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| Ziggy
Marley |
Ziggy
Marley
Nothern
Lights, Friday
While
summer makes its way reluctantly out the door, many of us
are still hanging on to its pantleg, scorning the brevity
of it all and pleading not to be left alone with the soon-to-be
staggering cold of upstate New York. Enter our savior, Ziggy
Marley! He makes his entrance just in time to safeguard us,
if only temporarily, from all that isn·t sunny, positive
and full of love. (That is, if you can discern any of it through
the mounting tide of tie-dye and billows of pot smoke you·ll
be soaking up.) His latest album, 2009·s Family Time,
does more than just broaden his audience from those guys you
see shopping at the Dancing Bear in the mall; Marley·s
official website promises that Family Time ·resonates
with themes of love, responsibility, unity, freedom and fun.·
The kiddies will thank you for the CD, but maybe leave them
home for the night while you attempt to keep summer around
just a bit longer. (Sept. 17, 7:30 PM, $25, 1208 Route 146,
Clifton Park, 371-0012)
Irish
2000 Festival
Saratoga
County Fairgrounds, Friday-Saturday
St. Patrick·s
Day only comes around every March. Pessimists would say that·s
a long way away. Optimists would say we·re halfway
there. We say that·s reason enough to party today!
For two days this weekend, the Saratoga County Fairgrounds
will become Disneyland for the green-blooded. Separate stages
will cater to lovers of traditional and contemporary Irish
music, featuring acts such as Gaelic Storm, Enter the Haggis,
Hair of the Dog, Flatfoot 56, the McKrells, Great Big Sea,
the Fighting 86·s, Young Dubliners, the Screaming Orphans
and the Mighty Ploughboys. Also featured will be pipe bands,
traditional step dancing, storytelling and children·s
events. Should be enough to tide us over. (Sept. 17-18, $28,
$20 single-day, 162 Prospect St., Ballston Spa, 888-414-3378)
Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned, Mia Riddle, Eureka Birds,
the Loom
Valentine·s,
Saturday
Usually
it·s one or two bands that cause us to highlight a
show, but we feel the light should be cast on all four acts
on this lineup. Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned have done
a great deal of work to cultivate a scene around themselves
here in the Capital Region (see our Community Organizers nod
in this summer·s Best of the Capital Region issue),
but on Saturday they·ll joined by some of their out-of-town
friends·and they·ll return the visit in both
of those friends· cities this weekend with a three-day
mini-tour. Brooklyn·s Mia Riddle, the singer and the
band, specialize in windswept alt-country, while Baltimore·s
Eureka Birds speak their orchestral pop gems with a whisper.
Also on the bill are Brooklyn sextet the Loom, whose mature
chamber-folk sound has recently landed them opening gigs for
indie lights the Antlers and Local Natives. (Sept. 18, 8 PM,
$7, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
Bret Michaels
Northern
Lights, Wednesday
We like
to think of Bret Michaels as a working-class hero. Sure, he
made a fortune off his band Poison, but his persona has always
been that of the clock-punching rocker, a guy who wants to
make sure the job is done right on time, every time. To wit:
Poison·s summer-tour sets are usually culled entirely
from their triple-platinum albums of the late ·80s,
because who wants to hear new material, right? Those reality-TV
appearances are merely Michaels putting in the hours, keeping
the brand name out there·but honestly, he really worked
for his win on The Celebrity Apprentice, and we can respect
that. He·ll likely play a bunch of tunes from his recent
solo effort, Custom Built, at Wednesday·s show, but
you want to hear ·Every Rose Has Its Thorn·?
He·ll be happy to play it for you. (Sept. 22, 7:30
PM, $32.50, 1208 Route 146, Clifton Park, 371-0012)
Nickelback, Three Days Grace, Buckcherry
Times
Union Center, Wednesday
Everything
he touches turns to multi-platinum. Talking, of course, about
Robert John ·Mutt· Lange, the legendary record
producer who took the already outrageous success of Nickelback
to ridiculous heights with the band·s latest, Dark
Horse. Perhaps that·s overselling it·it·s
actually the band·s fourth consecutive album to sell
in the several-million range, and that·s all post-Napster.
But the band·s union with Lange, basically the Phil
Spector of hockey-rink rock, is a match made in 96-track heaven.
And America has spoken: Dark Horse hasn·t left the
Billboard Hot 100 in almost two years, and so the band is
back in town on Wednesday. They·re joined by two other
heavyweights of the Active Rock format: Three Days Grace,
currently hot from a Geico commercial, and Buckcherry, who
seem perfectly content with the label Music Strippers Listen
To. (Sept. 22, 6:15 PM, $59.50-$79.50, 51 N. Pearl St., Albany,
800-30-EVENT)
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| American
Bang |
Tonight
(Thursday) the Nashville-based rock & roll
outfit American Bang returns to Albany for a show
at Jillian·s (9 PM, $5, 432-1997). . .
. The Albany Public Library wraps up this year·s
Garage Bands in the Garage series on Friday with
sets from the Union Boots and Complicated Shirt
(6 PM, free, 427-4300). . . . The Todd Nelson
Trio bring their improv-fueled instrumental roots
music to life at Franklin·s Tower on Friday;
see a review of Nelson·s latest album in
this week·s Recordings section (7 PM, free,
431-1920). . . . Like a wax museum, incarnated:
The Beatles act known as Britishmania plays the
Egg on Saturday, with a four-part show that should
cover everything but ·Piggies··and
possibly that, too (8 PM, $25-$38, 473-1845).
. . . (8 PM, $62-$82, 512-5203). . . . The Linda
hosts father-son jazz-guitar duo Bucky and John
Pizzarelli on Sunday, in a special benefit concert
for WAMC (6 PM, $100, 465-5233). . . . Tess Collins
and much of her Lark Tavern staff are back in
action at McGeary·s; so, too, is the Ramblin
Jug Stompers· monthly residency, which
kicks off in its new home this Monday (7 PM, free,
463-1455). . . . California heavies Bleeding Through
storm Northern Lights on Monday; they·ll
be joined by After the Burial, For Today the World
Alive, Stray From the Path, and Dust and Ashes
(7 PM, $17, 371-0012). . . . Two generations of
indie greats share a bill at the Calvin Theatre
in Northampton, Mass., on Tuesday: Broken Social
Scene and the Sea and Cake (8 PM, $25, 413-586-8686).
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