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Salute your shorts
Former child actors Rilo Kiley play the Middle East, Elvis impersonators duel at Berklee, and more
BY CARLY CARIOLI

After knocking us dead on their Barsuk debut, Take Offs and Landings, LA’s Rilo Kiley dolled up their DIY folk-pop tunes with exactly the kind of magisterial chamber-rock accouterments you’d expect from a band who’d just been signed to Saddle Creek. The Execution of All Things found singer Jenny Lewis taking center stage on the title track, a power-pop nugget in which Boston audiences might have recognized the fractured grace of the Breeders and the awkward prettiness of Fuzzy. And the frantically strummed "With Arms Outstretched" was so irresistible that Bright Eyes’ Connor Oberst put together a boys’ choir to sing back-ups. Now Lewis and her singer-songwriting foil Blake Sennett will be stripping those songs back to their roots on an acoustic tour that brings the band to the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Wednesday; the Century Lounge (401-751-2255) in Providence next Thursday, January 15; and Babson College (781-235-1200) in Wellesley on January 22.

Cape Breton fiddle champ Natalie MacMaster has already added some much-needed sex appeal to a relatively obscure folk by-way; her most recent disc, Blueprint (Rounder), hitches her virtuosity to the bandwagons of instrumental titans from Béla Fleck to Jerry Douglas with an eye on a wider crossover. Just off last week’s appearance on Conan O’Brien, she arrives at the Calvin Theater (413-584-1444) in Northampton on Saturday and at Symphony Hall (617-266-1200) in Boston on Sunday.

The Rome-based Emergenza Festival may or may not amount to anything more than an international pay-to-play battle of the bands, but the host of local outfits who shelled out $70 for their shot at the big time begin converging on Club Lido (781-289-3080) in Revere this week, where survivors of the preliminary round can look forward to competing in the semis at the Paradise in Boston in April, and a regional final at Avalon in Boston in June. Here’s the line-up at Club Lido (the complex formerly known as the Wonderland Ballroom). Tonight (Thursday, January 8), it’s Fluttr, Last Day Awakening, Vibewise, Night Stalker, Public, Silencio, Coldread, and Dogtag. On Friday, former Waltham/Damone guitarist and songwriter Dave Pino’s bearded metalcore band No Allegiance join Last Mission, the Crumb Sullivans, Jackson Crook and the Rail Storm, Passenger, A Wish for Fire, Harvest, and Savin Grey. On Saturday: Gallery, High Risk, One Flesh, the Jordan Doucette Band, A Loss for Words, Decadence, the Chain Letter, and Living Syndication. And on Sunday: Ice Nine, Mersa, Torque, Verloren, Viodox, Brilliant Mistake, Man Down, and Essence of Green.

What’s better than battles of the bands? How about dueling Elvis impersonators? Mr. Presley would’ve celebrated his 69th birthday on January 8, and this week brings competing birthday celebrations on Saturday, with Vegas pro Steve Connolly channeling the spirit of the King at the Berklee Performance Center (617-747-2261) in Boston and local boy Bobby Fosmire doing the same at the aforementioned Club Lido.


Issue Date: January 9 - 15, 2004
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