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Industrial
Jazz Group
Time
& Space Limited, Friday
The Industrial Jazz Group will be the first to tell you that
their music isn’t very “industrial” and is not exactly “jazz.”
The 18-piece Los Angeles big band, rather, contend that they’re
“changing the elbow of American music” with a slightly deranged
mixture of jazz, funk, doo-wop, cartoon soundtracks, and dada
non sequitur that they like to call “avant garde party music.”
If it helps any, the group list Duke Ellington, Frank Zappa,
Harpo Marx and Devo all as influences. What this means, we’re
not quite sure, but that’s probably secondary to how it sounds
anyway. (Oct. 23, 8 PM, $12.50, 434 Columbia St., Hudson,
822-8448)
Stevie
Wonder
Turning
Stone Casino, Friday
It’s probably superfluous for us to remind you of all the
hits Stevie Wonder has penned, the Grammy Awards he’s won,
the samples he’s licensed to hip-hop artists, and big performances
he’s played at events like the Olympics and the Super Bowl.
Since he was discovered singing on a street corner at age
11, Wonder has been smelting all those gold and platinum records
into a shiny reputation that lets him do and get away with
pretty much anything in music. For instance, this past year,
Wonder both helped elect the first black American president
by contributing Obama’s campaign song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered
I’m Yours,” and set the record for Grammy performances by
appearing with the Jonas Brothers. Now that’s range. (Oct.
23, 8 PM, $85, 5218 Patrick Road, Verona, 877-833-7469)
Odd
Nosdam
Valentine’s,
Saturday
Odd Nosdam is the stage name of David Madson, co-founder of
Anticon, the great record label and collective out of California’s
Bay Area. Madson’s unique brand of beat-heavy sound collage
sees elements of hip-hop and psychedelia and found sounds
coming together to make something akin to what a DJ Shadow-Flaming
Lips collaboration might sound like. He also collaborated
with Mike Patton on the Peeping Tom project, which is worth
a gold star in our book. Madson makes an Albany stop on Saturday
with his Oakland, Calif.-based buddies Bre’r, plus Jamboyz/Gun
Christmas offshoot Dead Friend. (Oct. 24, 9 PM, $5, 17
New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
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Type
O Negative
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Type
O Negative
Northern
Lights, Saturday
Slow,
Deep and Hard is about as obvious a double entendre as
there’s ever been, which is precisely why Type O Negative
chose it as the title of their 1991 debut disc; those three
words pretty much sum up the band’s entire oeuvre. That album—which
features such experiments in brevity as “Unsuccessfully Coping
With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity” and “The Misinterpretation
of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences”—got the remaster
treatment by Roadrunner Records this spring, and the band,
known as much for their dark humor as their very heavy metal,
are on tour to promote it. Destrophy, Seventh Void, and Purifier
open Saturday’s show. (Oct. 24, 8:30 PM, $20, 1208 Route
146, Clifton Park, 371-0012)
The
Playing for Change Band
The
Egg, Saturday
Their slogan is “Peace Through Music,” and if you are one
of the millions who made the Playing for Change video “Lean
on Me” a viral sensation online, you know that such a thing
is actually possible. Playing for Change call themselves “a
multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring
peace to the world through music.” So they aren’t a band,
but an organization, as well as a nonprofit foundation—which
may sound a little confusing. To make it a bit more straightforward,
they’ve put together a touring group to bring their sound
and vision to the stage, and that band will play the Egg this
weekend. (Oct. 24, 7:30 PM, $28-$34.50, Empire State Plaza,
Albany, 473-1845)
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Jay-Z
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Florida
pop-punkers New Found Glory are at Northern
Lights tonight (Thursday) along with Title
Fight, Fallen From the Sky, and the
uniquely lazily named California (7PM,
$20, 371-0012). . . . Jason Ringenberg
returns to the area for a rock show at Valentine’s
tomorrow (Friday) night (9 PM, $8, 432-6572);
earlier that day, he’ll do a free, family-oriented
show as Farmer Jason at the Linda (11 AM,
free, 465-5233 ext. 4). . . . Also Friday, jazz
guitarist Julian Lage plays two shows at
the Van Dyck (7 and 9:30 PM, $15, 348-7999). .
. . WEXT 97.7 FM will stage its second annual
fundraiser concert at the “Exit Dome”—the WMHT
studios in Rensselaer—on Friday, with music from
Super 400, Eric Margan and the Red Lions,
Sean Rowe, and members of Railbird
(7 PM, call for details, 800-272-6492). . . .
Get yer klez on with klezmer ensemble Kleztory
at the College of Saint Rose’s Massry Center on
Saturday (7:30 PM, $10, 337-4871). . . . Pure-pop
fans, get on out to the Basement in Northampton,
Mass., Saturday night for music from the Brilliant
Mistakes (8 PM, free, 413-586-8686). . . .
Get into a Bay State of mind, because Jay-Z
brings his current tour to the Mullins Center
at UMass Amherst in Amherst, Mass., on Sunday;
N.E.R.D., Wale, and J. Cole
are also on the bill (8 PM, $50-$75, 800-745-3000).
. . . The King Khan & BBQ Show bring
Canadian garage rock to the Pearl Street stage
in Northampton, Mass., on Wednesday; Dum Dum
Girls open (8:30 PM, $15, 413-586-8686).
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