Jay Brannan
8 p.m. Friday, August 17, Visulite, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.
$12-$15. 704-358-9200.
While the lesbian community has an entire genre of indie
folk artists to choose from, this openly gay singer-songwriter/actor (whose
drawn comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman) gives male (and female) folk-pop fans
something to swoon over.
Leela James
10:30 p.m. Friday, August 17, Tempo, 4809 Wilkinson Blvd.
$15. www.crowntickets.com
Part of the neo-soul resurgence of the mid `00s, the raw,
vintage soul throwback has reined in her signature wild main and recently released
a thoroughly modernized yet still respectful tribute album to her hero and stage-namesake Etta James.
Matisyahu/Dirty Heads
7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 19, Fillmore, 1000 NC Music Factory
Blvd. $38. www.livenation.com
The versatile reggae-rock singer, who released a
sunny/dance-friendly new album last month and makes his major motion picture
debut later this month in “The Possession,” teams with the rock/reggae/hip-hop
hybrid who has its own new disc in June’s “Cabin By the Sea.”
Steve Vai
7:30 p.m. Monday, August 20, Fillmore, 1000 NC Music Factory
Blvd., $33. www.livenation.com
The veteran shredder’s new album “The
Story of Light” swells with experimentation as he draws from disparate genres
and toys with harmony and melody with the help of harpist/multi-instrumentalist
Deborah Henson-Conant, songwriter Aimee Mann, and “The Voice’s” Beverly
McClellan.
Trespass America
7:30 p.m . Tuesday, August 21, Time Warner Cable Uptown
Amphitheatre, 1000 NC Music Factory Blvd. $40.50-$60.50. www.livenation.com
Five Finger Death Punch celebrates its 10th Top
10 hit “Coming Down” (currently #1 at rock radio) by heading up “Metal
Hammer’s” Trespass America hard rock tour which includes Killswtich Engage,
Trivium, Pop Evil, Emmure, God Forbid, and Battlecross.
Fear Factory
8 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, Tremont, 400 W. Tremont Ave. $20-$23. www.etix.com
If your taste in metal is more old school and thrash and industrial-oriented, then you may prefer this 25-year-old veteran group (led by vocalist co-founders Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares since 2009).
Sole
8 p.m. Wednesday, August 22, Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Rd.
$12-$14. www.etix.com
The politically outspoken alternative hip-hop artist (a
co-founder of his former label Anticon Records) brings his anarchist and
idealistic visions to life on his first solo world tour in several years.
Krewella
10 p.m. Thursday, August 23, Phoenix, 300 N. College St.
$10/$25 VIP. http://krewellacharlotte-facebook.eventbrite.com/
The former Forum launches College
Night with a glow party featuring the up and coming Chicago trio, whose sugary
mix of thumping dance music, dreamy electro, fuzzy dubstep, and girly
vocals never strays far from its accessible pop-roots.
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