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 Rose
Hill Drive, Gosling
Red
Square, Thursday
Fans of area rock-superpower Super 400 might recognize Rose
Hill Drive from their much-buzzed-about set at the Lark Tavern
early this year. At that show, the young (they’re barely out
of high school) trio threw down an outstanding opening set,
then jammed ferociously with their host band on a handful
of classic Zeppelin tunes to close the night. Tonight, the
Boulder, Co., rockers return to Albany to plug their self-titled
Megaforce debut, and to show why acts from Wilco to Eddie
Van Halen have requested them as openers. Also appearing are
Gosling (formerly known as cut-out-bound DreamWorks act Loudermilk),
whose string-enhanced pomp-rock is in full effect on their
new album Here Is . . . (Sept. 7, 9 PM, $10, 388
Broadway, Albany, 432-8584)
Carnivore
Northern
Lights, Thursday
Peter Steele is getting the band back together. No, not Type
O Negative, the bread-and-butter goth-metal band he fronts
(they are undoubtedly in a very dark room somewhere in Brooklyn
with candles, incense and a gaggle of latex-wearing harlots,
mixing their new album). No, Steele isn’t feeling his regular
Vlad the Impaler-self these days. He’s feeling a bit thrashy.
Joined by Joey Z. from Life of Agony, Steele plans to re-form
his late-’80s thrash-band Carnivore and remind the metal world
of their old-school credentials. Along with that cred will
come some of Steele’s more regrettable song titles, such as
“Ground Zero Brooklyn,” “Jesus Hitler” and “Race War.” (Sept
7, 7:30 PM, $17, Route 146, North Country Commons, Clifton
Park, 371-0012)
The
Fixx
Revolution
Hall, Thursday
For almost two and a half decades, the Fixx have been a fade-in,
fade-out musical entity. Getting their start in London, the
Fixx joined the new-wave scene in the early ’80s with their
debut album, Shuttered Room. Now, with at least a dozen
more albums under their belts, the band are touring again
after their early 2006 double-disc release on Rainman Records.
The band have kept up with the touring times, too: Following
the Fixx’s live shows, the band have on sale a USB stick that
will carry the audio of the show you just saw, complete with
a backing card that you can get autographed by the band at
the merch table. Special guests Byrds of Prey will open the
show. (Sept. 7, 9 PM, $20, 425 River St., Troy, 274-0553)
David
Grier
WAMC
Performing Arts studio, saturday
having played his instrument of choice since he was 5 years
old, bluegrass guitarist David Grier is included in the book
1,000 Greatest Guitarists. In other words, the guy
knows what he’s doing. His dad (renowned banjo player Lamar
Grier) suggested that Grier pick up the guitar at that tender
age, and though he’s never had any formal training and doesn’t
read music notation, he plays with “notable fluidity and effortlessness.”
Grier will perform at the Linda this weekend—and we certainly
think his picking stylings are not to miss. (Sept. 9, 8
PM, $15, 339 Central Ave., Albany, 465-5233, ext. 4)
Nadine
Zahr
College
of Saint Rose, Saturday
In support of her independently produced debut album, Underneath
the Everyday, Nadine Zahr will perform at the College
of St. Rose this weekend. The Palestinian-American singer-songwriter
describes her music as a “pop-acoustic-soul-rock thing.” Southern
California Weekly has gushed, “You don’t hear background
conversation when Zahr is performing. . . . Audiences are
invariably spellbound.” She has been said to perform with
a “vulnerable intensity,” and her guitar playing has been
compared to Dave Matthews’. Critics have called Zahr’s four-octave
voice “expressive” and “simply captivating.” (Sept. 9,
10 PM, call for prices, College of St. Rose, Commuter Lounge,
432 Western Ave., Albany, 800-637-8556)
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Metal
Hearts
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In
case you missed the Flaming Lips in their
event-of-the-year performance at the New York State
Fair in Syracuse last weekend, you have two more
chances to catch their powerful, life-affirming
(seriously) live show this week, if you’re willing
to travel: Tonight (Thursday), they’re in Burlington,
Vt. at the University of Vermont’s Patrick Gymnasium;
Sunday, the band will take their circus act to Boston’s
Bank of America pavilion. As of press time, tickets
were still available for both; check TicketMaster
for availability. . . . Rock the fuck on! Catch
Canadian garage-metal act Priestess tonight
(Thursday) at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton,
Mass., with special guests Melodram (8:30
PM, $13, 413-584-0610). . . . Also tonight,
a little-known area quintet called the Kamikaze
Hearts will play Falstaff’s at Skidmore College;
we think these kids are going places! (8 PM, free,
580-5000). . . . Wait a minute here, this can’t
be right: the Highwaymen are scheduled to
play Caffe Lena on Sunday—no, not the Willie and
Waylon Highwaymen (that’d be a tough one to pull
off), but the popular early-’60s folk group (7 PM,
$15, 583-0022). . . . The Metal Hearts, a
Baltimore-area experimental-folk group who recently
released their Suicide Squeeze debut Socialize,
will play Valentine’s on Monday, with Philly-based
math-rockers Pattern is Movement and Albany
popsmiths Brent Gorton and the Tender Breasts
(8 PM, $5, 432-6572).
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