Busy weekend in town: Tonight - that's Friday - there's a excellent funk-jazz-hip-hop bill with Portland, Oregon's Lifesavas, plus New Orleans jam band Galactic and Boots Riley, the great MC with Oakland hip-hop agit-rop band The Coup, at the Fillmore at the TLA. Here's a lifesavas video, with Vernon Reid on guitar:
Meantime, out at Haverford College, the much ballyhooed Vampire Weekend, the Columbia grads schooled in African pop, get their Oxford shirts down and dirty in the school's Lunt Basement venue. And speaking of blog band phenoms, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the 2005 model, wind up their world tour back in town at Starlight Ballroom, in singer Alec Ounsworth's hometown.
There are a couple good club shows to choose from on Saturday, too. At the North Star, the Los Angeles duo The Bird and the Bee - Inara George and Greg Kurstin - make their enticing neo-Brazilan pop moves.
And Canadian hip-hop/roots music storyteller Rich Terfry, better known as Buck 65, headlines Johnny Brenda's. His new one, Situation, is a concept album of sorts, with all the songs set in 1957, the year that French revolutionary Guy DeBord gave birth to the Situationist movement. This gangster-dirtbag tale here, "Wicked & Weird" is from his 2005 This Right Here Is Buck 65.
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