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By Don Allred
The Entrance Band
Wednesday @ The Summit
The Entrance Band is comprised of singer-guitarist Guy Blakeslee, drummer Derek James and equally fearless bassist Paz Lenchantin, who's played with everyone from A Perfect Circle to Zwan. Their self-titled debut album high-steps through all wrong turns, empathizing with those who "Think the darkness is your friend/Time will take your shadow away." "M.L.K." twists scary sounds into hungry rainbows, and a live version of "Grim Reaper" on the Daytrotter site mutates Led Zeppelin blues into ecologically contemporary slabs of sludge, finding their way through whirlwinds of toxic moonlight.
The Friday Night Boys
Thursday @ The Basement.
The Friday Night Boys' '70s-based power pop is a style born to dance with terminally adolescent temptations. "Chasing A Rock Star" eventually talks some possibly seductive sense, as a jealous guy learns to rival the music's sinfully merry spin. More typically, the Boys scavenge tasty symptoms and specimens of overt obsessions, especially in the festively forensic tracks following "Chasing ..." on the 2008 EP, "That's What She Said." Hopefully, they'll chop their sometimes-overcooked full-length debut, "Off The Deep End" into a crispy crazy salad for their live audience.
Wine, Women & Song
Saturday @ Maennerchor
The wine is fuel, the women are Nashville's long-running, still prime time pros, Suzy Bogguss, Gretchen Peters and Matraca Berg. The songs are effectively their own, definitely as written (Peters and Berg are mainly known that way), and as chosen. The traditional "Farther Along" proves surprisingly emblematic of their unbuttoned, unplugged live sets, and surprisingly similar to the Stones' "Wild Horses" as both steadily surge almost beyond faith. WW&S's soulfully realistic details and robustly supple tunes also travel "South of Heaven/North of Hell," aiming to continue.
Searius Add
Tuesday @ Skully's
Whether he's telling Toledo or schooling the OSU, rapper Searius Add draws on "A college boy's mind and a dope boy's ethic," as demonstrated on "The Hard Math Mix Tape." That analytically antic, autobiographical saga of subsets logically leaps to the new "Smart Is The New Gangsta." Here, classic R&B thrills and chills "Ideal Idea" (where "The only life I have with you/Is in my head"), while "I'm Winning" is equally vibrant in the present tense. Tonight's show includes guitarist Dustin Lynch, drummer Anthony Walls, DJ Bam and special guests.
Originally Published: February 3, 2010
