[NEohioPAL]beachland ballroom and tavern events september 14 2006

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BEACHLAND BALLROOM AND TAVERN
15711 WATERLOO ROAD
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44110
216-383-1124 

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    Thu Sep 14 Joe Lally (Fugazi bassist solo show, record on Dischord), Antelope (Dischord), Series Joe Lally has played bass in Fugazi since their inception in 1986. In 2003 the members of Fugazi decided to take an indefinite hiatus from recording and performing. Since that time Joe has continued to write and perform both solo material and collaborations with various musicians and friends. "There to Here", to be released on Dischord in October 2006, was recorded by Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios and at the Dischord House and features Lally's compositions with contributions from Eddie Janney (Rites of Spring, One Last Wish), Jason Kourkounis (Hot Snakes, Delta 72, etc.), Jerry Busher (French Toast), Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Ian Mackaye (The Evens, Fugazi), Amy Farina (The Evens), Scott (Wino) Weinrich (Spirit Caravan, Hidden Hand), and Danny Frankel (KD Lang). Joe has been playing regional east coast dates with Don Zientara, toured in Italy and
 will be touring the states with Antelope in the fall of 2006. Antelope plays meditative, stripped-down, punk music and has been together since 2001. The trio is currently touring and recording a full length record for release in early 2007 on Washington D.C.'s Dischord Records. Antelope features: Mike Andre formerly of Vertebrates, Bee Elvy formerly of Vertebrates, Justin Moyer also of Supersystem and Edie Sedgwick. Series is a fun band from Cleveland that on this night will feature new tunes and a new lineup! All the kids will be here! 9 PM, $7, Tavern, all ages 

Fri. Sept. 15 Little Steven's Underground Garage Presents The Rolling Rock and Roll Show: The Zombies (feat. Colin Blunstone & Rob Argent), The Mooney Suzuki, The Woggles, The Gore Gore Girls, The Vacancies Little Steven's Underground Garage is throwing a travelling festival this September dubbed the Rolling Rock and Roll Show. The event will feature Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of pioneering of 60's British Invasion / psychadelia act the Zombies, modern garage rockers the Mooney Suzuki and the Woggles on all dates. The west coast will see appearances by Phantom Planet, the midwest features the Gore Gore Girls, the east cost the Fleshtones and the south will include the Forty Fives. The show kicks off on September 5th and runs into October. Click below for the dates. The event's been described to Punknews.org as "pretty much a live version of the radio show: Short sets, go-go girls in between bands, psychedelic lights, the whole shebang." And now, ladies and gentlemen,
 the shebang: Led by Rod Argent's flashy, jazzy piano and Colin Blunstone's sweetly melodic voice, the band scored hits in the mid-1960s with "She's Not There," "Tell Her No," and "Time of the Season." Although they never rose to the prominence of other British invasion bands, The Zombies are a favourite of music critics for their complex musical arrangements and vocal harmonies. Their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle is now considered one of the best of its time. he Mooney Suzuki is a rock and roll band formed in 1996. They have released four albums, The Mooney Suzuki, People Get Ready, Electric Sweat, and Alive & Amplified. The band's sound can be described as hard-edged neo-glam rock meets garage rock, along the lines of Hanoi Rocks. Their name is taken from the first two singers of the 1970s German Krautrock band Can: Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki. The band was featured in the Madden 2005 soundtrack, with their song "Alive and Amplified", as well as the Burnout 3
 soundtrack, with "Shake that Bush Again." The band is now the signature artist for the Suzuki brand (the automaker). An edited "Alive and Amplified" appears on all Suzuki commericals, pun intended. The ad placement has helped keep the band on the map. "Alive and Amplified" was featured once again in the 2006 remake of Fun with Dick and Jane, as well as the 2006 film Grandma's Boy. The band composed the original songs performed by Jack Black and the Kids for the movie School of Rock. Combine a splash of surf, a pinch of rhythm and blues, a few fistfuls of soul, a whole lotta 60's-inspired rock n' roll, and you get the musical phenomenon that is The Woggles. From songs that shake the rafters to shows that tear the roof off, The Woggles are a four-man delivery system for 200-proof butt-shakin' r-o-c-k. The Gore Gore Girls are a meeting of the Stooges and The Ronettes. "These Girls take the two best musical movements to come out of Detroit ( Motown and Garage Rock) and smash
 them together to create a sexy, sultry sound similar to how Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made For Walking" would sound being performed by The Runaways. The Gore Gore Girls are a show not to be missed" The Gals of Gore deliver what other contemporaries can’t: a powerful, girl-group sound that will send shivers down your spine and dancin heat to your feet. An R&B and punk rock union made in heaven! Gore Gore Girls’ simple yet savage take on hip shakin’ rock-n-roll numbers and ferocious live show make them noteworthy and unique. Influenced by equal parts Kinks, Stooges, Marvelettes and some down home dirty love, Gore Gore Girls know how to deliver caustic yet sweet pop numbers in an original girl-group style. The GGGs also feature Reigning Sound bassist Carol Schumacher! The Vacancies have been described as “exactly what the music industry is missing right now – raw, solid powerful bass lines and riffs combined with lyrics that are infectious, unpretentious and completely
 relatable.” The band's influences range from The Ramones, The Clash, The Stooges and The Dead Boys to The Beatles. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, The Vacancies music and live performances give the listener an honest and profound punk rock that is magnified by their high energy, high powered shows. From Billy Crooked's incredible performances on lead vocals, to Michael James' driving guitar, coupled with Bo's powerful bass and Angelo Merendino's giant drums, this band is a must see to believe. 8 PM, $20, Ballroom, all ages

Sat Sep 16 Rhys Chatham. clvlnd gtr RHYS CHATHAM altered the DNA of rock. The New York-born composer began as a classically-trained prodigy, but by 1975, Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones. It was an inspired amalgamation — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock — and with it Chatham created a new type of urban music. Raucous and ecstatic, this sound energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, prefigured the No Wave movement and cast a huge influence over the subsequent work of Chatham’s many protégés, including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth. This release contains all of Chatham’s best work of the period, from the notorious “Guitar Trio” (1977) and the tumultuous, brass-based “Massacre on MacDougal Street” (1982), to the soaring, euphoric
 masterpiece, “Die Donnergötter” (1986). The gatefold jacket (lp version) and the 32-page book (accompanying the cd version) feature rare photos plus essays by Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, as well as artwork by famed visual artist Robert Longo. Now widely available for the first time, these tracks vividly document those glorious years in the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and the danceable merged, and a new era of rock was born. “For years Rhys Chatham’s music has been more heard about than heard. While his work languished out of print, disciples such as Sonic Youth have gone to the bank with his sound. Chatham’s sonic vocabulary is an inspired marriage of minimalist structures, rock cadences and glittering overtones obtained from massed electric guitars played in unusual tunings at crushing volume. [His] knack for garbling indelible melodies in gorgeous sonorities makes them as attractive as ever today.” —CHICAGO
 TRIBUNE “Blue Oyster Cult and Kiss might’ve made noises about guitar armies, but it took composer Rhys Chatham to actually deploy one. And there’s no other way to say this: It rocks.” —MAGNET “A huge reckoning with one of the downtown greats looming larger than the Federal Reserve building. Chatham is huge... a crowning achievement.” —PITCHFORK “Surging phosphorescence....Uplifting.” —ROLLING STONE “Black-and-Decker classical.” —GUITAR PLAYER 9 PM $10 adv $12 dos Tavern all ages

Sat Sep 16 Return of Simple CD release Party, Blazer, Expecting Rain, The Floorwalkers Return of Simple is a piano rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Their sound draws as heavily from the light simplicity of pop music as it does the rich classical music tradition for a sound that is both fun and smart. Return of Simple is the vision of pianist/vocalist Rob Kovacs, along with Tim Fisher on electric bass guitar and backing vocals and Joe Scale on drum kit. With a list of degrees that trumps some major record labels and an eclectic array of experiences and influences, Return of Simple states their case for pop music clearly like water from a crystal glass. The piano pop of Ben Folds provides a starting point for new listeners, but the depths of their sound offer a unique fusion of classical integrity and popular appeal. Rob and Tim started working together covering that other intersection between pop and art, Radiohead, but with as much passion they had for music, it was
 inevitable that they start their own band. Rob had worked in high school cover bands, and Tim had played trombone for a number of years before picking up a bass. As a duo, they recorded a three-song 'Blue Demo' which featured drum-less versions of compositions to be featured on their forthcoming debut record. Soon after, they recruited Joe Scale, a young but experienced drummer to fill in the rhythm. With a name lifted from a Langston Hughes short story, Return of Simple began working clubs, first around their college, Baldwin-Wallace, and later as far out as New York. The trio arrangement gives full flight to the band's curiosity. Rob's acoustic piano skills give balance and structure to the songs, and the vocal harmonies blend with Beach Boys virtuosity on tracks like 'Hover.' Joe's beats allow the band to explore the subtle dance attributes present in Rob's compositions, light years away from the blunt-force dance punks. Tim's bass lines dont groove like the copy cat
 funk bassists in rock, but feel more like extensions of the piano in their variety and sense of melody. Rob's tender vocals hold the high lead melodies that showcase their mastery of pop. Return of Simple exudes professionalism in everything they do. When watching them play, the parts are wildly different at times, but they come together with metronomic precision. Rob Kovacs composes the songs, lyrics and music for Return of Simple. His composition style splits the fence between short structured pop songs, and elegant classical compositions. The songs have an arch like shape with momentous choruses and intense climaxes, all within a balanced form. The ballads are sweet and the witty songs are sly in their words. The common themes are observational and objective, with the same professionalism that laces itself in the playing. On stage, Return of Simple plays the crowd like another instrument they have mastered and invite people to get lost in the music. The songs adapt
 themselves very well to the stage, each being written without studio trickery or designs that would require more than what Return of Simple can offer with just their instruments and a place to play. Blazer play anthemic, warm-sounding indie pop; Expecting Rain pick up where Simon & Garfunkel left off (when was that, anyway?), and The Floorwalkers play solid, rootsy pop. 8:30 PM, $7, Ballroom 

Sun Sep 17 Metal Hearts (Suicide Squeeze), Pattern Is Movement, The X Bolex, 9 Volt Haunted House Growing up is a bitch; it is just that simple. It’s a heartbreaking mix of bullies, break-ups, and braces. Finding your voice in that mess of hormones is a daunting task that irks many of us through our adult life. Yet somehow in the thick of it all, Baltimore duo and avid shoplifters Metal Hearts have musically found a way to reassemble and redefine those woes into a record that is as refined as it is raw. Eighteen-year-old Anar Badalov and Nineteen-year-old Flora Wolpert-Checknoff began making music together in January 2004. Before the band could blink they were opening for Pedro The Lion in front of a packed hometown crowd and had themselves a record deal. On their Suicide Squeeze debut, Socialize, the duo (along with drummer/recording engineer Sam Leiber) drop a mope-addled dose of bedroom rock. On which Anar's baritone lends a low foundation to Flora's airy registers.
 Sonically meshing together the angular bites of Long Drive-era Modest Mouse, the expansive bedroom drone of Arab Strap, and the subtle whispers of Cat Power. All through blended waves of layered finger picking, sparse drum loops, stringed accompaniments and distinctive vocal melodies that weave in-and-out from the duo’s respective extremes. In 2004, Philadelphia’s Pattern is Movement released their debut full length record “The (Im)possibility of Longing.” Self-recorded and meticulously arranged it introduced Pattern is Movement’s knack for blending complex rhythms with classic melodies. This was most notably recognized by Pitchfork Media: “Pattern Is Movement more than transcend the math-rock tag, and their senses of song craft and pop accessibility greatly outpace those of just about any of their peers (full review here).” However, not content to rest on their laurels, PIM traded in the bedroom for a plane trip to San Francisco. There they set up shop for two weeks to
 record at John Vanderslice’s all analog studio – Tiny Telephone. There, PIM crafted a record that included a vast amount of orchestration – from cellos and violins to tape speed edits. X Bolex and 9 Volt Haunted House are Cleveland's own, deconstructing pop over beers. 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages
Monday Sep 18 Trainwreck (Kyle Gass from Tenacious D), Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival When he's not playing as one half of Tenacious D -- the self-proclaimed greatest band on earth -- Gass moonlights as lead guitar in his side project, Trainwreck. It's almost surprising that he finds the time, what with Tenacious D's ongoing quest for world domination. He and Jack Black have already produced a short-lived HBO series (which reruns on Comedy Central), a self-titled album (released in 2001), and a DVD: Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks. Obviously, there was nothing left to do but go Hollywood. The Tenacious D movie, Pick of Destiny, which will open a week before Christmas, tells the fictional tale of the duo's initial meeting and the subsequent quest to acquire a devil-headed pick used by Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, and Angus Young, among other guitar greats. In the film, Black becomes Gass' follower after seeing him play guitar, but in real life, the pairing took a
 rockier road. The two met in Tim Robbins' theater troupe, the Actors' Gang, when Black -- then in high school -- performed in one of its shows. Initially, Gass was "cold as ice," according to Black. But heartbreak and pot eventually brought the two together, and they began getting stoned and writing songs, during a period that is lovingly chronicled in the movie. As Black's career in Hollywood began to take off, Gass missed the road. So several years ago, he started Trainwreck with J.R. Reed (aka "Lee" from Tenacious D). Gass hadn't decided what to do with Trainwreck when he got a call from former Phish guitarist Page McConnell, who wanted Gass to open for his band, Vida Blue, on short notice. So Gass decided to form a real band. He hooked up with three guys from Columbus -- guitarist John Konesky, bassist John Spiker, and drummer Dallas St. Bernard -- who became his rhythm section. As much about performance as about music, the quintet's over-the-top classic rock is gilded
 with humor, such as the "solo fan" used to produce the appropriate blowing-hair effect to accompany the band's guitar-shredding. And Gass, who is bald, loves donning outrageous rugs. (clevescene.com) Hey, let's face facts: a lot of you jokers will be here to see the holy fire raised by the duo known as Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival, who will get you to get drop kicked by Jesus, over the goal posts of life. 9 PM $12 Tavern all ages 

Tues. Sept. 19 Cibelle ("the new electro-brazilian sound"), blktygr Like no one else we can think of, Cibelle makes use of a variety of elements to create unique, imaginative and enchanting pieces of music. Listening to each of the songs on The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves is like hearing a story and exploring a landscape full of surprises, all at once. Cibelle's lyrics and musical ideas are directly derived from her emotional life: she says she likes to use her life as a lab, and claims to be the hamster and the scientist all at once... Cibelle produced this album over a period of 18 months, taking some of the tracks with her from London (where she now resides) to São Paulo (her home town) and back, gathering along the way contributions from various coproducers and performers including Mike Lindsay (from UK folktronica act Tunng), Apollo Nove (the innovative producer/artist from São Paulo, who produced most of her debut album), Parisian mixer Yann Arnaud (Air, Sebastien
 Schuller), and guests such as Seu Jorge (of 'City Of God' and 'The Life Aquatic' fame), Devendra Banhart, and CocoRosie collaborator Spleen. While some of the album's ten original compositions (written by Cibelle in partnership with her various collaborators) and three covers are simple, limpid crystalline gems (such as her Train Station, her renditions of Tom Waits' Green Grass and of Jobim's Por toda minha vida to name but a few), some others are genuine pop mini-symphonies bursting with ideas, with musical and lyrical story lines which take you from A to Z without ever looking back (Lembra, Flying High, City People, Phoenix). Also noteworthy are Mad Man Song, in which all the sounds but one were created by Cibelle and Spleen using only their voices, spoons, sugarcubes, cups and coffee… and London, London (sung in duet with Devendra Banhart), a song written by Brazilian hero/star Caetano Veloso while he was living in forced exile in London during the early '70s, which
 strangely echoes Cibelle's own (voluntary) move to the UK some 30 years later. The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves will be released in April 2006. Cibelle will be performing all around Europe and North America throughout the rest of the year, with her 4-piece band (Kristian Craig Robinson: guitar, keyboards, live processing - Felipe Pagani: guitars - Vladimiro Carboni: drums - Cibelle: vocals, percussion and live processing). Experimental soul trio blktygr will whisk you into a sensual world of electric wires, restless limbs, and haunted voices. 8 PM, $15, Tavern, all ages

Wed. Sept. 20 Ryan Humbert, Tobias Froberg For singer, songwriter, producer, promoter and radio host Ryan Humbert, music is his life. From rock to bluegrass, punk to country, blues to folk, Ryan's musical tastes span ages and decades unlike many 25 year olds. Returning to Akron, Ohio after school, Humbert couldn't stay away from music. Ryan continued to play local venues in both acoustic shows and with a reformed version of the Hand-Me-Downs that included backup vocalist Emily Bates. Around this time Humbert also started writing his first CD, appropriately titled, 'Nothing to Lose'. Ryan's debut effort came out in May of 2004 to rave reviews and was voted one of the "must have CDs of 2004" by Dan Kane of the Canton Repository. The Nothing to Lose CD release party featured a 17-piece band playing a blistering two-hour set to a crowd of over 500 people. After the release of "Nothing to Lose", and six months of playing live show, Humbert hit the studio again in November of
 2004 with a fresh batch of songs that would become his sophomore album, "Hangman". The album was released in May of 2005 to critical acclaim, including the Cleveland Scene, The Cleveland Free Times, and more. Over the past two years Humbert has logged over 200 show playing both acoustic and with his band, including opening slots for Foreigner, The Gin Blossoms, Alana Davis, The Subdudes, The Damnwells, Tim Easton, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, The Push Stars and regularly for roots-rocker John Eddie when he comes to Northeast Ohio. Swedish artist Tobias Froberg has signed his new album "Somewhere In The City" to the UK label Poptones Records, run by the legendary music guru Alan McGee, the man who discovered and signed Oasis and Primal Scream amongst others and put The Hives career on track by signing them to Poptones. The agreement was made via Tobias's label Fire Egg Recordings and is for the UK, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Alan McGee said last week:
 "He's the next Scandinavian Superstar". Tobias's track "When the night turns cold" from the new album is already being used in the pan-European TV ad for Panasonic Lumix cameras. Tobias is already signed via Fire Egg to Scandinavian indie Playground for Scandinavia and Baltic states and to Cheap Lullaby for the US, where the track has already been played last week by influential Radio station WXPN. --- The first album, For Elisabeth Wherever She Is was produced, played, arranged and basically everything by Tobias Froberg & Linus Larsson. It was released in 2004, and was nominated for album of the year at the swedish indie grammies. Now, in 2006, Tobias and Linus have finished their second one, called "Somewhere in the city". As before, Tobias and Linus play every instrument, but this time theyve got company from a couple of good friends. Ane Brun sings the duet "Love and misery", which also can be heard on Anes beautiful album, Duets (www.anebrun.com). Teitur
 (www.teitur.com) sings background vocals and plays piano on a song titled For Elisabeth wherever you are (a sequal to the huge number of Elisabeth-songs from the first album). Teitur and Tobias have co-written the title-track, Somewhere in the city. Swedish fella Existensminimum. 9 PM, $5, Tavern, all ages

Thu. Sept. 21 Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray), The Sadies (co-headliners The Sadies will open and back Heavy Trash) As a kid growing up in Canada, MATT VERTA-RAY used to argue with his pals that Johnny Cash was cooler than Kiss. When he moved to New York, he put his theory into extreme practice by thumping the bass with Madder Rose and then creating a stabbing electric guitar style with Speedball Baby. When not perpetrating his sick brand of twang on stage, he can be found twirling the knobs in his NY Hed studio (where he has recorded such luminaries as Andre Williams, Robert Quine, and the Triple X-rated Rudy Ray Moore). With Jon Spencer he has finally achieved his dream of becoming HEAVY TRASH. After the demise of his groovy hate-fuck band Pussy Galore, JON SPENCER formed The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and for the past 14 years has continually proven to the most exciting and innovative performer in rock ?n? roll. On stage and in the studio he has destroyed
 and rebuilt American roots music with such abandon it is hard to believe that there is anything left. When not devastating audiences with Blues Explosion, Jon found the time to get down with his pal Matt Verta-Ray to cook up some HEAVY TRASH. Spending most of their time on the road both in North America and abroad, The Sadies are at home on any stage they're on, with a typical show lasting 35 to 40 songs, give or take five or ten. The band's mind-blowing technical dexterity, coupled with their almost careless stage presence and reckless aesthetic, add up to make their live shows very special events. With their rep as a band not to miss, a live disc seemed a natural addition to their recorded legacy, a set of recordings that captures what The Sadies are all about. The Sadies have become as renowned for their collaborations as for their own albums, they had quite a list of friends to invite: The Sadies are the band on Neko Case's The Tigers Have Spoken and appear on her new
 studio album; they're also featured on the Mayors or the Moon album with Mekons/Waco Brothers frontman/artiste Jon Langford and they've made an album with soul legend Andre Williams, Red Dirt. The Sadies have a longtime relationship with the members of Blue Rodeo and its frontman, Greg Keelor, as well as Rick White (Elevator, Eric's Trip) and the Sadies/Keelor/Rick White trippy side project, The Unintended. Most recently, The Sadies have done live dates with Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray raunchabilly band Heavy Trash so Jon and Matt flew in for the sessions. 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom, all ages

Thu Sep 21 Yat-kha (Shamanistic Siberian throat singing meets Motorhead, Joy Division and Kraftwerk), Madbunny This strange and wonderful band from the heart of central Asia are named after the beautiful giant zither that lead singer and founder member Albert Kuvezin often plucks at on stage. At other times, though, he'll be grinding out fuzzed up riffs from an electric guitar. These instruments neatly symbolise the two main things in Yat-Kha's unique sound  a fusion of traditional Tuvan folklore and rock music. Albert Kuvezin first began began to explore this mix after leaving Tuva's acoustic ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu over *ahem* personal and artistic differences in 1993. Two years later, Yat-Kha put out their debut album Yenisei Punk, and there have been four more international releases since, as well as two live albums. Partly due to participants taking extended 'paternity leave', and the fiendishly tough logistics of being roving ambassadors for the smallest and
 most remote Republic of the Russian Federation, Yat-Kha's membership is in constant flux. Shows may feature a blues-soaked cameo by elegant singer Sailyk Ommun ('Little Bird') and ethereal vocal harmonics (höömei) from long term collaboraor Aldynool Sevek ('the most under-recorded throatsinger in Tuva'). There will also probably be a 2-stringed igil, or horse hair cello, sawing away underneath, and perhaps a twanging khomuz or Jew's harp. And you will definitely hear drummer Zhenya Tkachov ('more Russian than the Russians'), pounding away shamanically on his kengyry (Tuvan bodhran). Most certainly, there will be rock! Over the years, Albert's skills have developed. He learnt the yat-kha, for starters. And he's moved on from adapting traditional Tuvan songs to writing his own, initially in his first language and then in English, as first heard on Tuva Rock (2003). The latest studio album, significantly sub-titled 'Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha' is a kind of homage to
 Albert's (mostly, but not all western) rock and pop icons. Re-covers (2005) features Albert's growling sub-bass kanzat vocals on twisted and at times comedic versions of classics by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Motörhead, Kraftwerk and Joy Divison. For Siberia's most lovably odd band, the next steppe must surely be world domination. What is Madbunny? No one really knows. Be prepared to be scared and surprised. 9 pm $10 adv $12 dos Tavern all ages 

Fri Sept. 22 Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men, Patrick Sweany Band Dave Alvin has always lived in California. His songwriting has always been shaped by his fellow California songwriters. So his new album, West of West: Songs from California Songwriters--Volume 1, is, in some ways, as autobiographical as any of his albums, even though he only wrote one half of one of the 13 songs. Dave's music is a braid of different American musics--blues, country, rock'n'roll, pop, folk and R&B--and in each strand, he favors the California accent. His favorite blues, for example, is the West Coast scene that coalesced around Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker after World War II. Dave's favorite country music is the Bakersfield Sound of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. His favorite R&B is the South Central L.A. scene of Jesse Belvin, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Richard Berry and the Calvanes. His favorite folk songwriters are the California heirs of Woody Guthrie's years there--Kate Wolf, Jim Ringer,
 Mary McCaslin, Rosalie Sorrels and Tom Russell. His favorite pop-rock songwriters are the chroniclers of California's collision of sun-tanned hopes and film-noir disappointments-- Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson and Stan Ridgway. Dave was born in Los Angeles on November 11, 1955, and he grew up in the blue-collar inner suburb of Downey. Dave's brother Phil, older by two years, was a blues fanatic who allowed his kid brother to tag along to the Ashgrove nightclub to hear such blues greats as Big Joe Turner, Lee Allen and T-Bone Walker. They all came from somewhere else, too, but they were Californians by the time the Alvin boys befriended them. Dave, Phil, drummer Bill Bateman and bassist John Bazz formed the Blasters in 1979. Before long, the group expanded to include pianist Gene Taylor and saxophonists Steve Berlin and Lee Allen. The Blasters released four of the best rock'n'roll albums of the '80s with Phil singing the lead vocals and Dave writing the songs and
 playing the lead guitar. They were the Kings of California until tensions between the two brothers drove them apart. Dave, by now living in Los Angeles itself, left the band in 1986 and briefly joined X and The Knitters, two bands led by his L.A. pal John Doe. Dave launched his solo career with the 1987 album, Romeo's Escape, and except for such side projects as The Knitters, The Pleasure Barons and a Blasters reunion, has been a solo artist ever since. Dave's solo albums have ranged from the twangy roots-rock of Blue Blvd. to the storytelling country-folk of King of California to the muscular blues of Ashgrove. He won the Best Traditional Folk Grammy Award for his 2000 album, Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land. During the 1990s, he produced albums for artists as different as rockabilly legend Sonny Burgess, Western swing revivalist Big Sandy & the Fly-Rite Boys, singer-songwriter Tom Russell, ex-burlesque queen Candye Kane, alt-country heroes The Derailers and
 pop-rock siren Christy McWilson. Dave's songs have been recorded by artists as varied as Dwight Yoakam, Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, X, Joe Ely, Little Milton, James McMurtry, Johnny Rodriguez, Jo-El Sonnier, Robert Earl Keen, Barrence Whitfield and Robbie Fulks. The Patrick Sweany Band plays high-energy blues that's more akin to full-throttle rock than generic white-boy blues; he's got a new joint recorded by Jimbo Mathus(Squirrel Nut Zippers, Buddy Guy) and Dan Auerbach (Black Keys, with whom he's shared a stage). 8 PM, $15 Adv./$18 DOS, Ballroom, all ages

Fri Sep 22 The Schwartz Bros You know 'em, you love 'em: madman Glenn Schwartz invokes the Lord and beats the living daylights out of his guitar like none other, joined by his brother, Gene. Gene plays with Robert Lockwood Jr. and still races hotrods. 9 PM, FREE, Tavern, all ages 

Sat. Sept. 23 Be Your Own Pet, The Black Lips, Plasma for Guns Nothing’s gonna stop 'em. Four friends (3 dudes, 1 femme) get together in Nashville basement and compare notes. Likes: caffeine, spicy food, T Rex, Television, bicycles, Iggy & the Stooges, skateboarding, Afri Rampo, sea horses, Velvet Underground, asthma inhalers, Animal Collective. Dislikes: boredom, posers, posers, boredom, flat tires, runny eggs, lameness, boredom. Actually boredom’s pretty cool cuz then you can SMASH IT! Be Your Own Pet smash through it all. Jemina Pearl’s voice is a wild wonder whipping through the motorcycle guitar thrash of buddy Jonas Stein and landing on the wicked beat/note interplay of rhythm monsters Nathan Vasquez (bass) and Jamin Orrall (drums). It all started sort of in 2003 when Jamin’s bro Jake played bass and they were called the Night Shift Nurses. London label XL Recordings re-released it with an extra track and more hearts were ignited. The band continue to play local freak
 scenes with their coterie of friends and fans going ballistic. Small house parties are where the energy develops. Lucky for the rest of us they like to get in the van and cruise outta town. They destroyed and dominated 2004’s CMJ in New York and subsequently South By Southwest.. Rough Trade UK were in attendance, tongues dripping with rock juice, and released a single. Next move was to record an LP and Steve McDonald of Redd Kross manned the controls. The Black Lips are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7" EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn't sit well, even with the dawning of the 21st century and all it promised. Wildly cross-eyed broken stars destined to waver in their importance in the cosmos, they know no boundaries and they take no pretense. Like a volatile and teetering amalgamation of the SWELL MAPS trying to cover the SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS, it's just not right
 for this world. Unless you long for the unhinged freedom that comes with music that challenges everything without becoming an unlistenable mess of sound. It's a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. About Plasma For Guns' influences: oh, you know, your garden variety "hip" bands... paying close attention to equal representation of all genres, sub-genres, diversities, and minorities, however irrelevant, obscure, and unimportant to your own personal opinions they may or may not be... 9 PM, $10, Tavern, all ages

Sat Sep 23 89.3 WCSB 30th Birthday Party feat. Mifune, Crazy Marvin & The Blues Express, Big Buildings and Rainy Day Saints 
WCSB celebrates 30 years of non-commercial programming on Cleveland's radio airwaves. Cleveland State University's student-run, listener supported radio station, 89.3 FM, to host a week of on-air anniversary events, culminating in a birthday party presented in partnership with the Beachland Ballroom. Cleveland, September 17-23, 2006: Former WCSB DJS will be returning throughout "Retro Week" to host more than a dozen shows in a variety of genre categories. The complete schedule is available at: http://www.wcsb.org/RetroSchedule.html. Seeking Former Members: Former WCSB DJs are encouraged to contact the station for a personal invitation to the anniversary party and to sign up for future updates. Email anniversary at wcsb.org or call the Business Office at 216.687.3523. About the bands: Mifune plays afrobeat from the future, Crazy Marvin is a blues throwback to this city's nitty, gritty past, Big Buildings are from Chicago and are reminscent of Archers of Loaf; Rainy Day Saints
 are a powerful rock combo that do it up like Cheap Trick. $5, Ballroom, all ages

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Mon. Sept. 25 Calexico, Oakley Hall. 8 PM, $15 Adv/$17 DOS Ballroom all ages

Mon Sep 25 The Lovekill, The Modern Saints, To Be A High Powered Executive, Demander 9 PM $7 Tavern all ages 

Tue. Sept. 26 Entrance, Beast, Theodore Vril, 9 PM, $8, tavern, all ages 

Wed Sep 27 Jack Ingram, Bobby Lanphier & The Bitter Disappointments, 8 PM $15 Ballroom all ages

Wed Sep 27 Child Abuse, Silentist, Thee Scarcity of Tanks, 9 PM $5 Tavern all ages

Thurs Sept 28 Jeff Lang, 8 PM, $12, Tavern, all ages

Thu. Sept. 28 The Breakfast, One Under, 8 Adv./$10 DOS, Ballroom, all ages, presented in conjunction w/ The Grog Shop

Fri Sep 29 Kid Congo Powers (ex Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Seeds) and The Pink Monkey Birds, Home and Garden, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages, note: date was changed from 9-28.

Fri Sep 29 Microphone Meltdown II featuring Ill Disciples, Weapon X, t.r.i.p., Deeper Meaning. 9 PM door 9:30 show $8, Tavern, all ages

Sat. Sept 30 No Means No (legendary Canadian punk trio), Self-Destruct Button, Giant Eagle 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom, all ages

Sat Sep 30 Hem, 8:30 PM, $15, Tavern, all ages 

Sun. Oct. 1 Peelander-Z, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages

Sun Oct 1 Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez 7:30 PM $12 adv $14 dos Ballroom

NEW SHOW Mon Oct 2 Chris Trapper (from the Push Stars), Princes of Hollywood, 8 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages

NEW SHOW Tue Oct 3 Global Battle of the Bands, 8 PM, bands TBA, Ballroom

Wed Oct. 4 Ladytron, CSS (Subpop Records, from Brazil), 9 PM, $15 Adv./$17 DOS, Ballroom, all ages, presented in conjunction w/ The Grog Shop 

Thu. Oct. 5 Sunset Rubdown, Beaver, 8 PM, $10, Ballroom, all ages

Fri. Oct. 6 Lords of the Highway---DVD Release Party, with The Marauders, Kill the Hippies 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages 

Fri Oct 6 Marcia Ball 8 PM $22 adv $25 dos Ballroom all ages

Sat Oct 7 Music Saves' Melanie's 30th Birthday feat. Tall Pines, Helper T-Cells, 9 PM, Tavern, all ages, FREE

NEW SHOW Sat. Oct 7 New Riders of the Purple Sage, 8:30 PM, $18 Adv./$20 DOS, Ballroom, all ages 

Sun Oct. 8 Suicide Girls w/ special guests tsu shi ma mi re. 9 PM $12 Ballroom, 18+ only! 

Sun Oct. 8 The Uppercrust, Supagroup, Welcome to Bangkok, 9 PM $10, Tavern, all ages

NEW SHOW Mon. Oct. 9 Beirut, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom 

Tue. Oct. 10 America's Funnyman--Neil Hamburger, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages 

Tue Oct 10 California Guitar Trio 8 PM $18 adv $20 dos Ballroom all ages non smoking

Wed Oct 11 Matt Nathanson, Carbonleaf, 8:30 PM, $12, Ballroom, all ages 

Thu Oct 12 Jolie Holland, David Dondero 8:30 $10 adv $12 dos Tavern all ages 

Fri. Oct. 13 Lisa Germano (new record on Michael Gira's Young God Records), 8 PM, $10, Tavern 

Sat. Oct 14 Ian McLagan and the Bump Band, 9 PM, $12 adv, $15 dos, Tavern, all ages 

Tue. Oct. 17 The Yellow Umbrella Tour 2006 featuring Kaki King, Christine Baze, 8 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages

Tue. Oct. 17 Damien Dempsey, 8 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages, no smoking show

Thu Oct 19 The Volta Sound, Asteroid #4, Stereo Workers Union, 9 PM, $5 Tavern all ages 

Wed Oct 18 Tea Leaf Green, The Maji, 8 PM $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom all ages

Wed Oct 18 Paul Thorn, 8 PM, $15 Tavern all ages 

Sat. Oct 21 An Evening with Steve Poltz, 8 PM, $14, Tavern, all ages

Sun. Oct. 22 Skerik, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages 

NEW SHOW Mon. Oct. 23 John Popper Project w/ DJ Logic (Popper is in Blues Traveler), 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages 

Wed Oct 25 Xiu Xiu, Congs for Brums, Dirty Projectors, 8:30 PM, $10, Ballroom, all ages

Fri. Oct. 27 Los Straitjackets Twist Party feat. The World Famous Pontani Sisters and Kaiser George, 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages

Fri Oct 27 Archie Bronson Outfit, opening: Benjy Ferree, New Lou Reeds, 9 PM, $10, Tavern, all ages 

NEW SHOW Sat Oct 28 Ante Up Audio Artist Showcase with Cobra Verde, Cactus 12, Copperfoot, Up Ensemble, Nicholas Megalis, Mr. Gnome, Ryan Wilkins, $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom and Tavern all ages 

Wed Nov 1 Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, opening: As Fast As, 8 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages

Thu Nov 2 Magnolia Electric Company, Ladyhawk 9 PM, $8 adv $10 dos, Ballroom, all ages 

Fri Nov 3 Will Hoge, The Jack Fords, 8:30 PM, $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom all ages

Fri. Nov. 3 Califone, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages

NEW SHOW Sat Nov 4 Cococoma, Headache City, Homostupids, 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages 

Sun Nov 5 Leon Russell with Band 7 PM $25 adv $28 dos Ballroom all ages

NEW SHOW Wed. Nov. 8 Joe Deninzon, 8 PM, $5, Tavern, all ages 

Thu Nov 9 The Decemberists, Alasdair Roberts @ the Agora Theatre, 5000 Euclid Avenue, 216-881-2221 sponsored by the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern 9PM, $20 adv 22 dos

Thu Nov 9 The English Beat 8:30 PM $20 Ballroom all ages 

Nov 10 Bears, Panda and Angel (Jade Tree Records), Machine Go Boom, 9 PM, $5, Tavern all ages

Sun. Nov 12 Chirlgilchin--Master Throat Singers from Tuva, 8 PM, $15, Tavern 

Mon Nov 13 The Coalition of the Willing (Charlie Hunter, Robert Walter, Skerik, Bobby Previte), 8:30 PM, $16 adv, $18 dos, Ballroom, all ages 

Thu Nov 16 Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics 9 PM $10 Tavern all ages 

Sat. Nov. 18 Say Anything, Me Without You, Piebald, Forgive Durden, 6 PM, $12.50 Adv./$15 DOS, Ballroom, all ages ($1 charge at door for those under 21). 

Mon Nov 20 Willie Nelson night with Whitey Morgan and the Waycross Georgia Farmboys (From Detroit), Hayshaker Jones, G.S. Harper, Woodshed Mercy, 8 PM $5 Tavern all ages

NEW SHOW Fr. Nov. 24 Pere Ubu, 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages 

NEW SHOW Sat. Nov. 25 Cleveland's Screaming---3! Knifedance, The 2 Bobs, The Guns, Chrome Kickers, more TBA, 8:30 PM, $15, Ballrom & Tavern (both rooms!) 

Mon Dec 4 Bob Schneider, 8 PM $13.50 adv $15 dos Ballroom all ages

NEW SHOW Sat. Dec. 23 The Revelers---Yuletide Reunion, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages 

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<DIV> <DIV> <div> BEACHLAND BALLROOM AND TAVERN 15711 WATERLOO ROAD CLEVELAND, OHIO 44110 216-383-1124 </div> <HR> <div>Thu Sep 14 Joe Lally (Fugazi bassist solo show, record on Dischord), Antelope (Dischord), Series Joe Lally has played bass in Fugazi since their inception in 1986. In 2003 the members of Fugazi decided to take an indefinite hiatus from recording and performing. Since that time Joe has continued to write and perform both solo material and collaborations with various musicians and friends. "There to Here", to be released on Dischord in October 2006, was recorded by Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios and at the Dischord House and features Lally's compositions with contributions from Eddie Janney (Rites of
 Spring, One Last Wish), Jason Kourkounis (Hot Snakes, Delta 72, etc.), Jerry Busher (French Toast), Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Ian Mackaye (The Evens, Fugazi), Amy Farina (The Evens), Scott (Wino) Weinrich (Spirit Caravan, Hidden Hand), and Danny Frankel (KD Lang). Joe has been playing regional east coast dates with Don Zientara, toured in Italy and will be touring the states with Antelope in the fall of 2006. Antelope plays meditative, stripped-down, punk music and has been together since 2001. The trio is currently touring and recording a full length record for release in early 2007 on Washington D.C.'s Dischord Records. Antelope features: Mike Andre formerly of Vertebrates, Bee Elvy formerly of Vertebrates, Justin Moyer also of Supersystem and Edie Sedgwick. Series is a fun band from Cleveland that on this night will feature new tunes and a new lineup! All the kids will be here! 9 PM, $7, Tavern, all ages Fri. Sept. 15 Little
 Steven's Underground Garage Presents The Rolling Rock and Roll Show: The Zombies (feat. Colin Blunstone & Rob Argent), The Mooney Suzuki, The Woggles, The Gore Gore Girls, The Vacancies Little Steven's Underground Garage is throwing a travelling festival this September dubbed the Rolling Rock and Roll Show. The event will feature Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of pioneering of 60's British Invasion / psychadelia act the Zombies, modern garage rockers the Mooney Suzuki and the Woggles on all dates. The west coast will see appearances by Phantom Planet, the midwest features the Gore Gore Girls, the east cost the Fleshtones and the south will include the Forty Fives. The show kicks off on September 5th and runs into October. Click below for the dates. The event's been described to Punknews.org as "pretty much a live version of the radio show: Short sets, go-go girls in between bands, psychedelic lights, the whole shebang." And now, ladies and gentlemen, the shebang:
 Led by Rod Argent's flashy, jazzy piano and Colin Blunstone's sweetly melodic voice, the band scored hits in the mid-1960s with "She's Not There," "Tell Her No," and "Time of the Season." Although they never rose to the prominence of other British invasion bands, The Zombies are a favourite of music critics for their complex musical arrangements and vocal harmonies. Their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle is now considered one of the best of its time. he Mooney Suzuki is a rock and roll band formed in 1996. They have released four albums, The Mooney Suzuki, People Get Ready, Electric Sweat, and Alive & Amplified. The band's sound can be described as hard-edged neo-glam rock meets garage rock, along the lines of Hanoi Rocks. Their name is taken from the first two singers of the 1970s German Krautrock band Can: Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki. The band was featured in the Madden 2005 soundtrack, with their song "Alive and Amplified", as well as the Burnout 3 soundtrack, with
 "Shake that Bush Again." The band is now the signature artist for the Suzuki brand (the automaker). An edited "Alive and Amplified" appears on all Suzuki commericals, pun intended. The ad placement has helped keep the band on the map. "Alive and Amplified" was featured once again in the 2006 remake of Fun with Dick and Jane, as well as the 2006 film Grandma's Boy. The band composed the original songs performed by Jack Black and the Kids for the movie School of Rock. Combine a splash of surf, a pinch of rhythm and blues, a few fistfuls of soul, a whole lotta 60's-inspired rock n' roll, and you get the musical phenomenon that is The Woggles. From songs that shake the rafters to shows that tear the roof off, The Woggles are a four-man delivery system for 200-proof butt-shakin' r-o-c-k. The Gore Gore Girls are a meeting of the Stooges and The Ronettes. "These Girls take the two best musical movements to come out of Detroit ( Motown and Garage Rock) and smash them together to
 create a sexy, sultry sound similar to how Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made For Walking" would sound being performed by The Runaways. The Gore Gore Girls are a show not to be missed" The Gals of Gore deliver what other contemporaries can’t: a powerful, girl-group sound that will send shivers down your spine and dancin heat to your feet. An R&B and punk rock union made in heaven! Gore Gore Girls’ simple yet savage take on hip shakin’ rock-n-roll numbers and ferocious live show make them noteworthy and unique. Influenced by equal parts Kinks, Stooges, Marvelettes and some down home dirty love, Gore Gore Girls know how to deliver caustic yet sweet pop numbers in an original girl-group style. The GGGs also feature Reigning Sound bassist Carol Schumacher! The Vacancies have been described as “exactly what the music industry is missing right now – raw, solid powerful bass lines and riffs combined with lyrics that are infectious, unpretentious and completely relatable.”
 The band's influences range from The Ramones, The Clash, The Stooges and The Dead Boys to The Beatles. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, The Vacancies music and live performances give the listener an honest and profound punk rock that is magnified by their high energy, high powered shows. From Billy Crooked's incredible performances on lead vocals, to Michael James' driving guitar, coupled with Bo's powerful bass and Angelo Merendino's giant drums, this band is a must see to believe. 8 PM, $20, Ballroom, all ages Sat Sep 16 Rhys Chatham. clvlnd gtr RHYS CHATHAM altered the DNA of rock. The New York-born composer began as a classically-trained prodigy, but by 1975, Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones. It was an inspired amalgamation — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock — and with it Chatham
 created a new type of urban music. Raucous and ecstatic, this sound energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, prefigured the No Wave movement and cast a huge influence over the subsequent work of Chatham’s many protégés, including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth. This release contains all of Chatham’s best work of the period, from the notorious “Guitar Trio” (1977) and the tumultuous, brass-based “Massacre on MacDougal Street” (1982), to the soaring, euphoric masterpiece, “Die Donnergötter” (1986). The gatefold jacket (lp version) and the 32-page book (accompanying the cd version) feature rare photos plus essays by Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, as well as artwork by famed visual artist Robert Longo. Now widely available for the first time, these tracks vividly document those glorious years in the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and the danceable merged, and a new era
 of rock was born. “For years Rhys Chatham’s music has been more heard about than heard. While his work languished out of print, disciples such as Sonic Youth have gone to the bank with his sound. Chatham’s sonic vocabulary is an inspired marriage of minimalist structures, rock cadences and glittering overtones obtained from massed electric guitars played in unusual tunings at crushing volume. [His] knack for garbling indelible melodies in gorgeous sonorities makes them as attractive as ever today.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE “Blue Oyster Cult and Kiss might’ve made noises about guitar armies, but it took composer Rhys Chatham to actually deploy one. And there’s no other way to say this: It rocks.” —MAGNET “A huge reckoning with one of the downtown greats looming larger than the Federal Reserve building. Chatham is huge... a crowning achievement.” —PITCHFORK “Surging phosphorescence....Uplifting.” —ROLLING STONE “Black-and-Decker classical.” —GUITAR PLAYER 9 PM $10 adv $12 dos
 Tavern all ages Sat Sep 16 Return of Simple CD release Party, Blazer, Expecting Rain, The Floorwalkers Return of Simple is a piano rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Their sound draws as heavily from the light simplicity of pop music as it does the rich classical music tradition for a sound that is both fun and smart. Return of Simple is the vision of pianist/vocalist Rob Kovacs, along with Tim Fisher on electric bass guitar and backing vocals and Joe Scale on drum kit. With a list of degrees that trumps some major record labels and an eclectic array of experiences and influences, Return of Simple states their case for pop music clearly like water from a crystal glass. The piano pop of Ben Folds provides a starting point for new listeners, but the depths of their sound offer a unique fusion of classical integrity and popular appeal. Rob and Tim started working together covering that other intersection between pop and art, Radiohead, but with as much passion they
 had for music, it was inevitable that they start their own band. Rob had worked in high school cover bands, and Tim had played trombone for a number of years before picking up a bass. As a duo, they recorded a three-song 'Blue Demo' which featured drum-less versions of compositions to be featured on their forthcoming debut record. Soon after, they recruited Joe Scale, a young but experienced drummer to fill in the rhythm. With a name lifted from a Langston Hughes short story, Return of Simple began working clubs, first around their college, Baldwin-Wallace, and later as far out as New York. The trio arrangement gives full flight to the band's curiosity. Rob's acoustic piano skills give balance and structure to the songs, and the vocal harmonies blend with Beach Boys virtuosity on tracks like 'Hover.' Joe's beats allow the band to explore the subtle dance attributes present in Rob's compositions, light years away from the blunt-force dance punks. Tim's bass lines dont
 groove like the copy cat funk bassists in rock, but feel more like extensions of the piano in their variety and sense of melody. Rob's tender vocals hold the high lead melodies that showcase their mastery of pop. Return of Simple exudes professionalism in everything they do. When watching them play, the parts are wildly different at times, but they come together with metronomic precision. Rob Kovacs composes the songs, lyrics and music for Return of Simple. His composition style splits the fence between short structured pop songs, and elegant classical compositions. The songs have an arch like shape with momentous choruses and intense climaxes, all within a balanced form. The ballads are sweet and the witty songs are sly in their words. The common themes are observational and objective, with the same professionalism that laces itself in the playing. On stage, Return of Simple plays the crowd like another instrument they have mastered and invite people to get lost in the
 music. The songs adapt themselves very well to the stage, each being written without studio trickery or designs that would require more than what Return of Simple can offer with just their instruments and a place to play. Blazer play anthemic, warm-sounding indie pop; Expecting Rain pick up where Simon & Garfunkel left off (when was that, anyway?), and The Floorwalkers play solid, rootsy pop. 8:30 PM, $7, Ballroom Sun Sep 17 Metal Hearts (Suicide Squeeze), Pattern Is Movement, The X Bolex, 9 Volt Haunted House Growing up is a bitch; it is just that simple. It’s a heartbreaking mix of bullies, break-ups, and braces. Finding your voice in that mess of hormones is a daunting task that irks many of us through our adult life. Yet somehow in the thick of it all, Baltimore duo and avid shoplifters Metal Hearts have musically found a way to reassemble and redefine those woes into a record that is as refined as it is raw. Eighteen-year-old Anar Badalov and
 Nineteen-year-old Flora Wolpert-Checknoff began making music together in January 2004. Before the band could blink they were opening for Pedro The Lion in front of a packed hometown crowd and had themselves a record deal. On their Suicide Squeeze debut, Socialize, the duo (along with drummer/recording engineer Sam Leiber) drop a mope-addled dose of bedroom rock. On which Anar's baritone lends a low foundation to Flora's airy registers. Sonically meshing together the angular bites of Long Drive-era Modest Mouse, the expansive bedroom drone of Arab Strap, and the subtle whispers of Cat Power. All through blended waves of layered finger picking, sparse drum loops, stringed accompaniments and distinctive vocal melodies that weave in-and-out from the duo’s respective extremes. In 2004, Philadelphia’s Pattern is Movement released their debut full length record “The (Im)possibility of Longing.” Self-recorded and meticulously arranged it introduced Pattern is Movement’s
 knack for blending complex rhythms with classic melodies. This was most notably recognized by Pitchfork Media: “Pattern Is Movement more than transcend the math-rock tag, and their senses of song craft and pop accessibility greatly outpace those of just about any of their peers (full review here).” However, not content to rest on their laurels, PIM traded in the bedroom for a plane trip to San Francisco. There they set up shop for two weeks to record at John Vanderslice’s all analog studio – Tiny Telephone. There, PIM crafted a record that included a vast amount of orchestration – from cellos and violins to tape speed edits. X Bolex and 9 Volt Haunted House are Cleveland's own, deconstructing pop over beers. 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages</div>Monday Sep 18 Trainwreck (Kyle Gass from Tenacious D), Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival When he's not playing as one half of Tenacious D -- the self-proclaimed
 greatest band on earth -- Gass moonlights as lead guitar in his side project, Trainwreck. It's almost surprising that he finds the time, what with Tenacious D's ongoing quest for world domination. He and Jack Black have already produced a short-lived HBO series (which reruns on Comedy Central), a self-titled album (released in 2001), and a DVD: Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks. Obviously, there was nothing left to do but go Hollywood. The Tenacious D movie, Pick of Destiny, which will open a week before Christmas, tells the fictional tale of the duo's initial meeting and the subsequent quest to acquire a devil-headed pick used by Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, and Angus Young, among other guitar greats. In the film, Black becomes Gass' follower after seeing him play guitar, but in real life, the pairing took a rockier road. The two met in Tim Robbins' theater troupe, the Actors' Gang, when Black -- then in high school -- performed in one of its shows. Initially, Gass
 was "cold as ice," according to Black. But heartbreak and pot eventually brought the two together, and they began getting stoned and writing songs, during a period that is lovingly chronicled in the movie. As Black's career in Hollywood began to take off, Gass missed the road. So several years ago, he started Trainwreck with J.R. Reed (aka "Lee" from Tenacious D). Gass hadn't decided what to do with Trainwreck when he got a call from former Phish guitarist Page McConnell, who wanted Gass to open for his band, Vida Blue, on short notice. So Gass decided to form a real band. He hooked up with three guys from Columbus -- guitarist John Konesky, bassist John Spiker, and drummer Dallas St. Bernard -- who became his rhythm section. As much about performance as about music, the quintet's over-the-top classic rock is gilded with humor, such as the "solo fan" used to produce the appropriate blowing-hair effect to accompany the band's guitar-shredding. And Gass, who is bald, loves
 donning outrageous rugs. (clevescene.com) Hey, let's face facts: a lot of you jokers will be here to see the holy fire raised by the duo known as Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival, who will get you to get drop kicked by Jesus, over the goal posts of life. 9 PM $12 Tavern all ages Tues. Sept. 19 Cibelle ("the new electro-brazilian sound"), blktygr Like no one else we can think of, Cibelle makes use of a variety of elements to create unique, imaginative and enchanting pieces of music. Listening to each of the songs on The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves is like hearing a story and exploring a landscape full of surprises, all at once. Cibelle's lyrics and musical ideas are directly derived from her emotional life: she says she likes to use her life as a lab, and claims to be the hamster and the scientist all at once... Cibelle produced this album over a period of 18 months, taking some of the tracks with her from London (where she now resides) to São Paulo
 (her home town) and back, gathering along the way contributions from various coproducers and performers including Mike Lindsay (from UK folktronica act Tunng), Apollo Nove (the innovative producer/artist from São Paulo, who produced most of her debut album), Parisian mixer Yann Arnaud (Air, Sebastien Schuller), and guests such as Seu Jorge (of 'City Of God' and 'The Life Aquatic' fame), Devendra Banhart, and CocoRosie collaborator Spleen. While some of the album's ten original compositions (written by Cibelle in partnership with her various collaborators) and three covers are simple, limpid crystalline gems (such as her Train Station, her renditions of Tom Waits' Green Grass and of Jobim's Por toda minha vida to name but a few), some others are genuine pop mini-symphonies bursting with ideas, with musical and lyrical story lines which take you from A to Z without ever looking back (Lembra, Flying High, City People, Phoenix). Also noteworthy are Mad Man Song, in which all
 the sounds but one were created by Cibelle and Spleen using only their voices, spoons, sugarcubes, cups and coffee… and London, London (sung in duet with Devendra Banhart), a song written by Brazilian hero/star Caetano Veloso while he was living in forced exile in London during the early '70s, which strangely echoes Cibelle's own (voluntary) move to the UK some 30 years later. The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves will be released in April 2006. Cibelle will be performing all around Europe and North America throughout the rest of the year, with her 4-piece band (Kristian Craig Robinson: guitar, keyboards, live processing - Felipe Pagani: guitars - Vladimiro Carboni: drums - Cibelle: vocals, percussion and live processing). Experimental soul trio blktygr will whisk you into a sensual world of electric wires, restless limbs, and haunted voices. 8 PM, $15, Tavern, all ages Wed. Sept. 20 Ryan Humbert, Tobias Froberg For singer, songwriter, producer, promoter and
 radio host Ryan Humbert, music is his life. From rock to bluegrass, punk to country, blues to folk, Ryan's musical tastes span ages and decades unlike many 25 year olds. Returning to Akron, Ohio after school, Humbert couldn't stay away from music. Ryan continued to play local venues in both acoustic shows and with a reformed version of the Hand-Me-Downs that included backup vocalist Emily Bates. Around this time Humbert also started writing his first CD, appropriately titled, 'Nothing to Lose'. Ryan's debut effort came out in May of 2004 to rave reviews and was voted one of the "must have CDs of 2004" by Dan Kane of the Canton Repository. The Nothing to Lose CD release party featured a 17-piece band playing a blistering two-hour set to a crowd of over 500 people. After the release of "Nothing to Lose", and six months of playing live show, Humbert hit the studio again in November of 2004 with a fresh batch of songs that would become his sophomore album, "Hangman". The album
 was released in May of 2005 to critical acclaim, including the Cleveland Scene, The Cleveland Free Times, and more. Over the past two years Humbert has logged over 200 show playing both acoustic and with his band, including opening slots for Foreigner, The Gin Blossoms, Alana Davis, The Subdudes, The Damnwells, Tim Easton, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, The Push Stars and regularly for roots-rocker John Eddie when he comes to Northeast Ohio. Swedish artist Tobias Froberg has signed his new album "Somewhere In The City" to the UK label Poptones Records, run by the legendary music guru Alan McGee, the man who discovered and signed Oasis and Primal Scream amongst others and put The Hives career on track by signing them to Poptones. The agreement was made via Tobias's label Fire Egg Recordings and is for the UK, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Alan McGee said last week: "He's the next Scandinavian Superstar". Tobias's track "When the night turns cold" from the new
 album is already being used in the pan-European TV ad for Panasonic Lumix cameras. Tobias is already signed via Fire Egg to Scandinavian indie Playground for Scandinavia and Baltic states and to Cheap Lullaby for the US, where the track has already been played last week by influential Radio station WXPN. --- The first album, For Elisabeth Wherever She Is was produced, played, arranged and basically everything by Tobias Froberg & Linus Larsson. It was released in 2004, and was nominated for album of the year at the swedish indie grammies. Now, in 2006, Tobias and Linus have finished their second one, called "Somewhere in the city". As before, Tobias and Linus play every instrument, but this time theyve got company from a couple of good friends. Ane Brun sings the duet "Love and misery", which also can be heard on Anes beautiful album, Duets (www.anebrun.com). Teitur (www.teitur.com) sings background vocals and plays piano on a song titled For Elisabeth wherever you are
 (a sequal to the huge number of Elisabeth-songs from the first album). Teitur and Tobias have co-written the title-track, Somewhere in the city. Swedish fella Existensminimum. 9 PM, $5, Tavern, all ages Thu. Sept. 21 Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray), The Sadies (co-headliners The Sadies will open and back Heavy Trash) As a kid growing up in Canada, MATT VERTA-RAY used to argue with his pals that Johnny Cash was cooler than Kiss. When he moved to New York, he put his theory into extreme practice by thumping the bass with Madder Rose and then creating a stabbing electric guitar style with Speedball Baby. When not perpetrating his sick brand of twang on stage, he can be found twirling the knobs in his NY Hed studio (where he has recorded such luminaries as Andre Williams, Robert Quine, and the Triple X-rated Rudy Ray Moore). With Jon Spencer he has finally achieved his dream of becoming HEAVY TRASH. After the demise of his groovy hate-fuck band Pussy
 Galore, JON SPENCER formed The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and for the past 14 years has continually proven to the most exciting and innovative performer in rock ?n? roll. On stage and in the studio he has destroyed and rebuilt American roots music with such abandon it is hard to believe that there is anything left. When not devastating audiences with Blues Explosion, Jon found the time to get down with his pal Matt Verta-Ray to cook up some HEAVY TRASH. Spending most of their time on the road both in North America and abroad, The Sadies are at home on any stage they're on, with a typical show lasting 35 to 40 songs, give or take five or ten. The band's mind-blowing technical dexterity, coupled with their almost careless stage presence and reckless aesthetic, add up to make their live shows very special events. With their rep as a band not to miss, a live disc seemed a natural addition to their recorded legacy, a set of recordings that captures what The Sadies are all
 about. The Sadies have become as renowned for their collaborations as for their own albums, they had quite a list of friends to invite: The Sadies are the band on Neko Case's The Tigers Have Spoken and appear on her new studio album; they're also featured on the Mayors or the Moon album with Mekons/Waco Brothers frontman/artiste Jon Langford and they've made an album with soul legend Andre Williams, Red Dirt. The Sadies have a longtime relationship with the members of Blue Rodeo and its frontman, Greg Keelor, as well as Rick White (Elevator, Eric's Trip) and the Sadies/Keelor/Rick White trippy side project, The Unintended. Most recently, The Sadies have done live dates with Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray raunchabilly band Heavy Trash so Jon and Matt flew in for the sessions. 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom, all ages Thu Sep 21 Yat-kha (Shamanistic Siberian throat singing meets Motorhead, Joy Division and Kraftwerk), Madbunny This strange and wonderful band
 from the heart of central Asia are named after the beautiful giant zither that lead singer and founder member Albert Kuvezin often plucks at on stage. At other times, though, he'll be grinding out fuzzed up riffs from an electric guitar. These instruments neatly symbolise the two main things in Yat-Kha's unique sound a fusion of traditional Tuvan folklore and rock music. Albert Kuvezin first began began to explore this mix after leaving Tuva's acoustic ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu over *ahem* personal and artistic differences in 1993. Two years later, Yat-Kha put out their debut album Yenisei Punk, and there have been four more international releases since, as well as two live albums. Partly due to participants taking extended 'paternity leave', and the fiendishly tough logistics of being roving ambassadors for the smallest and most remote Republic of the Russian Federation, Yat-Kha's membership is in constant flux. Shows may feature a blues-soaked cameo by elegant
 singer Sailyk Ommun ('Little Bird') and ethereal vocal harmonics (höömei) from long term collaboraor Aldynool Sevek ('the most under-recorded throatsinger in Tuva'). There will also probably be a 2-stringed igil, or horse hair cello, sawing away underneath, and perhaps a twanging khomuz or Jew's harp. And you will definitely hear drummer Zhenya Tkachov ('more Russian than the Russians'), pounding away shamanically on his kengyry (Tuvan bodhran). Most certainly, there will be rock! Over the years, Albert's skills have developed. He learnt the yat-kha, for starters. And he's moved on from adapting traditional Tuvan songs to writing his own, initially in his first language and then in English, as first heard on Tuva Rock (2003). The latest studio album, significantly sub-titled 'Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha' is a kind of homage to Albert's (mostly, but not all western) rock and pop icons. Re-covers (2005) features Albert's growling sub-bass kanzat vocals on twisted and at
 times comedic versions of classics by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Motörhead, Kraftwerk and Joy Divison. For Siberia's most lovably odd band, the next steppe must surely be world domination. What is Madbunny? No one really knows. Be prepared to be scared and surprised. 9 pm $10 adv $12 dos Tavern all ages Fri Sept. 22 Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men, Patrick Sweany Band Dave Alvin has always lived in California. His songwriting has always been shaped by his fellow California songwriters. So his new album, West of West: Songs from California Songwriters--Volume 1, is, in some ways, as autobiographical as any of his albums, even though he only wrote one half of one of the 13 songs. Dave's music is a braid of different American musics--blues, country, rock'n'roll, pop, folk and R&B--and in each strand, he favors the California accent. His favorite blues, for example, is the West Coast scene that coalesced around Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker after World
 War II. Dave's favorite country music is the Bakersfield Sound of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. His favorite R&B is the South Central L.A. scene of Jesse Belvin, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Richard Berry and the Calvanes. His favorite folk songwriters are the California heirs of Woody Guthrie's years there--Kate Wolf, Jim Ringer, Mary McCaslin, Rosalie Sorrels and Tom Russell. His favorite pop-rock songwriters are the chroniclers of California's collision of sun-tanned hopes and film-noir disappointments-- Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson and Stan Ridgway. Dave was born in Los Angeles on November 11, 1955, and he grew up in the blue-collar inner suburb of Downey. Dave's brother Phil, older by two years, was a blues fanatic who allowed his kid brother to tag along to the Ashgrove nightclub to hear such blues greats as Big Joe Turner, Lee Allen and T-Bone Walker. They all came from somewhere else, too, but they were Californians by the time the Alvin boys befriended
 them. Dave, Phil, drummer Bill Bateman and bassist John Bazz formed the Blasters in 1979. Before long, the group expanded to include pianist Gene Taylor and saxophonists Steve Berlin and Lee Allen. The Blasters released four of the best rock'n'roll albums of the '80s with Phil singing the lead vocals and Dave writing the songs and playing the lead guitar. They were the Kings of California until tensions between the two brothers drove them apart. Dave, by now living in Los Angeles itself, left the band in 1986 and briefly joined X and The Knitters, two bands led by his L.A. pal John Doe. Dave launched his solo career with the 1987 album, Romeo's Escape, and except for such side projects as The Knitters, The Pleasure Barons and a Blasters reunion, has been a solo artist ever since. Dave's solo albums have ranged from the twangy roots-rock of Blue Blvd. to the storytelling country-folk of King of California to the muscular blues of Ashgrove. He won the Best Traditional Folk
 Grammy Award for his 2000 album, Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land. During the 1990s, he produced albums for artists as different as rockabilly legend Sonny Burgess, Western swing revivalist Big Sandy & the Fly-Rite Boys, singer-songwriter Tom Russell, ex-burlesque queen Candye Kane, alt-country heroes The Derailers and pop-rock siren Christy McWilson. Dave's songs have been recorded by artists as varied as Dwight Yoakam, Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, X, Joe Ely, Little Milton, James McMurtry, Johnny Rodriguez, Jo-El Sonnier, Robert Earl Keen, Barrence Whitfield and Robbie Fulks. The Patrick Sweany Band plays high-energy blues that's more akin to full-throttle rock than generic white-boy blues; he's got a new joint recorded by Jimbo Mathus(Squirrel Nut Zippers, Buddy Guy) and Dan Auerbach (Black Keys, with whom he's shared a stage). 8 PM, $15 Adv./$18 DOS, Ballroom, all ages Fri Sep 22 The Schwartz Bros You know 'em, you love 'em: madman Glenn
 Schwartz invokes the Lord and beats the living daylights out of his guitar like none other, joined by his brother, Gene. Gene plays with Robert Lockwood Jr. and still races hotrods. 9 PM, FREE, Tavern, all ages Sat. Sept. 23 Be Your Own Pet, The Black Lips, Plasma for Guns Nothing’s gonna stop 'em. Four friends (3 dudes, 1 femme) get together in Nashville basement and compare notes. Likes: caffeine, spicy food, T Rex, Television, bicycles, Iggy & the Stooges, skateboarding, Afri Rampo, sea horses, Velvet Underground, asthma inhalers, Animal Collective. Dislikes: boredom, posers, posers, boredom, flat tires, runny eggs, lameness, boredom. Actually boredom’s pretty cool cuz then you can SMASH IT! Be Your Own Pet smash through it all. Jemina Pearl’s voice is a wild wonder whipping through the motorcycle guitar thrash of buddy Jonas Stein and landing on the wicked beat/note interplay of rhythm monsters Nathan Vasquez (bass) and Jamin Orrall (drums). It all
 started sort of in 2003 when Jamin’s bro Jake played bass and they were called the Night Shift Nurses. London label XL Recordings re-released it with an extra track and more hearts were ignited. The band continue to play local freak scenes with their coterie of friends and fans going ballistic. Small house parties are where the energy develops. Lucky for the rest of us they like to get in the van and cruise outta town. They destroyed and dominated 2004’s CMJ in New York and subsequently South By Southwest.. Rough Trade UK were in attendance, tongues dripping with rock juice, and released a single. Next move was to record an LP and Steve McDonald of Redd Kross manned the controls. The Black Lips are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7" EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn't sit well, even with the dawning of the 21st century and all it promised. Wildly cross-eyed
 broken stars destined to waver in their importance in the cosmos, they know no boundaries and they take no pretense. Like a volatile and teetering amalgamation of the SWELL MAPS trying to cover the SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS, it's just not right for this world. Unless you long for the unhinged freedom that comes with music that challenges everything without becoming an unlistenable mess of sound. It's a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. About Plasma For Guns' influences: oh, you know, your garden variety "hip" bands... paying close attention to equal representation of all genres, sub-genres, diversities, and minorities, however irrelevant, obscure, and unimportant to your own personal opinions they may or may not be... 9 PM, $10, Tavern, all ages Sat Sep 23 89.3 WCSB 30th Birthday Party feat. Mifune, Crazy Marvin & The Blues Express, Big Buildings
 and Rainy Day Saints WCSB celebrates 30 years of non-commercial programming on Cleveland's radio airwaves. Cleveland State University's student-run, listener supported radio station, 89.3 FM, to host a week of on-air anniversary events, culminating in a birthday party presented in partnership with the Beachland Ballroom. Cleveland, September 17-23, 2006: Former WCSB DJS will be returning throughout "Retro Week" to host more than a dozen shows in a variety of genre categories. The complete schedule is available at: http://www.wcsb.org/RetroSchedule.html. Seeking Former Members: Former WCSB DJs are encouraged to contact the station for a personal invitation to the anniversary party and to sign up for future updates. Email anniversary at wcsb.org or call the Business Office at 216.687.3523. About the bands: Mifune plays afrobeat from the future, Crazy Marvin is a blues throwback to this city's nitty, gritty past, Big Buildings are from Chicago and are reminscent of
 Archers of Loaf; Rainy Day Saints are a powerful rock combo that do it up like Cheap Trick. $5, Ballroom, all ages <HR> Mon. Sept. 25 Calexico, Oakley Hall. 8 PM, $15 Adv/$17 DOS Ballroom all ages Mon Sep 25 The Lovekill, The Modern Saints, To Be A High Powered Executive, Demander 9 PM $7 Tavern all ages Tue. Sept. 26 Entrance, Beast, Theodore Vril, 9 PM, $8, tavern, all ages Wed Sep 27 Jack Ingram, Bobby Lanphier & The Bitter Disappointments, 8 PM $15 Ballroom all ages Wed Sep 27 Child Abuse, Silentist, Thee Scarcity of Tanks, 9 PM $5 Tavern all ages Thurs Sept 28 Jeff Lang, 8 PM, $12, Tavern, all ages Thu. Sept. 28 The Breakfast, One Under, 8 Adv./$10 DOS, Ballroom, all ages, presented in conjunction w/ The Grog Shop Fri Sep 29 Kid Congo Powers (ex Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Seeds) and The Pink Monkey Birds, Home and Garden, 9 PM,
 $8, Tavern, all ages, note: date was changed from 9-28. Fri Sep 29 Microphone Meltdown II featuring Ill Disciples, Weapon X, t.r.i.p., Deeper Meaning. 9 PM door 9:30 show $8, Tavern, all ages Sat. Sept 30 No Means No (legendary Canadian punk trio), Self-Destruct Button, Giant Eagle 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom, all ages Sat Sep 30 Hem, 8:30 PM, $15, Tavern, all ages Sun. Oct. 1 Peelander-Z, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages Sun Oct 1 Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez 7:30 PM $12 adv $14 dos Ballroom NEW SHOW Mon Oct 2 Chris Trapper (from the Push Stars), Princes of Hollywood, 8 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages NEW SHOW Tue Oct 3 Global Battle of the Bands, 8 PM, bands TBA, Ballroom Wed Oct. 4 Ladytron, CSS (Subpop Records, from Brazil), 9 PM, $15 Adv./$17 DOS, Ballroom, all ages, presented in conjunction w/ The Grog Shop Thu. Oct. 5 Sunset Rubdown, Beaver, 8 PM, $10, Ballroom, all ages Fri. Oct. 6 Lords of the
 Highway---DVD Release Party, with The Marauders, Kill the Hippies 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages Fri Oct 6 Marcia Ball 8 PM $22 adv $25 dos Ballroom all ages Sat Oct 7 Music Saves' Melanie's 30th Birthday feat. Tall Pines, Helper T-Cells, 9 PM, Tavern, all ages, FREE NEW SHOW Sat. Oct 7 New Riders of the Purple Sage, 8:30 PM, $18 Adv./$20 DOS, Ballroom, all ages Sun Oct. 8 Suicide Girls w/ special guests tsu shi ma mi re. 9 PM $12 Ballroom, 18+ only! Sun Oct. 8 The Uppercrust, Supagroup, Welcome to Bangkok, 9 PM $10, Tavern, all ages NEW SHOW Mon. Oct. 9 Beirut, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Ballroom Tue. Oct. 10 America's Funnyman--Neil Hamburger, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages Tue Oct 10 California Guitar Trio 8 PM $18 adv $20 dos Ballroom all ages non smoking Wed Oct 11 Matt Nathanson, Carbonleaf, 8:30 PM, $12, Ballroom, all ages Thu Oct 12 Jolie Holland, David Dondero 8:30 $10 adv $12 dos Tavern all ages
 Fri. Oct. 13 Lisa Germano (new record on Michael Gira's Young God Records), 8 PM, $10, Tavern Sat. Oct 14 Ian McLagan and the Bump Band, 9 PM, $12 adv, $15 dos, Tavern, all ages Tue. Oct. 17 The Yellow Umbrella Tour 2006 featuring Kaki King, Christine Baze, 8 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages Tue. Oct. 17 Damien Dempsey, 8 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages, no smoking show Thu Oct 19 The Volta Sound, Asteroid #4, Stereo Workers Union, 9 PM, $5 Tavern all ages Wed Oct 18 Tea Leaf Green, The Maji, 8 PM $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom all ages Wed Oct 18 Paul Thorn, 8 PM, $15 Tavern all ages Sat. Oct 21 An Evening with Steve Poltz, 8 PM, $14, Tavern, all ages Sun. Oct. 22 Skerik, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages NEW SHOW Mon. Oct. 23 John Popper Project w/ DJ Logic (Popper is in Blues Traveler), 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages Wed Oct 25 Xiu Xiu, Congs for Brums, Dirty Projectors, 8:30 PM, $10,
 Ballroom, all ages Fri. Oct. 27 Los Straitjackets Twist Party feat. The World Famous Pontani Sisters and Kaiser George, 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages Fri Oct 27 Archie Bronson Outfit, opening: Benjy Ferree, New Lou Reeds, 9 PM, $10, Tavern, all ages NEW SHOW Sat Oct 28 Ante Up Audio Artist Showcase with Cobra Verde, Cactus 12, Copperfoot, Up Ensemble, Nicholas Megalis, Mr. Gnome, Ryan Wilkins, $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom and Tavern all ages Wed Nov 1 Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, opening: As Fast As, 8 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages Thu Nov 2 Magnolia Electric Company, Ladyhawk 9 PM, $8 adv $10 dos, Ballroom, all ages Fri Nov 3 Will Hoge, The Jack Fords, 8:30 PM, $10 adv $12 dos Ballroom all ages Fri. Nov. 3 Califone, 9 PM, $10 Adv./$12 DOS, Tavern, all ages NEW SHOW Sat Nov 4 Cococoma, Headache City, Homostupids, 9 PM, $6, Tavern, all ages
 Sun Nov 5 Leon Russell with Band 7 PM $25 adv $28 dos Ballroom all ages NEW SHOW Wed. Nov. 8 Joe Deninzon, 8 PM, $5, Tavern, all ages Thu Nov 9 The Decemberists, Alasdair Roberts @ the Agora Theatre, 5000 Euclid Avenue, 216-881-2221 sponsored by the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern 9PM, $20 adv 22 dos Thu Nov 9 The English Beat 8:30 PM $20 Ballroom all ages Nov 10 Bears, Panda and Angel (Jade Tree Records), Machine Go Boom, 9 PM, $5, Tavern all ages Sun. Nov 12 Chirlgilchin--Master Throat Singers from Tuva, 8 PM, $15, Tavern Mon Nov 13 The Coalition of the Willing (Charlie Hunter, Robert Walter, Skerik, Bobby Previte), 8:30 PM, $16 adv, $18 dos, Ballroom, all ages Thu Nov 16 Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics 9 PM $10 Tavern all ages Sat. Nov. 18 Say Anything, Me Without You, Piebald, Forgive Durden, 6 PM, $12.50 Adv./$15 DOS, Ballroom, all ages ($1 charge at door for those under 21). Mon Nov 20
 Willie Nelson night with Whitey Morgan and the Waycross Georgia Farmboys (From Detroit), Hayshaker Jones, G.S. Harper, Woodshed Mercy, 8 PM $5 Tavern all ages NEW SHOW Fr. Nov. 24 Pere Ubu, 9 PM, $15, Ballroom, all ages NEW SHOW Sat. Nov. 25 Cleveland's Screaming---3! Knifedance, The 2 Bobs, The Guns, Chrome Kickers, more TBA, 8:30 PM, $15, Ballrom & Tavern (both rooms!) Mon Dec 4 Bob Schneider, 8 PM $13.50 adv $15 dos Ballroom all ages NEW SHOW Sat. Dec. 23 The Revelers---Yuletide Reunion, 9 PM, $8, Tavern, all ages </DIV> <div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"> </div></DIV>

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