Weekend Preview on Waterloo: October 9 – 11

Yes, readers, it’s another big Waterloo weekend!  Why, we’ll have everything but a viewing of the recent moon blow-up (though that could probably be easily remedied with a wi-fi connection, a laptop, and a projector).  Here’s a brief run down of what you’ll be experience should you undertake some Collinwood capers:

• Friday night we’ll host the coyly clever pop of NYers Elizabeth & The Catapult, along with Julliard-trained singer/songwriter Christina Courtin.  New Cleveland pop trio The Red Buttons opens.  NPR did a piece on the lovely Elizabeth and her charming war machine.
• Saturday night’s bonanza starts with our neighbors kicking up some noise.  The sounds you’ll hear will veer from nasty to mellow, as Music Saves presents an improv-only performance by Trouble Books at 8 pm.
• Low Life Gallery opens their Second Annual Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday, October 10th, from 8 – 10 pm. Featuring features seasonally-themed works by artists from throughout NE Ohio and beyond, this show runs until October 30th.
• Shoparooni celebrates its Second Anniversary on Saturday at 7 pm with food, artesenal cupcakes, talent shows, pumpkin carving, and–get this–plenty o’ hooch. How about that?  Sounds like someone’s getting smeared with frosting.  For more information, call 216-383-3699.  And while you’re reading this, learn about one of Shoparooni’s inhabitants: the Munny.
• Pink Eye Magazine releases their sixth issue to the sounds of Self-Destruct Button, Chief Bromide, Arte Povera, and Buried Wires on Saturday night. This rock event goes down on Saturday, around the usual rock time: call it about 10 pm?
• For those of you looking for a show that’s more lyrical, more acoustically-oriented, and that’s devoted to a good cause, check out Roots of American Music’s 10th Anniversary Fundraiser on Saturday night,  featuring Alex Bevan and Michael Stanley.  Based in Cleveland Heights, ROAM is an educational organization that uses American roots music to drive the curriculum of local students, grades K – 12.  To learn more about this event, and about Roots of American Music, go to http://www.rootsofamericanmusic.org/.  Recently, Michael Heaton wrote about this double bill of hometown heroes in the Plain Dealer.
• Sunday night flies high on rock and roll boosters, through lost lunar dust, and into an orbit maintained by the sexily menacing Black Angels.  A comparison would be the hot sonic dread spat forth by 60s hedonists The Doors (esp. tunes like “The End” and “Soul Kitchen”) and the Velvet Underground (the kinky Nico record).  More modern references include the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Jesus and Mary Chain.  Also on the bill are Disappears, and the retooled Dead Moon aka Pierced Arrows, who do it up like a trashy Neil Young and Crazy Horse high on the 13th Floor Elevators.  You’re like, “stop with the comparisons”, but we gotta tell ya, rock n’ roll is going to be oozing out from under the Beachland’s doors, and you’ll be powerless to stop it.
• FYI: October 10th is World Egg Day.

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Tonight @ Beachland: Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo? They’re kind of a big deal.  You might have heard of them. You might even be going to this show, too.

To ably prep you for tonight’s concert with this highly influential trio, here are some tunes for your listening and watching pleasure. We’re talking almost twenty years of pop that’s exceeded and redefined indie rock expectations. So enjoy the variety.

This one’s from their newest, Popular Songs:

Here, YLT gets down with some plushly amped hyperfuzz on “From A Buick 6″, dating back to the early 90s:

The amps start melting, and Ira starts trying to rip the strings off his Strat with “Mushroom Cloud of Hiss”"

For those of you more melodically inclined, here’s Yo La Tengo jamming with Wilco, from a few years back:

Finally, we have YLT performing with members of their Jersey forebears, the legendary Feelies.  Hear and feel the rock n’ roll celebration as the band blazes loudly through the Velvet Underground’s “What Goes On” and the Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” at a New Year’s Eve gig. 

Total fun up there, right? Undeground rock heaven. We hope tonight’s Yo La Tengo show is just as good!

Tickets are available HERE, or by calling 216-383-1124. Hurry!

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