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No Wrong Notes: Vicki Brown

Vicki Brown balances her career in psychology with her growing musical life

One of the hardest-working musicians in Tucson's rock-oriented music community is a classically trained, lifelong violinist who hasn't yet quit her day job.

Vicki Brown didn't even start playing in bands or doing studio sessions until 200… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on December 17, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Sweet Therapy: Candy Kane @ The Hut, Sunday 12/13

Candye Kane celebrates more than 20 years in music at the Fourth Avenue Street Fair

For more than 20 years, the terrific singer Candye Kane has performed blues, country, roots rock and jazz in a powerful, bodacious manner.

Kane's brash, over-the-top persona was never a calculated stage act; it was her method of… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on December 10, 2009 at 1:16pm — 1 Comment

Return of the Scream: Hawthorne Heights @ The Rock, Friday 12/11

Hawthorne Heights moves on from the death of Casey Calvert with a new record label

When guitarist Casey Calvert died suddenly at the start of a 2007 tour, Hawthorne Heights naturally came unglued.

They had lost a close friend, and their music had lost an important reconciling element: Calvert's visceral, tormente… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on December 2, 2009 at 11:22am — No Comments

Acoustic Alchemy: Fanfarlo @ Club Congress, Sunday 11/29

Fanfarlo's special blend leads to deeply textured and layered songs

Although British band Fanfarlo is named after an autobiographical novella by French writer Charles Baudelaire, all that Fanfarlo's music really has in common with the 19th-century French symbolist are a love of language and a heightened sense of form.… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on November 24, 2009 at 7:22pm — No Comments

Fresh and Familiar: Generationals @ Club Congress, Thursday 11/19

The Generationals—a fine rock band from New Orleans—like to play up the old

Catchy 1960s-style rock music built on the foundations of Phil Spector and the Beatles doesn't have much to do with the classic New Orleans sound.

But for the Generationals, reaching back in time to weave threads of different musical tra… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on November 18, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Emotionally Intense: Thao With the Get Down Stay Down @ Plush, Wednesday 11/18

Thao Nguyen's third record with her two bandmates is better and faster

Thao Nguyen appeared on the national music scene as a 23-year-old Vietnamese-American from Virginia with a voice that exploded, whispered, lulled and beatboxed, and songs that hopped, skipped and danced, even as they explored domestic violence and f… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on November 11, 2009 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Selling Adventure: Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express @ Club Congress, Wednesday 11/11

Former Green on Red guitarist Chuck Prophet returns to Tucson with a new album

Ever since he joined Green on Red 25 years ago, I've wanted to ask singer-songwriter and guitarist Chuck Prophet if he was born with that last name. He set the record straight in an interview last week.

“Would I make that up?” he said… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on November 4, 2009 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Hard-Core Troubadour: Tom Russell @ Club Congress, Thursday 11/5

Tom Russell eschews modern indie rock's emasculated songwriting

Old-school country-folk beatnik-cowboy singer/songwriter Tom Russell holds a certain measure of respect for the Southwest indie-rock scene, especially younger artists who recently have emerged from Tucson's Wavelab Studio with killer tunes and classic albu… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 28, 2009 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Cold Times : Why? @ Club Congress , Saturday 10/24

Why? wades through the strange 'Eskimo Snow'

The weird world of Why?—more specifically, the world evoked in the peculiar lyrics of frontman Yoni Wolf—continues to get stranger.

On the Oakland-by-way-of-Cincinnati band’s unusual, engrossing Eskimo Snow (Anticon), scary figures, comical failures and sad p… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 21, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Harmonizing Women: Silver Thread Trio @ Abounding Grace Sancturary, Saturday 10/17 and @ Plush, Tuesday, 10/27

The Silver Thread Trio locks in on traditional tunes, standards and originals

Harmonies are back.

Many independent and alternative artists—from singing duos to so-called freak-folk bands—have re-infused popular music with the musical values of two- and three-part vocal arrangements. The all-female Silver Thread… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 15, 2009 at 10:46am — 1 Comment

Making It Work: Last Call Brawlers @ The Hut, Saturday 10/17

The Last Call Brawlers celebrate 10 years of increasing versatility

Ask the members of Last Call Brawlers what kind of music they play, and they've got a simple, concise answer: "rock 'n' roll." And while that may be true, it's also a bit simplistic.

In its earliest days, Last Call Brawlers was a straight-up roc… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 15, 2009 at 10:42am — No Comments

Textures and Cultures: Toubab Krewe @ Plush, Wednesday 10/14

Toubab Krewe branches out with new instruments and geographic influences

Putumayo, it's not.

Toubab Krewe's music is no imperiled cultural treasure gentrified by slick production values geared to high-fidelity listening. You’re meant to dance to Toubab Krewe—to laugh, clap your hands and feel like part o… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 7, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Fall Club Crawl Schedule, October 3

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Club Crawl: Delightfully Strange: What Laura Says @ Hotel Congress Outdoor Stage, midnight

What Laura Says keeps on defying easy definition

There's not a lot of overlap between the crowds you’ll find at the Phoenix clubs Modified Arts and the Rhythm Room.

Modified Arts is a hip, underground space that welcomes avant-garde performances, while Rhythm Room is an old-school, urban-blues mecca.

It’… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 1, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Club Crawl: True to the Classics: Dave Gonzalez and the Stone River Boys @ Bud Select Music Stage, 10:30 p.m.

Dave Gonzalez honors the memory of fellow Hacienda Brother Chris Gaffney with the Stone River Boys

It's early evening, barely dark, and Dave Gonzalez has just pulled into Santa Fe, N.M. He's been on the road all day driving in from Austin, and only minutes earlier, he was driving into a Southwestern sunset.

“It… Continue

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Club Crawl Music + Eats

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Club Crawl FAQ

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Fall Club Crawl® Saturday, October 3

Other venues may be added; visit ClubCrawl.net for last-minute additions and changes!

Bud Select Music Stage

8:30 p.m.: Golden Cadillacs (Sacramento, Calif.)
9:30 p.m.: Dave Gleason (Los Angeles)
10:30 p.m.: Dave Gonzalez and the Stone River Boys (Austin)
Midni… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 1, 2009 at 1:48pm — No Comments

Long-Distance Relationship: Former Ghosts @ Solar Culture Gallery, Saturday 10/13

The Former Ghosts trio makes beautiful music together, even though they all live in different places

Although some of us may recall a time when e-mail did not exist, many 21st-century world citizens simply couldn't get by without it.

And the forthcoming debut album by Former Ghosts probably couldn’t have been ma… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on October 1, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Little Orchestra @ Pink Martini Friday 9/25

Pink Martini seeks to meld world influences with the beauty of old-school American culture

Of his 12-piece band Pink Martini, Thomas M. Lauderdale likes to say, "If the United Nations had a band in 1962, we would be that band."

Since 1994, the Portland, Ore.-based Pink Martini has traded in the sort of lush, bea… Continue

Added by Tucson Weekly on September 23, 2009 at 5:10pm — No Comments

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