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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

MONDAY, OCT 18, 2010 7PM

All Time Low
Nobody wants to have to grow up in public. But when you’re young, talented and creating something that strikes a chord with enough people, sometimes you’ve got no choice. For the members of All Time Low, who cut two strong indie releases and inked their Hopeless Records deal before they’d even finished high school, that’s just the path they had to take. And with their new album, So Wrong, It’s Right, these 2006 graduates from the Baltimore suburbs prove they’re growing up just fine.

Produced by Matt Squire(Panic! At the Disco, Cute Is What We Aim For), with help from the band’s longtime collaborator Paul Leavitt (Over It), So Wrong, It’s Right finds All Time Low cranking out 12 infectious, impeccably played slabs of classic pop-punk that recall ATL’s early inspirations (Blink-182, New Found Glory) as much as they push the whole genre forward. “A lot of bands that start out being called ‘pop-punk’ either shy away from the term or end up trying to force their sound in a different direction,” singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth explains. “We’re proud of who we are, and we’re trying to take pop-punk back to where it used to be: a place that’s about having fun, being positive and building a community.”

Rocket To The Moon

City(Comma) State

$17 [BUY TICKETS] All Ages Show! / The North Star

*On Sale Sat 9/04 12:00 pm EDT

WEDNESDAY, OCT 20, 2010 7PM

The Rocket Summer:
Bryce Avary, his instruments and your voices.
The Rocket Summer is the rock solo-project of Bryce Avary, and is based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Avary is known for his unique talents as he plays every instrument on his records as well as produces them. The Rocket Summer's live shows are uplifting, energetic and emotionally charged. Avary's music has unique emotional qualities that has created a loyal and rabid following of fans around the world.

$15 [BUY TICKETS] ALL AGES / The North Star

FRIDAY, OCT 22, 2010 8PM

The Paste Magazine Tour:
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Southern rock is a minefield of rebel flags, drinking songs, and dudes yelling "Free Bird!" With Drive-By Truckers, singer-guitarist Jason Isbell learned to embrace some of those clichés; on his gritty, vibrant second solo album, he begins to transcend them. "However Long" personalizes working-class disaffection into a defiant anthem; stormy rocker "Soldiers Get Strange" is almost certainly the best tune ever written about post-traumatic stress disorder; and multiple tales of warm, lonely barrooms and the warm, lonely relationships they breed uncover new truths while traversing well-trod emotional terrain. - Spin Magazine

Langhorne Slim
It is a special time for Langhorne Slim as he is so proud to announce and present Be Set Free, his mighty third album being released by Kemado Records. One of the most endearing and standout qualities of Slim’s live shows is the sureness that one is always entering a genuine gospel-like musical experience full of little miracles. Be Set Free has captured this charisma and spirit -the “hold your heart” moments and “raise a drink” dance vibes shine throughout with lush string arrangements and the fine sonic talents of drummer Malachi DeLorenzo, new bassist Jeff Ratner and new keyboard/banjo player David Moore. Langhorne’s stronger than ever vocals lead the journey blending his poetry through the beautiful chaos and bearing a wisdom that reflects a broken heart battling the perils of true hope.Be Set Free is Langhorne’s most cinematic and cohesive effort to date. Slim has truly reached a point of light where these songs come from wide-eyed maturity and mastered craft.

Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher
“Her songs are reveries on loss, and they’re equal parts solace and clear-eyed melancholy.” - The New York Times

Mimicking Birds

$15 ADV / $18 DOS [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

SATURDAY, OCT 23, 2010 6:30PM

Bad Books
(featuring Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra)
A true accident if there ever was one; Bad Books was never an intended nor calculated side project of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Though the two musicians have collaborated and performed together on tour and within the Favorite Gentlemen community of artists for years now, the genesis of Bad Books came from a simple idea to fill space and time off the road by collaborating on a small batch of songs together at the top of the year. With no agenda and no expectations, what was birthed just one week later was Bad Books, a fully realized album encompassing five compositions each from both Devine and Hull, with the members of Manchester Orchestra filling out the sound and the band. The self-titled debut will be released October 19th, 2010 via Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the record label that was founded and has been run by Manchester Orchestra since 2007.

Right Away, Great Captain!
Andy Hull knows the fears that accumulate with miles, having spent the last two years on the road as the front-man for Manchester Orchestra. It is with those fears that he has channeled the second installment of Right Away, Great Captain!, his solo side project in which Hull continues to tell the ongoing saga of a 17th century sailor who catches his wife in an act of betrayal with his very own brother. Entitled The Eventually Home (Favorite Gentlemen Recordings), which is part two of a three chapter set, the album sees the heartbroken and wary sailor finally on his way back home, where he contemplates the various themes of God, death, and revenge.

Gobotron
Gobotron , the solo project of Manchester Orchestra guitarist Robert McDowell, started in the summer of 2008 in the basement of his parent’s house in Atlanta, Georgia. Manchester Orchestra was off the road and McDowell was anxious to creatively move in a new direction aside from working with the band. “I had been a bit lazy when we got off tour. I wasn’t recording or writing at all then, so I went to Guitar Center and got a little MIDI controller and just started messing around,” he said. “I didn’t even really tell anyone I was doing the album until it was done. It was just me alone in my parent’s basement.” Gobotron combines delicate and simple phrasings influenced from Ben Kweller to Brian Wilson, processed through pop-friendly static and piped through ear-buds waxed with Pavement.

HARDELLO
Winter storms are punishingly cold and uncomfortable, but are an important source of water for spring growth. Likewise for Dead Confederate, the series of New Jersey blizzards that besieged the recording of sophomore album Sugar (a reference to the record snowfall) also heralded growth from the darker, somber realm of their critically acclaimed Wrecking Ball. With an evolving approach and focused, streamlined sound, Sugar explores new styles beyond the aching, bleak psychadelia of the debut.
Hardy’s howling vocals have been compared to Kurt Cobain and with the lyrics and often heavy guitars, the band’s music is considered dark and haunting. Hardy is definitely the leader of the band, but he and Brantley each wrote 5 of the album’s 10 songs. And, while the band is Southern, they prefer to be known as a rock band that hails from the South.

$14 ADV / $16 DOS [BUY TICKETS] SPECIAL ALL AGES SHOW! / The North Star
*2 ticket limit per customer.

SUNDAY, OCT 24, 2010 7PM

Italy's The Watch plays GENESIS - Blue show - whole FOXTROT album 1972
Complete Foxtrot album performed plus extras from very early GENESIS production and unreleased material.

Video excerpts at: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWatchmusic#g/c/FE76A5C5328F78AE

From rockradio UK:
The Watch are an early-Genesis tribute band who also record their own material. Billed as The Blue Show - the Foxtrot album - they start with acoustic-based songs and build the tension as they add more powerful numbers. Exactly the way Genesis themselves used to do it around 1970/71

These guys really knew their subject, with singer Simone Rossetti sounding exactly like Peter Gabriel. As they moved into the powerful numbers such as Time Table and Can Utility and the Coastliners, you could feel the atmosphere build. By the time we got Musical Box and In the Cage, the band were feeding off a rapturous reception.

Guitarist Giorgio Gabriel (his real name!) managed a beautiful rendition of Steve Hackett’s classical solo piece Horizons, made all the more captivating by playing it on 12-string.

Performing everything from Foxtrot could only mean one thing – the highlight of the evening would be Supper's Ready. It was flawless: absolutely stunning. Tears flowed. Like most of the audience I've seen all the Genesis tribute bands of the last few years, including the technically brilliant but slightly soulless Musical Box. No-one outwith Genesis themselves has played this song better. I would dare to say they were the best tribute band, Genesis or otherwise, I've ever seen.

...a strong and powerful performance - Steve Hackett

Brett Kull from echolyn

$15 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

TUESDAY, OCT 26, 2010 8PM

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Punk's premier cover artists, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are a conglomerate of some of the most recognizable faces in new-school punk. Drawn together by a mutual love of '60s and '70s music, the Gimme Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. Their repertoire include songs from such acts as Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver.

Cobra Skulls

Teenage Bottlerocket

$16 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

THURSDAY, OCT 28, 2010 8PM

Bettie Seevert (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
So, you think you know Bettie Serveert, huh? The Dutch combo that set the template for '90s indie rock with their classic 1992 debut, Palomine, and its follow-ups, Lamprey (1995), and Dust Bunnies (1997). The energetic outfit that peddled their infectious, hard-edged guitar pop on numerous tours with colleagues like Belly, Dinosaur Jr., and Buffalo Tom.

Hmmm. Maybe you want to reconsider just how thoroughly acquainted with Bettie Serveert you are. Because if you approach Attagirl, the band's seventh full-length (and their first for Minty Fresh), with those opinions set in stone, you'll be as shocked as any teenybopper who slapped on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band back in 1967 expecting to hear "I Want To Hold Your Hand, Pt. 2." Oh, the players are the same. Singer Carol van Dyk, guitarist Peter Visser, and bassist Herman Bunskoeke remain front-and-center. But Attagirl is the work of a band refreshed, one full of new ideas. Put simply, this ain't your old college radio director's Bettie Serveert.

Onufrak

$12 ADV / $15 DOS [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

FRIDAY, OCT 29, 2010 9PM

K-OS
K-os, born Kevin Brereton, is a genuine neo-crossover rap n' roller who's music, much like your Ipod, might speak to hipster club kidz, pop chart gazers, Canadian indie rockers, dirty south electronic rap renegades, or reggae rude boys simultaneously. As it should - his rhyme and crooning skills took root in arguably the most polyglot and multi-cultural city on the planet, Toronto. And he's quite vocal about his not belonging to any one genre - he belongs to them all. Says K-os: "I'm a historical opportunist who’s grown up on everything from Dylan to Marley to KRS-One... I've never seen myself as just a hip hop artist".

Shad

Astronautalis
Astronautalis is andy bothwell...he writes all the lyrics and lots of the music. He also gets lots of help from these bands and musicians: the paper chase, midlake, the polyphonic spree, radical face, sarah jaffe, dj rerog, skyrider, and electric president!

$15 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

SUNDAY, OCT 31, 2010 8PM

Pietasters
The Pietasters have been served well by the signs they’ve encountered along the road during their 17 years as a band. As the sun comes up on All Day, the experience and commitment that defines The Pietasters as an entity should find friends among the faithful as well as to first-timers to the ska-soul sound.
“Allow me to toot our own collective horn when I say this,” offers Pezzimenti. “I think we made a record that will sound equally good to a music nerd and to a random dude listening. We just took our time in the studio and tried to put our own spin on the sounds we love to listen to.”

Toasters
THE TOASTERS – NYC SKA 1981- 2010 2010 kicks off both with an accolade and a burst of energy!.The newly launched CBGB radio station – powered by Clear Channel – has named the Toasters as one of their 20 core artists, ranking the band in the august company of The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Television and Patty Smith. With this tip of the hat, The Toasters role in the musical mayhem springing out of the NYC music scene as been roundly endorsed. As the New Year also ushers in comeback tours from the Specials and Madness - as the pendulum swings, - things are once again looking up for the Ska music genre both at home and abroad, so The Toasters once again embark on their blistering tour itinerary which upcoming set of dates will take them to places as diverse as Moscow and Istambul., Guadalajara and Zagreb. Now in their thirtieth year of touring the band is in top gear and has stamped an indelible imprint on the fabric of independent music.

Ruder Than You
RUDER THAN YOU was founded in 1989 at Penn State University and relocated to Philadelphia in 1991, arguably becoming the most popular ska-influenced Philadelphia band - EVER. The Ruder Than You identity has never fit too neatly into any of the generic ska categorizations. While ska and reggae stylings have always provided the common musical thread, over the past 20(!) years they've been mixing in dancehall reggae, hip-hop, rocksteady, rub-a-dub, funk, jazz, and punk - to create their own sound. What is consistant is the band’s energy and enthusiasm, which inevitably pulls people out onto the dance floor.

$15 ADV / $17 DOS [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

TUESDAY, NOV 02, 2010 8PM

The New Music Series welcomes:
Live Set Disaster
Live Set Disaster is a group of guys from outside of Philly, PA. They have a brand all their own, mixing Punk/Hardcore/Reggae and Ska. With a fuck you attitude and a complete disregard for everything around them, they press on to show you a world full of disrespect for the government and the value of friendship, while the world crumbles at their side.

Savior

Dinosaur Eyelids

The Re-Up

$7 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

WEDNESDAY, NOV 03, 2010 8PM

The Dirges (Official band of Boondock Saints II)
Fresh off The Boondock Saints 10^th Anniversary Tour which hit select cities in March of 2010, The Dirges bring their high energy show and Punk rock attitude to The North Star Bar. The show can be described, as one fan put it “ The Dirges will kick you in the face with awesomeness”. The band has shared the stage with Flogging Molly, The Briggs and Millencolin to name a few and been heard in MTV’s The Dudesons and The Boondock Saints 2.

Come “Raise a Glass” with the band BMI magazine called “Rising stars of the budding Irish-American rock movement”.

$10 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

SATURDAY, NOV 06, 2010 9PM

Headhunters featuring: Mike Clark (drums), Bill Summers (percussion), Richie Goods (bass), Geri Allen (keys), Donald Harrison (sax).
From the instant funk classic “Chameleon” to the rare groove sound of “God Make Me Funky”, the Headhunters have redefined modern funk, jazz, and world music as one of the most innovative groups in history. Founded in 1973, they recorded their eponymous debut Head Hunters with Herbie Hancock. The Headhunters, legendary jazz-funk fusion band, immortalized as a result of their long recording and touring stint with jazz giant Herbie Hancock. Hancock's “Headhunters” album was the first to be recorded with the group and has been heralded as the first platinum Jazz/Fusion project in history.

The Mumbles
The Mumbles are a New Orleans based Avant Soul Duo - a tiny band with a mighty sound. Using two keyboards and a drum kit, they combine soul music with avant and old time jazz to create "pop songs in the key of partying down" (Time Out New York). Keysman Keith Burnstein and drummer Ethan Shorter met in the rhythm section of a 14 piece hip hop orchestra, soon striking out on their own in late 2006 to write tunes that would become Mumbles mainstays. As a duo, the boys distilled songs to their essence, delighting in a dynamic that "...marries the bedroom intimacy of a singer-songwriter, with the expansive musical prowess of a psych jazz outfit" (Seven Days Vermont). After the completion of their first record, "Once Eponymous", in 2008, The Mumbles have been touring the country on the heels of a national AAA radio campaign, with fine stations nation wide playing the disc in heavy rotation. Critics have called the break-out single, 'Bite-Size (Brawn w/ Brio)', "Lounge music for the super-hip" (Roanoke Times) with a vibe that is "...equal parts Tom Waits gruffness and Woody Allen pathos" (The L Magazine).

$20 [BUY TICKETS] 21+ / The North Star

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