Options

Plenty of options to see a show in the next few days. Mecca hosts Califone on Saturday, and if Lexington wants to collect royalties in the future or something:

From New York Press:
If you’re spending any time in Los Angeles, be warned: Not careful, and you might end up on the next Califone record without even knowing it. The Chicago-based band has always incorporated field recordings into their albums, and since the band’s lyricist, co-songwriter and founder, Tim Rutili, moved to the City of Angels last year, he has had plenty of fodder for these ambient snippets. To collect them, he stays perpetually alert to the surrounding soundscapes and is ready to capture them at the drop of a hat.

“I just walk around with a portable DAT machine, and I carry a mic,” Rutili explains. “I just record stuff, and if anything kind of sticks out as something that you’d want to hear again, it usually finds its way into the record somehow.”

That explains how Califone is all about jazzing up their Americana better than anything I guess. What is that I hear on their cover of Psychic TV’s “The Orchids”? A bowling alley? Or something. Who knows.

"The Orchids" by Califone

The Avett Brothers take a less-subtle approach distinguishing themselves from the new-bluegrass field. On “Talk On Indolence,” the trio does two-part harmony and three-part talking and needs to take a breath or something. They’ll be at Headliners in Louisville Saturday.

"Talk On Indolence" by The Avett Brothers

Finally: Mac McCaughan finds some time in between founding bands and record companies to bring his indie rock outfit Portastatic by Mecca on Monday. Here’s “White Wave” from 2005’s Bright Ideas.

"White Wave" by Portastatic