By Don Allred
Giuda
Italy’s Giuda take us back to to the early 70s, when real men wore satin and had lots of big glam hits. Faces’ cage-rattling “Borstal Boys” is the only cover frequently performed, but Giuda’s own songs, including “Get It Over,” “Racey Roller,” “Here Comes Saturday Night,” and “Tartan Pants” channel classic soccer stadium-rocking sounds. Expect echoes of T. Rex’s “Bang A Gong (Get It On),” Gary Glitter’s pep rally essential “Rock And Roll Part 2,” and Slade, originators of later hair metal chart-toppers like “Mama Weer All Crazee Now.” And how!
09/05 @ Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St., 9 p.m.
Whiskey Daredevils/Righteous Buck and the Skull Scorchers
Cincy’s Whiskey Daredevils guitarist Gary Siperko recently toured with Cleveland’s resurrected garage astronauts Rocket From The Tombs. Such experiences give the WD brand of country punkabilly punch a little more spice, which is always nice. No matter what happens, the tireless Daredevils live to refuel: “There ain’t no champagne in this bottle/There ain’t no diamond in this ring/That man there ain’t no doctor/But he has/ Just the thing!” C-bus movers Righteous Buck and the Skull Scorchers thrive on what they specify as Olentangy Delta blues, electrifying atmospheric originals and traditional murder ballads too.
09/07 Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St., 9 p.m
Nobunny/Bad Sports/Dead Girlfriends/Pink Reason
Nobunny can only offer you his fuzzy bunny head, undies, and garage-pop combo. That’s enough, especially when his anthem, “Nobunny Loves You,” based on Youngstown’s Human Beinz hit “Nobody But Me,” transforms a thousand “no”s into an Easter egg hailstorm of shiny affirmations. Nobunny knows that a lot of people, places and things can only be reconciled in songs. His funny-to-spooky solutions are emulated by sparky, high-octane Texas refugees Bad Sports, shadowy yet sociable Dead Girlfriends, plus Columbus cases Pink Reason, who currently mix rising guitar lines and descending vocal melodies into classy catastrophes.
09/10 @ Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St., 8 p.m.
Sleepers Awake
Sleepers Awake share their name with Bach’s cantata concerning Judgement Day, and they were always ready for that. On 2009’s Priests of The Fire, they responded to “The Summoning,” not by getting in line, but by “dancing beneath a shattered moon,” then undertaking an epic, prog-metal journey toward Judgement. They’re still paying their toll with red-hot notes. “Playing it live is like getting mauled by a beast,” SA happily report about “Burdened,” on Transcension, officially unleashed September 29. Tonight’s pre-release listening party also includes an unplugged, probably un-mellow set of older and newer tunes.
09/13 @ Kobo Live, 2590 N. High St., 8 p.m.
As more bands blend progressive rock and metal, while more US politicians invoke laissez-faire polemicist/novelist Ayn Rand, well-preserved Canadian libertarian power trio Rush seems ahead of the curve. They’ve long since learned to test their early notions with the tension of adventurous urges and complex results. On Rush’s recent Clockwork Angels, a questing youth struggles to sort out imposed and rebellious ideals. Drummer/composer Neil Peart dynamically battles the controlling “Watchmaker,” aided by Geddy Lee Roth’s Yoda-like vocals and maze of bass, in sizzling synch with Alex Lifeson’s six- and twelve-string guitars. Their shows know about visual appeal and Spinal Tap too.
09/20 @ Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd., 7:30 p.m.
Werk Out Music & Arts Festival
Werk Out is curated by The Werks, Dayton and Columbus’s proudly proclaimed “psychedelic dance rockers,” whose enterprising energy is imaginatively extended in this year’s line-up. Electro-rockers Lotus, EOTO, and punk guitarist/rapper/DJ Solo encounter Central Ohio’s live painter/DJ Heady Ruxpin, DJ Mangua, and Carma/Attak, all co-founders of Bass Jam. Hookahville Festival’s parents, ekoostik hookah, bring rootsy jams, ditto Under The Sun, who launched Columbus’s charitable Music For Peace Festival. Also: funk, reggae, fusion, bluegrass, world music, and the Everyone Orchestra.
09/20-23 @ Legend Valley Concert Venue And Campground, 7583 Kindle Rd, Thornville, gates open: noon 09/20-23
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds/Hollis Brown
When you hear Sister Sparrow give instructions to “Shake your thing/Make it rain,” you’ll know the garden will grow. Husky-voiced and articulate, sometimes speedy but never hasty, Sparrow also veers through bluesy, restless contemplation, with the eight-man Dirty Birds’ brass, reeds, bass, drums, guitar, and guitar-like harmonica appropriately supporting her every mood and point. Equally bold young New York City indie roots rockers Hollis Brown took their name from one of Bob Dylan’s most elemental songs, and they recently covered Willie Dixon’s classic “Spoonful” with Deer Tick’s formidably intense John McCauley.
09/21 @ The Basement, 391 Neil Ave., 7 p.m.
São Paulo Underground
Brazil’s São Paulo is one of the world’s biggest cities, and its somewhat surreal, rough-edged industrial vitality seemed an intriguingly compatible challenge for composer/performer Rob Mazurek, veteran of the pioneering collective Chicago Underground. São Paulo Underground, comprised of Mazurek and three versatile Brazilian instrumentalists, also reflects his time with UK synth-pop combo Stereolab and Chicago’s jazz-influenced post-rockers Tortoise. Most typically, SPU evokes the spirit of Miles Davis’s shape-shifting melodic grooves, as Marzurek’s cornet makes a rich, sometimes darkly smoldering impact on the urban earth of 21st Century Brazilian acoustic/electric/electronic soundscapes.
09/23 @ Wexner Center Performance Space, 1871 N. High St., 7 p.m.
Dane Terry
Columbus-to-Brooklyn singer/songwriter/sci-fi fan Dane Terry’s cabaret space odyssey began as he discovered secret connections between little ditties about, for instance, “Earth predators in space, and a fun day out with my uncles.” With influences including Cole Porter and country classics, Terry’s always relished musical narrative, further developed via well-timed improvisation, as he sharpens his piano and acting skills. Tonight’s show, The Parring Estate, explores the legacy of a strange and marvelous inventor. This concert, CityMusic Columbus’s annual fundraiser, will be in a residential area; you’ll know it by CMC’s signs and balloons.
09/27 @ CityMusic Columbus, 4272 Dublin Rd. 6:30 p.m.
Karate Coyote/The Receiver/Indigo Wild/Charles Erickson
Tonight’s bands ride and guide potentially mellow melodies and harmonies into urgent mergers. “Undulate and oscillate/I can’t change what I am,” Karate Coyote’s male and female voices confess on their brand new self-titled second full-length album, where art-pop acrobatics play off straight-ahead drive, as concise notes (to selves and significant others) get nailed to KC’s songswept drama. Meanwhile, The Receiver’s space station perspective melds with the translucent blue views of Indigo Wild’s forthcoming “Highpoint” and “Pacific,” spinning around an imperiled world. It’s all good; Clampdown Party DJ Charles Erickson’s got everybody’s back.
09/28 @ Skully’s, 1151 N. High St.. 9 p.m.
Zac Brown Band
“Dixie Fried,” the Zac Brown Band’s biggest hit so far, got them tagged as country, and ZBB has no problem with that. Nor a problem with bluegrass, folk, reggae, Southern rock, jams, and even yacht rock, if you include their collaboration with Jimmy Buffett. They’ve also performed with Alan Jackson, Trombone Shorty, the Dave Matthews Band, and Gregg Allman. 2010’s live Pass The Jar is a good place to start; 2012’s Uncaged extends their studio approach. The Latin and r&b background of recently added percussionist Daniel de los Reyes doesn’t hurt either.
09/28 @ Crew Stadium, 1 Black & Gold Blvd.,7 p.m.
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