Steve Earl & the Bluegrass Dukes will be one of the many acts at next summer's RockyGrass.Steve Earl & the Bluegrass Dukes, Hot Rize, Earl Scruggs, Del McCoury Band, Claire Lynch Band are among the many acts announced for the initial line-up for the 37th Annual RockyGrass festival, which will be held in Lyons July 24-26. Visit Planet Bluegrass for more info. Here's a rundown of the other shows
going on sale this
weekend, or
recently announced. For ticket information, click on the venue l
Cut Off Your Hands
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Hi-Dive, Denver
Better Than: Not seeing this band before they're playing bigger venues.
Cut Off Your Hands plays pretty straightforward pop rock. Just the
same, frontman Nick Johnston displayed considerable amount of vigor,
leaning into the mike and gyrating as though he were fronting a punk
band. And his able vocals were bolstered by his bandmates, who all
harmonized together beautifully, particularly on tracks like "Oh Girl,"
in which the players trade
Don't let the tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses fool you. The brothers who make up The Knux were raised about as far away from the suburbs as you can get: New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Still, Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio (aka Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey) found their sound by listening to just as much pop as hip-hop, and they are savvy enough to know that their cross-genre music plays better with the college kids than the hardcore rap fanatics. So they don't fight it. They fill their music w
David Bazan David Bazan, Say Hi
November 1, 2009
Hi-Dive
Better Than:Dreaming about an open mike night during a nap.
"Do you guys want to hear a joke?" asks Say Hi frontman Eric Elbogen maybe three songs into their set. We do, of course. "Clean or dirty?" he asks. He gets a bunch of requests for dirty, then a bunch of requests for clean. He tells us he'll do one of each.
Here's the clean one: "How come white people can't tell jokes timing." We laugh appreciatively. Here's the dirty one
