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Tonight sees Speck Mountain and Implodes playing a free show at Empty Bottle, as well as Cameron McGill at Schubas and Au Revoir Simone at Lincoln Hall. Tomorrow, local favorites Meat Wave play at Subterranean, and a couple of huge hip-hop shows are going down: Yo Gotti at Metro and Kevin Gates at Reggie’s Rock Club. And of course there’s heavy metal monsters Lamb of God and Killswitch Engage playing at the Aragon on Wed 10/30, as well as glam-poppers Of Montreal at Lincoln Hall.
Mon 10/28 and Tue 10/29: Bettye LaVette at City Winery
Former Sic Alps front man Mike Donovan will be in town, touring on his new solo record. “Over the past couple of years the ordinarily obscurantist band’s releases had made it increasingly obvious that front man Mike Donovan wanted to play music that was more intimate and direct, if not exactly polished,” writes Peter Margasak. “True to that implulse, his first postbreakup effort, Wot (Drag City), is a stripped-down folk-rock duo with Eric Park that uses guitar, vocals, percussion, and harmonica to sketch out songs whose air of instability evokes the spirit of loner classics such as Skip Spence’s Oar and Syd Barrett’s two solo albums (and whose occasional touches of swagger evoke the Stones).”
