Yacht Rock Revue
6 p.m. Friday, June 14, NC Music Factory’s Fountain Plaza,
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd. $10. www.ncmusicfactory.com
The Atlanta cover band focuses on the
decadent late `70s, early `80s era of Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, and
early Hall & Oates with a wink and a tip of its captain’s hat - fun whether
you’re a fan of the time period or not.
Elizabeth LaPrelle
7 p.m. Friday, June 14, Great Aunt Stella Center, 926
Elizabeth Ave. Free (donations encouraged). www.folksociety.org
This 26-year-old Virginia musician
and storyteller sings Appalachian ballads in the traditional unaccompanied
style with a voice that can go from low aching moan to a ringing bell. She
helps Charlotte Folk Society close out its 30th anniversary season.
The XX/Grizzly Bear
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 15, Uptown Amphitheatre, 1000 NC
Music Factory Blvd. $35-$60. www.livenation.com
The UK group combines the cool, hypnotic chill of slowed
down electronic dance music and the sultriness and heart of R&B. Its quirky
Brooklyn-based tour mates similarly straddle harmony-driven, electronic
indie-pop and rootsier psychedelic folk-rock.
Lucius
7:30 p.m. Monday, June 17, Stage Door Theater, 5th
and College St. $10. www.blumenthalarts.org
The dual vocals of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig anchor this
Brooklyn combo’s sweet pop songs, which run from bubblegum ear candy to playful
and intelligent, harmony-driven rock that’s already been heard on Fox’s “New
Girl” before its full-length debut is released in the fall.
David Byrne & St.
Vincent
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St.
$29.50-$84.50. 704-372-1000.
The Talking Heads frontman turned heads with this
collaboration with songwriter Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent). The pair replaced
traditional rock instruments with a big brass band, which joins it on stage and
on the album “Love This Giant.”
Two Gallants
8 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, Visulite, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.
$14-$17. www.visulite.com
The seemingly troubled San Francisco indie-folk rock duo
recharged after a van accident and solo albums with an apparently new lease on
rock. Its 2012 record “The Bloom and the Blight” is a gnarly, moving
psychedelic garage rock opus.
Billy Joe Shaver
9 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, Double Door, 1218 Charlottetown
Ave. $18-$20. www.doubledoorinn.com
The prolific Texas songwriter’s autobiographical tunes became
country standards from Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. His life reads
like a country song - from his wife’s death to his guitarist son’s fatal overdose to going
to trial for shooting a man. That’s just in the last 14 years.
Merchandise
8 p.m. Thursday, June 20, The Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee
Rd. $10-$12. http://www.ticketfly.com/event/223227
Though its Morrissey-on-depressants vocals hide under a
crumbling wall of distortion, reverb, and noise, there’s a thread of pop charm
and melody that recalls late `70s/early `80s art rock. In another era it would’ve
been a fixture at CBGB’s.
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