Johnny Clegg Band
Friday
7:30 p.m., McGee Theater at Batte Center, Wingate University, 403 N.
Camden Rd., Wingate, $25, www.battecenter.org
With Juluka and Savuka, the English-born, South African musician tackled
apartheid in the `70s and `80s with the country’s first biracial bands and a
blend of Zulu and western pop that set the course for Peter Gabriel and Paul
Simon’s forays into African music. Jesse Clegg joins his father on the young
African alt-rock artist’s first North American tour.
Zach Myers
The Shinedown guitarist’s loose acoustic shows take a low-key
“VH1 Storytellers”-style approach with he and sideman Justin Moore revisiting
Shinedown songs with a stripped-down twist as well as delivering several familiar
covers.
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Friday
8 p.m., McGlohon Theater, 345 N. College St., $19.50-$64.50,
www.blumenthalarts.org
The progressive bluegrass and jazz fusion banjo legend and his
accomplished singer-songwriter/banjo player wife, whose music and theater
pursuits have long bridged her interests in American folk and Chinese culture,
language, and art, embark on their first duo tour with baby boy Juno (born in
May) backstage.
Jon Linker Band
This Charlotte band etches out an original, but accessible sound
by delivering distinctively Southern country-rock like “PBR Kinda Night” and
“Bourbon Bound” with a gravelly, deep voice that provides a direct line to `90s
rock and grunge era Pearl Jam and Collective Soul.
American Authors/Wild Cub/Oh Honey
The former’s single “Best Day of My Life” (which since writing this on Monday I've heard playing at Harris Teeter, Concord Mills, and Target) and the latter’s sunny
new EP point to the next chapter in the “hey” and “woah” indie-roots acts that
followed bands like Arcade Fire and Of Monsters and Men, while Nashville’s Cub
mine similar ground but with a darker nod to new wave.
Company
Two years ago “Paste Magazine” hailed this Charleston band as the
No. 1 SC act folks should be listening to for good reason. Its live show is
downright hypnotic as the group bridges snappy Weezer-like rock with pensive
Band of Horses-style vocals and moody, psychedelic edge.
Combichrist
With its fusion of catchy buzzsaw industrial, death metal growls,
and futuristic electronics the Norwegian group’s new album, “We Love You”
alternates between the soundtrack to a space-age, war-torn apocalypse and the
house music at the sort of exclusive European fetish clubs you only see in spy
movies.
Kris Allen
After a rollercoaster of a 2013 - a new baby and a car wreck that
shattered the guitarist’s wrist - the “American Idol” season 8 winner is
working on the follow-up to 2012’s commercially ignored “Thank You Camellia”
with producer Charlie Peacock (Civil Wars, Switchfoot) in Nashville. Expect him
to play poignant new tracks triggered by fatherhood.
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