Tomorrow night at the Hello Pretty City concert will be beautiful!
Hope you can come, you will truly be among friends and good people. Really.

Music starts at 8pm downstairs at Valentines, complete with cupcakes and music from Olivia Quillio, Viking Moses, Mother McKenzie and Joey Demarco. Still only $5!

(This night of music may even cause you to have the best Tuesday ever!)

The Avett Brothers: Distraction #74
Cults: Never Saw The Point
Girls Names: When You Cry
Fruit Bats: You’re Too Weird
Olivia Quillio: Lukewarm Action
Viking Moses: Jones Boys
Olivia Quillio: Retrospect
Viking Moses: Sole Command Of The Day
Barbara Carr: Don’t Knock Love
The Dead Weather: I Can’t Hear You
The Shins: Girl Inform Me
Brown Bird: Bilgewater
Paul Simon: Rewrite
Kaiser Cartel: Carroll Street Station
Eleanor Friedberger: Early Earthquake
Kids At Risk: Sugar
Olivia Quillio: Playground
Elliott Smith: Everything Reminds Me of Her
Sam Cooke: Summertime, Part 1
Luna: Fly Into the Mystery
Viking Moses: Little Bows
Olivia Quillio: The Bomb
Case Studies: You Folded Up My Blanket Like We Were Already Lovers
Mark Mulcahy: Tempted
Iron & Wine with Calexico: Sixteen, Maybe Less
Devendra Banhart: Little Yellow Spider
Ra Ra Riot: Keep It Quiet
Land of Talk: Troubled
Deer Tick: Dirty Dishes (Playing next Saturday night at Rest Fest…see you there!)
The Middle East: Months
M. Ward: Let’s Dance (His version of this song makes me smile. I dedicate it to my 8th grade French class buddy who recently reminded me of how good it is.)
Nick Drake: Blossom

The third ever Hello Pretty City concert is going to be so sweet! Why? Because Olivia Quillio and Viking Moses are playing their amazing songs with their amazing voices and stage presence. Also playing are Joey Demarco and Mother McKenzie. I’ve never seen them live but I’m loving the music that they have on their Bandcamp sites. (Links to everyone are below.)

Monday, 8/22
Downstairs at Valentines
Doors open at 7, music starts at 8 (probably ends around 10:30…plenty of time to get good sleep and still be perky for work in the morning!)
Ages 18+, $5
Co-sponsored by WEXT
Facebook event page here

Olivia Quillio here
Viking Moses here
Joey Demarco here
Mother McKenzie here

It’s not easy to write this post because in reality I’d really like to run up to you, hug you, and exclaim “Phantogram and The Charlie Watts Riots are playing the Exit Dome 4 concert!” The show is Saturday, January 29, 2011 and it happens in WMHT’s TV studio.

Last year’s Exit Dome has a special place in my heart and now I’m even more excited about this year’s show. Also playing are Local 518 bands Que Caro,  The Rodeo Barons, Nancy Walker, and Slender Shoulders. The doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. Snag your tickets now at www.exit977.org. (The tickets are listed in the “Thank you gifts” section.)

The folks at WEXT are getting pretty psyched to be a big part of the Restoration Funstival that’s happening at the end of August. A two day music festival in Albany! It’s happening from noon to 10pm at St. Joseph’s Church on Saturday, August 28 and Sunday, August 29.

The poster for the event is pretty cool looking and the musical lineup is gigantic. Here are a random few: Matthew Carefully, Aficionado, the Mathematicians, Railbird, RESTYS, The Red Lions, Grainbelt, Scientific Maps, Beware! The Other Head of Science and Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned.

There are lots of great things about this Funstival but this is my favorite:  25% of all proceeds will go to the St. Joseph’s Restoration fund to support their $300,000 matched grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. I hear that the inside of St. Joseph’s is very cool, a good place to let a mind wander during a music set.

Right now, tickets are on sale online for the early bird price of $10.00 per day and $15.00 for the whole weekend at www.restfest.net. (I love that there’s an early bird feature.)

WEXT, All Over Albany, B3nson Recording Company, and Historic Albany Foundation are the sponsors of the Restoration Funstival.