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Friday, April 20, 2012

Music Menu The Explorers Club play Evening Muse tonight (4/20/12)

Posted By on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:53 AM

THE EXPLORERS CLUB The Charleston-based combo's new album, Grand Hotel, as well as their early material, will get listeners looking at the copyright date. Wait. This was released earlier this year? Not the late '60s or early '70s? The band's muse lingers in an unmistakable late-'60s southern California pop vibe, with a dash of psychedelia, sprightly keyboards, happy guitars and plenty of harmonizing backing up the crooner. Lounge pop? Maybe. But the blokes are rather genuine in their love of the era, without being copycats. Brian Wilson would approve. With XVSK. $8 in advance. The Evening Muse.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

News Levon Helm dead at age 71

Posted By on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM

Levon Helm, drummer and singer for The Band, died of throat cancer on Thursday, April 21, 2012. He was 71.

His Website offered a simple message:

Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.

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Helm, who anchored songs including "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," had been battling the disease since the late 1990s.

He returned to music as a solo performer in 2007 with the Grammy-winning Dirt Farmer - his first studio album since 1982. In 2010, his album Electric Dirt won the Grammy for Best Americana Album. In 2011, his live album, Ramble at the Ryman, won yet another Grammy.

I had the chance to see Helm perform twice - at Bonnaroo in 2008 as Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road and at Charlotte's Knight Theatre in 2010 as the Levon Helm Band.

In Tennessee, Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road followed the Avett Brothers in The Other Tent. While the tent and adjacent grounds were overflowing for the Avetts, less than half stuck around for Helm's set. Helm, however, couldn't care less and was always seen with a huge grin, enjoying every moment on stage.

Editor Mark Kemp will post a personal tribute to Helm online tomorrow.

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News Celebrate Record Store Day on April 21, 2012

Posted By on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM

Record Store Day will be held on April 21, 2012. Celebrated on the third Saturday of April each year, the event celebrates music and independently owned record stores.

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Lunchbox Records in Plaza Midwood will open at 9 a.m. and be open until at least 9 p.m. They've got a full list of the releases they hope to have for sale here. They'll also have stickers and slipmats to give away along with 120 copies of Jeff Hahne's Homebrew Vol. 5.

Among the releases are:
* Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends double LP featuring collaborations with Kesha, Nick Cave and Erykah Badu
* A Mastodon/Feist split 7" featuring Mastodon's cover of her "A Commotion," and Feist's cover of "Black Tongue."
* Carolina Chocolate Drops/Run DMC: "You Be Illin" Warner Bros. 7" coke bottle green vinyl 3000
* The Civil Wars: Billie Jean 7"
* Jimmy Fallon: "Tebowie" 7"
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals: Live at the Hollywood CD

Other participating stores include The Birdsnest in Davidson, N.C., and The Record Cellar in Rock Hill, S.C.

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Music Menu The Pretty Reckless at Visulite Theatre tonight (4/19/12)

Posted By on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:07 PM

THE PRETTY RECKLESS In an earlier life, model turned actress turned songstress Taylor Momson played one of several interchangeable glam brats on the CW's Gossip Girl. Her latest role, fronting loud hard-pop band The Pretty Reckless, is "rock bitch in heat" aka "front woman template model A" aka "slutty jailbait on drugs." But don't let the smokescreen of eyeshadow and the curtain of blonde hair fool you. Ms. Momson is quite good at this gig, putting the catchy tunes over with a raw throaty alto. When the band strays outside the radio-ready pocket, it can rock ferociously, with a hint of Black Keys blues savvy and better pop songwriting than your average eyeliner rockers. Striving for Hole or the Runaways, Momson and crew land closer to '80s hard popsters Transvision Vamp. This isn't a bad thing. Empty calories can be fun to burn. With The Hollywood Kills. $15-$40. Visulite Theatre.

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Music Menu Vanity Theft to rock the Milestone (4/19/12)

Posted By on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:48 AM

VANITY THEFT All-gal combo from Ohio's got the upbeat pop ditties that sound as if written in the garage, where the guitars ably tackle the drums while the vocalist belts out loosely written lyrics. It takes awhile to get into their groove, and the tunes are generally well-phrased, but they're most interesting when the guitars are on the raw side. They sure seem to be having a blast playing raggedy pop-rock. With Needmore. $7-$9. The Milestone.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

News Dick Clark dead at age 82

Posted By on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM

TV icon Dick Clark died today after a massive heart attack at age 82. The radio and television personality, known as "America's Oldest Teenager," was the long-time host of American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1993.

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Dick Clark hosted American Bandstand from 1956 through 1989. The television show had teen boys and girls dancing to the latest hits in popular music, featuring a wide variety of guests over the years including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Kiss, Aerosmith, Madonna, Run DMC, Beastie Boys and probably the most bizarre performance by P.I.L.

Among the musicians who made their television debut on American Bandstand are Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Prince, Paul Simon and Buddy Holly. The show also helped spark national dance crazes such as The Twist.

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve started in 1972 and Clark would host the event until he suffered a minor stroke in 2004. He returned to co-host with Ryan Seacrest in 2006, making brief appearances through the most recent edition in 2012.

Clark's famous sign-off was, "For now, Dick Clark... so long."

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Music Menu HuDost at Evening Muse tonight (4/18/12)

Posted By on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM

HuDost Multi-instrumentalists Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines join forces as HuDost, a world music group for which that title seems too limiting. They bring the definition to life as Sommer sings in at least a dozen languages, often taking on the identity of the characters she sings about. The music is often driven by language, though the music and rhythms often give it as much personality. As part of the Off the Record series on this night, you'll hear more of the stories behind the songs they'll be performing. With James Brown of Matrimony. $6. The Evening Muse.

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Music Menu Leftover Salmon play Visulite tonight (4/18/12)

Posted By on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM

LEFTOVER SALMON The jam circuit has long been the province of the bluegrass/rock 'n' roll fusion - but that was hardly the case when Leftover Salmon took electric instruments to rootsy Americana more than two decades ago. The improv pioneers charmingly dub their style "polyethnic Cajun slamgrass," mashing bouncy cajun and funk rhythms with high-energy bluegrass stomp. It's a formula that works - Salmon's influence is palpable in heavy-hitters all across the plugged-in folk ouvre, including occasional collaborator String Cheese Incident. Their first studio album eight years, Aquatic Hitchhiker, drops next month. $25. Visulite Theatre.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Music Menu The Zoltars play Milestone tonight (4/17/12)

Posted By on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:51 AM

THE ZOLTARS If you hear in Austin's Zoltars elements of early Velvet Underground drone, Wreckless Eric's snark punk or the contemporary garage minimalism of, say, Wounded Lion, they're there for a reason. Lead Zoltar Jared Leibowich was a struggling filmmaker when he picked up his guitar and began writing songs with a knack for, as he told one interviewer, "stepping on friend's toes." Delivered in Lou Reed-like deadpan, the songs on the band's debut Should I Try Once More? are super simple and deceptively funny and not going to be appreciated for either trait by many. So fuck 'em. With Sister Fister and Chain Link Stains. $6-$9. The Milestone.


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Music Menu Shpongle plays Neighborhood Theatre tonight (4/17/12)

Posted By on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM

Shpongle Shpongle plays around with psychonautic scholar Terence McKenna's "stoned ape" theory of evolution. In short, early man ingested magic mushrooms that opened the hominid mind to religion, language and music. Whether you buy the idea or not, the psyc-ambient duo of self-styled "hallucinogenius" Simon Posford and magic flautist Raja Ram take the notion and run with it. The two offer a mix of world music, down-tempo electronica, earth-mother backing vocals and quicksilver flute. Their live DJ show mind-melds higher consciousness and body grooves in the swirling spiral nebula called Mind Fuck. 'Shrooms optional. $22-$24. Neighborhood Theatre.

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