Agenda

Shopping Spree

I Heard It Today is full of scorn for the FCC, the feds and the material world as a whole. I Feel Cream's cover doesn't feature Peaches sporting a Lincolnesque beard or a sequined burqa and its song titles are all G-rated, but that doesn't mean the electroclash provocateuse has gone soft. Rodriguez's two albums of gritty, fuzzed-out social commentary reflecting on urban conditions in the Motor City circa the early '70s have been re-released, fueling his rediscovery. To mark the silver anniversary of Marty DiBergi's landmark rockumentary, Spinal Tap's gonna rock the Keswick tonight (assuming they can find the stage).
Santi's debut CD, Bienvenida, is a crushed-velvet blend of jazz sultriness, gentle Afro-Cuban inflections and pop songwriting.

The Wire owes a lot to Elmore Leonard. The Food of a Younger Land is a treasure trove of culinary idiosyncrasies, a snapshot of the final moments when there was no alternative to "Buy Local," before fast food. CND2's dancers will perform three physically demanding Duato pieces that pile on lifts, jumps and inversions to sounds ranging from Moroccan folk songs to Claude Debussy. "There's a moment where the emotion gets heightened enough where you must burst into song. That's an amazing moment in theater." A tradition of the black church — testifying — gets an artful spin in dancer/choreographer Shavon Norris' New Edge Residency piece.