Wayne Henderson & Clay Lunsford
Friday 7:30 p.m., Great Aunt Stella
Center, 926 Elizabeth Ave., Free, www.folksociety.org
This pair of guitar
virtuosos take different approaches to thumb-style picking, which is reflected
in their duo album “Thumb to Thumb: The Museum Recordings.” Although known for
launching music festivals and building a guitar for Eric Clapton (Henderson),
it’s the picking that should be witnessed.
Peter Murphy
Friday
8 p.m., Tremont, 400 W. Tremont Ave., $25/$100 VIP,
www.tremontmusichall.com
After wowing fans with 2013’s solo tour of Bauhaus songs, Murphy
returns with “Lion” - a collaboration with producer Youth (Killing Joke, the
Verve) that’s bracingly catchy, dark and deep. It should please both fans of
Bauhaus and Marilyn Manson’s less metallic side and proves aging rockers can
still make vital music.
Hooray For Earth
This NYC indie rock band led by songwriter Noel Heroux comes into
its own on the new album, “Racy,” which echoes the classic 4AD label’s sound with
heavy shoegazer, dream pop, and Brit-pop shout outs. Co-producer Chris Coady
could be a big factor. He’s worked with Future Islands and Beach House and there
are similarities here too.
Booker T. Jones
The heavily decorated (Rn’R Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime
Achievement) Hammond B3 master and soul legend won two recent Grammys for records
with the Roots and Drive-By Truckers. Now the leader of the MGs is back with
another guest heavy turn on the album “Sound the Alarm.”
The Toadies
The Texas alt-rock band road 1994’s “Rubberneck” up the charts as
grunge peaked. Having broken up in 2001 and reunited in 2008 with two well
received newer albums, it celebrates the breakthrough album’s 20th
anniversary on tour. With Austin’s Black Pistol Fire, who make garage blues
like early Black Keys and White Stripes.
Black Milk
The nimble tongued Detroit emcee delivers a solo beats set of
busy, bold, intelligent alternative hip-hop. A look at his eclectic list of
recent collaborators - the Roots’ Black Thought, Jack White, and Robert Glasper
- should give you an idea how vibrant and soulful his old school-fueled hip-hop
is.
God Save the Queen City Festival
With Jeff the Brotherhood, Apache Relay, Jonny Fritz, Natural
Child, Clear Plastic Masks, and Promise Land Sound, Nashville is as well
represented as Charlotte at the fourth annual indie Americana and rock festival.
The taste making fest features 19 acts, including some of the city’s best local
bands.
Michaela Anne
On her new album “Ease My Mind” the singer-songwriter sounds more
Nashville than Brooklyn (her home base) where she traded her jazz studies for
twangy pedal steel, gritty, heartfelt storytelling, delicate vocals, and
straight forward country-folk songwriting. With Christian Lee Hutson.
Queensryche
Before his use of the band name expires August 31 following a drawn
out settlement with his former bandmates, original singer Geoff Tate embarks on
his final Queensryche tour. His band, which features Quiet Riot’s Rudy Sarzo,
will then be known as Operation Mindcrime after the group’s most popular album.
With Ireland’s the Voodoos.
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