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Dr. Dog

Tuesday - Feb. 27th, 2007 - $8

Dr. Dog is a psychedelic rock band from Philadelphia consisting of members Scott McMicken (A.K.A. Taxi), Toby Leaman (Tables), Zach Miller (Text), Juston Stens (Trouble), and Sukey Jumps (Thanks). Past members include Doug O’Donnell (Truck), Ted Mark (Today), and Andrew Jones (Trial).

DR. Dog has explained that friends of the band also receive nicknames, which are drawn from various aspects of their lives and personalities (Jones, for example, is a certified lawyer). Their sound has been compared to that of various 1960s pop bands, especially the Beatles and Doo-wop, as well as The Flaming Lips.

Before 2004, the band was not well-known, and was often mistaken for a hip-hop group due to their name. The group had a small fanbase until My Morning Jacket brought them on tour. Soon after, The New York Times music critic Kelefa Sanneh praised the group’s album Easy Beat in a December 2004 article, leading to attention from other critics. They signed with Rough Trade Records and completed their first cross-country tour in 2005. Late 2005 saw the departure of Jones, who became a full-time lawyer. Jones was replaced by S. Jumps.
In early 2006 the group toured Europe and the US with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and has also been the opening band for The Strokes’ 2006 tour in Detroit, Cleveland in the United States of America, as well as a tour with The Raconteurs, and The Black Keys in the fall of 2006.

In September of 2006, Dr. Dog released a new EP, Takers and Leavers. The title, presumably drawing from terms coined in Daniel Quinn’s, Ishmael. The first 1000 bought had custom covers. The regular EP was for sale later in September. The EP will feature the song Ain’t It Strange and Die, Die Die; both will be on their LP, We All Belong, coming out in February. Another song from their up coming album is featured on the soundtrack for the movie Fast Food Nation.

Dr. Dog “Fool’s Life”

Donna the Buffalo

Thursday - Jan. 4th, 2007 - $25

Donna the Buffalo is an American band from Trumansburg, New York. They play several musical styles: zydeco, jamming, folk-rock, country rock, reggae and bluegrass. They play both originals (primarily written by Jeb Puryear and Tara Nevins) and covers. The followers of the group are called ‘The Herd’. The band plays primarily in the Midwest and on the East Coast of the United States. Donna the Buffalo’s music is often sociopolitical in nature, calling for peace and justice. Other songs refer to timeless themes, such as love, birth and death. Donna the Buffalo is the founding and host band of the annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance.

Donna the Buffalo Live Recording

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November 16, 2006

John Hammond Show Tonight!
Legendary, Award-winning Blues Musician John Hammond wil be performing tonight. The show starts at 8:30pm and is $18. His music is amazing and his live performances are stunning, this is one you do not want to miss.

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Inspire Me! - Short Film Festival

Dec. 7th, 2006
Free

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Mount Eerie (the microphones), Jason Anderson, Lightning Paw

Monday - Nov. 27th, 2006 - $8

Mount Eerie represents the latest evolution of Phil Elverum’s musical vision. Formerly known as The Microphones, Phil changed his project’s name to Mount Eerie while maintaining his subtle, lo-fi, and lyrically dense fuzz-folk aesthetic.

Elverum explained this change in an 2003 interview with Discoder, asserting that “Mount Eerie is a new project. The Microphones was completed, or at least at a good stopping point. I did it because I am ready for new things. I am new.”

As Mount Eerie, Phil is generally sans synthesizers, drums, and the accenting voices of Mirah, The Blow, and fellow K-Records/Anacortes friends. Mount Eerie’s album “Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie” was also the first recording released on Phil’s new label, P.W.Elverum & Sun

Mount Eerie Video for “Solar System”

John Hammond, Marty Scott

Thursday - Nov. 16th, 2006 - $18

From coffeehouses to concert halls, festivals and beyond, John Hammond has spent forty years entertaining blues, folk and rock audiences around the world, performing intense solo-acoustic blues. A Grammy Award winner and four time nominee, Hammond is also a multiple W.C. Handy award winner who has shared the stage and/or recorded with many of the masters, including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf. John has recorded over twenty five albums and his passionate commitment to traditional blues made him the natural choice to host the BRAVO TV special and Sony Home Video, The Search for Robert Johnson. His 2003 release, Ready For Love, was produced by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and is the perfect follow up to Wicked Grin, the acclaimed album produced by longtime friend Tom Waits and featuring all Waits’ songs. Ready For Love features John’s road band including Augie Meyers, Stephen Hodges, Frank Carillo and Marty Ballou playing an exciting variety of tracks including songs by George Jones, Tom Waits, David Hidalgo, Jagger and Richards, Willie Dixon, and a rare original by John himself.

John Hammond Live Performance

The Elected (Blake of Rilo Kiley), Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos

Saturday - Nov 11th, 2006 - $10

The Elected, fronted by Blake (Rilo Kiley guitarist/co-songwriter), released its debut album, Me First, in 2004. Recorded sporadically at pal Elliott Smith’s studio with Bright Eyes superman Mike Mogis and The Postal Service’s Jimmy Tamborello, the album was filled with sparse, intimate gems - twinkling pop songs that recalled ’60s-inspired West Coast pop, the blissful twang of Gram Parsons and the crumpled whispers of Neil Young.

Sun, Sun, Sun furthers that tradition but also raises the bar. Where Me First sparkled with a lo-fi airiness anchored primarily by a mixture of drum machines, sequencers, guitar and lap steel, Sun, Sun, Sun takes that aesthetic to great new heights. Produced by Blake and multi-instrumentalist Mike Bloom at various L.A. locales, as well as various places along the road while on tour with Rilo Kiley, it draws from deep within the classic rock canon - summoning everything from early Grateful Dead, The Beatles, The Band, Pink Floyd, and The Eagles. This time out, the band experiments with a greater depth of sound (think ’70s hi-fi rather than modern-day lo-fi) and influence (think more classic, less country). Fans of Rilo Kiley will no doubt ally themselves with The Elected’s sharp-witted pop sensibility and remain close by. But Blake’s blatant sonic and thematic departures from that realm - and his allegiance to less orthodox songwriters like Jim Croce and Tom Waits.

Throughout Sun, Sun, Sun, Blake spins rousing narratives about where hearts might go when they fall off our sleeves, the places we live when we’ve lost our home address, and the ironies that snicker rather loudly when we call ourselves adults. Maybe it’s coming of age when you’ve already gotten there, getting back to your roots when they’ve long been ripped up, or moving forward and always looking back. Whatever the case, the fact remains: Sun, Sun, Sun will break your heart, take you home, hold your hand and carry you forward. And for once, you don’t have to keep your eyes on the road - Blake’s doing it for you.

The Elected Video for “Not Going Home”

Jeff Coffin Mu’tet and Futureman

Friday - Nov. 10th, 2006 - $20
Special Performance at the Alcazar in the Lightner Museum
All proceeds to benefit the St. John’s Cultural Council

Jeff Coffin, well-traveled saxophonist, composer, and Grammy Award winning member of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, rejects all labels and categories other than “music” and “musician.” In the face of his epic 2005 release “BLOOM”, even those once-broad tags fall short of defining the close coiling of sound, philosophy, and humanity that is the core of his art.
Since 1997, Coffin has traveled the world with the Flecktones, performing with musicians of all walks. Those with whom Jeff has shared the stage and/or the recording studio include such diverse artists as Baaba Maal, McCoy Tyner, The Dave Matthews Band, Umphrees McGee, Savion Glover, Branford Marsalis, Jeff (Apt. Q-258) Sipe, Mike Clark’s Prescription Trio, Keller Williams, Mavis Staples, Garth Brooks, Van Morrison, J.D. Souther, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bob Moses, Stanton Moore, George Porter Jr., Anders Osborne, Jerry Douglas, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Prasanna, Yonder Mountain String Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Wailers and many, many others. Along the way, Coffin has absorbed an astounding range of influences. “Whether it be New Orleans Second Line, African music, Indian Ragas, folk songs, Alan Lomax field recordings, jazz, or funk,” he says, “the spirit and breath of the music is what I take away from listening and playing. It’s what decides for me whether I like it or not.”

Jeff Coffin Mu’tet live performance 08-06

The Mountains Goats, Jennifer O’Connor

Saturday - Nov. 4th, 2006 - $10

John Darnielle is one of the most imaginative lyricists of his generation. Since he sat cross-legged with an acoustic guitar in front of a boom box and pressed record for the first time - more than a decade ago - skewed characters, vibrant images and perfectly-framed narratives have flowed in their hundreds. In that time, he has conjured - from laconic, blazing phrases - insights into a multitude of vivid alternative realities. He has inhabited the minds of murderers and suicides, prophets and emperors. He has documented a disintegrating, alcoholic marriage (in the “Alpha” series), the inner lives of teenage metal fans (”The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton”) and the final moments of prehistoric sacrificial victims (”Tollund Man”). He has even brought to life a world so improbably perfect that the Chicago Cubs could win a World Series (”Cubs In Five”).

The Mountain Goats Video for “Woke Up New”