Weekend prescriptions: Oct. 23-25
Daughtry's advances in the field of bullet-headnesses should inspire us all.
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Is that case of the Friday stupors setting in yet? Well, best to shake it off. Even Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop of Travis' show at the Majestic Theatre Friday aren't all about moping, and grind-punks Trap Them's set at The Annex on Saturday (opening for The Black Dahlia Murder) is gonna peel off layers of skin you didn't even know you had. Even the acoustic acts are keeping it relatively perky on Saturday, when Langhorne Slim plays the High Noon Saloon and Kaki King unleashes her finger-tapped guitar flurries at the Stoughton Opera House.
Ingrid Michaelson's Saturday show at the Barrymore Theatre may prove more comforting than stimulating, but it's sold out. So those looking to wallow in lethargy might do best to sink into the cushy drones of Wet Har's Friday show at the Project Lodge and/or Blues Control's Sunday stop at the Good Style Shop (which was announced kinda late, but here's what they sound like), or the three-day sample overload known as the Madison Food And Wine Show, starting Friday.
Second-generation positive vibes are better than no vibes at all, so patients in need of more than neutral mood-stasis maintenance would do well to bask in the grooves of Julian Marley And The Uprising Sunday at the Barrymore, and/or suckle some Three Doors Down-caliber inspiration from American Idol spawn Daughtry at the Alliant Energy Center on Saturday. The risk of side effects is lower, however, if you just go straight for the laughs with mega-nerd songwriter Jonathan Coulton, playing Sunday at the Majestic Theatre.
