So, odder bedfellows have existed, but this alleged show is on par with mods vs. rockers and metalheads vs. punks. According to Pollstar and an email I got from Dave Matthews Band's publicist, hipster barflies the Hold Steady are opening for the massively popular frat-rockers at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Wednesday, June 17. Good for the HS, to maybe grow its fanbase and be seen by a lot of people -- and for DMB, for picking some pretty cool openers; other acts playing with them on the
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*Yonder Mountain String Band, Friday, May 8, Saturday, May 9
*Demetri Martin, Saturday, May 16
*Mint Condition, Saturday, May 30
*The Avett Brothers, Thursday, June 25meatpuppets.comBlueberry Hill
*Howie Day, May 1*Meiko/Cory Chisel, May 14*Cracker, Friday, May 15*Meat Puppets, May 28
BY KATIE MOULTON
The Avett Brothers barnstormed the Pageant last night and lead a stomping jubilee with its genre-razing folk-punk.
Fronted by string-snapping multi-instrumentalist brothers Seth and Scott Avett, the band destroyed any notion of traditional or roots music with a raucous set where even the ballads blistered. Drawing mostly from its four albums since 2006, including many crowd-favorites from 2007's Emotionalism, the band twisted up pretty acoustic picking, powerful harmonizing a
Calvin Engel
"This is how we know we're back in Missouri -- they don't do that shit out west. They don't stomp," Brian Roberts, lead singer of straight-out-of-the-Ozarks band Ha Ha Tonka, said last night as the crowd in cowboy boots and flip-flops alike dug their heels in to Off Broadway's wooden dance floor.
Ha Ha Tonka sounds like America Right Now. Listeners will draw references to current acts Kings of Leon and the Avett Brothers (who in turn reference the Band and the Allman Brothe
Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:
Euclid Records
1. Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
2. Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward*
3. Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky*
4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5. Wilco - Wilco The Album
6. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
7. Black Crowes - Before The Frost*
8. Mars Volta - Octahedron
9. Phish
Every Monday (or Tuesday), A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:
Euclid Records
1. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
2. Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
3. Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
4. Boston Spaceships - Zero To 99
5. Exene Cervenka - Somewhere Gone
Dave Green
Uncle Monk
Who: The old-timey bluegrass project of Tommy Ramone
Where: Off Broadway
RIYL: Avett Brothers, Lucero, Ha Ha Tonka
MP3: Uncle Monk, "Round the Bend"
