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Emerging in 2004 with a woodsy blend of midtempo rock and reverb-laden vocals, Band Of Horses quickly gained an audience in their native Northwest before Everything All the Time made them indie rock darlings. The Seattle-based label Sub-Pop signed the group in 2005 and reissued their self-released EP later that year, while Band Of Horses retreated to the studio to record their full-length debut. Everything All the Time emerged in March 2006 and was warmly received; The band went on tour both in the states and abroad to support their debut album, with most shows selling out. The group returned to the States and relocated to Mt. Pleasant, SC, to be closer to their families; soon after, Band Of Horses entered the studio with producer Phil Ek (who also helmed Everything All the Time) to record their sophomore album. Cease to Begin was released in October 2007 to much critical praise. The latest album is Infinite Arms, in stores now.
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The band are asking that fans videotape themselves doing skate tricks synched to one of the songs from Infinite Arms, and will pick the best one. Winner gets flown to LA for a private skate session with Creighton, plus a custom BOH skate deck and shoes. Watch this:
More information on the band's Facebook page. Click on the "contest" tab.
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At The Tabernacle
152 Luckie St Downtown Atlanta
(Presented By OK and Windstorm Productions)
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Windstorm and OK Productions Present
PAVEMENT
Sunday, September 26, 8pm
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Pavement mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first EP, Slay Tracks (1933-1969), was released in 1989, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the late '80s, Pavement brought guitar pop back into the underground lexicon. Combining ringing guitar hooks with mumbled, cryptic lyrics and a D.I.Y. aesthetic borrowed from post-punk, the band simultaneously sounded traditional and modern. Pavement have an identity and sense of purpose that transformed the American underground. These dates will be the first time the band has performed in almost 10 years.
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The La Roux show has been rescheduled for The Tabernacle on November 5! All previously purchased tickets will be honored and additional tickets are available by clicking here.
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Meaning "red-haired one" in French, La Roux is the synth pop project of flame-haired singer/songwriter Elly Jackson and keyboardist/producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson and Langmaid began working together in 2006, when they were introduced by a mutual acquaintance. Initially, they called their project "Automan" and wrote largely acoustic music before scrapping that name and sound for the sleek Prince, David Bowie, and the Knife-inspired style they pursued as La Roux, a moniker Jackson found in a book of baby names. Their debut single, "Quicksand," was released by Kitsune in fall 2008, and earned the band acclaim from the BBC and the Guardian. La Roux supported Lily Allen on her 2009 U.K. tour around the time their second single, "In for the Kill," was released that spring and debuted at 11 on the U.K. charts, reaching a peak position of two; that summer, the single "Bulletproof" debuted at number one a week before La Roux's self-titled album was released.
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Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of grand proportions. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), a five-disc Christmas box set (Songs for Christmas), and, more recently, a programmatic tone poem with film accompaniment for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a large-scale ensemble piece commissioned by BAM in 2007.
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553 Amsterdam Ave in Midtown
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$10 advance / $12 day of show
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Abigail and Lily Chapin are singing, songwriting sisters who have been performing under the name The Chapin Sisters since 2004. They are knows for pristine harmonies and haunting melodies that have gained comparisons to sister acts of old and Appalachian family groups, yet their songs and arrangements have a very contemporary aspect, with elements of pop, blues and psychedelic rock. Their first full-length record Lake Bottom LP was a collaboration with their other sister, Jessica Craven, who is now taking a leave of absence to spend time with her new baby. Produced by Thom Monahan (Lily’s, Devendra Bandhart, Vetiver) and Mike Daily (Whiskeytown, Grace Potter), the record was critically acclaimed and was named one of LA Weekly’s Top Ten Records of 2008.
Abigail and Lily and co-producers Jesse Lee (Gang Gang Dance) and Louie Stephens (Rooney) retreated to an old family farm in rural New Jersey where they put together a studio and recorded Two. This record incorporates lush keyboards, layered percussion, electric guitars and warm, rich vocal tones, in addition to the staple acoustic guitar and three part-harmonies that the sisters are already known for. Two will be released in the US & Canada on September 14th via their own label, Lake Bottom Records (Thirty Tigers/RED).
This year, The Chapin Sisters have been busy touring as part of She & Him’s band and opening many of their shows. They have also begun headlining their own club shows.
“There’s a sinsister tenderness to this L.A. duo’s sad, soft, gorgeous folk.”
- Jonathan Durbin/Paper
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Windstorm Productions Present
SHAWN PHILLIPS
Saturday, October 16, 8:30pm
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$22.50 advance / $25 day of show
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Shawn Phillips is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic musicians to come out of the 1960s singer/songwriter boom. He remains on the periphery of mainstream rock, despite selling hundreds of thousands of albums and singles since he first came on to the scene. Once famously described by the late rock impresario Bill Graham as "the best kept secret in the music business", Shawn has collaborated with the good and great - from Stevie Winwood and Eric Clapton, to Donovan, Tim Hardin and Bernie Taupin. His refusal to shape his music -- which crosses between folk-rock, jazz, progressive, pop, and classical -- to anyone else's expectations has allowed him to hold onto a large and dedicated cult following.
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Jon Anderson
Sun, Sept 12, 8pm
Big Head Todd
& The Monsters
Sat, Sept 18, 8:30pm
CocoRosie
Tue, Sept 21, 8pm
James
Wed, Sept 22, 8pm
Aimee Mann
Sat, Sept 25, 8:30pm
Deerhunter
Fri, Oct 1, 8:30pm
Stars
Sat, Oct 2, 8:30pm
The Books
Sun, Oct 3, 8pm
Devendra Banhart
& The Grogs
Mon, Oct 4, 8pm
Sara Bareilles
Thur, Oct 7, 8pm
Menomena
Fri, Oct 8, 8:30pm
Tommy Emmanuel
Sat&Sun, Oct 9&10, 8pm
An Evening With
The Richard Thompson Band
Fri, Oct 15, 8:30pm
Unknown Hinson
Sat, Oct 16, 8:30pm
Los Campesinos!
Wed, Oct 20, 8pm
Incognito
Sat, Oct 23, 8:30pm
The Script
Thur, Oct 28, 8pm
Blonde Redhead
Fri, Oct 29, 9pm
Grupo Fantasma
Sat, Oct 30, 8:30pm
Of Montreal
Sat, Nov 6, 8:30pm
Sun, Nov 7, 8pm
The Shout It Out Tour
Hanson
Wed, Nov 10, 8pm
Wolf Parade
Fri, Nov 12, 8:30pm
Early Show!
Motion City Soundtrack
Say Anything
Saves The Day
Sun, Nov 14, 6:30pm
Brooke Fraser
Mon, Nov 15, 8pm
The Weepies
Wed, Nov 17, 8pm
Grinderman
Thur, Nov 18, 8:30pm
The Punch Bros featuring Chris Thile
Fri, Nov 19, 8:30pm
The Infamous Stringdusters
Trampled By Turtles
Sat, Nov 20, 8pm
Perpetual Groove
Thu, Dec 30, 8:30pm
Fri, Dec 31, 9:30pm
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