CARDINALS

The Cardinals are Ryan Adams, Brad Pemberton, Jon Graboff, Neal Casal, and Chris Feinstein. While Easy Tiger, Adams' new album, is being released under his name, the disc features every member of Cardinals, and they have been making a number of guest appearances to promote the disc. Here's a clip of the group performing "Everybody Knows," the alt-country anthem leading off the new disc's assault on Nashville.



Cardinals will be at The Paramount Theatre October 13th, the show is gonna be awesome as Adams and crew are skilled performers who have been playing together for a number of years. TIXXX

ANTHONY GREEN AT STUBB'S 8-29

Anthony Green of Saosin, Sound of Animals Fighting, and Circa Survive is coming to Stubb's August 29th. Green is a great performer and an amazing vocalist, and I thought that his music would say more than I ever could about him, so here are videos from all 3 groups. Ticket link is below.

SAOSIN:


SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING:


CIRCA SURVIVE:


Anthony's new album is a solo acoustic effort, so the vibe will be decidedly relaxed, emotional, and lo-key. Here's another clip of Green performing "I've Been Dying to Reach You"


Tickets available now.

NAS

NAS GETS FOUR STARS FROM ROLLING STONE FOR "UNTITLED"


Nas is a household name for music fans at this point, so I won't spend much time going over the NY legend's long list of musical accomplishments. Here's what you need to know:

1. Nas is awesome

2. Nas is coming to Emo's this Sunday

3. Nas will be there with Black Star's Talib Kweli

4. Nas will rule all at both the 6pm and 10pm shows.

5. Nas will kill you.

6PM SHOW
10PM SHOW

MATT PRYOR

You may not know who Matt Pryor is, but odds are, if you were into indie, punk, or emo during any of the 1990's, you have heard his music. Way back in 1995, when Dashboard Confessional was just a thought in Chris Carabba's angst-filled mind, when Panic at the Disco were still in middle school, and when Conor Oberst was still playing in Commander Venus, Matt Pryor founded a little band called the Get Up Kids, who are still heralded by many today, along with groups like Sunny Day Real Estate, as one of the original founders of the current wave of indie and emo music. For most musicians, that would have been enough, but Pryor started The New Amsterdams, and toured and recorded with them while continuining to release albums up until the break-up of TGUK in 2005. When Matt entered family life, he started another side project, The Terrible Twos, bringing his experiences as a father into the music world to create children's songs for his kids. And now, in 2008, Matt Pryor is releasing "Confidence Man," his first solo album and a DIY effort in every sense of the word: Pryor wrote, played, recorded and mixed every track on the album, by himself, at his home studio in Kansas. "Confidence Man" will constitute the 15th album that Pryor has released in 13 years. Do yourself a favor and come see him at Stubb's this Saturday, whether its his 4 o'clock show as the Terrible Twos, or his later set with Kevin Devine and Danny Malone. Yes, thats right, he's playing two shows in one night. LEGEND!




MATT PRYOR TICKETS
TERRIBLE TWOS TICKETS

FREEZE!

Hawaii's own Pepper have been percolating the soundscape since 1996, bringing the cool winds and hot rocks of the islands to the world with their solid guitar playing, tight drumming, and innovative mix of reggae, metal, rock, dub, and hip-hop.
Imagine yourself under a bridge, standing under a great highway, landscape a mess of browns, tans, and heat, the sun beating down on everything around it, the ground waving and rising skyward, reclaimed by the tyrannical force of rays and ultraviolet burning its surroundings to an egg-frying desolation. Hearing a small sound, you look left, look right, and creep forwards, the heat radiating, you break into sweat, already gasping for breath, and drag yourself forward, out of your urban burrow, burning, stinging, coughing, desert winds pounding your face, sand like swarms of mineral fleas enveloping you. You fight, you trudge forwards, and just as your last ounce of perspiration trickles from your brow and it seems the red skyward beast will claim you forever, your consciousness is shaken into immediacy by a roar, a clap, and the sensation of raindrops on your face. Instantly cooled, thrown into a glorious trance, relief washes over you and you look up to the sky, laughing. Music pours upward from the freshly soaked soil.

That's what Pepper sounds like.



Pepper @ Emo's, Saturday October 18th, TIX ONSALE AUG 16TH

EXCLUSIVE Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Lolla Footage!

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Also, our good friends at Quinnstorm.com have an interview posted with Bthe band that you will not want to miss.

They're playing at The Parish this Friday, get tickets here and come rock out!

Melvins, or the Melvins, depending on whom you ask, but Melvins if you ask the band (or at least their Myspace,) have been together for 25 years, and have released 25 albums. That's an album a year for a quarter of a century. While their music over that timeframe is arguably too complex to express in words, if you would please take the following words with you as you listen to them, I think it may help:

Jungle Assault Jet Fighting Wild Summer Camp With Strippers Action Metal

These guys are tight and with all that touring experience under their belts, it stands to reason that their show at Emo's will be off the hook! Come out and find out why bands like Tool and Mastodon owe so much of their sound to this group, and why Kurt Cobain, Mike Patton, and John Zorn praise them.

Friday, August 22nd, with Big Business.

Get Tickets Here.