Philly rockers Restorations play Newport’s Southgate House Revival tonight. Labelmates The Smith Street Band open the show at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.
Restorations recently released its third album, LP3 (following LP1 and LP2, of course), though the great label, SideOneDummy Records. Rolling Stone said of the new album, “When their trio of guitarists aren't busy auditioning for Ozzy or Springsteen, they summon dynamic, smartly-shaded echo caverns more reminiscent of Sunny Day Real Estate and Modest Mouse – elevating the nicotine-ravaged bloodletting of Jon Loudon, the toughest young old man at the bar, to lip-quiveringly dramatic heights.” The band also had a great piece written about them and new album on Grantland; check it out here.
• Blues singer/songwriter/guitarist Tas Cru and his band of Tortured Souls play West Side club Legends tonight. The upstate New York ace has released four well-received albums and has a new one, You Keep the Money, due out soon. Here’s the title track from his 2012 full-length, “Tired of Bluesmen Crying.”
Local Blues heroes The Sonny Moorman Group open the show at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door.
• New York City-based instrumental trio Consider the Source plays Covington’s Madison Theater tonight. The self-descriptions from the band’s Facebook — “Sci-Fi, Middle Eastern, Progressive, Psychedelic, Jamband, Funk, Fusion” — give a great sense of the diversity inherent in the band’s music. Played with virtuosity and a sense of adventure, the threesome’s unique style and entertaining live presence has earned the group a cult following across the country, in Europe and even the Middle East, as well as dates performing with the likes of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Victor Wooten and Oteil Burbridge. Consider the Source recently released the World War Trio EP (Part 1), which consists of a “six-part composition” titled “Put Another Rock in That Bag.” Part 2 will be a double album due for release this winter.
Here’s an extended version of Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android,” a rare full cover from Consider the Source recorded live in the studio.
Consider the Source is joined by local acts Common Center, Elementree Levity Project and Don’t Fear the Satellites for tonight’s 9 p.m. show. Admission is $10.
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