Friday
7:30 p.m., Uptown Amphitheatre, 1000 NC Music Factory Blvd.,
$27.50-$49.50, www.livenation.com
For its 25th anniversary the sunny funk and hip-hop-flavored rock
act release a career-spanning four disc 81-track box set, launch its own craft
beer, and embark on its annual summer tour. Live it’s much more of a jam band
than its hits indicate, playing marathon sets and bringing along beachy openers
like Hawaiian reggae band the Green.
Jon Lindsay
Pop singer-songwriter and NC Music Love Army co-founder Lindsay
is leaving his native Charlotte for the triangle area, so this marks his last
hometown show as a Charlottean at his home base of Petra’s. He’s readying his
next album and focusing on more protest music with other Carolina musicians in
the Love Army.
Planes Mistaken For Stars
The summer renaissance of beloved `90s and early `00s emo and
post-hardcore bands is in full swing with the dynamics-loving outfit who broke
up in 2007 but have reunited sporadically. The group’s angsty melodicism and
fiery aggression is exhibited on the new reissue of 2006’s “Mercy.” With Black
Market, Sea of Storms, and Mon Frere.
Beres Hammond
The reggae veteran had to cancel his 2012 show at Amos’, but he
brings his romantic lovers rock and classic R&B-spiked ballads to Charlotte
again. At 59, he has spent four decades making some of the smoothest
soul-steeped reggae out there - it’s a wonder he hasn’t had more major
crossover success in the states.
Will Hoge
Few singer-songwriters walk the line between country and rock as
well as this Franklin, Tenn. native who was nominated for a Grammy and several country
music awards for penning Eli Young Band’s “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” but
can tour with a harder rock band like Shinedown. His latest album, “Small Town
Dreams,” taps his country roots.
QC Summerfest
Saturday 2 p.m., McGlohon Theater, 345 N. College
St., $25, and 6 p.m., Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St., $39.50-$69.50,
www.blumenthalarts.org
The revamped smooth jazz festival is a weekend-long event built
around these two performances. First the intimate matinee concert features
Four80 East and saxophonist Andre Delano. The Decade of Jazz celebration
continues at night with renowned sax player Najee, pianist Keiko Matsui, and
guitarist and host Nick Colionne.
Cameron Floyd
This Charlotte singer-songwriter celebrates the release of his
new EP, “Momentum,” which features bluesy guitar playing, his soulful,
R&B-tinged vocals, shades of country, acoustic rock, blues, and `70s AM pop,
and a classic duet.
Raekwon/Ghostface Killah
Raekwon’s 1995 RZA-produced album “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” is
considered arguably the best of Wu Tang’s solo output. For its 20th
anniversary he and fellow Wu member Ghostface, who appeared on a number of the
album’s tracks, revisit it live while drumming up support for the documentary
they’re working on about the seminal record.
My Morning Jacket
Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Uptown Amphitheatre, 1000 NC Music
Factory Blvd., $29.50-$45, www.livenation.com
The Kentucky psychedelic roots alt-rocker continues a long run of
critical acclaim with its latest album, “The Waterfall.” With annual high profile spots on Bonnaroo
and its own eclectic Louisville-set Forecastle Festival it’s proven that it’s
the jam band even haters can love.
Charlotte’s psych-rock trio Modern Primitives closes out its
month-long residency with this Alabama noise rock trio whose new album “Beats
Misplaced” unfolds like a hopped up Dinosaur Jr. jamming while stranded in the
desert with Sonic Youth and the singer from Clutch. It’s stoner rock for indie
nerds. With the Business People and Pleather.
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