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The
Black Crowes
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Cuddle
Magic, Railbird
Indie
8th Step, Saturday
After 43 years of bringing contemporary and traditional folk
music to the region, the 8th Step is going indie. This is
only the second event in the new Indie 8th Step series, but
organizers have already proven their good taste. Railbird,
a local band we’re betting our good taste will outgrow their
local status mighty soon, will be joined by semi-local group
Cuddle Magic (who share a bassist and some creative proclivities
with Railbird). Everytime we hear either of these groups they
get harder and harder to describe (and stop listening to).
The same too can be said of Matthew Carefully, who opens.
(Oct. 23, 7:30 PM, $15, GE Theatre at Proctors, 432 State
St., Schenectady, 399-4242)
JEFF
the Brotherhood
Valentine’s,
Sunday
Few bands convey a better sense of let’s-get-drunk-and-jam
fun with just their name than JEFF the Brotherhood. The Nashville
duo—neither of whom are named Jeff—are touring the Northeast
on the strength of the 2010 re-release of their fifth(!) album
of Descendents-inspired punk-rock, Heavy Days, on their
own Infinity Cat label. True to hyper-productive form, the
just-four-year-old band are already preparing another full-length;
in the meantime, you can hear some of the new tunes in their
live habitat this Sunday. JEFF will be joined by Joggle and
reclusive locals Nickname: Rebel. (Oct. 24, 7 PM, $8, 17
New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
Preservation
Hall Jazz Band
Massry
Center for the Arts, Tuesday
To request a particular song at the group’s namesake French
Quarter venue, it will cost you $5—$10 if the song is “When
the Saints Go Marching In.” But when legendary Dixieland jazz
revival group the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are on the road,
the price of admission is going to get you all the classics
you can handle. Preservation, you see, is what they’re all
about, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong,
Sidney Bechet and the other founding fathers of New Orleans
jazz is their specialty. (Oct. 26, 7:30 PM, $25, Picotte
Recital Hall, College of Saint Rose, Albany, 337-4871)
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OK
Go
Northern
Lights, Wednesday
In this strange post-MTV universe, the biggest band in music
video are a geeky power-pop band from Chicago. “Viral” was
but a young buzzword when OK Go brought us the treadmill dance
of “Here It Goes Again,” garnering millions of views—and,
thus, new fans—for their goofy choreography and catchy pop.
Recent innovative clips found the band in a giant Rube Goldberg
machine, and performing (sort of) underwater. This spring,
just after the release their third album, Of the Blue Colour
of the Sky, the band had a well-publicized spat with EMI
Records when the label made their videos unembeddable online
(did we mention their “This Too Shall Pass” clip was viewed
6 million times in its first week?); the band’s departure
from the label followed closely. The workaholic live act have
visited the Capital Region frequently in recent years, and
they’re back in Clifton Park on Wednesday. (Oct. 27, 8
PM, $17, 1208 Route 146, Clifton Park, 371-0012)
Passion
Pit
Union
College, Wednesday
You might know Passion Pit as the band whose almost femininely
high vocals soundtrack whatever television commercials Phoenix
doesn’t—their song “Sleepyhead” was liberally licensed through
2009 and 2010, giving the band of Berklee College of Music
students an instant career (just add hype) and, we assume,
a nice chunk of change. We just ‘em because lead singer Michael
Angelakos is from Buffalo, and proudly so. The band bring
their bottomless bucket of cheer to Union College’s Memorial
Fieldhouse this week and, for those of you who haven’t made
a fake ID in a while, be aware that this a students-only event.
Indie hip-hopper K. Flay opens the show. (Oct. 27, 7 PM,
Union Street, Schenectady, 388-6000)
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Of Thieves |
Get
blown away (ha) by the horn overload of Tower
of Power, tonight (Thursday) at Northern Lights
(8 PM, $30, 371-0012). . . . Also tonight, one-man
electro dance party Jeff Bujak spends an
evening at Red Square (9 PM, $7-$12, 465-0444).
. . . The backstage parties at this show must
be a lot of fun: Ed Kowalczyk and
Art Alexakis, the humorless frontmen of
Live and Everclear, respectively, play a storytellers-style
show at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass.,
tomorrow (Friday); Leigh Nash opens (8
PM, $25-45, 413-997-4444). . . . Cro-Mags,
a band whose very idea could eat Ed Kowalczyk
for breakfast, are at Bogie’s on Friday; a new
album is, supposedly, coming in 2011 (8 PM, $12,
482-4393). . . . New York bassist Yunior Terry
and his band the Cuban Classics rhumba
their way to Hudson for a show at Club Helsinki
on Friday (9 PM, $15, 828-4800). . . . Powerful
words and powerful rhythms collide this Saturday
at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, when poet
Jayne Cortez performs with drummer Denardo
Coleman for the Sanctuary’s “Raise the Roof”
series (8 PM, $10, 272-2390). . . . Go, hippies:
Phish will be at the Mullins Center at
University of Massachusetts Amherst Saturday and
Sunday; sold out, naturally (7:30 PM, $60, 800-999-UMASS).
. . . Sunday at Caffe Lena, catch the “acoustic
alt-gypsy swing band” known as Caravan of Thieves
(7 PM, $16, 583-0022). . . . This Sunday at Pearl
Street in Northampton, Mass., it’s one we’ve been
saving our pennies for all fall: The Corin
Tucker Band lineup features the former Sleater
Kinney and Heavens to Betsy shouter with an all
new group, including Unwound drummer Sara Lund,
who also plays with openers Hungry Ghost
(8:30 PM, $18, 413-586-8686).
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