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If holiday cover sets aren’t your thing there are plenty of noteworthy live shows happening all weekend long that won’t require you to watch someone mimic Scott Weiland. (Or should I say mimic Chester Bennington filling in for Scott Weiland?) Tonight Oozing Wound celebrates its debut album, Retrash, at the Empty Bottle, and doomy, sludgy metal duo the Body opens. Tomorrow Into It. Over It. plays a record release show at Schubas while Desaparecidos hit the Metro. On Saturday the International Contemporary Ensemble performs John Zorn at the MCA, and Sunday night Actress plays the Empty Bottle.
Thu 10/24: Disclosure at House of Blues
“The two women in Nashville four-piece Those Darlins have built a reputation as the kind of ladies with just enough white trash in them to scrape their knees, swig hard from a bottle of whiskey, and spit the liquor on their wounds by way of first aid,” writes Kevin Warwick. “Those Darlins’ newest album, Blur the Line (on Oh Wow Dang, the band’s label), softens the snarling and the reckless abandon, instead journeying toward the fabled land where musicians start to sound like grown-ups who’ve been a bit scarred from one too many escapades—the album cover, picturing the band embracing naked with their heads and shoulders cropped out, could be taken to signify a new vulnerability, that’s for sure.”
