Country rock. The Hill And Wood open.

Sons Of Bill - Broken Bottles
Sons Of Bill - Joey’s Arm
Sons Of Bill - Rock And Roll

The Hill And Wood - I Can Say What You Want

If the thought of music as a family affair appeals to you, you’ll be pleased to learn that in addition to being part of the backing band for She & Him, the lovely ladies of this somber and shadowy retro Appalachian folk-pop duo are also the nieces of legendary songwriter Harry Chapin. You know — the guy who wrote Cat’s In The Cradle. Half-sister and onetime third member Jessica Craven is the daughter of legendary horror film director and Freddy Krueger creator Wes Craven; even though she’s currently on hiatus, the melancholy creep factor is still in full swing thanks to morbid lyrics that beg for awful fates to befall them — all beautifully harmonized, of course.

The Chapin Sisters - Palm Tree

Montreal singer-songwriter NEeMA and Teddy and the Roosevelts open.

The former leader of sensitive millennial indie rockers Pedro The Lion struck out on his own last year with his much-ballyhooed debut LP as a soloist. It represented, in addition to the obvious break with his old band, Bazan’s dramatic skeptical spiritual U-turn, which of course proved problematic for the latent Christian tendencies that had been layered beneath his previous releases. Curse Your Branches tells the story of his struggle in song, so be advised that there may be some heavy commentary in the between-song banter here; this is a man who once said of Pascal’s Wager — the idea that assuming there is a hell is safer for your eternal soul than questioning — “If this is what the Supreme Being of the Universe resorts to in order to get people to do his bidding, then I’m gonna f*cking stand up to him and tell him to f*ck off.”

David Bazan - Bless This Mess

Country and Americana modeled after Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons and the Carter Family.

The Corn Hog Association - You’re Running Wild
The Corn Hog Association - Sin City
The Corn Hog Association - No Depression
The Corn Hog Association - Knoxville Girl
The Corn Hog Association - Dim Lights

Reverb-drenched distorted garage rock. Adam Smith’s noise rock band Great Dads opens.

DOOMSTAR! - Rainbow Bloodsucker
DOOMSTAR! - End Of The World

Great Dads - Pray To Your Riches

Sedate Iron and Wine-style acoustic indie folk-rock quartet with sparse vocals, lush strings, and occasionally an unusual instrument like celesta or saw. Vermont singer-songwriter and steadfast Ani/Righteous Babe devotee Anais Mitchell opens.

Horse Feathers - Belly Of June

Springsteen-enamored rock singer-songwriter. Swedish pop-rock sensation Moneybrother opens.

Moneybrother - Down At The R
Moneybrother - Born Under A Bad Sign

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are two fleet-fingered metal maniacs who play instrumental versions of Metallica and Zeppelin tunes and originals explicitly designed to follow in the footsteps of icons like Hendrix and Dimebag using only two acoustic guitars. Despite their rock and roll leanings, they’re sometimes also marketed to fans of (barf) “world music” due to the Latin overtones; guess that tends to happen when you grow up playing flamenco in Mexico City, no matter how hard you headbang along the way.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman

Americana-rock. With Andrew Cedermark and The Cinnamon Band.

The War On Drugs - Comin’ Through

The Cinnamon Band - Buena Vista
The Cinnamon Band - I’m Asking You

Not much more needs to be said about Georgia improv rock titans Widespread Panic at this point, except perhaps to remind you that they’re actually pretty palatable as an occasionally twang-infused meandering rock band even if you don’t particularly care for the more esoteric groups from the jamband scene and tolerate only the poppiest Dead songs. (Personal favorite: “Travelin’ Light,” at least if we assume that JoJo Hermann will knock the organ solo outta the park.) And they’re Pavilion staples to some degree, but since October is just about upon us, it bears repeating that they released a Halloween-themed live album in 2004 titled, awesomely, Jackassolantern. (That word is worth a round with Google Image Search when you get a moment, obviously.)

Daniel Hutchens of their hometown pals Bloodkin opens.

Widespread Panic - North

Shoegazey local rockers, now with Dylan Mulshine (aka Rhythm Bandit) on drums; show up on time or you’ll miss the furious 90’s-style alt-rock of the four overtly sexual punk femmes in HotChaCha. Also featuring Night And The City.

Manorlady - Red Juice
Manorlady - Trees
Manorlady - Lost Dogs
Manorlady - International Boys Club
Manorlady - Boy And Flippers

HotChaCha - Organ Grinders Ball
HotChaCha - One Thousand Pillows Soft
HotChaCha - Ticket Away From Prague

Berklee-educated young bassist and songwriter with her harmony-heavy bluegrass quintet Narrow Gauge

Ashleigh Caudill and Narrow Gauge - Fruit Of The Vine

Acoustic Americana and folk trio with elements of bluegrass, old-time-and country

Misty Strings - Grey and Lonesome
Misty Strings - Beautiful Day

Acoustic pop-rock singer-songwriter

Brian Huber - Snuggies
Brian Huber - Reverie

Pop and rock with funky New Orleans horns. The Eli Cook Band opens.

Mingo Fishtrap - Without Question
Eli Cook - Static In The Blood

Now that the Avett Brothers make records with Rick Rubin and stop at the Charlottesville Pavilion on tour, it’s probably the mostly-acoustic Boston multi-instrumentalist quartet The Low Anthem, who play slowly-building self-described “apocalyptic hymals” with occasional gospel touches, that are the reigning up-and-coming buzz band of indie folk. But since their acclaimed 2008 sophomore release Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was recently reissued by Nonesuch Records, perhaps their days are now numbered in that regard as well.

The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin

Vermont singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and local folk duo The Honey Dewdrops open.

The Honey Dewdrops - Nowhere To Stand
The Honey Dewdrops - Fly Away Free

Local alt-rock with appropriately space-faring lyrics.

Astronomers - Or Maybe It’s Nothing
Astronomers - Perpetual Emotion
Astronomers - Stratagem
Astronomers - The Singularity
Astronomers - Shoes
Astronomers - My Hologram
Astronomers - Fermata

With Carolina trio Hammer No More The Fingers, who play loud and fuzzy power-pop mixed with more aggressive 90’s-style alt-rock with far more competent vocal harmonies than you might expect, West Virginia garage-rock trio The Demon Beat and C-ville’s own Mss.

Hammer No More The Fingers - Shutterbug
Mss. - Little Flies

75% female Nashville punk rock quartet currently being championed by frequent local performers JEFF the Brotherhood. Boston guitar/drums husband/wife duo Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling open with minimalist yet aggressive noise rock written in episodic bursts intended to vaguely parallel their favorite 1960’s spy TV shows. With Nurse Beach.

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - Episode 1: Arrival
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - Episode 2: Dance Of The Dead

Carolina it-boy songwriter Stu MacLamb started writing jangly lo-fi indie pop songs in 2007 and 2008 after the girl from “Lalita” broke his heart and quickly threw together the first iteration of The Love Language for a tour when they hooked a much larger audience than he had expected. That sextet lasted for a while, including through the acclaimed self-titled debut LP, but it’s once again MacLamb steering the ship solo with Libraries, just released this month on indie powerhouse Merge Records. Drunk Tigers open.

The Love Language - Lalita
The Love Language - Sparxxx
The Love Language - Heart To Tell

Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane

Self-proclaimed “21st century bluegrass band” whose last album was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys (and whose guitarist apparently goes by “Mayhem.”) Americana songwriter Allen Thompson opens.

Cadillac Sky - Trapped Under The Ice
Allen Thompson - Virginia
Allen Thompson - Nothing At All

Acclaimed California rock ‘n roll bluegrass band. Jamie Dyer and his Hogwaller Ramblers open.

Rose’s Pawn Shop - Dancing On The Gallows

Singer-songwriters. Maria Gall opens.

Mercy Bell - All Good Cowboys
Maryanna Sokol - This Heart’s Mostly Filler
Maryanna Sokol - Pentameter

Indie-folk singer-songwriter who has roots with Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records and the wobbly vocal style to match. Chris Campanelli opens.

David Dondero - Wherever You Go
David Dondero - When Your Heart Breaks Deep
David Dondero - Rothko Chapel

Blues and soul diva

Jo Gore and the Alternative - Not To Me
Jo Gore and the Alternative - Last Letter Home

Former frontman for pop-rockers Ultraviolet Ballet releases his new solo album in the studio where he recorded it and bundles a copy in with the door price.

Galen Curry - Oh Mama
Galen Curry - I Tore Down A Mountain

Over the past decade and a half, people like Sunny Day Real Estate’s Jeremy Enigk and one-time bandmate David Bazan of Pedro The Lion as well as labels like Sub Pop and (most recently) Secretly Canadian have all championed Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado’s sleepy indie-folk. It’s often quite dark and minimalist, except when it’s not, as with his occasional jaunts into electric instrumentation, string arrangements, and found sound.

Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes

Openers Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground play eccentric Beatles-influenced retro-pop with occasional bits of folk and sparkly piano parts.

Also featuring Stratton Salidis.

Award-winning North Carolina folk singer-songwriter with a pronounced admiration of Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, and Natalie Merchant performs solo on guitar and banjo.

Nikki Talley - Maggie
Nikki Talley - Feathers In A Jar

Former science teacher Gary Oxford now tinkers in his basement with strings instead of beakers as a singer-songwriter, and here he’ll be mixing those original songs with covers of tunes by various Bonnaroo artists, so all you poor suckers who can’t make it this year should go to this instead. It’s almost the same thing, right?

Big-time Austin singer-songwriter. Fellow Texans Smile Smile open with highly emotional folk-pop tunes that somehow managed to get the two previously-engaged leads through a messy breakup.

Smile Smile - Truth On Tape

De-acronymed, the name Funky Urban Southern Ensemble pretty much says it all. Featuring pianist Jim Wray and percussionist Darrell Rose, among others.

F.U.S.E. - Oregon Green
F.U.S.E. - Silhouette
F.U.S.E. - Summer Dawn

Progressive folk-rock singer-songwriter cut from the same cloth as Sarah McLachlan and the Indigo Girls; pianist Laurence Elder opens.

Wendy Repass - Rain Upon A Wire

Folky acoustic gypsy reggae band from Portland which promises “songs of prayer, parties, praise, pot and peace.” (They refer to the kitchen implements they occasionally use alongside the hand drums and kit, of course.)

HannaH*s Field - Angel Land
HannaH*s Field - Zen Mind
HannaH*s Field - Puff Puff Give
HannaH*s Field - Praise Jah
HannaH*s Field - Boss Man

Acoustic pop-rock songwriter and guitarist performs with local sax man Andy Roland.

Josh Mayo - Sweet Sweet Love
Josh Mayo - Anymore
Josh Mayo - Blue [live at Rapunzel's]

Sons Of Bill bassist Seth Green reboots his previous band with experimental guitarist Benjamin O’Brien.

Moby and the Dicks - Ta Na Na
Moby and the Dicks - Red For Dodge
Moby and the Dicks - F

Singer-songwriter recreates his full-band records using a looping pedal

Jeff Miller - Scars

Singer-songwriters of Egyptian and Scottish descent.

Sharif - Another Wasted Rose
Sharif - Dark Side Of The Dawn

Americana quartet with a twist from modern pop and rock.

The Judy Chops - Drugs

Bluegrass and Americana quartet

The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Sue Cow
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Banty Rooster Blues
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Who Killed Poor Robin
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Rocksalt N’ Nails
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Pick Poor Robin Clean
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Kentucky Moonshiner
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Mission To Moscow
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Why Don’t You Do Right

The roots-rock and Americana quartet performs at this fundraiser for local food banks and pantries.

The Lost Souls - Wildflower
The Lost Souls - NJ Turnpike
The Lost Souls - Horseshoes
The Lost Souls - Scarred Smart

This duo made their debut with a CD heavy on the Schoenberg, if that tells you anything, and here they’ll be playing pieces for violin, piano, and electronics from UVA professor and new music composer Judith Shatin’s new album Tower of the Eight Winds. Prices vary wildly since this is a benefit for the Piedmont Council of the Arts, but your average ticket should clock in at around $25.

The Borup-Ernst Duo - Williwaw

South Carolina singer Zach Deputy plays rootsy reggae and calypso-infused pop with touches of loops and beatboxing, a blend to which acoustic rock songwriter William Walter plays the straight man here as the opener.

Zach Deputy - Why Oh Why
Zach Deputy - High Low
Zach Deputy - I’ll Be There Tomorrow
Zach Deputy - Games
Zach Deputy - Dr. Doctor

Photo by David Kling_Thing

The local hardcore punk rockers host their No Idea Records labelmates Senders; guitarist Cam Taylor promises “stoner emo” based on “many, many long nights smoking tons of pot in our warehouse and trying to rip off 90’s indie rock bands like Hum, Archers of Loaf, Seam, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Braid.” (And also, “feel free to bring the absolutely spiciest thing you can find in the world to our show and I will eat it without question.”)

Worn In Red drummer Brad Perry plays metal and still more punk beforehand as “DJ Nano.”

Worn In Red - Vital Joys
Worn In Red - When People Have Something To Say

Senders - Every Last Detail
Senders - Mind

Gypsy indie-folk from the perennial New York City favorites, with accordion parts and strings applied liberally and amps turned up louder than you’d expect. The newly-reformed Hill and Wood sextet opens.

La Strada - My New Home
The Hill And Wood - I Can Say What You Want

Athens, GA rock trio The Whigs have a garage-rock trio format and indie rocker sensibilities (doesn’t everyone?) which led to a huge buzz around their 2005 debut Give ‘Em All A Big Fat Lip, but on stage they sound much bigger than you’d ever believe. Bassist Hank Sullivant is restlessly riffing his way around the fretboard practically all the time to create a bigger rhythm section sound than any band should ever rest on one guy’s shoulders, thus giving frontman Parker Gispert the freedom to dramatically launch his guitar parts into the stratosphere even when his vocals don’t have all that much of interest to offer. Their new album In The Dark hasn’t been quite so well received, or at least wasn’t as surprising as the debut, but they still bring the heat in person. Certainly recommended, especially at this price.

The Whigs - Kill Me Carolyne
The Whigs - Hundred Million

Drunk Tigers and Ponderosa open.

Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane

Banjo and fiddle duets, the former provided by a UVA grad and former C-ville musician best known around these parts for his 80’s band Cloud Valley.

Bill Evans and Megan Lynch - Rocks and Water

New funk fusion quartet led by Hornsby sax man Bobby Read.

Secret Sauce - Blackout

Your favorite local teenage classic rock power trio is now actually a quartet with the addition of new sax player Sky Young.

The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People
The Wave - She Disappears

Two formidable folk guitarists, one an alum of Jefferson Airplane and its spinoff Hot Tuna, team up for a set highly influenced by old school blues greats like Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell.

David Bromberg - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Lot To Cry

Cover-happy folk and country singer. Also featuring Richmond folkie Andy Moore.

Laurie McClain - Some Forgotten Dare

Local artist Thomas Dean’s long-running revolving door project delivers more tunes to pummel you by on Wild Order, also the limited-edition debut release from the Creature Feature microlabel run by the Box’s music maven Sarah Carr. Also featuring Bride of the Narwhal, Ultra Dolphins, and the Alphabet.

Order - Tipping Point
Order - Whatever Bubbles Up
Order - Wisdom Of The Oracle

At long last, another album from Charlottesville’s staggeringly sophisticated queen bee singer-songwriter. In all likelihood Don’t Hurry For Heaven will once again do much better in the UK than over here, which is totally lame and unacceptable and yet still the case even though we complain about this on a fairly regular basis. Buy a copy and do your part.

The Young Republic opens and then jumps right back into another set, serving as Sproule’s backing band.

Devon Sproule - The Easier Way
Devon Sproule - Julie
Devon Sproule - Good To Get Out
Devon Sproule - Don’t Hurry For Heaven
Devon Sproule - Ain’t That The Way
Devon Sproule - A Picture Of Us In The Garden

Iron and Wine-style indie folk-rock quartet with instrumentation ranging from cellos and saws to frontman Justin Ringle’s haunting mumble. Wes Swing opens.

Horse Feathers - Belly Of June
Wes Swing - Lullaby

The latest project from Old Time Relijun’s frontman is wild pulse-driven psychedelic rock, which should not be the least bit surprising except that it’s sung entirely in Indonesian. Adam Smith’s noise rock project Great Dads opens, and David Baker Benson’s DBB Plays Cups project reconfigures again — this time, a more electric set (their first this year not to involve acoustic guitars) with one of keys/guitar player Max Dreyer’s first stints behind the drum kit.

Arrington de Dionyso and Malaikat Dan Singa - Kedalaman Air
Great Dads - Pray To Your Riches

Goth-rock featuring members of In Tenebris and former Bella Morte roadies.

Oh So - Don’t You

Mostly-instrumental jam-rock band that sounds more like Explosions In The Sky than Widespread, often with simple electronica elements that took them as far as a full-fledged remix album back in 2007.

Lotus - Tip Of The Tongue
Lotus - Behind Midwest Storefronts
Lotus - Bellwether

Americana and country with pop-rock sheen

The Taters - Easy Way Out
The Taters - No I Don’t
The Taters - Oceans Apart

The local guitarist performs with a trio fresh from his run playing Hank Williams in the Live Arts production of Lost Highway.

Thomas Gunn - Conversations With A Wishing Well
Thomas Gunn - Ma Jolie

Acclaimed folk songwriter with jazz roots who just won an “album of the year” award from the LGBT arts organization OUTMusic with a record which includes one “Love Song For Jeffrey Dahmer” (which Saunders says, tongue buried deep in his cheek, has been featured in “a lot of podcasts and internet radio shows, but I don’t think it’s gotten any play that the FCC might punish a DJ for.”) Also featuring local singer-songwriter staple Brady Earnhart, who will be playing a solo acoustic set featuring songs from his forthcoming new album “So Few Things.”

Dudley Saunders - Love Song For Jeffrey Dahmer
Dudley Saunders - The Winding Sheet

Crunchy guitar-driven classic rock power trio

The Beat Hounds - We Are One
The Beat Hounds - Is It Possible
The Beat Hounds - I Don’t Think It’s Right

Danny Beirne — best known as the flamboyant redhead pianist who kept the Skip Castro Band’s shows interesting through the 80’s and most recently seen in Charlottesville onscreen playing his keyboard with his butt in the Live From… The Hook rockumentary — returns from his new home in Ohio with original tunes and covers by Hank and Muddy Waters for his first local show since 2004. Check out a dinnertime set at 7, and then the hair starts flying for the rock show at 9:30.

Danny Beirne - Picturing Changes
Danny Beirne - Party Boy
Danny Beirne - Everything
Danny Beirne - Blue Dan
Danny Beirne - Bad Things
Danny Beirne - 2000 Days

Indie rockers built around the titular songwriter, his occasionally folky songs, and his love of chamber-pop string arrangements. Holopaw and furiously fingerpicking UK singer-songwriter Bobby Long open.

matt pond PA - Starting

CD release show for the local rock quintet’s new album Organica.

Trees On Fire - Live Life
Trees On Fire - Rosa

Trees On Fire - In The Middle [via WXJM Live!]

Energetic upbeat singalongs from the piano-driven DC indie-pop trio, which seems to garner comparisons to Ben Folds and Queen at every turn. Local glam-rock newbies Red Satellites open.

Jukebox The Ghost - Hold It In
Jukebox The Ghost - Good Day
Jukebox The Ghost - Victoria

Gritty guitar-based Americana rock in the vein of Tom Petty from an alum of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

The Jamie McLean Band - Peace And Glory
The Jamie McLean Band - Natalie
The Jamie McLean Band - Diamond Plate
The Jame McLean Band - Cupid’s Greatest Thief
The Jamie McLean Band - Brother
The Jamie McLean Band - Ain’t Nobody Like My Baby

Pop-punk. Past Lives open with lighter art-punk from several from several former members of the late Seattle hardcore band The Blood Brothers, including the younger brother of indie-folk singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato.

Past Lives - Deep In The Valley
Past Lives - Hex Takes Hold

Singer-songwriter Clarence Green’s long-running Downbeat Project plays pop and light rock with occasional tropical Caribbean and calypso glimmers, all wrapped up in emotional lyrics addressing themes like love and war and race. At this show they’ll be releasing their new album Rise, their first output since inducting longtime collaborator Billy Cardine as a full-fledged member.

The Downbeat Project - I Want You [live at Is Venue, RIP]
The Downbeat Project - Heaven
The Downbeat Project - He Lost Faith
The Downbeat Project - Back Home

Os Magrelos start things off.

Piano-pop singer-songwriter who is known as “Shannon Curtis The Great” in Korea (seriously — it’s the name of a best-of compilation album recently released by a Korean label). Genna Matthew opens.

Shannon Curtis - Lay Me Down
Shannon Curtis - I’m Ruined
Shannon Curtis - Don’t Call Me

Achingly spartan alt-folk monuments to solitude, sometimes gently ornamented by simple melodies on distant electric guitars and fiddles or boy-girl vocal harmonies. Rob Cheatham of Nice Jenkins and Gunchux opens.

Mandolin Orange - Wee Bird
Mandolin Orange - Night Owl
Mandolin Orange - Another Seed

Psychedelic lo-fi rock. Also featuring Manorlady and Nectar Bats.

CAVES - Arp
CAVES - Face The Wall
CAVES - Harm In Here
CAVES - Points Of Light

Gritty Welch/Rawlings-style alt-folk and Americana multi-instrumentalist duo, heavy on both the electric slide guitar and the vocal harmonies.

Screen Door Porch - Zemurray
Screen Door Porch - Wrong The Right

Also featuring The Don’t Tell Darlings.

The Don’t Tell Darlings - Single Girls

Local indie-pop quartet with various 60’s and 80’s fetishes.

The Hilarious Posters - The Fists The Fighting
The Hilarious Posters - Crossed Over The Ocean
The Hilarious Posters - That Thing You Don’t
The Hilarious Posters - Sugarbread Falls

Also featuring Mss. and songwriter Travis Kokas.

Mss. - Little Flies

Blues duo focusing on relics from the 20’s and 30’s.

Lorie Strother - Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues
Dr. Levine and the Dreaded Blues Lady - Shake It Daddy

It’s been scarcely six months since Sharon Jones christened the Jefferson with their last blowout, but this will almost certainly sell out nonetheless, and given that they’ll have their new album I Learned The Hard Way in tow, you can certainly count on some new tunes on the set list. The killer house band of Daptone Records, pretty much the most important funk/soul record label in the world at this point, typically puts out meticulously crafted songs which seem proudly dated, members of an aesthetic school that faded long ago to everybody’s detriment. So although iron-lunged matriarch Jones is the flashy centerpiece, usually bouncing around the stage with entirely too much energy for a 54 year old, you should also make sure you tune into the precision jangle of guitarist Binky Griptite’s supporting chords, producer and bassist Gabe “Bosco Mann” Roth’s impeccably solid low end, and the tightly intertwined right hooks occasionally thrown by the horn section. And thank your lucky stars for the six-month turnaround on this — last time, it took about fifty years.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

Motown throwback act Fitz and the Tantrums opens.

Bluesy rock from the Petersburg sextet and rocking blues from the Nelson county guitarist

Eli Cook - Static In The Blood

Independent country-rock sensation (and, as a result, self-made multimillionaire) Corey Smith has a calling card song called “Twenty One” which is an ode to youth, thus making its striking popularity among high school students a bit ironic. Raleigh rockers American Aquarium open with alt-country and roots-rock in the vague outline of Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams.

Corey Smith - Twenty One

American Aquarium - Katherine Belle
American Aquarium - Mary, Mary
American Aquarium - PBR Promenade
American Aquarium - Good Fight
American Aquarium - Tennessee
American Aquarium - Ain’t Going To The Bar Tonight

It seems that referring to yourself as “yacht-rock” basically means it isn’t so, but all the same, that’s where you’ll find the friendly soul and R&B heart for this new project from Jason Caddell, formerly the guitarist for revered D.C. experimental punk-rockers The Dismemberment Plan and also featuring members of Travis Morrison’s post-Dismemberment band the Hellfighters. With hot C-ville indie rockers Drunk Tigers.

Poor But Sexy - The Only Good Thing
Poor But Sexy - Big Chief
Poor But Sexy - Fool Runnin’
Poor But Sexy - Confession

Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane

South Indian “Carnatic” classical ragas played with a slide on a guitar-like 21-stringed folk instrument called the chitravina

N. Ravikiran - pallaviin Raaga Lathangi

Alt-country and bluegrass band led by Brooklyn singer-songwriter Blake Christiana. Charleston rock-band-with-horns Sol Driven Train opens.

Yarn - Bad Bad Man
Yarn - Don’t Break My Heart
Yarn - I’m Down
Yarn - Ain’t That A Sin
Yarn - Empty Pockets
Yarn - Alone On The Weekend

Acclaimed Italian ensemble performing baroque opera with a specific focus on Vivaldi arias.

The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E Flat, III
The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Vivaldi Concerto in C Major, III
The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Tartini Violin Concerto in A Major, IV
The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Atenaide
The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Locatelli Concerto No. 1 in D Major, IV
The Venice Baroque Orchestra - Tolomeo

Lo-fi bedroom pop-rock tunes loaded with messy guitars played by precocious 18 year old songwriter Nathan Baldi, who ironically was majoring in audio engineering before dropping out to instead write songs that sound like they were recorded inside a discarded refrigerator.

Cloud Nothings - Old Street
Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid
Cloud Nothings - Can’t Stay Awake

Also featuring C-ville indie rockers Drunk Tigers and Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand.

Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane

Pop-rock trio raising funds and awareness to help provide prosthetic devices to the needy

Habit - Wombat
Habit - All I Want

Pop-rock with religious leanings. Joseph Mills opens with a pseudonym and Benyaro with old-school folk rock descended from CSNY.

Tim Be Told - System
Tim Be Told - Analyze

Benyaro - Pisces
Benyaro - Good Day Better
Benyaro - Humble Child
Benyaro - Time To Kill
Benyaro - Bullet-Like Belief
Benyaro - Feelin’ Low

Richmond-based acoustic rock and alt-country band, also self-described as “coffeehouse pop”, which quite frankly is a pretty spot-on label that more of you acoustic guitar dudes out there better start copping to.

Blue Line Highway - Almost Reel
Blue Line Highway - You’ll Get Yours
Blue Line Highway - Morning Glory
Blue Line Highway - Goin’ On Here
Blue Line Highway - Cry

Wilmington NC’s leading Americana rock quintet drops bluesy guitar parts and voice-of-underclass political messages on top of lead songwriter Brad Heller’s Tex-Mex flavored songwriting — and to substantial critical acclaim back home, we hear.

The Fustics - Back Again
The Fustics - Baptized Tonight
The Fustics - Captured My Fate
The Fustics - Headed Down
The Fustics - Beyond This Life
The Fustics - Bloodstained Streets
The Fustics - Brothers
The Fustics - Desert Sky
The Fustics - Running Round
The Fustics - Western Skyline

C-ville’s own Greg Howard is one of the all-time greats of the Chapman Stick, an unusual 10- or 12- stringed instrument played entirely using Van Halen-style fretboard tapping, and as usual, he’ll play both originals and standards here in jazzy head-improv-head style. Speaking of jazzy, this sophisticated “And Friends” configuration hasn’t been seen in quite a while — African percussionist Darrell Rose on talking drum and djembe and The Sound LLC’s James McLaughlin on the kit, with trumpet brainiac and Miller’s jazz night staple John D’earth shooting melodies out above it all.

Starting things off, Fredricksburg Chapman Stick player, audio software programmer, and prog-rock fanatic Rob Martino, current titleholder by a hefty margin of most popular Stick video on the internet, with a set which will undoubtedly contain tunes from his upcoming debut album and at least a handful of instrumental Tull covers.

Rob Martino - One Cloud

Danceable and at least partially dubstep-derived experimental rock in which keyboards are played with itchy trigger fingers and buckets of booty-shaking bass slosh around and eventually spill out beneath vocalist Liz Bougatsos’ filtered wails.

Gang Gang Dance - First Communion

Rootsy Americana and classic rock from the local guitarist and his quartet.

The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy

Last seen around these parts leading Burkina Electric, his Burkinabe folk-techno band (seriously), avant-garde classical composer and sometimes downright wacko-experimental percussionist Lukas Ligeti (who, yes, is the son of famed Transylvanian composer György) performs selections from Afrikan Machinery, his 2008 album of rhythmic explorations for a rare mallet-based MIDI controller called the Marimba Lumina. A key point in all this is that Ligeti focuses his interest in electronics around percussive applications thereof precisely because he doesn’t want to give up his kinetic energy as so many other laptop musicians tend to, which in turn means that this show should be as interesting for your eyes as for your ears.

Lukas Ligeti - Great Circles Tune I

Aggressive electric jazz players with hearts that may have been ripped outta punk-rockers and ears hungry for both Meshuggah and Mahavishnu make for… well, probably just more prog-rock dorks, actually. But these guys also milked the following from no less than ridiculously acclaimed jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, also one of their idols: “The music of Zevious shrewdly juxtaposes order and its opposite: structural intensity pushed to its breaking point in the most appealing way. These boys are brilliant and fearless.” OK, case closed.

Zevious - Where’s The Captain

Local pianist Gerrit Roessler’s jazz trio Melamine opens.

Jazzy funk from Baltimore.

Basshound - Till I Hit The Ground
Basshound - Ranura Bastarda [live]
Space Cadet 7 - Killer Octopus