Local rock band. The Gaslight Street opens.

Raw Dawg - Alibi
Raw Dawg - Dig
Raw Dawg - HOI

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Leading North Carolina retro-rocker Dexter Romweber plays proto-rock tunes that are displaced by at least fifty years, except for the points where sister Sara rockets them forward about halfway with her propulsive drumming.

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Hip hop. T3 and C-Ryan open.

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Modern reggae quintet. Jah Works opens.

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DC cowboy Justin Jones, local songwriter Sarah White, and White’s duo project The (All New) Acorn Sisters all play various forms of alt-country and Americana. (Which is, it seems, not all that far from “both kinds: country AND western,” but go check ‘em out all the same.)

Justin Jones and the Driving Rain - Seminole Town
Justin Jones and the Driving Rain - Long Way Down
Justin Jones - All Our Noise [live]

Sarah White - Apple In B Major
Sarah White - Half A Smile
Sarah White - Ply Me
Sarah White - Sweetheart
Sarah White - Where You’re Going

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Andy Waldeck’s all-star improvisational funk troupe boogies down. Social Viscosity opens.

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Though it’s hard to imagine why playing in a Sublime tribute band could ever be artistically unfulfilling (cough cough, sorry, something in my throat), that’s what happened to the Badfish guys, who have been inciting riots among evergreen college stoner audiences with “April 26th” ever since 2001 — which, it should be noted, was only four years after Brad Nowell died; is there a minimum waiting period for this sort of thing?

Thus, from about 2006 onward, Scotty Don’t, whose reggae-rock original tunes are inspired by, but no longer carbon-copy mimicry of, one of the most influential rock bands of the 90’s.

Scotty Don’t - A Little Time

Decide for yourself — you’ll get sets from both here.

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Doors tribute band. Sweetbriar opens.

Sweetbriar - Long Time Since
Sweetbriar - Line ‘Em Up
Sweetbriar - Baby, Don’t Say Goodnight

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The thinking man’s hip hop crusader. With Diabolic, Poison Pen, and J. Arch.

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Progressive reggae from Boston with a futuristic edge and elements of dancehall, hip hop, and drum and bass. Passafire opens.

John Brown’s Body - Give Yourself Over
John Brown’s Body - The Gold [Dubmatic Runnin' remix]

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Up-and-coming folk and alt-country from Carleigh Nesbit’s C-ville outfit Chick Tragic and the Roosters and Blake Christiana’s Brooklyn-based Yarn.

Yarn - Bad Bad Man
Yarn - Don’t Break My Heart
Yarn - I’m Down
Yarn - Ain’t That A Sin
Yarn - Empty Pockets

Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Three Steps Out The Door [live]
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Passing Through
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Train Song

Carleigh Nesbit - Three Steps Out The Door
Carleigh Nesbit - River Run Dry
Carleigh Nesbit - Turn On The Heat
Carleigh Nesbit - Your City Skies

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Electric set from the Jefferson Airplane side project, which plays early blues songs with rock influences.

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This local favorite, which makes their “mountain rock” using both traditional bluegrass instruments and blazing amplifiers, took their show on the road recently, touring all over the Southeast until they killed the van and had no choice but to stop. Instead, they’ve been preparing their recent recordings for release — possibly even an EP for to be released in time for the show (nobody seems to know for sure yet), but most importantly, the next album, which is now tentatively titled Deliverance, rather than 200 Roses, as frontman Luke Nutting told us a few months back, and expected by the end of the year.

6 Day Bender - Kick Out The Fire
6 Day Bender - Devil Lets You Dance
6 Day Bender

Opening: The Moderate, who inject a little of their North Carolina twang into the DC rock world to substantial acclaim, and C-ville’s own Vevlo Eel.

The Moderate - Ex-Lovers, Enemies
The Moderate - Your Favorite Too
The Moderate - Lost Boy
The Moderate - Chapel Hill

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If Dar Williams hadn’t written “If I Wrote You,” she might not have turned into the folk-rock icon she is; in retrospect, the song which later became her calling card now seems to mark the breaking point between her developmentally awkward earliest pieces and her ability to effortlessly knock them out of the park, as seen in “Empire,” “End Of The Summer,” “Are You Out There,” and so on. Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers open even though they’d probably be worth a headlining slot on any other night.

Dar Williams - It’s Alright

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The two delightfully folky ladies help with fundraising for the annual Heritage Harvest Festival.

Devon Sproule - Keep Your Silver Shined
Devon Sproule - 1340 Chesapeake St.
Devon Sproule - Let’s Go Out
Adrienne Young - All For Good

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New Orleans rockers The Radiators have been playing their swampy fish-flavored jams for upwards of thirty years at this point and have miraculously managed to keep the original lineup intact. Local rockers Raw Dawg open.

Raw Dawg - Alibi
Raw Dawg - Dig
Raw Dawg - HOI

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The not-at-all-incorrectly-monikered Extraordinaires may be based in Philadelphia at this point, but since three of the dudes grew up in Charlottesville, we get to share in the festivities surrounding the release of their new “album” Electric and Benevolent.

The Extraordinaires - 2012 Overture [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Eloise [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Terzetto [unmastered]

Quotation marks? Why, that’s because just like their last few albums, this new one comes with the best packaging ever: a hardcover book, this time telling the story of a brilliant inventor around the turn of the 20th century.

The Extraordinaires - Hi-Five The Cactus
The Extraordinaires - Neighborhood Watch
The Extraordinaires - The Captain
The Extraordinaires - A Proud Salute

Well, then there was that came bundled with a board game. Still, you get the idea.

The Extraordinaires - The Chicken, the Egg, or the Song?
The Extraordinaires - The Confession Of Kyle Griever

Local rock wunderkind Adam Smith and alt-country figurehead Sarah White open, making this a seriously powerhouse lineup.

Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand - There’s Room In My Will

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