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Sara
Evans
Proctors,
Thursday
Country fans should be more than familiar with Sara Evans,
the Missouri native who has sold millions of records and won
scores of awards in her 13-year career. Television watchers
will recognize her from a brief turn on the third season of
Dancing With the Stars. Avid readers might have picked
up her 2010 novel, The Sweet By and By. And gossip
gobblers will be familiar with her messy divorce from first
husband Craig Schelske, which came with accusations of big-time
infidelity from both sides. But it’s the music that brings
Evans to Proctors tonight: Her new album, Stronger,
is expected in early 2011. (Dec. 9, 8 PM, $20-$50, Mainstage,
432 State St., Schenectady, 346-6204)
Freelance
Whales, Miniature Tigers
Iron
Horse Music Hall, Friday
Capitalizing on one of the silliest trends in band-name history
are these two New York indie-rock acts, who roll into Northampton,
Mass., tomorrow night with a heap of industry buzz at their
backs. Queens-based Freelance Whales manage to keep a foot
in both the twee-electronic and Salvation Army-band traditions;
their debut album, Weathervanes, earned praise from
Entertainment Weekly for its “dreamy melodies, charmingly
terrible pickup lines, and a vibrant band-geek orchestra.”
Miniature Tigers, from Brooklyn, have earned “hottest” tags
for various reasons from such little-read rags as Spin
and Rolling Stone. See them now and you can say you
saw them when. (Dec. 10, 10 PM, $15, 20 Center St., Northampton,
Mass., 413-586-8686)
Capital
Underground Live
Washington
Avenue Armory, Saturday
Man about town Ralph Renna has been hosting a weekly local-music
showcase at Savannah’s for the last few years; this weekend,
he goes big. The first of three Capital Underground Live concerts
will be held at the FYE Theater at the Armory (a curtained-off
portion of the Armory’s relative expanse) this Saturday, and
it features no less than 10 local acts—well, nine actually,
plus Long Island band Bulletproof Messenger. The all-day,
all-ages event sports sets from press-hating punks the Dirty
Stayouts, alternative rockers Fort Rooster, super-young trio
the Museum Guards, and several more. At about a buck a band,
you’d have a hard time finding better rock value this weekend.
(Dec. 11, 2 PM, $12, 195 Washington Ave., Albany, 512-5203)
Mountain
Snow and Mistletoe
The
Egg, Saturday-Sunday
Christmas is coming! Sure, the stores started hanging tinsel
before Halloween, but we didn’t believe the holidays were
on the way until we saw Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball’s
Mountain Snow and Mistletoe concerts on the schedule. After
a decade (and change) in Troy, the duo, along with guests
John Kirk (fiddle), Kevin McKrell (guitar), Tony Markellis
(bass) and Brian Melick (percussion), will bring these performances
over the river and through the off-ramps to the Egg. Expect
the same heartfelt, traditional interpretations of the most
loved holiday songs and stories. (Dec. 11, 8 PM; Dec. 12,
2 PM; $24, Empire State Plaza, Albany, 473-1845)
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| Sparks
the Rescue |
Sparks
the Rescue, You Me and Everyone We Know, Amely, Boyish Good
Looks
Valentine’s,
Wednesday
Christmas is the worst time of year to be an emo kid, what
with all the bright lights, relatives and merriment. Luckily,
when you spike the eggnog with some rock & roll music,
things get way more OK. That’s why pop-punkers Sparks the
Rescue have embarked on the Christmas Brings Me Down Tour,
to find other victims of holiday melancholia, and play their
song of the same name. Sharing the sentiment are You, Me,
and Everyone We Know, as well as Amely, whose “Christmas Time
Again” ratchets up the yuletide angst. Locals Boyish Good
Looks will open. (Dec. 15, 7 PM, $12, 17 New Scotland Ave.,
Albany, 432-6572)
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Noted |
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| Heavy
Pets |
Tonight
(Thursday) at Putnam Den, it’s the return of Florida
rockers the Heavy Pets (8 PM, $8, 584-8066).
. . . The grooves keep coming tomorrow (Friday),
when the Ryan Montbleau Band and Black
Mountain Symphony take the Putnam Den stage
(8:30, $15, 584-8066). . . . Friday at the Glens
Falls Civic Center, it’s time for the yearly appearance
from Santa Claus—oh no, that’s just Kenny Rogers
(8 PM, $27-$62, 798-0366). . . . Valentine’s has
variety on Friday as the Ameros, Charlie Phillips,
Sugar Proof, and the Realside all share
the stage (8 PM, $7, 432-6572). . . . If Tommy
Love says “it’s gonna be epic,” you know it’s
gonna be epic: Love joins Scotty Mac, Knyghts
of Fuzz, Graham and John Tichy, Johnny
Rabb, and a reunion of Rocky Velvet for
Ian Carlton’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Party at the Ale House
on Saturday (8 PM, $5, 272-9740). . . . Activist
folk duo emma’s revolution return to the
Eighth Step at Proctors on Saturday (7:30 PM,
$22, 346-6204). . . . Enter the Haggis
will bring the rock of the Irish to Jillian’s
on Saturday; they’ll be joined by Boston’s Adam
Ezra Group (9:30 PM, $20, 432-1997). . . .
Bogie’s helps you shake off the winter chill on
Sunday with Taproot, Me Talk Pretty,
Aficionado, Amalgama and more
(7 PM, $15, 482-4393).
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