Soundadvice

Get Out!

	print	email	reply	rss feed

Published: Mar 26, 2008

The last several years have been a mixed blessing for Over the Rhine, inspiring both their best work and their bleakest. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel; last year's The Trumpet Child has hopeful lyrics and honest-to-God uplifting tunes. "If a Song Could Be President" drops some clues, imagining a nation with Emmylou Harris as ambassador and Neil Young in the Senate. Real life, then, can bring only disappointment.

—M.J. Fine

Thu., March 27, 8 p.m., $25, with Alfred James, Sellersville Theater, Main and Temple streets, Sellersville, 215-257-5808, st94.com.

Brass aficionados, welcome to your future. Bowerbird presents three trombonists marching straight through the envelope: Matthias Muller, performing improvised duets with drummer Christian Marien, his bandmate in the German jazz quintet Olaf Ton; Daniel Blacksberg, who's forming an increasingly seamless merger of jazz, klezmer and experimentation, soloing on alto trombone; and Steve Parker, performing compositions by Luciano Berio, Robert Erickson, and a new work from Ron Vigue.

—Shaun Brady

Thu., March 27, 8 p.m., $5-$10, Circle of Hope, 1125 S. Broad St., second floor, bowerbird.org.

Perhaps the most successful Japanese noise band of all time, the Boredoms ran screaming into the limelight in the early '90s, when they toured with grunge bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth. Since then, their abrasive sound and frenzied performance style has started to take a more ambient turn, with more acoustic percussion and Kraut-rock influences. They're playing the Starlight Ballroom with two members of Lightning Bolt, a fitting tribute to noisy excellence.

—Mary Wilson

Wed., April 2, 8 p.m., $16, Starlight Ballroom, 460 N. Ninth St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

This Saturday's album release for hip-hop project CAEN (producer Cimer Amor and MC Equinox) at the Fire will be jam-packed with other underground talents, too — namely King Syze, Digs Darklighter and DJ Cru Cut.

—Deesha Dyer

Sat., March 29, 9 p.m., $5, with CAEN, Clean Guns, King Syze, MAGR, Digs Darklighter, Cru Cut and Illit, The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-671-9298, iourecords.com/thefire.

The latest in the Kimmel's Global Jazz series heads to Eastern Europe for a demonstration of free trade music-making, where style doesn't necessarily mesh with geography. Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Szabo's sharp, sensitive attack could be the product of Brooklyn or Boston as much as Budapest, while Czech vocalist Marta Topferova traces her influences to Latin America, a far cry from the Old World.

—Shaun Brady

Sat., March 29, 7:30 p.m., $37-$43, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

 

Up Beat
R.E.M.'s Next Stand
Make a Rising
Terry Riley
Joyce DiDonato
Tamarindo
Victor Wooten