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Bleeding
Through
Saratoga
Winners, thursday
Prepare
yourselves and your eardrums for Bleeding Through’s performance
tonight at Saratoga Winners. The band came together in 1999
in response to what they perceived as the lack of a true hardcore
scene, and to express what they say are the “true issues that
people in the scene struggled with everyday, such as depression
and worthlessness.” Their newest CD, This Is Love, This
Is Murderous, barrages listeners with laments of love,
hardcore style. Vocalist Brandan Schieppati sings (actually
screams) of the torment love puts all humans through. “You
are the fucking disease” opens the first track of and sets
the general mood of the rest of the disc. Track 12, “Revenge
I Seek,” really sums up Bleeding Through’s basic message:
Life blows and you just need to suck it up—and screaming about
it sometimes helps. The CD lives up to the band’s disdain
for the pop and not-so-hardcore scene: It’s loud and disregards
the feelings of anyone listening. Also on the bill: Walls
of Jericho, Martyrad, and It Dies Today. (Oct. 21, 7 PM,
$12, 1375 New Loudon Road, Latham, 783-1010)
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Wynonna
Proctors
Theater, Thursday
Turning
40 does wacky things to people. Some people buy Porsches,
some people take up a new hobby, some people desperately try
to fit in with the younger, hipper crowd. If you’re Wynonna
Judd, however, you launch a confessional, career-retrospective
tour. Inspired by the revelations she had as a guest on Oprah,
(don’t ask), Her Story: Scenes From a Lifetime finds Judd
reminiscing about the ups and downs of her 20-year career.
Singing both her own songs and those that have inspired her,
Judd onstage is part concert, part comedy routine, and part
therapy session. Forty never looked this good. (Oct. 21,
8 PM, $42.50-$29.50, 432 State St., Schenectady, 346-6204)
Arc
CD-release party
Lark
Tavern, Friday
They
just don’t make ’em like Jack Nemier anymore. As a songwriter,
he knows the importance of craft and nuance. As a performer,
he’s a feather-boa-wearing, rump-shaking whirling dervish.
Nemier and his longtime band Arc play to both of these strengths
in their third release, Name the Day. Recorded by ex-Queer
for Astroboy member Arthur Scott Verner, the album captures
Nemier’s subtle eccentricities and rootsy, Neil Young-influenced
songwriting, as well as the band’s performance-hardened solidarity.
Arc will celebrate the release of Name the Day this
Friday night at the Lark Tavern; John Brodeur (of the Suggestions
and Metroland) will open. (Oct. 22, 10 PM, $5, 453
Madison Ave., Albany, 463-7875)
The
Charms
Artie’s
River Street Stage, Friday
Not
merely just another band out of Boston, the Charms have been
spreading their disease far and wide since hitting the scene
two years ago. The quartet regularly play more than 100 shows
a year, and on the strength of their latest EP So Pretty,
they’ve taken their sassy, sexy, garage-rocky sound to the
airwaves (the CD charted high on the CMJ airplay charts
with little promotion), and to bigger and bigger stages. Undoubtedly
a high point of their short career was a rollicking turn at
Little Steven’s Underground Garage Festival in August. Their
early-afternoon set was considered by many to be a high point
of the daylong show. Not bad, considering the lineup also
included the New York Dolls and the (Detroit) Stooges. (Oct.
22, 9 PM, $5, 194 River St., Troy, 687-0064)
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sondre
lerche
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Sondre
Lerche, the Golden Republic
The
iron horse music hall, Saturday
Quick,
anyone: What’s Norwegian for wunderkind? Those of you who
answered “Sondre Lerche,” move to the front of the class for
a handful of lutefisk. The precocious Lerche’s major label
debut hit the shelves when he was just 19 years old, and by
that time he had already scored successes on the Norwegian
charts with two EPs, and earned the praise of the critics
and that invaluable thing known as “buzz.” Combining the lilting
melodicism of ’80s pop acts, such as Lerche fave A-ha, with
canonical classics like the Beach Boys, and spicing it with
traces of ’60s psychedelia (North and South American variants),
Lerche’s work offers the connoisseur of sophisticated pop
a full banquet. Also on the bill, the Golden Republic, who
ply the pop sleaze you so love. (Oct. 23, 10 PM, 20 Center
St., Northampton, Mass., 413-584-0610)
Mitch
Elrod
CD-release party
Valentine’s,
Saturday
We’ve
waited patiently all summer and here it is: the new Mitch
Elrod album, Meltdown. The disc was recorded with Bob
Buckley, Steve Candlen and Mike Hotter, and features a guest
appearance by MotherJudge herself. One may suppose that many
of the same folks will be on hand for Elrod’s Spellrod Mothership/CountrySoulHouse
and “special guests” CD-release party on Saturday. Elrod,
deemed “Albany’s Adrian Belew” by one wag and the best singer
in the Capital Region according to us not too long
ago, will no doubt lay his blues-soul-country (as in the place,
not the music) groove on in his inimitable style. (Oct.
23, 9 PM, $5, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 432-6572)
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laurs
boggs
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We
noticed that we haven’t used the word skank in
quite some time, so if you’re in the mood for
a good skankin’, check out this evening’s (Thursday)
show at Valentine’s, featuring the Slackers,
Hed 1st, Zox and Public Access
(7:30 PM, $10, 432-6572). . . . Also tonight,
the Saratoga City Tavern presents its weekly Original
Music Showcase; tonight’s lineup includes Chicago
trio Tres Femmes
(8 PM, free, 581-3230). . . . Tomorrow (Friday)
night at Club Caroline, get your rocks off with
our old homeboys the Figgs, along with
the Wasted and Sugar Eater (9 PM,
$8, 580-0155). . . . The Erotics will play
their last area show until next year this Friday
at Valentine’s; also on the jam-packed bill are
Vainglorious, Science Fiction Idols,
Arrow Down, and Knife Blade Called
Now (8:30 PM, $5, 432-6572). . . . On Saturday,
catch Grammy-winning songwriter Jesse Harris
and the Fernandinos in a performance at Club
Helsinki; Harris is the guy who penned, among
others, Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why,” and we
still get all tingly every time we hear that one
(9 PM, $18, 413-528-3394). . . . Renaissance man
David Greenberger will perform Legibly
Speaking, his collaboration with quirky quintet
3 Leg Torso, twice this weekend at Hubbard
Hall in Cambridge: an 8 PM show on Saturday, and
a 3 PM show on Sunday ($10-$15, 677-2495). . .
. Party like it’s 1829 with the Musicans of
Ma’alwyck this Sunday afternoon at the Pruyn
House in Newtonville (3 PM, $15, 783-1435). .
. . Folk legend Joan Baez will play the
Egg on Sunday, along with opener Thea Gilmore
(7 PM, $28, 473-1845). . . .
This month’s Acoustic Artists night on Tuesday
at the Lark Street Bookshop features Kamikaze
Heart Matthew Loiacono and folk chanteuse
Laura Boggs (7 PM, free, 465-8126).
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