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Show Previews – November 29, 2006

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Thursday, November 30

Chelsea’s Cafe

Joe Pernice is one of the great under-sung singers of the tube-warm world of alternative country, creating a variety of brilliant pop masterpieces under the moniker of the Pernice Brothers, scorching alt-country racket as The Scud Mountain Boys and melancholy pop with Chappaquiddick Skyline. The latest Pernice Brothers album Live a Little pulls from all the different facets of his career. >>More

Friday, December 1

Phil Brady’s

Former singer of The Cowsills and Continental Drifters has made quite a name for herself in New Orleans for interpreting entire classic albums at Carrollton Station. She brings the act to Phil Brady’s, taking Led Zeppelin IV, making the first time that I’m actually looking forward to hearing someone play Stairway to Heaven. >>More

Saturday, December 2

Spanish Moon

Created out of the ashes of the criminally overlooked Roads to Space Travel, Baltimore’s The Oranges Band put forth some of the finest indie rock-pop that Spoon’s Britt Daniels was not involved in. Local favorites The Eames Era return after some time on the road with more material from their forthcoming second album.

The Oranges Band

The Eames Era

Saturday, December 2

Chelsea’s

Bruce Sprinsteen and The Replacements are icons that can crush a lesser band, but Memphis’ Lucero manages to bear the weight of both these influences with one of the most enviable rabid grassroots fan bases in the country. They are touring behind their latest Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers. Fort Collins, Colorado’s Drag the River is a cowpunk collective centered around former ALL frontman Chad Price and featuring members of Armchair Nation and The Nobodys, trading punk distortion for pedal steel and weepy tales of love’s bitter side.

Lucero

Drag the River

Tuesday, December 5

Spanish Moon

Above all the style-obsessed throbbing dross radiating from Brooklyn rises Asobi Sesku, perhaps the coolest neo-shoegazer group out there. Yuki Chikudate’s Japanese and English lyrics dart and soar around guitarist James Hanna’s dense cinematic walls of noise. Joining them are our most vocal local introspects Harlan and 2CV.

Asobi Sesku

Harlan

2CV