Mt. Eerie, Ace Frehley both playing Madison on Nov. 7
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Phil Elverum, once known as The Microphones and more recently known as Mt. Eerie, has an odd history of Madison shows. He's never been a stickler for playing in conventional venues: Three years ago he played in a warehouse off of Park Street (in a show we didn't hear much about until the last minute) armed with just an electric guitar and an occasionally very loud amp; last year he joined Julie Doiron for a wonderfully cozy acoustic show at the Gates Of Heaven Synagogue in James Madison Park. Well, when he returns Saturday, Nov. 7 with No Kids, he'll be playing the High Noon Saloon, but it'll still be a plenty whimsical ocassion: Mt. Eerie's new album Wind's Poem finds the most remote, rough edges of Elverum's dreary folk sound and stretches it into idyllic, blown-out black metal. At times, it's as if Elverum has been listening to his Pacific Northwest neighbors Wolves In The Throne Room. According to local blogger/promoter Kyle Pfister, the band will be beefing up that sound with two drummers.
Coincidentally, that show falls on the same night as another one we've been meaning to make special note of: former KISS lead guitarist Ace Frehley's stop at the Majestic Theatre. While he's no longer part of the heavily made-up crew's endless farewell-tour circuit, Frehley is staying the course with the cock-rock celebrations of a new solo album, Anomaly. We're guessing nobody will actually be torn between Mt. Eerie's cranked-up lo-fi and Frehley's guitar-hero antics (though Elverum's show starts and ends early, in case anyone's eclectic enough to try and catch both), but it should make for an interesting Saturday night regardless.
