Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Music news Baby Shakes live at Criminal Records, Sat., Nov. 15th
Posted by Chad Radford on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Baby Shakes, now based out of New York played an in-store show at Criminal Records Saturday afternoon (Nov. 15th), playing songs from their new album The First One (DoucheMaster Records).
Music news Live review: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at Variety Playhouse, Fri., Nov. 14th
Posted by Chad Radford on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band played a good but not amazing show at the Variety Playhouse Friday night. Good, because it convinced me to buy the new four-song tour LP they were selling in the lobby. Not amazing because out of the songs they played that I was familiar with, I preferred the recorded versions. Not because the live versions were so bad, but because the live setting didn’t add much to the Conor Oberst experience.
No longer billed as Bright Eyes, Oberst is enlisting the Mystic Valley Band to make music that’s a little less ambitious and not quite as unique. This made for a tight singalong album that played to their strengths as folk rockers with pop sensibilities. Oberst is still the quivering balladeer and the more traditional surroundings are a good match now that he’s maturing well into his 20s. He’s not the boy genius heir to Dylan (groan) that kind of looks like a girl anymore. Now he’s got three guitars in his band, maybe unnecessary for his style of music, but it adds muscle to the sound. That, along with his side burns, declare his status as a grown man playing grown man music, even when he’s at his most fragile.
Music news Creative Loafing's recommended shows for Tues., Nov. 18
Posted by Scott Irvine on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:09 PM
BAD FLIRT, THE BLACK, RAFTER Rafter Roberts is a San Diego strummer who writes quirky, noise-afflicted indie pop tunes for college kids. Local band the Blacks churn out lo-fi Weezer-esque rock songs. Bad Flirt from Montreal QC plays catchy indie rock that evokes a classic '90s sound. $8-$10. 9 p.m. All Ages. The Drunken Unicorn. www.thedrunkenunicorn.net. -- CR
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ Folk, pop, bluegrass and country combine with Rodriguez's lovely vocals and accomplished fiddle to yield surprisingly edgy music that skirts genre boundaries with lyrics that touch the heart, mind and soul. Romantica also appears. $15-18. 8 p.m. Eddie's Attic. 404-377-4976. www.eddiesattic.com. -- HH
Music news Video: All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, "Dance Again"
Posted by Chad Radford on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Poets, elder statesmen and rabble-rousers of the Atlanta punk scene, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, have released a video for the song "Dance Again" from their recently released self-titled LP on Brooklyn's Colonel Records.
All Night Drug Prowling Wolves-Dance Again from Stussey on Vimeo.
