Blowfly
8 p.m. Friday, July
13, Tremont, 400 W. Tremont Ave. $10-$12. www.etix.com
Few 73-year-olds are as brazen as Clarence Reid who wrote
R&B songs for famous `60s and `70s acts before donning the persona of
original X-rated rapper Blowfly. He returns for the first time in six years with
the O-Getters (featuring Antiseen’s Jeff Clayton making his soul singing debut)
and Groove 8.
Crowfield
8 p.m. Friday, July
13, Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St. $8-$10. 704-376-3737.
The Charleston transplants celebrate the release of its new
album “The Diamond Sessions” which finds them tapping into their pop
sensibilities and growing out of its Americana roots for a Southern-steeped
sound that fits somewhere between VH1 and CMT.
Mindy Smith/Rosi
Golan
8 p.m. Saturday, July
14, Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St. $15-$17. 704-376-3737.
Two female singer-songwriters with lilting easy-on-the-ears
voices and a knack for thoughtful writing that blurs the lines between mature
indie pop, countrified Americana, and orchestral folk.
Blossoms
8 p.m. Saturday, July
14, Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Rd. $5-$7. www.themilestoneclub.com
The quirky,
experimental art-rockers behind the annual multi-venue, multi-day Recess Fests
make compositions that are beautifully trippy and adventurously hypnotic. The
band organized this show as a fundraiser for the upcoming festival, set for
July 26-29.
Crisis/Hoverboard
10 p.m. Saturday, July
14, Double Door, 1218 Charlottetown Ave. $8. 704-376-1446.
Two generations of Charlotte rock bands. Crisis creates
hummable pop-rock that bridges classic `60s and more-current jangle pop like a
cousin of Charlotte’s own Spongetones. The latter and younger makes lo-fi
pop-infused post-punk that recalls early Superchunk.
Ours
8 p.m. Tuesday, July
17, Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Rd. $12-$17. www.etix.com
Though it hasn’t found success on the charts since the early
`00s, frontman Jimmy Gnecco has an unbelievable voice (often compared to Jeff
Buckley and once rumored to take Scott Weiland's place in Velvet Revolver) that’s truly something to witness live. After a stint as a solo artist
he’s back with the band for an intimate headlining tour.
Blitzen Trapper
7:30 p.m. Thursday,
July 19, Tremont, 400 W. Tremont Ave. $13-$15. www.etix.com
The Portland psychedelic folk-rock
combo returns following the 2011 release of what songwriter/frontman Eric Earley
considers its most meaningful as it intimately charts the struggle and conflict
of the small town American experience.
Passion Pit
8 p.m. Thursday, July
19, Fillmore, 1000 NC Music Factory Blvd. $33. www.livenation.com
With a new album, “Gossamer,” out July 24th the
dancetastic electro-pop outfit headlines a killer electro-rock bill that
includes looping violinist Kishi Bashi (who was here as part of of Montreal in
June) and dark-rock trio Future Islands, whose members originally hail from
NC’s Morehead City.
Valient Thorr
8 p.m. Thursday, July
19, Chop Shop, 399 E. 35th St. $12-$15. www.chopshopnoda.com
The interplanetary globe trotters from NC boast a wild,
charismatic leader and make old school hard rock and
metal that’s hooky and heavy without (sonically) brutalizing its audience. It
deserves a wider audience.
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