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Fiction 20 Down

by Vijith Assar
published 12:32am Monday Nov 2, 2009
November 12, 2009 9:00 pm
$5-$10

Acoustic reggae-rock

Blue Line Highway

by Vijith Assar
published 12:10am Monday Nov 2, 2009
November 9, 2009 7:00 pm
$5

Jangly rock and alt-country quartet. Also featuring Pearl and the Beard

Little Dragon

by Vijith Assar
published 12:04am Monday Nov 2, 2009
November 23, 2009 11:00 pm
$10

Massive-Attack-moody electronic rock and trip-hop quartet from Sweden who share a drummer with Jose Gonzalez. Centric opens.

Centric - In Flight
Centric - Thanks For Something
Centric - Second Hand

Harper Simon

by Vijith Assar
published 11:53pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 7, 2009 8:00 pm
$12

Alongside the late-model Marleys and Lennons in the pantheon of promising pop progeny, we might one day also find singer-songwriter Harper Simon — son of Paul, heir apparent to Graceland and all its accompanying royalty checks, since he’s specifically mentioned in the second verse of the title track — whose first high-profile gig was singing “Bingo” alongside his pops on a 1976 episode of Sesame Street. (Locally and somewhat more recently, he was also bizarrely singled out during the closing of IS Venue back in September.)

Chick Tragic and the Roosters

by Vijith Assar
published 11:31pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 6, 2009 7:30 pm
$6-$8

Acclaimed local folk-rockers. $10 tickets which get you into the Virginia Film Festival event to follow at 10pm are also available.

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


Corey Harris

by Vijith Assar
published 11:26pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 4, 2009 8:00 pm
$12-$15

Resident genius Corey Harris has reinvented his blues along a couple different axes over the years, most notably by surrounding it with elements of African folk on 2003’s “Mississippi To Mali,” and the “rasta blues” set he’ll be presenting here follows directly from his last album, 2007’s reggae tinged “Zion Crossroads.”

Corey Harris - Heathen Rage
Corey Harris - Sista Rose [live]
Corey Harris - A Blues


Jaafar

by Vijith Assar
published 11:11pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 14, 2009 10:00 pm
Free

Middle Eastern and North African jazz fusion with a touch of mystical and spiritual elements, very much in the spirit of Shakti and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

The Bowerbirds

by Vijith Assar
published 10:45pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 27, 2009 8:00 pm
$10

Three folk-pop fruitcakes from the woods of North Carolina; for fans of Joanna Newsom, Devendra, and the Decemberists. Hometown indie-folk duo Birdlips open.

Bowerbirds - Beneath Your Tree
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights

Birdlips - Tire Chains
Birdlips - Some Kind Of Death



The Rock River Gypsies

by Vijith Assar
published 7:04pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 20, 2009 7:00 pm
Donations accepted

Acoustic quintet plays plays energetic jazz, bluegrass, and rock.

Astronomers

by Vijith Assar
published 6:55pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 6, 2009 9:00 pm
$5-$10

CD release show for the new EP from the guitar-grit indie rockers and self-avowed space-cadets; “It’s definitely indie dance-rock, but there’s almost a minimalist style to it,” says new drummer Kyle Woolard, who you might also know from his other band Uncle Jemima. “It’s watertight — there’s nothing there that doesn’t need to be there.” Nonetheless, some of the new Brenner-produced tracks come off harder than he describes, somewhere between newer Muse and pocket-protector STP. Similarly celestially-minded local quartet Corsair and songwriter Travis Elliott open.

astronomers-think-fast
Newly re-recorded:
Astronomers - Or Maybe It’s Nothing
Astronomers - Perpetual Emotion
Astronomers - Stratagem

Older:
Astronomers - The Singularity
Astronomers - Shoes
Astronomers - My Hologram
Astronomers - Fermata

Corsair - Last Night On Earth
Corsair - Space Is A Lonely Place
Corsair - Starcophagus




Heavy Trash

by Vijith Assar
published 6:27pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 21, 2009 8:00 pm
$10-$12

Already forever immortalized thanks to his work with the Blues Explosion, frontman Jon Spencer switched gears in 2005 to a new grumpy-Elvis country-rock project with guitarist Matt Verta-Ray which has now blazed through three albums of raw punk-rockabilly culminating with last month’s Midnight Soul Serenade. The Woes open.

Trees On Fire

by Vijith Assar
published 3:58pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 7, 2009 7:30 pm
$8 donation

Jammy local rockers. The DOWNbeat Project opens.

Trees On Fire - In The Middle [via WXJM Live!]
The DOWNbeat Project - I Want You [live at Is Venue]
The DOWNbeat Project - Heaven
The DOWNbeat Project - He Lost Faith


6 Day Bender

by Vijith Assar
published 3:03pm Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 13, 2009 8:00 pm
$6

Local bluegrass-rockers. North Carolina’s folky favorites The New Familiars open.

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

The New Familiars - The Storm [live]
The New Familiars - The Fall Of Icarus [live]
The New Familiars - Got This Disease/The Weight
The New Familiars - Mill’s River [live]


Gunchux

by Vijith Assar
published 4:58am Sunday Nov 1, 2009
November 18, 2009 10:30 pm
Free

Nice Jenkins frontman Rob Cheatham’s country-rock band

Gunchux - Suburban Landscape
Gunchux - The Tour
Gunchux - Williamstown
Gunchux - You Crushed My Heart
Gunchux - Walk Up 21st St.


Straight Punch To The Crotch and Centric

by Vijith Assar
published 5:32am Wednesday Oct 21, 2009
October 30, 2009 10:00 pm
$5

Indie-pop and electronic

Straight Punch To The Crotch - Robot Baby
Straight Punch To The Crotch - When Animals Attack
Straight Punch To The Crotch - Summer Sun and Firecrackers

Centric - In Flight
Centric - Thanks For Something
Centric - Second Hand


Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

by Vijith Assar
published 5:31pm Sunday Oct 18, 2009
October 25, 2009 8:00 pm
$8

Gritty Brooklyn indie folk-pop songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has famously been championed by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone and is now signed to the influential Saddle Creek label run by Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Monsters Of Folk. (Good lord, that’s a lot of names.) His latest album Summer Of Fear is stocked with autobiographical tunes with which he attempts to flash-freeze his emotions from the summer of 2007. Highly recommended; this is Tea House indie hipness at its prime.

Warpaint opens.

Man Man

by Vijith Assar
published 8:24am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
October 30, 2009 9:00 pm
$15

Philly’s finest experimental indie rockers are kooky weirdos anyway. Lord only knows what they’ll do with a Halloween show.

Sugar & Gold and James Husband

by Vijith Assar
published 8:20am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
October 24, 2009 9:00 pm
$8

Warm up with dance-friendly indie-electro bits from San Francisco-based !!!-buddies Sugar and Gold, and then keep the blood flowing with a set from Of Montreal multi-instrumentalist alum James Husband.

Also featuring Hot Lava.

Hot Lava - Apple+Option+Fire

The Band Of Heathens

by Vijith Assar
published 8:05am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
November 5, 2009 8:00 pm
$10-$12

It wasn’t until their third release that this Austin-based Americana and roots-rock band bothered to enter a studio — the first few were live recordings, which bodes well for this show. They’ll also be appearing on Austin City Limits on Saturday, so be sure to tune in if you like what you see here or have to miss it entirely.

The Oak Ridge Boys

by Vijith Assar
published 7:50am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
October 25, 2009 8:00 pm
$39.50-$54.50

This classic country act started out rooted in gospel back in the 60’s, and after having a go at secular music in the 70’s, scored some pop hits and eventually went on to become one of the longest-running groups in country music history.

Emanuel Ax

by Vijith Assar
published 7:45am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
November 6, 2009 8:00 pm
$39.50-$54.50

Classical pianist plays Schumann and Chopin

Joe Purdy

by Vijith Assar
published 7:40am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
November 20, 2009 8:00 pm
$12-$15

Singer-songwriter

Sundried Opossum

by Vijith Assar
published 6:15am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
November 13, 2009 10:00 pm
$3

Jamming rodents from Waynesboro

The Chickenhead Blues Band

by Vijith Assar
published 6:12am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
October 23, 2009 10:00 pm
$5

Local blues band

The Chickenhead Blues Band - Talk To Me, Baby
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Glamour Girl
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Hunky Dorey
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Marvin’s Water


The Doc Marshalls

by Vijith Assar
published 6:09am Sunday Oct 18, 2009
November 7, 2009 8:30 pm
$5

NYC country quintet The Doc Marshalls routinely try to slip unexpected zydeco or Cajun accordion bombs in alongside the expected straightforward six-string Burrito Brothers style Americana. Also featuring Hunter Smith and local alt-country songwriter Carlton James.

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

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