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Jefferson
Grisman Project
The
Egg, Thursday
The progression of Jefferson Airplane to Starship (by way
of Jefferson Starship, natch) has been full of unlikely collaborations.
The Airplane drew early influence from the tradition of American
string music, but we don’t know if anyone anticipated a collaboration
with mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. The band’s latest album
Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty revisits classic folk tunes
by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. One
can only imagine what this will sound like when Grisman gives
these standards the full “dawg” treatment. (April 16, 8
PM, $40, Empire State Plaza, Albany, 473-1845)
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The Cliks
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The
Cliks, Plushgun
Valentine’s,
Thursday
Canadian power-pop act the Cliks came into the public eye
a few years back with a hook-filled major-label debut (Snakehouse)
and a unique story in that singer Lucas Silveira is a transman.
After two years of nearly nonstop touring (including dozens
of dates supporting the Cult and Cyndi Lauper) and quite a
bit of international acclaim, the trio are set to release
their second disc, Dirty King, this June. The first
few tracks previewed on the Cliks’ MySpace page find the band
doing what they do best: rough and ready guitar pop, fronted
by Silveira’s whisper-to-a-scream vocals. Brooklyn’s Plushgun
will open tonight’s show with tunes from their recently released
Tommy Boy debut, Pins and Panzers. (April 16, 8
PM, $10, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
The
Energy
Bread
and Jam Café, Friday
Success never goes out of fashion. Hundreds of bands headline
New York City’s venerable Irving Plaza each year, very few
of which are completely independent. Brooklyn band the Energy
recently joined those elite ranks—and sold the place out,
to boot. So what’s all the hype about? Not what you might
expect: The Energy are worlds removed from your typical New
York buzz band; their earnest, keening rock & roll calls
to mind the arena-filling power of bands like U2 and Live.
On the surface there’s nothing fashionable about this band,
but that’s exactly why you should get used to hearing their
name. Remember, Nickelback are one of the decade’s biggest-selling
rock bands, and nobody likes them. (April 17, 8
PM, free, 130 Remsen St., Cohoes, 326-2275)
The
Meatmen
Valentine’s,
Saturday
Irreverence was their stock in trade, and when Tesco Vee disbanded
the Meatmen in 1997, the punk world lost one of its own best
critics. Whether skewering L.A. punk-rockers on “TSOL Are
Sissies,” skewering the Beatles on “One Down Three to Go,”
or skewering pretty much everyone else on “Crippled Children
Suck,” “French People Suck,” and “Camel Jockeys Suck,” Tesco
dispensed his brilliant bon mots in sharp, 90-second blasts.
Thankfully for anyone within shouting distance, he’s put his
tongue back in cheek and assembled a new band of Meatmen to
take the music to the masses. Because songs like “Tooling
for Anus” are absolutely timeless. (April 18, 7 PM, $12,
17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
Soulive
Revolution
Hall, Wednesday
It’s been 10 funky years since the Evans brothers and their
friend Eric Krasno started a little retro soul-jazz outfit
called Soulive down in Woodstock. See, people liked it, and
now the trio have lotsa musical friends, enough friends that
you might be able to call the group a family, a family so
dope that they’ve taken to calling themselves the Royal Family.
In honor of the band’s forthcoming album Up Here, the
family will be out in force, including the Shady Horns (Sam
Kininger and Ryan Zoidis), who are no strangers to Soulive
and offshoot Lettuce, as well as vocalist Nigel Hall, whose
been collaborating with Lettuce and the Krasno project Chapter
2. Don’t be alarmed—this is the healthy kind of incest. (April
22, 7 PM, $21, 425 River St., Troy, 274-0553)
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Curtis Fuller
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Tonight
(Thursday), check out the one-time-only all-star
Iron Maiden tribute 22 Acacia Avenue at
Roadhouse Grill in Albany (8PM, $5, 489-3170).
. . . Names like this don’t come around all that
often: Abdominable Killer Snowman open
for MC Chris and I Am the Dream
at Valentine’s tomorrow (Friday, 8 PM, $12, 432-6572).
. . . Buffalo-based singer- songwriter Davey
O brings his brand of Americana to Ballston
Spa’s Coffee Planet this Saturday morning (11
AM, free, 884-9913). . . . Sara Milonovich
and daisycutter release their new CD Saturday
at the Linda (8 PM, $20, 465-5233 ext. 4). . .
. It’s a blast from the Capital Region’s improvisational-music
past this Saturday when nickname: Rebel and
Offset Needle Radius team up for a noise-guitar
showdown at 51 3rd Street in Troy (9 PM, $5, 347-228-2509
for info); Sunday, the two acts move to Spotty
Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, where they’ll be
joined by former Luxury Flats man Mikey Corcoran
(7 PM, $5, 671-6006). . . . End of an era? Sunday’s
Hinder show has been moved from the Washington
Avenue Armory to the slightly smaller confines
of Northern Lights; tickets from the original
show will be honored at the door (7 PM, $30, 371-0012).
. . . New York rockers Paper and Sand and
the Thang team with locals Railbird
and Union Boots for a big Sunday at Red
Square (7 PM, $7, 465-0444). . . . This week’s
one-to-drive-for: Todd Rundgren performs
at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass., on Monday
(7 PM, $55, 413-586-8686). . . . Also Monday,
Dr. Jah and the Love Prophets, IMI,
and Deja are at Rev Hall to celebrate the
“holiday”; we’re pretty sure you’ll be able to
follow the scent all the way from I-787 (6 PM,
$8, 274-0553). . . . Trombonist Curtis Fuller
joins the Empire Jazz Orchestra for their
spring concert on Tuesday at Schenectady County
Community College (8 PM, $15, $6 students, 381-1232).
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