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Guster | Boston popsmith Guster is after more than a feeling. With nary a whiff of processing or reverb, Easy Wonderful, the band’s sixth release in an impressively understated 17-year career, sounds like an ear-whispered secret. Yellowbirds opens at House of Blues. PAGE 43.
Allstate Sugar Bowl and Fan Fest Tue.-Wed. Jan. 1-2 | Before the University of Louisville Cardinals face the University of Florida Gators in the Sugar Bowl Wednesday, there’s entertainment at the Allstate Fan Fest. The band fun. headlines activities Tuesday at the festival grounds in the parking lot adjacent to Jax Brewery. PAGE 52.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Fri.-Sun. Jan. 4-Jan. 21 | The world’s most overlooked transsexual pop diva, Hedwig, is back in Skin Horse Theater’s reprise of the raucous rock musical. The produc-
tion’s live band, Whom Do You Work For?, also returns and performs a set before the show at AllWays Lounge and Theatre. PAGE 51. Leon Russell Sat. Jan. 5 | There’s a parallel universe in which Joe Cocker is Leon Russell’s first-call session man and Bernie Taupin is his acceptance speechwriter. The piano and guitar wizard was reluctantly nudged to center stage by 2010’s The Union, a collaboration with Elton John. At House of Blues. PAGE 43. Dirty Dozen Brass Band Sat. Jan. 5 | The Dirty Dozen kicks off a month of shows celebrating the 35th anniversary of Tipitina’s. The Soul Rebels also perform. PAGE 43. Patti LuPone Mon. Jan. 7 | Patti LuPone starred as Evita in the original Broadway production and as Fantine in the London opening of Les Miserables. She also appeared in Driving Miss Daisy, Glee, 30 Rock, Frasier and Will & Grace. She kicks off the Broadway at NOCCA concert series. PAGE 51.
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The Body Tue. Jan. 1 | Portland, Ore.’s punishing two-man hell-bringing wall of sound reached a sludgy zenith with 2010’s All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood. Its colleagues in Baton Rouge/New Orleans band Thou continue to climb Mount Doom — its brutal output has been nonstop since 2007, though band matters may make this show its last gasp, right at its peak. Small Bones and Ghostlimb also perform. At United Bakery. PAGE 43.
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