It's been a breakthrough year for former Further Seems Forever frontman Chris
Carraba, whose acoustic-emo outfit Dashboard Confessional have with
"Screaming Infidelities" scored the biggest punk-unplugged hit since Green
Day's "Good Riddance." The group have an MTV Unplugged set in the can (a
little redundant, though?), and it'll be released as a CD/DVD double-disc
package on December 3 as a holdover follow-up to last year's The Places You
Have Come To Fear the Most (Vagrant). Carraba and crew bring chiseled good
looks, sincere semantics, and a workbook's worth of melodramatic melodies to
the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Saturday and to the Webster
Theatre (860-525-5553) in Hartford on Monday. Meanwhile, good old-fashioned
plugged-in emo returns to the Palladium on Sunday in the form of Hot Water
Music,
Thrice, and Coheed and Cambria . And emo of the boy-band-harmonizing, major-label
variety -- we're talking about Epic signees the Juliana Theory -- takes
a stab at winning over Our Lady Peace's audience at the State Theater
(207-780-8265) in Portland on Tuesday; at the Palladium on Wednesday; and at
the Webster Theatre next Sunday, October 20.
One of the linchpins in the O Brother tour was the otherworldly
dobro-slide player Jerry Douglas, whose feats of speed, dexterity,
inventiveness, and (when absolutely necessary) traditional bluegrass fervor
place him at the very top of the Down from the Mountain cast. Douglas is
currently on a solo tour; he hits the Somerville Theatre (617-931-2000) on
Friday and Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont, on Sunday.
Like a reject from that live-action version of Masters of the Universe,
the mid-'80s Viking-metal singer Thor is a bodybuilder who sports
loincloths, broadswords, and leather body armor that'd make Ted Nugent blush;
if you don't remember his band, you might remember his off-the-scale ridiculous
horror film Rock N Roll Nightmare. Thor's comeback hits the Coolidge
Corner Theatre (617-734-2501) in Brookline on Friday for a performance that
includes both a full-on rock show and clips from the film. We're assured by
metal maniac Seth "Anal Cunt" Putnam that this is a can't-miss fiasco. Thor is
also at the Trash American Style record store (203-792-1630) in Danbury,
Connecticut, on Saturday; both dates are opened by masked black-metal dude
Damien Storm and brute-punks Nasty Disaster.
Issue Date: October 11 - 17, 2002
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