The Week in Music: 14-21 June, 2010

Bonnaroo review and thoughts to come later this week — I’m still processing the entire experience. Check out some of what I heard at NPR. In the meantime, go buy some new music and support your favorite artists!

This week’s new music releases:

• Laurie Anderson — Homeland
  
• Cowboy Junkies — Renmin Park
• Devo — Something For Everybody
• Drake — Thank Me Later
  
• The Gaslight Anthem — American Slang
• In Fear and Faith — Imperial
• Infectious Grooves — Live in France ’95
• Sarah Mclachlan — The Laws of Illusion
  
• The Steve Miller Band — Bingo!
• Papa Roach — To Be Loved
  
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — Mojo
• Rasputina — Sister Kinderhook
  
• We Are Scientists — Barbara

This week in live music:

• Tues 6.15 — Lovedrug/All the Day Holiday/Come Up For Air @ Bottletree
• Thurs 6.17 — Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bret Michaels/.38 Special @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• Sat 6.19 — Father’s Day Funkfest with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic @ Boutwell Auditorium
• Sat 6.19 — The Wood Brothers/Joe McGuinness @ Workplay
• Sun 6.20 — Josh Hoge/Joe Firstman @ Workplay

And if you’re willing to make a short drive…

• Tues 6.15 — Patty Griffin @ Ryman Auditorium (Nashville , TN)
• Wed 6.16 — Concrete Blonde @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.18 — Drive-By Truckers @ The Cannery Ballroom (Nashville, TN)
• Fri 6.18 — The Wood Brothers/Joe McGuiness @ Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.18 — David Allan Coe @ Cowboys Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.19 — Harry Connick, Jr. @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat. 6.19 — Mason Jennings @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.19 — Silversun Pickups @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Sun 6.20 — Hawthorne Heights @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Sun 6.20 — The Wood Brothers/Joe McGuinness @ 3rd and Lindsley (Nashville, TN)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in. Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!

This Week In Music: 7 – 14 June, 2010

This week’s new music releases:

• Against Me! — White Crosses
  
• Christina Aquilera — Bionic
• Deer Tick — The Dirt Sessions
• Delta Spirit — History From Below
• Hot Hot Heat — Future Beeds
• Iggy Pop — California Hitchhike (Live)
  
• Jewel —Sweet and Wild
• L’il Jon — Crunk Rock
  
• Nada Surf — If I Had A Hi-Fi
• Pain of Salvation — Road Salt One
• The Roots — How I Got Over
  
• Sia — We Are Born
• Teenage Fanclub — Shadows
• Gary Wright — Connected

This week in live music:

• Tues 6.08 — Jukebox The Ghost / Free Energy / Drink up Buttercup @ Bottletree
• Wed 6.09 — Pains of Being Pure at Heart/Surfer Blood/Hooray For Earth @ Bottletree
• Wed 6.09 — Amy Cook @ Workplay
• Thurs 6.10 — The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker @ Alys Stephens Center Plaza
• Thurs 6.10 — The Melvins/Totimoshi @ Bottletree
• Fri 6.11 — Zac Brown Band @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
• Fri 6.11 — Josh Ritter/The Mynabirds @ Workplay
• Sat 6.12 — Charlie Daniels Band @ Alabama Adventure
• Sat 6.12 — Carrie Underwood/Craig Morgan @ BJCC Arena

And if you’re willing to make a short drive…

• Mon 6.7 — Darius Rucker & Friends @ The Wild Horse Saloon (Nashville , TN)
• Wed 6.9 — 2010 CMT Country Music Awards @Bridgestone Arena (Nashville, TN)
• Wed 6.9 — The Passion Pit @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Wed 6.9 — Blitzen Trapper @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 6.10 — Broken Bells @ Center Stage Theater (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 6.10 – Mon 6.14 — Dave Matthews Band • Kings of Leon • Stevie Wonder • Jay-Z • Conan O’Brien • Tenacious D • Weezer • The Flaming Lips performing Dark Side of the Moon featuring Stardeath and White Dwarfs • The Dead Weather • Damian Marley & Nas • Phoenix • Norah Jones • Michael Franti & Spearhead • John Fogerty • Regina Spektor • Jimmy Cliff • LCD Soundsystem • The Avett Brothers • Thievery Corporation • Rise Against • Tori Amos • The National • Zac Brown Band • Les Claypool • John Prine • The Black Keys • Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers • Jeff Beck @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (Manchester, TN)
• Thurs 6.10 — Shawn Colvin @ Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art (Nashville, TN)
• Fri 6.11 — Jeff Beck @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.11 — Jewel @ Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.11 — Tracy Lawrence @ Mable House Barnes Amphitheater (Mableton, GA)
• Fri 6.11 — Skid Row @ Wild Bills (Duluth, GA)
• Sat 6.12 — Nas and Damian Marley “Jr.gong” Marley with Nneka @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.12 — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band @ Wild Bills (Duluth, GA)
• Sun 6.13 — Jewel @ Von Braun Civic Center (Huntsville, AL)
• Sun 6.13 — KC & the Sunshine Band @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in. Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!

This Week in Music: 1 – 7 June, 2010

This week’s new music releases:

• Born Ruffians — Say It
  
• Futureheads — Chaos
• Hawthorne Heights — Skeletons
• Jack Johnson — To The Sea
• Lamb of God — Hourglass
• Tift Merritt — See You on the Moon
• The Melvins — The Bride Screamed Murder
• Axel Rudi Pell — The Crest
• Rush — Clockwork Angels
• Setting Sun — Fantasurreal
• Steve Howe Trio — Travelling

This week in live music:

• Wed 6.2 — Greg Laswell w/ Jimmy Gnecco & Brian Wright @ Workplay
• Thurs 6.3 — Yelawolf / Dow Jones / DJ Coco @ Bottletree
• Thurs 6.3 — Cowboy Mouth @ Iron Horse Cafe
• Fri 6.4 — Art on the Rocks with Erin McCarley @ Birmingham Museum of Art
• Fri 6.4 — Paul Thorn @ Workplay
• Sat 6.5 — Wrinkle Neck Mules @ Bottletree
• Sun 6.6 — Brendan James/Chase Coy @ Workplay

And if you’re willing to make a short drive…

• Tues 6.1 — Flobots @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Tues 6.1 – Wed 6.2 — Neil Young @ Ryman Auditorium (Nashville ,TN)
• Wed 6.2 — Diana Ross @ The Tennessee Theater (Knoxville, TN)
• Thurs 6.3 — Barenaked Ladies @ The Tennessee Theater (Knoxville, TN)
• Thurs 6.3 — Puddle Of Mudd @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 6.3 — Backstreet Boys @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA) (SERIOUSLY?)
• Thurs 6.3 — James Taylor/Carole King @ Gwinnett Center Arena (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 6.3 – Sat 6.5 — Bamajam with Gregg Allman/Buddy Guey/Gretchen Wilson/Train/Dierks Bentley/Travis Tritt/Kenny Chesney/Hank Williams, Jr./Miranda Lambert/LoCash Cowboys/Cold Ford (Enterprise, AL)
• Fri 6.4 — Reverend Horton Heat/Soul Stash @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.4 — Puddle of Mudd @ Wildhorse Saloon (Nashville, TN)
• Fri 6.4 — Diana Ross @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.4 — Imogen Heap @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 6.4 — Toubab Krewe @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.5 — Daughtry @ Gwinnett Center Arena (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.5 — Mono/Twilight Sad @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 6.5 — Imogen Heap @ Ryman Auditorium (Nashville, TN)
• Sun 6.6 — Jethro Tull @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Mon 6.7 — Styx/Foreigner/Kansas @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Mon 6.7 — Cobra Starship @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Mon 6.7 — Darius Rucker and Friends @ Wildhorse Saloon (Nashville, TN)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in. Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!

This Week in Music: 24 – 31 May 2010

This week’s new music releases:

• The Dogg Pound — Keep on Riding
• Smashing Pumpkins — Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1: Songs For A Sailor [EP]
• Stone Temple Pilots — Stone Temple Pilots
• Widespread Panic — Dirty Side Down
• Hank Williams III — Rebel Within

This week in live music:

Nothing at all.  Not a damn thing.  Get out and support some local music instead.

But if you’re willing to make a short drive…

• Wed 5.26 — Butch Walker and the Black Widows @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 5.27 — The Hold Steady @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Thurs 5.27 — Twisted Road: Neil Young solo @ Knoxville Civic Auditorium (Knoxville, TN)
• Fri 5.28 — The Swell Season @ Symphony Hall Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
• Fri 5.21 — Josh Rouse @ The Variety Playhouse (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 5.29 — Psychadelic Furs/She Wants Revenge @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
• Sat 5.29 — Twisted Road: Neil Young solo @ Fox Theater (Atlanta, GA)
• Sun 5.30 — AFI @ The Valarium (Knoxville, TN)
• Sun 5.30 — Daughtry @ The Sommet Center (Nashville, TN)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in. Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!

This week in music: 3 May – 10 May, 2010

This week’s new music releases:

• Toni Braxton – Pulse
• Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
• Chickenfoot – Get Your Buzz On (Live)
• Court House Hounds – Court House Hounds
  
• Deftones – Diamond Eyes
• Dokken – Greatest Hits
• Extreme – Take Us Alive
• The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter
• Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
• Godsmack – The Oracle
• The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever
• Minus The Bear – Omni
• New Pornographers – Together
• Mike Patton – Mondo Cane
• Josh Ritter – So Runs The World Away
  
• Tonic – Tonic

There’s a new disc by Michael Bolton out this week.  But I refuse to list it.  Yes, I put Dokken on there, but not Michael Bolton.  That tells you everything you need to know for now.

This week in live music:

• Mon 5.3 Van Morrison @ BJCC
• Tues 5.4 An Evening with David Wicox @ Workplay
• Wed 5.5 Dr. Dog/Deertick @ Workplay
• Sun 5.9 Norah Jones/Elvis Perkins @ The Alabama Theater
• Mon 5.10 Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses/The Rustlanders @ Workplay

And if you’re willing to make a short drive…

• Mon 5.3 HIM @ CenterStage (Atlanta, GA)
• Tues 5.4 Bullet For My Valentine @ The Tabernacle (Atlanta, GA)
• Wed 5.5 ZZ Top @ Columbus Civic Center (Columbus, GA)
• Fri 5.7 Van Morrison @ Verizon Amphitheater (Alpharetta, GA)
• Fri 5.7 & Sat 5.8 Widespread Panic @ The Wharf  (Orange Beach, AL)
• Sat 5.8 ZZ Top @ Chastain Park Amphitheater (Atlanta, GA)
• Sun 5.9 Saliva @ The Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in.  Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!

This week in music: 26 – 3 May, 2010

This week’s new music releases:

• Bullet For My Valentine – Fever
• Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Ages of Miracles
• Drowning Pool – Drowning Pool
• Melissa Etheridge – Fearless Love
• Peter Frampton – Thank You Mr. Churchill
• Hole – Nobody’s Daughter
• Brian Posehn – Fart and Weiner Jokes
• Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music

This week in live music:

• Tues 4.27 The Dead Weather/The Ettes @ Workplay
• Fri 4.30 Alice in Chains/Akon/Seether/Theory of a Deadman/Fuel @ Schaeffer Crawfish Boil
• Fri 4.30 Megafaun / Breathe Owl Breathe @ Bottletree Cafe
• Sat 5.1 Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars w/ DJ Coco @ Workplay
• Sat 5.1 Goo Goo Dolls/Train/B-52s/Jay Sean/Jason Derulo/The Rocket Summer @ Schaeffer Crawfish Boil
• Sun 5.2 Aretha Franklin @ BJCC Concert Hall
• Mon 5.3 Van Morrison @ BJCC Concert Hall (I couldn’t even begin to afford tickets for this one — anyone want to send me and my ladyfriend?)

Further out in the area:

• Mon 4.26 Elvis Costello @ Tabernacle (Atlanta)
• Tues 4.27 Porcupine Tree w/ Bigelf @ Tabernacle (Atlanta) (look for a review here later this week)
• Fri 4.30 Michael McDonald @ Montgomery Performing Arts Centre (Montgomery)
• Fri 4.30– Sun 5.2 Beale St. Music Festival (Memphis, TN)
• Sat 5.1 The Church @ Center Stage (Atlanta)
• Sat 5.1 Kaki King @ Variety Playhouse (Atlanta) and Sun 5.2 @ 3rd & Lindsley (Nashville)
• Fri 4.30 – Sun 5.2 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (New Orleans)

If you have CD releases or upcoming live shows that you’d like to recommend or plug, let me know, and I’ll do my best to fit them in.  Every Monday, I’ll try to let you know what’s fun and interesting for the upcoming week — any help you want to provide is welcome!