Lo-fi bedroom pop-rock tunes loaded with messy guitars played by precocious 18 year old songwriter Nathan Baldi, who ironically was majoring in audio engineering before dropping out to instead write songs that sound like they were recorded inside a discarded refrigerator.

Cloud Nothings - Old Street
Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid
Cloud Nothings - Can’t Stay Awake

Also featuring C-ville indie rockers Drunk Tigers and Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand.

Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane

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Pop-rock trio raising funds and awareness to help provide prosthetic devices to the needy

Habit - Wombat
Habit - All I Want

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Pop-rock with religious leanings. Joseph Mills opens with a pseudonym and Benyaro with old-school folk rock descended from CSNY.

Tim Be Told - System
Tim Be Told - Analyze

Benyaro - Pisces
Benyaro - Good Day Better
Benyaro - Humble Child
Benyaro - Time To Kill
Benyaro - Bullet-Like Belief
Benyaro - Feelin’ Low

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Richmond-based acoustic rock and alt-country band, also self-described as “coffeehouse pop”, which quite frankly is a pretty spot-on label that more of you acoustic guitar dudes out there better start copping to.

Blue Line Highway - Almost Reel
Blue Line Highway - You’ll Get Yours
Blue Line Highway - Morning Glory
Blue Line Highway - Goin’ On Here
Blue Line Highway - Cry

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Wilmington NC’s leading Americana rock quintet drops bluesy guitar parts and voice-of-underclass political messages on top of lead songwriter Brad Heller’s Tex-Mex flavored songwriting — and to substantial critical acclaim back home, we hear.

The Fustics - Back Again
The Fustics - Baptized Tonight
The Fustics - Captured My Fate
The Fustics - Headed Down
The Fustics - Beyond This Life
The Fustics - Bloodstained Streets
The Fustics - Brothers
The Fustics - Desert Sky
The Fustics - Running Round
The Fustics - Western Skyline

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C-ville’s own Greg Howard is one of the all-time greats of the Chapman Stick, an unusual 10- or 12- stringed instrument played entirely using Van Halen-style fretboard tapping, and as usual, he’ll play both originals and standards here in jazzy head-improv-head style. Speaking of jazzy, this sophisticated “And Friends” configuration hasn’t been seen in quite a while — African percussionist Darrell Rose on talking drum and djembe and The Sound LLC’s James McLaughlin on the kit, with trumpet brainiac and Miller’s jazz night staple John D’earth shooting melodies out above it all.

Starting things off, Fredricksburg Chapman Stick player, audio software programmer, and prog-rock fanatic Rob Martino, current titleholder by a hefty margin of most popular Stick video on the internet, with a set which will undoubtedly contain tunes from his upcoming debut album and at least a handful of instrumental Tull covers.

Rob Martino - One Cloud

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Danceable and at least partially dubstep-derived experimental rock in which keyboards are played with itchy trigger fingers and buckets of booty-shaking bass slosh around and eventually spill out beneath vocalist Liz Bougatsos’ filtered wails.

Gang Gang Dance - First Communion

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Rootsy Americana and classic rock from the local guitarist and his quartet.

The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy

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Last seen around these parts leading Burkina Electric, his Burkinabe folk-techno band (seriously), avant-garde classical composer and sometimes downright wacko-experimental percussionist Lukas Ligeti (who, yes, is the son of famed Transylvanian composer György) performs selections from Afrikan Machinery, his 2008 album of rhythmic explorations for a rare mallet-based MIDI controller called the Marimba Lumina. A key point in all this is that Ligeti focuses his interest in electronics around percussive applications thereof precisely because he doesn’t want to give up his kinetic energy as so many other laptop musicians tend to, which in turn means that this show should be as interesting for your eyes as for your ears.

Lukas Ligeti - Great Circles Tune I

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Aggressive electric jazz players with hearts that may have been ripped outta punk-rockers and ears hungry for both Meshuggah and Mahavishnu make for… well, probably just more prog-rock dorks, actually. But these guys also milked the following from no less than ridiculously acclaimed jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, also one of their idols: “The music of Zevious shrewdly juxtaposes order and its opposite: structural intensity pushed to its breaking point in the most appealing way. These boys are brilliant and fearless.” OK, case closed.

Zevious - Where’s The Captain

Local pianist Gerrit Roessler’s jazz trio Melamine opens.

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Jazzy funk from Baltimore.

Basshound - Till I Hit The Ground
Basshound - Ranura Bastarda [live]
Space Cadet 7 - Killer Octopus

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For this latest entry in the fairly frequently updated set of unexpectedly strong shows at the Tea House, we get a mathematically-minded indie rock outfit from Pennsylvania which ditched three of its original five members but nonetheless still sounds much bigger than its guitar-free remaining duo might lead you to believe. In addition, this is a must for anyone who enjoyed last month’s St. Vincent concert, being that these guys served for a time as Annie Clark’s backing band.

Pattern Is Movement - Light Of The World

Support from the usual suspects: enigmatic local rock act DBB Plays Cups, former Titus Andronicus guitarist Andrew Cedermark, and Brooklyn songwriter Tavo Carbone’s new band Horse’s Mouth, which just released a new album called “Sophia.”

Tavo Carbone - Boxcar Serenade
Tavo Carbone - Off To Hawaii
Tavo Carbone - Blue Boats On Black Lakes
Horse’s Mouth - As I Climb In The Horse’s Mouth

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Bluegrass band inspired by 1970’s folk-rock. Alt-country songwriter Carlton James opens.

Johnson’s Crossroad - Bail Money
Johnson’s Crossroad - Tired
Johnson’s Crossroad - Those Lonesome Blues
Johnson’s Crossroad - The Bitter End
Johnson’s Crossroad - Left Behind
Johnson’s Crossroad - In Betweens

Carlton James - St. Augy
Carlton James - Smile Boys
Carlton James - Dig A Hole
Carlton James - Blue Moon Please

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Brian Patrick’s deal is usually about Americana, which might ordinarily seem like a rather silly way for pompous self-involved Americans to celebrate a holiday like Saint Patrick’s Day, but he’ll be playing Celtic tunes and Irish folk here in addition to the usual stuff, and in any case we’ll all be too busy laughing at the brilliant re-branding to make anything of it. Attention musicians: more of this sort of thing, please.

The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy

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Screwball indie pop-rock heroes who, with each hybrid book/album or board game + CD release, momentarily manage to out-crazy even Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz, with whom they just wrapped up a tour.

The Extraordinaires - 2012 Overture [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Eloise [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Terzetto [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Hi-Five The Cactus
The Extraordinaires - Neighborhood Watch
The Extraordinaires - The Captain
The Extraordinaires - A Proud Salute
The Extraordinaires - The Chicken, the Egg, or the Song?
The Extraordinaires - The Confession Of Kyle Griever

And who knows, maybe they’ll bundle something unexpected into the ticket price here. (Other than openers The Raquellos and Borrowed Beams Of Light, that is.)

The Raquellos - The Grey Crew
The Raquellos - The Bitch That Is The Sea
Borrowed Beams Of Light - Kids Are Great!!!

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DIY acoustic pop-rock songwriter in the vein of Gavin DeGraw playing the second night of his weekend McGrady’s residency, this time with a small cover charge to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Aaron Zimmer - Buried Alive
Aaron Zimmer - Well Enough
Aaron Zimmer - Therapy
Aaron Zimmer - The Middle
Aaron Zimmer - Sink Or Swim
Aaron Zimmer - Save Myself
Aaron Zimmer - If I Were You
Aaron Zimmer - Hard Lines
Aaron Zimmer - Get This Over With
Aaron Zimmer - False Alarm
Aaron Zimmer - Change My Mind

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DIY acoustic pop-rock songwriter in the vein of Gavin DeGraw.

Aaron Zimmer - Buried Alive
Aaron Zimmer - Well Enough
Aaron Zimmer - Therapy
Aaron Zimmer - The Middle
Aaron Zimmer - Sink Or Swim
Aaron Zimmer - Save Myself
Aaron Zimmer - If I Were You
Aaron Zimmer - Hard Lines
Aaron Zimmer - Get This Over With
Aaron Zimmer - False Alarm
Aaron Zimmer - Change My Mind

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Country-pop singer-songwriter

Meade Skelton - My Loudon County Home
Meade Skelton - Sweet Tea
Meade Skelton - Those Bad Things You Do

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Melodic Miles-influenced jazz trumpet fills the halls of UVA’s anthropology department.

Eric Vloeimans - Wet Feet

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Energetic experimental “ghost punk” rock with a digital edge and weird noises aplenty and fits of genuinely cacophonous abstraction, brought to you by the former bassist from Liars. Opening, fraternal Tennessee guitar-drums rocker duo JEFF The Brotherhood (a misnomer, being that neither of the bros are named Jeffrey), who tear through their loud and crazy sets with devil-may-care punk-rock minimalism.

These Are Powers - World Class Peoples
JEFF The Brotherhood - Bone Jam

Hometown support from Andrew Cedermark and Rhythm Bandit.

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Self-proclaimed “digital art rock,” which apparently means laptops, live looping, and three separate members whose responsibilities are listed as “MIDI,” “keys,” and “electronics.” With Bear War.

ArpLine - Parts Unknown

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As That 1 Guy, former upright bassist and one-time Righteous Babe artist Mike Silverman plays disjointed comical funk with an otherworldly, futuristic edge on a giant harp-like bass instrument he built for himself out of pipes, samplers, Rube Goldberg’s nightmares, and a cowboy boot.

That 1 Guy - Buttmachine

DJ Cliff Hux opens.

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This would be the big kaboom in local music this week — an EP-release threesome from indie rock quartet Drunk Tigers, old-school metalhead astronuts Corsair, and glam-rock youngsters Red Satellites, all buzzed-about up-and-comers across the board.

Red Satellites - Good Press
Red Satellites - Dancing

Kicking things off is New Rock Church Of Fire, to whom we will pay no further attention because they’re not from Charlottesville. Sorry guys.

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Finger-pickin’ foot-stompin’ folk rock.

HoboJac - Uncle Joe
HoboJac - Ramblings Of A Sinner
HoboJac - Crossroads

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Local roots-rock songwriter and guitarist.

The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy

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