Zoo Bar’s Josh Hoyer says tonight’s show is one that could easily sell out a 300-to-500-seat theater.
Dirty Dozen Brass Band takes the Zoo Bar stage at 6 p.m. The legendary New Orleans brass group has been playing since 1977 and revolutionized the New Orleans brass band style, blending genres like funk and bebop with the traditional brass band sound. RSVP here.
Tonight will be a pretty rare opportunity to see the group in such an intimate setting. It’s not a far departure from Zoo Bar’s standard genre fare, but it’s not often that the horn players who take the stage are some of the most renowned in the world.
As a reference point for Lincoln’s younger concert crowd, Dirty Dozen has played on two Modest Mouse records, Good News for People Who Love Bad News and No One’s First and You’re Next. They’ve also contributed to a pair of Widespread Panic records and played with Elvis Costello. Additionally, they’ve released 14 of their own records since 1984.
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Bus Gas, perhaps Nebraska’s best/only drone band, has a third record on the horizon, late summer according to Facebook. Like previous releases, Snake Hymns receives the cassette tape treatment thanks to Los Angeles-based Spring Break Tapes. Bassist Jon Augustine told me they usually sell out, so get them while you can.
Their first album, Six Movements in Four Hours is a six-track album that clocks in around an hours. The shortest track is three minutes long, but length probably averages 8 to 10 minutes. At Lincoln’s Take Cover show in February, the group played a droned-out cover of McCarthy Trenching’s “I Am Not Long for This World,” a more heavy-hearted rendition than McCarthy could ever intend.
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Nas is coming to The Bourbon on Oct. 11, which happens to be the last night of Lincoln Calling. Tickets are running $35 in advance, $40 the day of the show, but it won’t be a surprise if this one sells out ahead of time.
The influential rapper is touring his groundbreaking debut Illmatic in honor of the album’s 20th anniversary. Accordingly, you’ll find Illmatic near the top of every list of the greatest hip-hop albums. Few emcees since have balanced deeply meaningful lyricism with such technically deft delivery.
For anyone interested in a quintessentially American art, this is a do-not-miss show.
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In support of her new record, out on Saddle Creek next week, Orenda Fink is heading out on a 28-show national tour. Her route heads west, hits the Midwest, East Coast and South before wrapping up at the Slowdown on Nov. 1. As with The Faint’s recent national tour, it looks like home is the last stop.
Right before that she plays her other hometown of Birmingham, she’s staging a three-night stint at CMJ in New York City, as well.
Blue Dream is currently streaming in full on NPR.