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Sherri Jackson celebrates the appearance of her new album, Sherri Jackson, at the Fox Theatre on Friday, April 18, and at the Bluebird Theater Saturday, April 19. I don't have the space to offer a full review of the platter (the first release by a new national firm, Hybrid Records) in this week's column, but until I can get into it in more detail, suffice it to say that it's an extremely promising disc by an extremely promising singer-songwriter.

By the way, the Denver act Saturation will henceforth be known as Offering74. Thought you'd want to know.

But not in the biblical sense. On Thursday, April 17, at the Fox, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson discusses his latest run-ins with the law. On Friday, April 18, recent Westword profile subject Cabaret Diosa holds a masquerade ball at the Boulder Theater; the Indulgers, featuring Damien Promise, join the Commerce City Rollers and plenty of others for a Clone Club date at Franklin's; Laughing Hands shake at the Mercury Cafe; the Rok Tots and Boss 302 play loud and fast at the 15th Street Tavern; and the Gash Cats hold a CD-release party at Bart's CD Cellar in Boulder. On Saturday, April 19, Mike Vargas presents some adventurous solo piano-playing at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Kim Coy lives up to her name at Penny Lane; the Descendents punk out at the Ogden Theatre, with Suicide Machines and Shades Apart; Linda Maich and Rekha O'hal blend at the Mercury; and Santa Barbara's own Cadillac Angels promote their new, self-titled CD during a turn at Ziggie's. And on Sunday, April 20, the Utopian Futurist Society, under the direction of Thomas Blomster, presents "Cars, Jungles and Bugs" at the Bug Theater; Jux County and MK Ultra venture into the Lion's Lair; and MusicLink presents a special profile of the Apples at midnight on KBDI-TV/Channel 12. Watching once a day keeps the doctor away.

--Michael Roberts

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