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The kids are all bright
Conor Oberst brings his emo stylings to New England, Head of Femur play Great Scott's, and more
BY CARLY CARIOLI

Now that his 2002 disc Lifted . . . (Saddle Creek) has broken the 100,000 mark, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst has left the powder-blue suit and the all-girl band back in Omaha; this time, he’d much rather be with the boys. On his current tour, Oberst teams with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and the cracked indie singer-songwriter M. Ward to perform together and individually tonight (February 26) at Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton; Friday at Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont; Saturday at Lupo’s at the Strand (401-331-5876) in Providence; and Sunday at a sold-out Somerville Theatre (617-931-2000) in Somerville.

Meanwhile, sometime Bright Eyes drummer Matt Focht’s indie dorkestra Head of Femur are out in support of last year’s superior Ringodom or Proctor (Greyday), which approximates the sound of a high-school marching band discovering Neutral Milk Hotel, Sgt. Pepper, and hallucinogens all in the same day. Their inveterate plea "I Don’t Wanna Go to Tech School" (actual title: "Acme: Summit of a Mountain") is even lonelier and prettier than their cover of the Brian Eno song that A Certain Ratio stole their name from. And their song about money’s being the root of all evil comes off like the kind of electro Kool-Aid acid test that Polyphonic Spree might have invented if they’d been mesmerized by Marxist guerrillas instead of Bible-school hippies. Head of Femur check into the Plan at Great Scott’s (617-566-9014) in Brighton on Monday.

Lisbon-via-Berlin riot-grrrl Suspiria Franklin’s tough-cookie post-punk band Les Baton Rouge return to New England with a new Tim Kerr–produced disc, My Body, The Pistol (Elevator Music); they’ll play Bar (203-495-8924) in New Haven on Sunday as well as a basement show in Brighton on Saturday (see www.eximiousproductions.net for details). The rad-fem violin-and-djembe folk-punk duo Bitch & Animal recently announced they’re calling it quits after one last tour that kicks off at Club Passim (617-492-7679) in Cambridge on Wednesday and Thursday before continuing on to the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton next Friday, March 5.

Sweden’s Opeth, the band who brought back the 12-minute prog-thash opus, end their latest North American tour with a gig at the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Saturday. And if that ain’t math-nerd enough for you, West Virginia’s Byzantine, the latest thrash maniacs on Prosthetic, claim to have a riff inspired by the Fibonacci sequence on their debut, The Fundamental Component. They’re at the Fat Cat (413-734-0554) in Springfield on Sunday.

Synonymous with the sound of contemporary Mississippi blues, the Fat Possum label sends forth its semi-annual "Juke Joint Caravan" tour, which features idiosyncratic one-chord moaner Paul "Wine" Jones, the ass-whopping felon T-Model Ford, and rocket-fueled R.L. Burnside protégés guitarist Kenny Brown and drummer Cedric Burnside, who blend slide-guitar sizzle with hip-hop soul while keeping the old man’s hill-country music alive. They’re at the Iron Horse on Monday and T.T. the Bear’s Place (617-492-BEAR) in Cambridge on Wednesday.


Issue Date: February 27 - March 4, 2004
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