A breakdown of some music happenings for this Thurs., Dec. 11.
Dirty Bourbon River Show with Poetry n’ Lotion, UNRB The music of New Orleans outfit Dirty Bourbon River Show is like an exotic, off-kilter circus parade with a marching, lurching, bouncing and grooving brass heart. The lead barker duties are handled by gritty rumbling and bellowing multi-instrumentalist frontman Noah Adams (piano, guitar, trumpet, accordion) with help from robust belter Big Charlie Skinner (wind toys, trombone), both juggling instruments along with Matt Thomas (bari and tenor saxophones, clarinet, harmonica), Jimmy Williams (upright bass, sousaphone), and Dane “Bootsy” Schindler (drums, percs), and crafting songs with morbid, erotic or downright bizarre content. A must-see. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
Mountain Holler, Chant the Trees, One Trip Little As Mountain Holler, Mark Etherington howls in muscular, distinctively haunting calls and strums or thrashes acoustic guitar with the same dynamism he wields as frontman of psych-folk outfit RedFeather. Chant the Trees is a progressive roots duo, brothers Kade and Ryan Ballogg, who pit heart-squeezingly sweet vocal harmonies against picked and strummed mandolin and acoustic guitar melodies made for an ethereal morning in Appalachia. One Trip Little pushes barroom-brawling folk-blues driven by deep, drawling gospel-hued vocals. (Sly Bar, St. Petersburg)
Rockapella Christmas The most renowned a capella quintet that grew to national fame after performing as the house "band" on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? returns to town on their annual holiday tour to serenade local folks with selections from their seasonal repertoire, three albums that encompass classics, originals and modern odes. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)
Issues with I Killed The Prom Queen, Ghost Town, Nightmares If you don’t think there’s anything wrong with diluting your metalcore with hints of R&B, pop and nu-metal, you could dig some Issues, a Rise Records newb that hits town on the “Journeys Noise Tour” with I Killed the Prom Queen; the latter is an Aussie outfit that crafts a more straightforward style of crushing music and backs a third album, Beloved, that dropped this year on Epitaph. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
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This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2014.