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The
Breakfast, Lucid
Red
Square, Friday
It’s been more than a few years since the Psychedelic Breakfast
won a Jammy Award for “New Groove of the Year” and subsequently
dropped the Pink Floyd reference in their name. This, however,
doesn’t mean that the band’s elliptical, progressive rock
has gotten any less mind-bending. Eleven years and six albums
deep, the Breakfast have matured into a veteran act on the
jam-band circuit, modeling a commitment to hard touring and
live improvisation for up-and-comers like Plattsburgh’s Lucid,
who roll six-deep in a, yes, psychedelic bus named Lucy. (Nov.
26, 8 PM, $10, 388 Broadway, Albany, 465-0444)
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| Tony
DeSare |
Tony
DeSare
Charles
R. Wood Theater, Friday-Sunday
North Country music fans look forward to this time of year
for more than just turkey and deep- discount sales at the
local Walmart. For this is when Hudson Falls native (and current
New Yorker) Tony DeSare brings his Sinatra-esque croon and
gleaming smile back home for a series of hometown shows. Again
this year, DeSare will take up brief residence at the Wood
Theater in Glens Falls; again, he’ll perform holiday classics
alongside songs from his 2009 release, Radio Show.
Nothing new, you say? That’s kind of the point—DeSare is as
old-school and inviting a performer as they come. (Nov.
26-27 at 8 PM, Nov. 28 at 2 PM, $45, 207 Glen St., Glens Falls,
798-9663)
Rat-A-Tat
Tattoo and Music Expo
Northern
Lights, Saturday
So . . . where’s yours? If that’s too personal a question,
you might want to avoid Northern Lights this Saturday, where
some of the most ink-tastic members of Capital Region society
will converge for the fifth annual Rat-A-Tat Tattoo and Music
Expo. This will be your chance to get tatted by none other
than Rancid guitarist Lars Frederiksen (or one of the numerous
notable needleworkers on hand) while banging your head to
a massive music lineup headed by party-core stalwarts Murphy’s
Law. The bill also features Revelation Records quasi-legends
Underdog, plus Capital Region heavy-makers Murderer’s Row,
Black Tie Operation, Dangerfield, and scores more. Sounds
like a match made in heaven—or hell. (Nov. 27, 1 PM, $15,
1208 Route 146, Clifton Park, 371-0012)
Barenaked
Ladies
Turning
Stone Resort and Casino, Saturday
A few weeks ago, founding Barenaked Ladies singer and songwriter
Steven Page performed music from his new solo record in New
York City, and while he also touched on some of his back catalog,
he skillfully avoided mentioning his old band by name. Such
is the state of geek-pop in 2010. Neither faction is in an
enviable position: Page was the band’s Lennon and McCartney
to co-founder Ed Robertson’s Vanilla Ice. So while Page is
starting (relatively) from scratch, playing venues a quarter
of the size he used to, the Ladies are forced to compensate
for the loss of their most talented member. Expect this Saturday’s
show to be heavy on the condiment jokes. (Nov. 27, 8 PM,
$30, 5218 Patrick Road, Verona, 877-833-SHOW)
Kathy
Mattea
Colonial
Theatre, Saturday
Clearly, the holidays are special for multiple Grammy winner
Kathy Mattea. Her popular Christmas albums—Good News,
1993, and Joy For Christmas Day, 2003—are contemporary
classics, weaving together folk and country traditions with
a strong sense of spirituality. After a one-year holiday-season
hiatus, Mattea returns with a new Christmas tour, which the
program notes promise “reinvents her most-loved Christmas
spirituals in an earthy acoustic setting, with a few twists
for good measure.” And the tour begins with this show in Pittsfield,
Mass. In other news, proving that good things do happen to
nice musicians, Mattea was just elected to the West Virginia
Music Hall of Fame. (Nov. 27, 8 PM, $35-$55, 111 South
St., Pittsfield, Mass., 413-997-4444)
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| Linfinity |
We
get an extra night of party this week thanks to
what we like to call “Thanksgiving savings time,”
so start working up your appetite tonight (Wednesday)
with some punk rock courtesy of the Erotics,
Not Yet Fallen, and Uncivil Liberties,
at Bogie’s (9 PM, $5, 482-4393), or head to Valentine’s
tonight for a bill featuring the chamber-pop of
Eric Margan, the two-man maelstrom of the
Emergency Empire, one-man band Jared
Funari, and post-rockers Life Among the
Trees (8 PM, $5, 432-6572). . . . Also tonight,
Canadian singer-songwriter Ember Swift
is at Caffe Lena (8 PM, $16, 583-0022). . . .
Follow the sound of the croon to Great Barrington,
Mass., on Saturday and catch Michael Feinstein
in a big-band holiday show (8 PM, $52-$82, 413-528-0100).
. . . And then it’s time to rock off those calories
with two consecutive nights of CD-release shows
at Valentine’s: Friday, the punk-edged Guiltless
Cult celebrate a new, second album, with help
from perennially Icelandic rockers Five Alpha
Beatdown and local boys Tom McWatters
and the Philo Beddoe Band (9 PM, $5, 432-6572);
and on Saturday, Valentine’s hosts young fresh
fellows of the Late Shift as they release
their debut CD (7 PM, $4, 432-6752). . . . Wednesday
brings Brooklyn-based, violin-flavored rock act
Linfinity to Bogie’s, where they’ll be
joined by Making the Stars Move (7 PM,
$5, 482-4393).
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