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Music Menu / News Through Porchlight, Appalucia, Josh Phillips Folk Festival tonight (12/18/2009)

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Through Porchlight Here's a promising combo that's got just the right tones and hues for a moody pop evening. The songs are tightly written with a jazzy, cinematic guitar backdrop. The Charlotte quartet's recent album Don't Wake Up. I Have To has a hazy, twilight feel with fine Euro-pop vocals and strumming throughout. Think date night music. With The Lo and Beholds, Death Becomes Even the Maiden, Junior Astronomers. Tremont Music Hall (Samir Shukla)

Josh Phillips Folk Festival Phillips, the guitarist, singer and percussionist for Asheville funk combo Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, recently left that party band and embarked on to the rootsy project Josh Phillips Folk Festival. JPFF melds reggae, New Orleans jazz, folk, and roots rock that ranges from sparse folk to, quite often, danceable global fusion. With Laura Reed. Neighborhood Theatre (Shukla)

Appalucia First of all, you have to love a band whose bio begins in the early 1800s in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. In the interest of time, I'll skip ahead a couple hundred years, and tell you that Appalucia, a duo comprised of the Milestone-friendly Andy "The Door Bum" Fenstermaker and Cory Zeigler, play (roughly, sometimes very roughly) the same hootin' music said to be played in the holler at the time, namely white-lightnin' spiked country blues twisted with the Holy Spirit and a dash of the devil. Songs can go from pretty to pretty fucked-up (lyrically speaking) at the drop of a bowler hat, which, it might be said, constitutes a pretty fair representation of what mountain life was like (way) back in the day. Plus, the boys' beards are consistent with the times, which always adds authenticity points. With South Side Punx, 25 Minutes To Go, Summer Night Shade. Milestone (Timothy C. Davis)

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