A pair of noteworthy thumpers on FRIDAY (the 7th), with local heroes SASQUATCH & THE SICK-A-BILLYS opening for San Diego psychobilly legends DEADBOLT at Club Hell (doors at 7 pm, 401.709.3923), while a new project called WHOREPAINT (Rebecca from Made in Mexico and Arcing’s Hilary Jones) will join South Coast noisemongers BAYLIES BAND (set to release Man Ray & Vague Knitting on 75orLess Records) at No Problemo in New Bedford; 21+ and no cover charge, call 508.984.1081. Great options on SATURDAY (the 8th) include jam band monarchs FOXTROT ZULU returning to the Ocean Mist (401.782.3740), the big MARK CUTLER CD release party at Nick-a-Nee’s (401.861.7290), and personal faves THE JESSE MINUTE and THE DIEPODS team up and throw down at Billy Goode’s in Newport (401.848.5013). On TUESDAY (the 11th), local punk pros THE DOWN & OUTS support NINJA GUN and LEATHERFACE AT Jerky’s Bar (401.621.2244). Start your WEDNESDAY (the 12th) evening with COWBOY JUNKIES playing an intimate gig at the Hi-Hat (8:30 pm, 401.453.6500), then wrap it up with newcomers INDIANA HANDSHAKE (Harrisville, RI is in the building) delivering extra-crunchy rock at AS220 (401.831.9327) along with TEMPUS FUGIT and THE IN-FORMALS ($6, 401.831.9327).
Attention aspiring grrrls eager to rock!: Registration is underway for Girls Rock! Camp, happening July 12-16 at JamStage in Pawtucket for ages 11-18. Tuition includes an all-encompassing week of instrument instruction, workshops, and a showcase concert, led by experienced women musicians. Participants may choose from drums, bass, guitar, or vocals. Girls Rock! Camp also includes how-to sessions for T-shirt screen-printing and songwriting. And most important — no musical experience necessary and all skill levels are welcome. Tui-tion ranges from $250 to $500, with financial aid available. To apply and/or receive more info, go to GirlsRockRI.org.
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- Ghost stories
For all of the excitement that surrounded Wilco on the Maine State Pier or Sufjan Stevens at Port City Music Hall or the various sold-out Ray LaMontagne shows of the past year, there is no question that last Sunday's Phish show at the Cumberland County Civic Center was the biggest thing to hit our fair city in a very long time.
- Winged migration
Since their start in the middle of the decade, Brown Bird have been one of the region's go-to chamber-folk outfits, with a couple of dark and stormy albums earning them a following in various nooks of New England. The release of their latest album, The Devil Dancing , feels like both an ending and a new beginning.
- Injustice for all
Scott Sturgeon loses his train of thought a couple of times during this interview. He's loopy from jet lag — which is unavoidable after a 20-hour flight from New Zealand (halfway around the planet from his non-residency at a squatted apartment building in New York City), where he's just finished a tour with his claim-to-fame band, Leftover Crack.
- Wanting more
After its triumphant traversal of the complete Béla Bartók string quartets at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Borromeo Quartet was back for a free 20th- and 21st-century program at Jordan Hall, leading off with an accomplished recent piece by the 24-year-old Egyptian composer Mohammed Fairuz, Lamentation and Satire.
- Group hug
Things aren’t always what they’re called — we know that flying fish don’t fly and starfish aren’t even fish.
- Local heroes, ’09 edition
The Rhode Island music community flourished in 2009, with new full-lengths from the Coming Weak, California Smile, and the pride of Cranston West and official big-leaguers Monty Are I, who released Break Through the Silence in September.
- Local flavor
Local journalist and acclaimed hip-hop scribe Andrew Martin has corralled a flavorful roster of Rhody-based rap talent on the Ocean State Sampler , 10 exclusive tracks available for free download.
- Beyond Dilla and Dipset
With a semi-sober face I'll claim that hip-hop in 2010 might deliver more than just posthumous Dilla discs, Dipset mixtapes, and a new ignoramus coke rapper whom critics pretend rhymes in triple-entendres.
- John Harbison plus 10
Classical music in Boston is so rich, having to pick 10 special events for this winter preview is more like one-tenth of the performances I'm actually looking forward to.
- Shout it out!
Sharks Come Cruisin' founder Mark Lambert is a Warwick native with a penchant for reworking and penning sea shanties from centuries past, often revised with rollicking punk flare — all thanks to the golden pipes of Quint, the shark-obsessed skipper in Jaws .
- Punk wreck
Guitar punk rock has a long and, frankly, dull history.
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