GUIDE WEDNESDAY APRIL 28
DAN COSTELLO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock and Barrel FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. Pengilly’s
FRIDAY APRIL 30
ARCHEOLOGY—With Le Fleur, Hillfolk Noir and A Seasonal Disguise. 8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective
HIGH DESERT BAND—6:30 p.m. FREE. Whitewater Pizza and Pasta
A TASTY JAMM—8:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny
KEVIN KIRK, STEVE EATON AND PHIL GAROZNIK—7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
AUDIO MOONSHINE—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement
CRAVING DAWN—9 p.m. $2. Liquid GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE—With Angel Taylor and Jack Littman. 8 p.m. FREE. Knitting Factory JEFF CROSBY—8 p.m. FREE. Reef JEREMIAH JAMES GANG—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JIM FISHWILD—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow KEVIN KIRK, JON HYNEMAN AND PHIL GARONZIK—7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
MALAIKAT DAN SINGA—With La Knots and With Child. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux REBECCA SCOTT BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Sin THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club WILSON, ROOTS AND YOUNG—7 p.m. FREE. Reef
BUILT TO SPILL—See Picks, Page 12. With A Seasonal Disguise and the Boise high school orchestras. Proceeds to benefit Partners in Health: Haiti. 8 p.m. $18. Egyptian Theatre THE CHICHARONES—See Listen Here, this page. 9:30 p.m. $5. Reef GARRISON STARR—With Jay Nash. 9 p.m. $5. The Bouquet
PATRICIA FOLKNER—7:30 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock and Barrel
GENTLE ROWSER—9:30 p.m. FREE. Piazza Di Vino
ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s
HIGH ON FIRE—With Priestess, Black Cobra and Bison B.C. 8 p.m. $12. Neurolux
THE TIX—9 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club
Kevin Kirk
BLAZE-N-KELLY—6 p.m. FREE. Piper
HURT—8 p.m. $15. Knitting Factory JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock and Barrel JOHN HANSON—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill KEVIN KIRK, SALLY TIBBS, JOHN JONES, JON HYNEMAN, MIKE SEIFRIT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers PATRICIA FOLKNER—8 p.m. FREE. Corkscrews REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. $5 after 10 p.m. Humpin’ Hannah’s SPINDLEBOMB—9 p.m. $2. Liquid
THURSDAY APRIL 29 A.B.K. AND THE APRIL FOOL’S FOOLIN’ TOUR—With Tragedy, Knothead, Twisted Insane. 6:30 p.m. $10-$15. Knitting Factory
SPOONDRAGON—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s THIS PROVIDENCE—With The Audition and Bigger Lights. 7:30 p.m. $12. The Venue THOMAS PAUL TRIAD—10 p.m. FREE. Bittercreek Ale House Malaikat Dan Singa
Garrison Starr
GUIDE/LISTEN HERE
GUIDE/LISTEN HERE
THE CHICHARONES, APRIL 30, REEF
THE USED, KNITTING FACTORY, MAY 1
To name your band after a fried pork fat snack, you either have no idea what a Chicharone is or you have a serious sense of humor. The Chicharones’ Sleep of Old Dominion and Josh Martinez know exactly what a Chicharone is. Since 2006’s When Pigs Fly, the Portland, Ore.-based hip-hop duo has worked like mad on other projects. Martinez (who is huge in Canada) paid homage to Hunter S. Thompson with a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-esque video. Martinez hilariously channeled his idol for the insidiously addictive track “Underground Pop” off of his 2008 release, World Famous Sex Buffet. Sleep has been busy, too, releasing Hesitation Wounds in 2009, a groovy, orchestrated, futuristic, retro (listen for Real Life’s “Send Me An Angel” in “Talk About It”) CD. Stick the two MC/singer/songwriters together and you get the funny, foxy, far-out Chicharones. Back them with a live band and you get a big crazy, crunchy bowl of hip-hop. Can somebody bring the hot sauce?
When Bert McCracken of The Used and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance belt out their cover of “Under Pressure,” no other modern act can give David Bowie and Freddie Mercury more of a run for their money. Since forming in 2001, The Used have amassed a fairly solid pop punk pedigree. Not only did ska/punk all-star John Feldmann from Goldfinger produce the band’s first three albums, but McCracken also had a fling with Kelly Osbourne in the heyday of the starlet’s reality TV success. For 2009’s Artwork, The Used brought in Thrice and Panic at the Disco producer Matt Squire to give the record a noisier, darker feel. Describing the record’s cover—a giant syringe injecting the word “art” into an arm carved with the word “work”—in an interview with Clink Music Magazine, McCracken said, “It involves … the dichotomy between what the media and society thinks is legitimate artwork and what we know to be true. In a lot of ways the record cover represents media force feeding us stale and useless art whatever medium it might be.” —Tara Morgan
—Amy Atkins Friday, April 30, 10 p.m., $5. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., reefboise.com.
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With New Medicine and Far. Saturday, May 1, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $25-$50, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M