The Rolling Stones makes excuses for high ticket prices by saying they've already spent millions on production and rehearsals, Chris Brown isn't being forgiven quite so easily in Europe for his domestic abuse past and INXS reminds everyone they're still a band … by announcing their breakup.
James McMurtry
Nov. 14 • Southgate House Revival
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James McMurtry has gone from strength to strength in the past 23 years, compiling an estimable catalog of eight studio
albums and a pair of stellar live recordings as proof of his compelling
stage presence.
Delta Spirit
Nov. 16 • Bogart's
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Unless you’ve seen Delta Spirit before, there is no way
you are fully prepared for one of its concerts. Not so much a raging,
thrashing party as just a gentle, bouncing ocean of people, the crowd’s
vibe at a Delta Spirit concert is transcendent, almost spiritual.
JEFF the Brotherhood
Nov. 16 • Bogart's
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JEFF the Brotherhood's strangely typeset, non-acronymic
name is part fabrication and part truth. No one in the two-piece is
named Jeff, but a brotherhood is at its core.
Ruthie Foster
Nov. 17 • Martin Marietta Theater at Harrison High School
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A native Texan, Ruthie
Foster’s family tree was ripe with Gospel singers, but she quickly
absorbed the Lone Star State’s other musical identities, like Folk,
Blues, Country and Rock, to which she added her own soulful spin.
Motionless in White
Nov. 19 • Bogart's
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Motionless in White takes the best parts of what made Metalcore popular
in the early 2000s, but adds gothic hints and industrial elements.
Adding to Andy, Most Beautifully
Dean & Britta musically augment Warhol’s rare ‘screen tests’ for multimedia happening
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Four years ago, Dean & Britta's Dean Wareham was approached
with a proposition by Ben Harrison, Performing Arts Curator
for Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum. Harrison was looking for someone to
compose a soundtrack of sorts for a series of filmed portraits Warhol
shot in the mid-’60s.
Drown the Pigeonhole
Damien Jurado’s dynamic new LP is his most expectations-busting yet
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The story of Damien Jurado’s relationship with Punk Rock seems too symmetrical, too fortuitous and too rare to possibly be true. Somehow, though, all the pieces match.
Now 39 and based out of Seattle, Jurado was once a 14-year-old
growing infatuated with Punk.
The Tillers’ Fond ‘Farewell’ Is a Brilliant Re-Introduction
Plus notes on The Heights Music Festival, a Cincinnati Music Heritage Foundation benefit and a Culture Queer release party
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Folk faves The Tillers celebrate the release of a new live album recorded at the former Southgate House with a release party at the new Southgate House Revival.
No Doubt's Sorry, Mustaine's Regret and Epic Loses Grips
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
No Doubt removes music video after outcry over its use of Native American stereotypes, Dave Mustaine says he learned a lot this year, including how easily his foot fits in his mouth and Death Grips' antics (giving away their new album early, putting an erect penis on the cover, etc.) finally get them dropped from Epic.
Charlie Hunter
Nov. 7 • 20th Century Theatre
0 Comments · Monday, November 5, 2012
Since his emergence from the San Francisco Jazz scene
nearly two decades ago, Charlie Hunter has defined his stylistic
direction by resolutely refusing to be tagged as any one thing,
preferring to embrace and explore whatever captures his imagination.
King Tuff
Nov. 7 • MOTR Pub
0 Comments · Monday, November 5, 2012
As time trots forward, the number of Rock & Roll
dudes who self-identify as monarchs only increases. With King Tuff's
arrival, King Diamond, King Krule, King Khan and King Charles welcome
another to their regal ranks.
Sharon Van Etten
Nov. 8 • Ballroom at the Taft Theatre
0 Comments · Monday, November 5, 2012
Sharon Van Etten’s first two albums revealed an emotionally visceral songwriter and performer who wasn’t afraid to explore love gone sour via a voice that’s as moving and expressive as any on the current landscape
Joe Bonamassa
Nov. 9 • Taft Theatre
0 Comments · Monday, November 5, 2012
Very few people fit the true definition of prodigy, but
Joe Bonamassa could be the poster child for prodigies. By age 7, after
three short years of playing guitar, Bonamassa was regurgitating
note-perfect renditions of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix.
The Sword
Nov. 10 • Madison Theater
1 Comment · Monday, November 5, 2012
Hating on the haters is one of those hobbies musicians will never get sick of. With “Execrator” off its latest album, Apocryphon, Heavy Metal four-piece The Sword climbs into this increasingly packed clubhouse.
