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[Roadtripping]

It’s homecoming week for the Breeders, as Kim Deal and rehabbed sister Kelley give a preview of their comeback effort, Title TK (Elektra), which is due this spring. No word yet on whether founding member Tanya Donelly will be in the wings when the Breeders play a sold-out gig at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Tuesday, after which they’ll head directly out to Kim’s adopted home state of Ohio. Weezer have sold out their Friday gig at Lowell’s Tsongas Arena (978-848-6938) with Saves the Day and Ozma. If you’re without tickets, our next-best-thing is a couple of dates by Further Seems Forever, who are among the emo bands giving props to the masters on Rock Music: A Tribute to Weezer (Dead Droid). Beg for "Say It Ain’t So" when FSF hit the University of Hartford (860-768-4801) on Friday and Massachusetts College of Art (617-879-7726) in Boston on Saturday.

The odds against the strait-laced universe of Chicago/Louisville indie rock’s producing its own diva were high, but that’s the role Shannon Wright has finally fulfilled. Her third disc, Dyed in the Wool (Quarterstick/Touch & Go), uses mid-’90s Albini-rock thunder as a launching pad for luminous art pop rendered with a voice as gouging, tender, and unforgiving as anything since early PJ Harvey. Wright’s at Flywheel (413-527-9800) in Easthampton on Monday and at the Middle East on Tuesday.

Boston-identified neo-folkies Patty Larkin and Catie Curtis team up for a New England jaunt tonight (Thursday February 7) at State Street Church (207-774-6396) in Portland; Friday at the Unitarian Church (802-863-2345) in Burlington; Saturday at Sanders Theatre (617-496-2222) in Cambridge; and Sunday at Portsmouth Music Hall (603-436-2400). Fiery roots-rock icon Alejandro Escovedo hits the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton on Monday and Johnny D’s (617-776-2004) in Somerville on Wednesday. Rock-and-roll godfather Bo Diddley gets the royal treatment on Friday at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence and Saturday at Harpers Ferry (617-254-9743) in Allston.

Even the New York Times has weighed in on the unfortunate nomenclature of everyone’s favorite mosh-pit thrash band, Anthrax, who did title one of their early efforts Spreading the Disease. But no one ever mentions the other deadly venom associated with Anthrax: their old lead singer’s name is Joey Belladonna. We always assumed Belladonna was just another castrato-singing Italian from Brooklyn, but is it a coincidence that his last name is also a poisonous Eurasian herb? And given Anthrax’s track record for predicting bioterror toxins, shouldn’t the FBI be looking into this? What’s more, could it be a mere coincidence that Anthrax’s new singer, John Bush, shares a last name and who knows what else with the leader of the free world? Serious business only, then, when Anthrax strike the Station (401-822-5483) in West Warwick, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, an off-night from their opening slot on the Halford-less Judas Priest tour, which resumes next Thursday, February 15, at the Orpheum (617-931-2000) in Boston. Elsewhere in metal, Linkin Park’s new-metal victory lap, with Cypress Hill opening, hits a sold-out Tsongas Arena on Monday. And Machine Head hit the Palladium (508-797-9696) in Worcester on Saturday, as well as the Webster Theatre (860-525-5553) in Hartford on Sunday.

BY CARLY CARIOLI

Issue Date: February 7 - 14, 2002
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