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Brasil
Guitar Duo
Caffe
Lena, Friday
There will be quite a bit of hip swinging and head bobbing
tomorrow, because Brazilian sounds just make you want to move
like that. João Luiz and Douglas Lora of São Paulo, Brazil
comprise the Brasil Guitar Duo, and they’re experts at making
their audience dance, having been performing worldwide for
more than 10 years. The music they carry is quite a unique
blend: some ingredients you might know (samba, choro), some
you might not pronounce right (maxixe, baião). With such a
profound and intriguiging band name, it’s easy to see how
they could be highly regarded by Carnegie Hall, Classical
Guitar magazine, YouTube, and many an international competition.
(March 7, 8 PM, $18, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, 583-0022)
Meg
Hutchinson CD release, Anais Mitchell
Club
Helsinki, Friday
You might remember Meg Hutch inson from back around the turn
of the century, when she was hailed by numerous regional publications
as one of Western Massachusetts’ most promising young folk
artists. Hutchinson got wise and shipped up to Boston a while
back, but she’s returning to her home base on Friday to celebrate
the release of her latest record, Come Up Full. Produced
by Crit Harmon, who’s helmed discs by Mary Gauthier and Martin
Sexton among others, Come Up Full has been branded
as a “lyrically rich record about encountering good things
when you least expect it,” which bodes well for fans of Hutchinson’s
poetic and introspective writing. Her special guest will be
Anais Mitchell, who was impressive in an opening set for Ani
DiFranco at the Palace Theatre just weeks ago. (March 7,
9 PM, $15, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass., 413-528-3394)
Shat
Red
Square, Saturday
The shit—er, Shat—will hit the fan when Jeff Wood and his
band paint the square red this Saturday. Wood, whose career
in heavy metal supposedly began when he took a stray bullet
to the head in Los Angeles in 1992, is a vulgarian in the
truest sense of the word. Just take a look at his band’s discography:
Cunt Parm (1998), Cunt Flavored Lollipops (2001),
The Cunt Chronicles: The Best of Shat (2002), and 2006’s
Cuntree, which boasts 69 songs in 69 minutes. (Shocking!)
Despite a predilection for a certain slang term for a certain
female body part, Wood and company are often very funny—really,
they are!—with songs that are both a parody of and an homage
to the last 30 years of metal music. See for yourself, if
you can handle the language, when Shat roll into town this
weekend. (March 8, 7 PM, $7, 388 Broadway, Albany, 465-0444)
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Edison
Glass
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Nightmare
of You, Edison Glass
Jack
Rabbit Slims, Sunday
Brandon Reilly, guitarist for de funct emo band the Movielife,
formed Nightmare of You in 2004 as a conduit for his own emo-tinged
guitar-pop tunes. And, although Reilly is probably just as
well-known for dating notorious NYC scenester Sarah “Ultragrrrl”
Lewitinn as for his music, his band seem to be going places.
They recently self-released the Bang! EP, and a second
full-length is due this year. Edison Glass, a Long Island-based
quartet currently enjoying a popularity surge thanks to their
Time Is Fiction LP, will play the middle slot on Sunday’s
bill, while our area’s own emo-tinged guitar-pop heroes the
Loyalty will open. (March 9, 7 PM, $10, 895 Broadway, Albany,
434-4540)
Bury
Your Dead, Emmure
Valentine’s,
Tuesday
Bury Your Dead are a metal-core band. You might not believe
that after reading the titles of all their songs on their
most popular album, Cover Your Tracks—because all of
them are named after Tom Cruise movies. Yes, Bury Your Dead
will kiss your ears with their brutal breakdowns on songs
like “Top Gun,” “Vanilla Sky,” and even “Risky Business.”
Tourmates Emmure have a super-brutal moniker, but their version
of metalcore is the kind with the emo-motional moments thrown
on top of chugging riffs. Hopefully Bury Your Dead will drive
up the musical brutality quotient by playing both “Mission:
Impossible” and “Mission: Impossible 2.” The Warriors and
With Blood Comes Cleansing are also on the bill. (March
11, 7:30 PM, $15, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
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Tonight
(Thursday) is a night of firsts: The Brooke
Clover Band, whose music is self-described
as “alternative lounge roots folk rock” with “spoken
word and Afro-Cuban grooves” will make their debut
at Valentine’s (9 PM, $5, 432-6572). . . . Also
tonight, catch the first-ever gig from a new band
featuring Oteil Burbridge of the Allman
Brothers Band, Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful
Dead and Scott Murawski of Max Creek
at Pearl Street Nightclub in Northampton,
Mass. (8:30 PM, $15, 413-584-7771). . . . Tomorrow
(Friday) brings folk fave Iris Dement to
the Egg; Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
open (7:30 PM, $24, 473-1845). . . . moe.,
the only rock band to come with their own style
guide, return to the Palace Theatre stage on Friday
(8 PM, $28, 465-3334). . . . And the post-moe.
parties abound: After the big show, head over
to Valentine’s for music from Lynch, Raisinhead,
Wreckloose and Mike Rocklin (midnight,
$10, 432-6572) or amble down Broadway to Red Square
for music by Digital Frontier (11 PM, $7,
465-0444). . . . The Roches perform their
harmony-rich folk at the Clark Art Institute on
Saturday (8 PM, $24, $20 Clark members, 413-458-0524).
. . . The PCM All-Stars provide a hip-hop
soundtrack for “spring forward” night (remember
to set your clocks ahead!) at Tess’ Lark Tavern
on Saturday; expect sets from Dezmatic,
Sev Statik, DJ White Lotus, Nate
the Great, DJ Tone and more (10 PM,
$5, 463-9779). . . . Get your gypsy-tango-klezmer-punk-acoustic
fix at Caffe Lena on Sunday when New York’s Luminescent
Orchestrii take the stage (7 PM, $14, 583-0022).
. . . Back so soon? Nellie McKay performs
at the Egg on Monday night (7 PM, $20, 473-1845).
. . . Go green with Boys of the Lough as
they bring the spirit of St. Patty’s to the WAMC
Performing Arts Studio on Wednesday; it’s part
of the Dancing on the Air program, so concertgoers
can expect much, much more (7:30 PM, $25, 465-5233
ext. 4).
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