Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Dukes of September Rythm Review @ Raleigh Amphitheater Saturday Night


What happens when Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, The Dooby Brothers' Michael "the silver fox" McDonald, and Boz Scaggs get together for a tour? Well, I'm guessing something pretty damn good. They are calling this the Dukes of September Rhythm Review and will perform at the new Raleigh Amphitheater downtown this Saturday. The threesome teamed up back in 1991 with soul vocalist Phoebe Snow and a collection of top jazz and blues musicians for The New York Rock and Soul Review and wound up cutting a live album. I hope the same happens with the Dukes of September.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sound Tribe Sector Nine Wednesday Night @ The Raleigh Amphitheater



Athens, Ga's Sound Tribe Sector Nine has evolved from a college town jam band into a forerunner of experimental electronic music giving a new sound to the live music experience. Armed not only with guitar , bass, drums, keys, and percussion, the members of STS9 plug into Mac books and pull samples from the vast universe of digitized music. If you like ambient , lounge, techno and rock, go see STS9 at The Raleigh Amphitheatre Wednesday night. An acoustic set may be on the menu for this performance as they are out supporting their latest album "Axe the Cables" which supposedly proves all the techy stuff is good but not a necessity.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Norah Jones @ The DPAC 8-8

Nora Jones reached a level of popularity among baby boomers, girls, and Starbucks customers when her hit single "Come Away with Me" hit the airwaves. Little did everyone know that Jones is a jazz artist to be taken seriously. Her instant popularity and seemingly permanent position as a jazz softy is easily overlooked if you take a minute and investigate the work she's done and the type of artists with whom she's worked and performed; Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell being one.



Catch Norah Jones at The Durham Performing Arts Center Sunday August the 8th.

Friday, August 6, 2010

The Old Ceremony: Talk Straight

Tonight: The Old Ceremony, Schooner, and American Aquarium @ The Raleigh Music Hall

I can't figure out if The Raleigh Music Hall is now called Kings or what, but tonight the downtown venue is offering up one hell of a lineup. Triangle darlings, The Old Ceremony, will deliver their potent mix of period pieces, ballads, and high energy pop rock led by the always affecting Django Haskins. Carrboro's Schooner produces a blend of meditative pulsing sounds with straight ahead indie rock unlike most other bands typically lumped together with them. the bill also includes Raleigh's American Aquarium, a band which takes hints from traditional country to use as part of their concoction of rock and haunting western music with a genuinely southern identity.