Circa Survive
Following the release of its well-received fifth album,
“Descensus,” and one of the most disturbing music videos of the year (watch the clip
for “Schema” where singer Anthony Green boxes an overgrown baby), the
Pennsylvania quintet delivers its angsty, atmospheric and expansive metallic
emocore. With Title Fight, Tera Melos, and Pianos Become the Teeth.
Black Keys/St. Vincent
Friday
8 p.m., Time Warner Cable Arena, 333. E. Trade St., $48.25-$91.95, www.ticketmaster.com It’s been a good year for both former underground artists. The
Black Keys were nominated for three Grammys (rock album, song and performance)
for this year’s “Turn Blue,” while opening act Annie Clark is up for Best
Alternative Rock album for the self-titled record that Entertainment Weekly
just named album of the year.
Wink Keziah’s Christmas Bash
The storytelling songwriter and Charlotte bred band leader
celebrated the release of his third album “Cowbilly” earlier this year.
Although he divides his time between Charlotte and Austin, he’s back for a honky
tonkin’ holiday with Kevin Marshall and the J-Walkers and Kelly Mullen.
Dopapod/Tauk
With the recent release of its third album, the hard touring
improvisation-centered jam band returns mixing keyboard-laden funk, jam rock style,
spacy psychedelics and a trippy laser light show. Experimental funk rock tour
mates Tauk make heavier, progressive jam rock that’s equally grand and spacy in
scope.
Me Myself & I Fest
This annual celebration of one man bands features frisky founder
Your Fuzzy Friends, Plaza Midwood staple
Bo White going solo without his Orquesta, Hectorina frontman Dylan Gilbert, regular
area attraction Human Pippi Armstrong (aka Nathan Hemphill), and Jared
Draughon’s Must Be the Holy Ghost.
David Benoit Christmas
Saturday 8 p.m., Halton Arena, CPCC, 1206 Elizabeth
Ave. $45-$70, http://tix.cpcc.edu/
The award winning contemporary jazz pianist who inherited Vince
Guaraldi’s spot creating music for later “Peanuts” specials, pays tribute to
the composer and revisits the unforgettable songs from “A Charlie Brown
Christmas” with students from Trinity Episcopal School. The show closes out the
Carolina Jazz Concert series for 2014.
Goapele
On the funky up-tempo numbers, blatant pop, and belted ballads of
her new album “Strong as Glass,” the underrated R&B singer takes cues from
the classic `80s and `90’s pop R&B of Janet, Whitney, and Mary J. without
abandoning her unique voice and the quirky originality that’s made her one of
contemporary soul’s more interesting artists.
Bush
It’s been well over a decade since WEND 106.5 brought Gavin
Rossdale and company to town to headline the annual End of Summer Weenie Roast
during its peak. The station’s tapped the grunge-era Brits again - this time to
ring in the rock (and the season) at the annual Not So Acoustic Xmas concert with
Airborne Toxic Event and Twin Atlantic.
Molotov
Whether playing in Moscow or the deep South, this Mexican rock
quartet’s potty mouthed messages of hip-hop, rock, punk and funk translates to
a party starting good time that’s garnered it five Latin Grammys. With its 20th
anniversary approaching next year, it’s here combining the holiday season and
its first studio album in seven years on the “Agua Maldita Navidad Tour.”
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