:: Fox Theatre :: November 11 :: Ogden Theatre :: November 12 ::

By Timothy Dwenger

Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is a member of a dying breed of writers, the barroom poet. Finn’s words talk of betting on the ponies, high school dances, acid trips and religion, while introducing listeners to some of the most well developed characters in modern rock music. After a short time with The Hold Steady you feel like you know Charlemagne the strung out addict, Gideon the skinhead, and Holly the hoodrat who found religion. Finn has a way of telling a story that really worms its way into your soul.

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 :: Cracker :: Fox Theatre :: November 15 :: Bluebird Theater :: November 16 :: Aggie Theatre :: November 17 ::

By Brian F. Johnson

Johnny Hickman’s been sitting at a Mexican border crossing for five hours. He’s without cell service, internet or any means to contact the outside world. He’s just trapped in what seems like a never-ending scene from a Robert Rodriguez film. Hickman isn’t the hold-up. He gave up drugs too long ago for the patrol officers to give a shit about his suitcase, but still he sits.
By the time he finally gets through, he’s missed his scheduled flight and nearly missed his late-night flight, which finally gets him home at 4 a.m., with only a few hours to spare before taking his boy to school.
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 :: Tegan and Sara :: Boulder Theater :: November 3 ::

By Lisa Oshlo
Long the darlings of the indie rock scene, Canadian-born identical twin sister act Tegan and Sara are finally bringing their infectious brand of punky-pop (with a bit of an ’80s edge) back to the Front Range. With five stand-out albums under their collective belt by the age of 26, Tegan and Sara, well…rock.
The girls taught themselves to play guitar at 15 and within two years had used their school’s recording studio to record two albums (Who’s In Your Band? and Play Day). The following year, they won the prestigious Garage Warz music competition in Calgary and started focusing on the band in a big way.
What began as just a sister act eventually evolved to include Ted Gowans on guitar and keyboards, Dan Kelly on bass, and Johnny Five Andrews on drums. The band released their fifth album, The Con, in July, along with a companion DVD.
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:: John Butler Trio :: Ogden Theatre :: November 23 and 24 ::

By Monica Banks

“Yes, I one hundred percent believe music can change the world,” John Butler said. And that is exactly what he and the trio that bears his name are trying to do with refreshing sincerity.
Butler began playing the guitar when he was 16 and by the time he turned 21 showed enough discipline and promise to inherit his grandfather’s 1930s Dobro. Armed with his family’s confidence, he developed an obsession with the guitar. “I always loved songwriting, but it wasn’t until I saw (Australian singer/songwriter) Jeff Lang and (Scottish musician) Tony McManus that I realized what I wanted to do,” Butler said in a recent interview with The Marquee from his Australian home. He began by busking as a street musician at the Fremantle markets in Australia and his performances soon inspired a popular demand to record.
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 :: Sea Wolf :: Larimer Lounge :: November 13 ::

By Timothy Dwenger
There’s a new face on the indie folk circuit these days. The face belongs to Alex Brown Church and he has emerged from the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, a recent hotbed of activity in the indie music community. Church is Sea Wolf in the same way that Sam Beam is Iron & Wine and, like Beam, Church rarely performs solo and relies on a diverse cast of backing musicians to flesh out his songs.
When Church first put Sea Wolf together he was an active member of Irving, another band native to Silverlake, and needed an outlet for more of his own material. “Sea Wolf is my songs and Irving is more of a group thing where I only had a few songs on each record,” Church said during a recent interview with The Marquee that was plagued by the lack of cellular coverage in Southern Oregon as he drove from San Francisco to Portland for the second gig of Sea Wolf’s marathon fall tour with his current bandmates.
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:: Do Make Say Think :: Bluebird Theater :: November 8 ::

By Tiffany Childs
Do Make Say Think is a band known for pensively beautiful instrumental songs. That is why it was a surprise to most of their fans when their fifth release, You, You’re a History in Rust, came with vocals on some tracks. The Marquee recently had the chance to catch up with Justin Small (guitar/bass/keyboards) to talk about the switch and the band’s tour in support of the release.
“We didn’t really think it out as a concept,” Small said of the addition of vocals to this album. “It was more like we thought, what could we do differently? What is a challenge to us? And more importantly, we felt all of the songs couldn’t have vocals, they had to be worthy of having vocals.”
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 :: The Mountain Goats :: Hi-Dive :: November 6 ::

By Lisa Oshlo
Born of the mind of Pitzer College student and psychiatric nurse John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats (which often include only Darnielle and a myriad of revolving musicians) have been steadily producing music since 1991. In fact, at the rate of just about an album a year (and with over ten full-length albums since 1995), he is certainly one of the most prolific songwriters in the indie rock scene.
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:: November 2007 ::

By Brian F. Johnson

Best wishes are in order this month. Actually, truth be told, they were in order last month, but we had already gone to press by the time the announcement was made.
After nearly five years of service to the musicians and music fans on the Front Range, Fox general manager John Caprio has moved on to take the spot as the G.M. for the Broomfield Event Center.
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 :: The New Pornographers :: Gothic Theatre :: November 5 ::

By Chris Castaneda
The weather report in San Francisco, according to John Collins of the New Pornographers, is nice, breezy and not too hot. The bassist is in search of a calm spot to settle down for a conversation with The Marquee before the band’s show at the Warfield Theatre in a few hours, as the Vancouver-based supergroup starts its North American tour in support of Challengers.
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By Brian F. Johnson
There are female artists, female agents, female publicists and female venue owners in the local and national music scene, but for some odd reason there is a complete dearth in female talent buyers — particularly throughout Colorado.
But the Fox Theatre — long heralded as a breeding ground for new talent and a trendsetter in the business — may be changing all of that.
Late this past summer, head talent buyer Eric Pirritt left his long-held seat at the Fox to make a move to Live Nation, and with that move came an internal promotion that has been years in the making. Sarah Finger, who worked alongside Pirritt as the assistant talent buyer at the Fox, was chosen to fill the large shoes left by Pirritt and in doing so it made her one of the only female talent buyers in the state, and definitely the most powerful female talent buyer along the Front Range.
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Bruce Springsteen
Magic
Sony.Records
3 out of 5
I.m going to break from the popular opinion of the mainstream music press and say that I.m not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen.s post 9-11 music. While The Boss.s 2002 release The Rising was noble in its subject matter, it seems to have begun a pattern that repeats itself here on his latest effort, Magic. It.s a pattern of putting too much shine on a product that is supposed to have rough edges. Don.t get me wrong, Springsteen still has more songwriting talent in his little finger than many songwriters have in their whole bodies. What.s missing here, at least for me, lies in the production.
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November 1
•    1969: After a seven year absence, Elvis Presley returns to Billboard’s number one position with “Suspicious Minds”
•    1962: Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is born
November 3
•    1954: Adam Ant is born Harry Beetle
•    1972: James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in a NYC apartment
November 4
•    1940: Delbert McClinton is born
November 5
•    1974: Ryan Adams is born
•    1959: Bryan Adams is born
•    1946: Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers is born
•    1971: At the end of a Minneapolis concert by “The King,” announcer Al Dvorin says, “Elvis has left the building” for the first time
November 6
•    1948: Glenn Frey of The Eagles is born
November 7
•    1973: The Rolling Stones begin their first tour of the U.S. in three years, in Denver
•    1943: Joni Mitchell is born
November 8
•    1949: Bonnie Raitt is born
November 9
•    1993: Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee is arrested for trying to take a gun on an airplane
•    1967: The first issue of Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco and comes with a free ‘roach clip’
•    1970: Susan Tedeschi is born
November 11
•    1972: At the age of 24, Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley is killed in a motorcycle accident, three blocks from where guitarist Duane Allman was killed
November 12
•    1999: Gary Glitter is sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to child pornography charges
•    1970: The Doors make their last concert appearance while in New Orleans
•    1945: Neil Young is born
•    1955: Chuck Berry is awarded “Most Promising Artist” by Billboard
November 14
•    1964: Rapper Run, of Run D.M.C., is born Joseph Simmons
November 15
•    1969: Janis Joplin is arrested in Florida for vulgar and indecent language

November 16
•    1978: Queen performs at Madison Square Garden with several nude women riding around the stage on bicycles for “Fat Bottomed Girls”
November 20
•    1994: Singer/songwriter David Crosby receives a liver transplant
•    1970: After Keith Moon collapses twice during a San Francisco concert, The Who’s Pete Townshend pulls a 19-year-old boy from the crowd to play three songs
•    1965: Mike D (Diamond) of The Beastie Boys is born
•    1946: Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers is born
November 21
•    1947: Joe Walsh of The Eagles is born
November 22
•    1997: Michael Hutchence, of INXS, hangs himself in an Australian hotel room
•    1967: Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant is released
•    1965: Bjork is born Bjork Gudmundsdottir
November 23
•    1976: Police arrest Jerry Lee Lewis outside Graceland after he appears for the second time that night, waiving a pistol and demanding to see Elvis
November 24
•    1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies of pneumonia the day after announcing to the world that he had AIDS
•    1954: Bruce Hornsby is born
November 25
•    1976: The Band plays its last concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom; the show is recorded and made into the film The Last Waltz
•    1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience make their debut at London’s Bag O’ Nails Club
November 26
•    1968: Cream plays its last show at London’s Royal Albert Hall until 2005.
•    1938: Tina Turner is born Annie Mae Bullock
November 27
•    1942: Jimi Hendrix is born
November 29
•    2001: George Harrison dies at the age of 58 at his home in Los Angeles
•    1933: John Mayall is born
November 30
•    1994: Tupac Shakur is shot five times outside a NYC recording studio
•    1988: LL Cool J performs at the first rap concert in Africa
•    1965: The Colorado government announces today will be The Rolling Stones Day in the state.

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