Monday 25 August 2008

Gigs around town

AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE!


Back once again so shortly? Didn�t we just do this? Oh, that�s correct - this is a new crop of Idols: Syesha Mercado, Jason Castro, ever-cherubic David Archuleta, Kristy Lee Cook and the latest �Idol� winner, David Cook, will all be there. Tomorrow at the DCU Center, Worcester, 508-755-6800, and Sunday at the Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, N.H., 603-644-5000.


BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE




Wallop-packing British metalcore non for the faint of heart. Tomorrow at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, N.H., 603-929-4100.


�FNX NEW ENGLAND PRODUCT


A show window of the region�s charles Herbert Best underground sounds, featuring Cambridge�s recently signed electro-dudes Passion Pit, Everyday Visuals, Harris and Hooray for Earth. Tonight at the Middle East, Cambridge, 617-864-EAST.


THE GO! TEAM/CSS


Still a cult affair here only big at home in England, the Go! Team�s pop is a delicious confection of electro-beats clothed in amusive samples. Expect Brazilian sestet CSS - short for Cansei de Ser Sexy or �tired of beingness sexy� - to save ironically highly-sexed silliness. Tomorrow at the Roxy, 617-338-7699.


GRAND FUNK RAILROAD


They�re an American band. Tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Indian Ranch, Webster, 508-943-3871.


HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH


They only wanna be with you. Tomorrow at Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis, 508-775-6630; Sunday at South Shore Music Circus, 781-383-9850.


LIONEL LOUEKE


West African guitarist, singer and Berklee graduate Loueke is devising big waves on the jazz view touring with Herbie Hancock and with his Blue Note debut, �Karibu.� Tomorrow at the Beehive, 617-423-0069.


MARTHA�S VINEYARD FESTIVAL


Gladys Knight, backed by Keith Lockhart�s Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, is the headliner. Also playing: the Neville Brothers, Kate Taylor, Steel Pulse, island native Willy Mason,





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