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Notable Shows in the Greater Cleveland Area + The Gories

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Shows worth checking out this week in and around Cleveland:

The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

  • Fri, Nov 19| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    Asylum Street Spankers
    Caravan of Thieves
    $18 adv / $20 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages

  • Fri, Nov 19| 9 PM (8 PM door)
    Whiskey Daredevils
    Lords of the Highway
    45 Spider
    $7
    Tavern | All Ages

  • Sun, Nov 21| 8 PM (7 PM door)
    Raquy & the Cavemen
    Durga Dance Company
    $10 adv / $12 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages

  • Sun, Nov 21| 8 PM (7 PM door)
    Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
    Misery Jackals
    $10
    Tavern | All Ages

  • Wed, Nov 24| 8:30 PM (8 PM door)
    The Floorwalkers (cd release)
    The Modern Electric
    Tom Evanchuck
    $8
    Ballroom | All Ages

  • Wed, Nov 24| 9 PM (7 PM door)
    This Way Out 5th Anniversary Show
    Afternoon Naps
    Clovers
    Dreadful Yawns
    (Bands start playing @ 9PM
    Free appetizers 7 PM to 9 PM)
    $5
    Tavern | All Ages

Grog Shop

  • Sat, Nov 20| 9 PM
    No Age
    Lucky Dragons
    Herzog
    $12 adv / $14 dos

  • Sun, Nov 21| 8 PM
    Free Energy
    Hollerado
    The Globes
    $8

Now That’s Class

  • Sat, Nov 20| 1 PM – 7 PM
    Bling Bling Bazaar
    (featuring vendors, DJ’s, food)
    Beardo Bandini
    Jukebox Value
    Muamin Collective
    Vigatron
    FREE

  • Sun, Nov 21| 9 PM
    Destroy Nate Allen
    Beckett & Friends
    Back to Bouvet
    19 Action News (cd release)
    Dan Polo
    $5 donation

Musica

  • Sat, Nov 20| 7 PM
    River City Extension
    The Modern Electric
    Shivering Timbers
    Tinamou
    $8

  • Sat, Nov 20| 10 PM
    Party of Helicopters
    Sun God
    New Body Type
    $5

  • Wed, Nov 24| 10 PM
    Cap C & Random X
    $5

The Kent Stage

  • Fri, Nov 19| 8 PM
    Kent State Folk Festival
    Loudon Wainwright
    Shawn Colvin
    $40 / $65

Happy Dog

  • Fri, Nov 19| 9 PM
    Benefit for Secondhand Mutts
    Misery Jackals
    Scoliosis Jones

The Gories are coming! The Gories are coming! I first encountered the gigantic and gigantically cool Mick Collins when his band the Dirtbombs opened for the Detroit Cobras at the Beachland Ballroom. The Dirtbombs blew that place up and made the Detroit Cobras seem flaccid in comparison. Now Mick Collins is back together with his old friends in the Gories, and they’ll be playing the Beachland on November 27.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvjIq0j6hjY?fs=1]

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Paolo Conte: [Imagine Something in Italian Here]

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It’s tough being a fan of singer/songwriter/pianist Paolo Conte if you don’t know much Italian. I first heard Conte’s music while working in a bookstore in northern California thanks to one of my spectacular co-workers playing Conte’s Best of… CD over the PA. I fell in love with the music – which, though I tend to shy away from direct artist comparisons, I have often described to people as “if Tom Waits sang French songs in Italian” – but it’s been difficult keeping up with him since.

You may well have heard Conte, too, as songs like “Come Di” and “Via Con Me” have been used in a couple of American films (like the Cleveland-set Welcome to Collinwood). His bi-lingual music is often upbeat and infectious but also ranges to the utterly beautiful. A lawyer as well as a musician (his family have been solicitors for generations), he is known to accompany himself by producing trumpet sounds with his mouth.

And it just so happens that he released a new album last month called Nelson (in honor of his dog).

Italian journal-makers Moleskine love Conte, too, and have produced a lovely special edition Nelson journal.

You can purchase Nelson on Amazon and iTunes Italy (though apparently not iTunes U.S.). And your guess is as good as mine on where to get the Moleskine journal.

Paolo Conte Official Website

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Photog: Video Round-Up

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This week, Jennifer makes NTSIB one of the few places on the internet where you will see the words “killer xylophone action” used together.

No shows this week, so I’m dipping into the video vault (aka YouTube) to highlight some music I’ve enjoyed recently:

Jail Weddings – I Just Thought You Were Someone I Knew

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR–xZltoAE?fs=1]

I have already enthused at y’all about their EP Inconvenient Dreams, which is a five-song slice of joy. Now I am here to be flappy and flaily about their latest full-length release, Love is Lawless, which is both delicious and dirty. As you will see from the video, there are a lot of them, and they harmonize beautifully while singing songs with titles like “What Did You Do With My Gun?” The track in this video is something of a bitter kiss-off to a cruel, inconstant lover, with some killer xylophone and fiddle action.

Tour status: They just wrapped up a West Coast run, but it looks like they’ll be playing at The Echo in Los Angeles on Nov. 29, along with The Black Apples, Dante vs Zombies, and My Pet Saddle.

Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_RBxVpM_AI?fs=1]

A couple of weeks ago I had cause to get up at 5 in the morning to watch Subterranean a show on MTV wherein they actually play videos. (I know! On MTV! Has the world slipped off its axis?) The show is meant to be the reanimation of 120 Minutes, but it doesn’t quite get there, mainly because – at least in the episode I saw – the artist being interviewed between videos doesn’t seem to have much of a connection to what is being played. The videos themselves were actually quite interesting. I pulled this one out to share specifically because I like the “cable access tv” visual style they have going on, as well as their guitars.

Tour status: Currently running around Europe with Interpol, though they will be part of the Bruise Cruise to the Bahamas in February.

Christina Perri – “Jar of Hearts”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvnASKvi2H8?fs=1]

Perri recently rocketed up the charts and into a record deal almost literally overnight after this song was featured on So You Think You Can Dance Canada. I happen to like this version better than the “official” video because I think it being just her and the piano showcases the power of her voice. Also, this is the kind of song you play – loudly, repeatedly, and as often as necessary – to stop yourself from taking a bad boy/girlfriend back into your life.

Tour status: She’s making appearances at various Christmas-special style shows; check her listings to see if there is one near you!

— Jennifer

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Bits: The Twilight Singers, Pulp, Ghostface Killah, J Mascis, Patterson Hood, Twain

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  • The Twilight Singers will be releasing their new album, Dynamite Steps, on February 15. Guests on the album include some of the usual suspects – Ani DeFranco, Petra Haden, Joseph Arthur and, of course, Mark Lanegan – as well as Nick McCabe of the Verve.

  • The original Pulp line-up is reuniting for the first time since 1996. They have a couple of European fests booked for next year with additional plans likely.

  • Rap Radar has the first single, “Together Baby”, off Ghostface Killah’s forthcoming album Apollo Kids up for you.

  • J Mascis will be releasing an acoustic album called Several Shades of Why on March 15.

  • Special treat: Cuckoobird has posted a special Patterson Hood solo show that took place at the end of last month. Patterson Hood is several kinds of awesome.

  • The Low Anthem are on the road with Emmylou Harris. During a break, Mat Davidson played a surprise Twain show in Brooklyn. Watch Mat and all his hair below.

Twain “I’ll Be Fooled Again” from Possum Den Productions on Vimeo.

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Trampled by Turtles and the Infamous Stringdusters are coming to Cleveland.

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The Beachland Ballroom will become string-band-a-topia this Saturday, November 6, when Trampled by Turtles and the Infamous Stringdusters descend for the night (the show will be a part of a stringband weekend to which the Beachland is offering special package deals that include a Friday night show from Cornmeal and Railroad Earth). These bands are like two sides of the same coin. The Infamous Stringdusters offer up a polished stringband sound in the tradition of classic Grand Ole Opry mixed with the longform solo proclivities of the jam band genre (NTSIB normally detests noodling, but when said noodling is done on banjo, fiddle, mandolin and steel guitar, somehow it doesn’t seem so bad). Trampled by Turtles is the faster, more immediate, slightly more ragged cousin to the Stringdusters’ sound – it’s stringband music with a rock ‘n’ roll heart. (You’ve likely heard, and loved, their song “Wait So Long”.)

We’re really looking forward to this show, and the videos below should show you why.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVaonoikASA?fs=1]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zJ4f4NRiE?fs=1]

The Infamous Stringdusters and Trampled By Turtles
Saturday, November 6
Beachland Ballroom
15711 Waterloo Blvd
Cleveland, OH 44110
7pm doors, 8pm show
Tickets $15

Trampled by Turtles MySpace (where you can stream their newest album Palomino and others)

Infamous Stringdusters Things That Fly Album Stream

Trampled by Turtles Daytrotter Session

The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern

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Rebirth of the Cool: Ohio Covers Ohio, Part One

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The Black Keys have a way with a cover song and having long been champions of our shared home state of Ohio, it’s no surprise that they’ve covered a few of their fellow Akron-area musicians.

The James Gang, fronted for a time by Joe Walsh, formed in Cleveland in 1967. Their best-known song was a typically ’70s rock ‘n’ roll nugget called “Funk #49”.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0?fs=1]

While keeping the rock essence of the song, the Keys admirably trim the original’s excess making it, for me at least, far more palatable.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0GzZuKbhY?fs=1]

While the Cramps formed in Sacramento, California, the dearly departed Lux Interior hailed from Stow, Ohio, just outside of Akron, and Lux and wife Poison Ivy lived in Akron for a couple of years in the early 1970s.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4BMW31juLc?fs=1]

While a somewhat less natural choice for the Keys than the “Funk #49”, their cover of the Cramps’ “Can’t Find My Mind” reveals an appealing glimpse of punk spirit and Auerbach’s penchant for fuzz guitar serves the song well.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XOfMwMX1A?fs=1]

Devo formed in Akron in 1973 before eventually moving to California and never really looking back, but not before leaving the Akron music scene shaken, bewildered and inspired.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRENoPisFYk?fs=1]

Even though Patrick Carney has professed Devo to be one of this favorite bands, “Uncontrollable Urge” is an even less natural choice for the Black Keys to cover than the Cramps. There are hardly two bands more opposite in sound and spirit. I’ll let you be the judge of how well they bridged the gap.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqeQ8BX05s?fs=1]

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Notable Shows in the Greater Cleveland Area + Party of Helicopters

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Shows worth checking out this week in and around Cleveland:

The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

  • Sat, Oct 30| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    Los Straitjackets
    Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys
    (costumes encouraged)
    $18 adv / $20 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages

  • Mon, Nov 1| 9 PM (8:30 PM door)
    Wet Hair
    Cloud Nothings
    Three Legged Race
    $5
    Ballroom | All Ages

  • Wed, Nov 3| 8:30 PM (8 PM door)
    The Union Line
    Hollis Brown
    Woovs
    $8
    Tavern | All Ages

  • Thu, Nov 4| 7:30 PM (6:30 PM door)
    Los Lobos
    Jorma Kaukonen
    At the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium
    In association with Visible Voice Books
    $35
    | All Ages

Grog Shop

  • Fri, Oct 29| 10 PM
    Mayer Hawthorne & The County
    Gordon Voidwell
    DJ MisterbradleyP
    $17

  • Tue Nov 2| 9 PM
    Filter
    Middle Class Rut
    Nonfiction
    $15

Now That’s Class

  • Sun Oct 31| 9 PM
    The Dreadnoughts
    Achachay
    Bomb Back Hellcat
    $5 donation

  • Thu Nov 4| 9 PM
    Masaki Batoh
    Moonrises
    Orange Luna Temple
    Kohoutek
    Fillmore Jive
    Zacharius Hay
    $5

Happy Dog

  • Sat, Oct 30| 9 PM
    Filmstrip
    Clovers
    Prisoners

Peabodys

  • Sun, Oct 31| 7 PM door
    Suicidal Tendencies
    Ringworm
    Death Before Dishonor
    Crossface
    $20 adv / $25 dos

Early warning: Party of Helicopters have reunited (again) and will be playing Musica on November 20th. Out of Kent, Ohio, PoH is part of the family tree that also includes Houseguest, Teeth of the Hydra, Beaten Awake, the Six Parts Seven, Drummer and the Black Keys. Additionally, guitarist Jamie Stillman is the founder of Earthquaker Devices.

All this to say, if you don’t know them, they’re good. You should go see them.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZMJ0filL8?fs=1]

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Tony Joe White: You Just Got To Do Your Own Thing

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When I stumbled on the music of Tony Joe White while compiling my weekly Notable Shows post, I thought I was unearthing an obscure treasure. Launching the player on his official website, I started listening and didn’t stop for the rest of the day. With a voice so deep that you feel it in your pelvis before it even hits your ears, a penchant for playing his guitar in the lower registers and rhythms that feel fresh even on songs written thirty-some years ago, it’s easy to fall for White’s music. And it’s easy to see why he can count Dan Auerbach and the White Stripes among his fans and why he’s been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Brook Benton, Ray Charles and, ahem, Great White.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrzbjgpVjO4?fs=1]

The name may be as unfamiliar to you as it was to me, but it’s likely that you’ve heard his music as White, a.k.a. The Swamp Fox, penned the classic “Polk Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia”. And White is still going. He released the album Shine this year and was tour earlier this month. You can sign up for a free mp3 of the lovely “Season Man” from the new album at his website.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6diOn54OWs?fs=1]

Tony Joe White Official Website

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Love, Blood and Rhetoric

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In lieu of a constructive contribution to the blogosphere today, and in tribute to my fraught relationship with my lady parts, I’m sharing a list of menstrual music. Songs to bleed to. With a little help from our friends.

“Happy and Bleeding” – PJ Harvey
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6rS2O19ik?fs=1]
suggested by takethisbread

“Positive Bleeding” – Urge Overkill
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-f4glTOdw?fs=1]
suggested by April

Peaches
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXiFuU7X_Fo?fs=1]
suggested by amanjo

“Grown So Ugly” – The Black Keys
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkp_EU_yqz0?fs=1]
suggested by Bluerooster

“Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY?fs=1]
suggested by Jennifer

And, really, no menstrual music list would be complete without the Cramps…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fyr0zbaFyE?fs=1]

Honorable (for a given value of “honor”) mentions: “Let it Bleed” by the Rolling Stones (suggested by takethisbread), “Blood” by My Chemical Romance (suggested by Jennifer)

Feel free to share other suggestions in comments. Misery loves company.

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Bits: Cadillac Sky, Stephen Calt, The Magnetic Fields, mr. Gnome, Twain, The Low Anthem

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  • Bryan Simpson has announced his departure from Cadillac Sky. An announcement about his replacement is forthcoming. We are grateful to Bryan for the great music he’s given us and wish him much happiness.

  • Dust-to-Digital reports the passing of blues biographer Stephen Calt, author of King of the Delta Blues: The Life an Music of Charlie Patton and I’d Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues among other tomes.

  • Now on to better news: the Magnetic Fields would like to bring their film Strange Powers to your town. Learn how you can help make it happen.

  • mr. Gnome has almost completed it’s third album and has announced tour dates starting in November.

  • Mat Davidson of the Low Anthem has released his second album with his project Twain. Interesting stuff. Check it out.

Speaking of the Low Anthem, we’ve been slowly falling in love with them since seeing them open for the Avett Brothers last winter. Here’s a nice little docu-video on them.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0yAMMCCgg4?fs=1]