January 2010
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Tonight: Justin Townes Earle
Despite the snow freakout, Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes will be playing The Grey Eagle tonight. Put on some long underwear and strap on your snow shoes. I think it’ll be an awesome intimate night of music.
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Today: Urban Outfitters Grand Opening
Sure, Urban Outfitters rips off independent artists and is generally evil, but today is their grand opening and shouldn’t we all go and support them eat their free food and see some bands.
1:30 - 2:30pm Now You See Them
3 - 4pm Erika Jane and Remember the Bees
4:30 - 5:30pm RBTS Win
6 - 7pm GTRS
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Coming Soon: Drive-By Truckers
Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers are coming back to The Orange Peel for two nights in April, specifically Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th. They sold out two nights in January 2009 and I’m betting it’ll happen again. Get your tickets early, but not this early because it’s not even posted to the Peel’s site yet. Langhorne Slim will open those shows.
DBT is also...
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Tonight: Abigail Washburn at Laurey's
In about 30 minutes, Abigail Washburn will be doing an intimate performance at Laurey’s Catering (near the Orange Peel and Mamacita’s). You may know her better as Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet that featured Ben Sollee and Bela Fleck.
Looks like she’s doing a series of these small, pass-the-hat shows around the region and will be back next Monday for an encore...
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Tonight: Bowerbirds at Grey Eagle
Bowerbirds are back tonight at The Grey Eagle. Since they were last in town, they came out with an amazing album, Upper Air. The new songs seem fuller and more intimate, but lack some of the rawness I liked about Hymns For A Dark Horse.
Jagjaguwar artist Julie Doiron will open the show. I don’t know about her, but the couple tracks I’ve heard sound good, she collaborated...
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Lexington Avenue Brewery →
Looks like the mythical Lexington Ave Brewery is finally opening tonight at 6pm. Mountain Xpress had a sneak peak last week.
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My Top Ten Shows of 2009
Yeah, yeah. You are sick of lists. I promise this is the last one.
I spent a lot of 2009 away from WNC so a bunch of these show were elsewhere, but there were also some great shows here.
Two Cow Garage, Austin Lucas, Mike Hale Valentines - Albany, NY
Josh Ritter, Ben Kweller, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Kaki King, Samantha Crain MASS MoCA - North Adams, MA
The Hold Steady Valetines -...
My Top 10 Albums of 2009
Metric - Fantasies This album just fit my life this year. Questions of art, money, and happiness are all there. Check out this beautifully shot interview with singer Emily Haines if you haven’t already. She talks about moving to Buenos Aires to escape the pressure of making music in North America. I got to see a special acoustic duo version of Metric this summer in Boston, but missed...
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