the list 4 CHRYSTA BELL
Fans of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return at Showtime will recognize the distanced cool of Bell, her handsome visage, her lean profile. True Lynch fans will know Bell from her equally chilly, smoky musical collaborations with the director, as well as her other more outré cabaret favorites. (PhilaMOCA)
NOVEMBER 7 A PERFECT CIRCLE
Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan’s other solo act than Pucifer wth members of Queens of the Stone Age,
10 AN EVENING WITH KELLER WILLIAMS
Maybe acoustic guitarist and singer Keller Williams is as winsome and earnest as most singer songwriters
cUrAted by A.d. AMorosi
ture on Take Me Apart, her debut album And that’s going to make hers one of the year’s best records. (CODA) 18 VERDI'S IL TROVATORE
Philly’s Academy of Vocal Arts look at the 15th Century war Aragon and Biscaya is some of Giuseppe V’s finest, most lustrous works. (Zoellner Arts Center)
4 TORI AMOS 24-25 CIRCA SURVIVE AND THRICE
Here for her Native Invader tour, Amos is the closest thing that America has to the art-rock crooning, complex-
DEVO, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails and Ashes Divide along for the bumpy ride. (BB&T Pavilion)
are these days, but he’s got an innate sense of swing to his sound and a kick in his step. (State Theatre) 12 POSTMODERN JUKEBOX
7 GRIZZLY BEAR
Talking Heads Lite. (The Fillmore) 9/10 NICK ZEDD
ly emotional and literarily wilding Kate Bush. Good for us. (Tower) 4 FLYING LOTUS IN 3D
The planet’s most recent follow up to Brian Eno’s ambient weirdness throne somehow SOMEHOW will perform this show in three dimensions. One dimension seems like three with him, so this should be a sonic and visual boom. (Electric Factory)
The godfather of lo-fi transgressive film and industrial punk rock has worked with Foetus and Lydia Lunch in his time, and rarely comes out of his NYC cave. (PhilaMOCA)
I’m not a fan of cover acts, but few others could put a strangely atmospheric spin on Radiohead AND Miley Cyrus and make them sound like the Roaring 20s, no the Swinging 60s, no, the Me 80s, as does Postmodern Jukebox. (Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE)
Back to back nights of Philly’s sleekest sons of hardcore (Anthony Green and Co.) is worth missing holiday time with your family. (Electric Factory) 25 KAMASI WASHINGTON
The burly jazz saxophonist behind 2015’s The Epic (and Kendrick Lamar’s Post-Bop best) finds softer ways into
13 MACKLEMORE 9 JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
One of fusion jazz’s principle – and most spiritual – avatars, the guitarist
It is probably a big deal that the Great White Dope is playing solo and
your brain with his new Harmony of Difference. (Union Transfer) 25 THE WEAKLINGS
Glen Burtnik and his Beatles loving buddies just played as part of E Street drummer Ma Weinbetrg’s Jukebox Tour, so they’re armed for cover rocking bear. (Steelstacks)
4 NICK OFFERMAN: FULL BUSH
Having witnessed the comic actor singing dancing and telling lewd jokes and at his wife Megan Mulaly, this solo show with the Parks &
28 ST. VINCENT
promises that this will be his last round up. As the man who opened up the universe to Mahavishnu Orchestra and pused Miles and Carlos to their highest heights – that’s a shame. (Keswick Theater) Recreation/Fargo guy could be just about anything. (Kimmel Center) 5 ALTON BROWN LIVE: EAT YOUR SCIENCE TOUR
The king of the Food Network will do something tasty, witty and nerdy, but what? No, Seriously. (Kimmel Center)
9–15 & 22–26 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL'S VAREKAI
This is supposedly the last tour for “wherever” in the Romani language, and its program of acrobatics and funny costumes dedicated to the Greek myth of Icarus and its imaginary postscript. (Allentown then Philly)
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that his alone brand of hip hop is even tamer and bluer than his usual rap, That’s all. From this point it’s on you. (The Fillmore) 15 JOE BIDEN 30 HILLARY CLINTON
Depending on how you wish to look at these live events, you’re either getting a warm explanation of fact or a set of lousy excuses. (Academy of Music) 15 KELELA
Washington D.C.’s nu-soul singing daughter is spacy and without struc-
Anne Clarke, the woman behind St. Vincent and her latest album, Masseduction, looks to the ’80s, David Bowie, and deep-seated melody for what could be her best album yet. Until the next one. (Electric Factory) 30 RICHARD THOMPSON
It’s a banner season for the British guitarist as he releases both the second volume of his stinging, six-stringing acoustic classics 2, as well as a box set (Come All Ye: The First 10 Years) of his first, best folk-rock ensemble Fairport Convention. (Colonial Theater) n