Wednesday, December 2 (tonight!):
- Shedding, Tiny Fights, Talk Normal at Skull Alley (Louisville) - all ages, $5. Shedding = Louisville 3-piece featuring Connor Bell, Tim Furnish and Joey Bell (all of whom, I believe, have been in the band Parlour at one point or another). Haven't had a chance to check out much of their stuff but it has described by Bell as an attempt to rearrange his melancholy singer-songwriter tunes into some sort of futuristic pop sound. Talk Normal =
- Hive Jive Wednesday at The Hive Art Haus & Salon. Dance party at the newest local "rockeasy" (terminology courtesey of local radio personality Unca' Bill Widener). 156 Deweese St. 9 p.m.- midnightish, all ages, bring yer own bevvies.
Thursday, December 3:
- ARA, Everyone Lives Everyone Wins, terribleMASK at Al's Bar. ARA = experimental duo featuring power couple Trevor Tremaine and Sara O'Keefe (members of Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police, ATTEMPT, and so forth). Everyone Lives Everyone Wins = Lexington drone lords make their debut at leading Lexington hipster dive (and also the public debut of some new jams). The loudest darkness in town. terribleMASK = new droney project of a local guy named Robert - don't know much about him except that he's young but has astonishingly good taste in music.
- Talk Normal, White Walls, C. Spenser Yeh at Art Damage Lodge (Cincy). C. Spenser Yeh being, of course, the man behind the genius violin noise freakout project Burning Star Core.
Friday, December 4:
- Benefit for Kelly Feinburg featuring Tiny Fights, Rainjunkies, Freak the Mighty and more at Al's Bar. Feinburg is a UK English professor who is battling cancer. Proceeds will benefit her family (she has a young child) and the massive medical costs that accompany the bastard disease. Good jams, a good cause.
- Open Studio at UK Reynolds Building. The one night a year when the University of Kentucky's student and faculty art studio is open to the public. Great art, and a lot of it is for sale, on the cheap. Featuring dueling DJ sets by WRFLians Patrick Smith and Jamie Lazich). 6-8 pm.
Saturday, December 5:
- Latin Heat, Idaho Alaska, J. Marinelli @ Al's Bar. J. Marinelli = one-man garage blues show. Latin Heat = local rock that's not afraid to actually rock. Idaho Alaska = Modest Mouse meets Pavement ~ intellectual indie with a spine.
- Softcheque, Second Story Man, Straight A's at Skull Alley (Louisville). Not that familiar with Second Story Man but this is their album release party I think. I caught Softcheque recently and loved 'em - a singing saw, two female singers with amazing voices, minimal but compelling keys and drums - French-sounding femme fatale; RIYL Broadcast, Stereolab.
- A Celebration for Shoeshine at The Kentucky Theatre. This memorial celebration for Louis "Shoeshine" Cobb, a downtown Lexington fixture who recently passed away, starts at 10 am and will feature a showing of the documentary "Can't Stop the Shine," created by Lexingtonian Erin Mcanallen a few years back. Food will be provided by Bourbon-n-Toulouse and a video camera will be set up for folks to share their memories of Shoeshine.
- The Last Waltz at Buster's (as performed by a boatload of Lexington musicians). For more details and a chance to win tickets, visit my previous entry.
Sunday December 6:
- Grandchildren, Idiot Glee, Tiny Fights at Al's Bar. Grandchildren = from Philly; RIYL Animal Collective. Tiny Fights = local psychelectronica trio (for lack of the ability to concisely describe their completely original and amazing stuff); always a really fun time. Idiot Glee = new solo experimental pop project of the illustrious James Friley (of Bedtime/SpeechBoys; co-organizer of Boomslang/ general sweet dude), who, you may have noticed, kinda blew up in the blogosphere yesterday following YouAintNoPicasso's glowing review of his new single "All Packed Up." Keep your eyes peeled for a split cassette with The Butchers, out any sec...
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