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this week in music oct 1-7

DAVID GRISMAN & JOHN SEBASTIAN

City Winery

143 Varick St. between Spring & Vandam Sts.

Bar stools $35, reserved tables $50, reserved best and VIP tables $65

212-608-0555

Thursday, October 1 Legendary folk and bluegrass musicians team up for very special show, 9:00

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Jay Reatard will be thrashing about in (le) poisson rouge (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

JAY REATARD

(le) poisson rouge

150 Bleecker St.

Admission: $15

212-505-fish

Thursday, October 1 Jay Reatard, with Box Elders, Hunx, Nobunny, and Useless Eaters, 11:00

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MAD. SQ. MUSIC 2009 STUDIO SERIES: FOLK, BLUES & AMERICANA

Madison Square Park

Broadway & Madison Ave. and Twenty-third & Twenty-fifth Sts.

Saturday afternoons through October 10

Admission: free

212-538-9310

Saturday, October 3 Susan Werner, the Creaking Tree String Quartet, 3:00

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MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT

Market Hotel

1142 Myrtle Ave. at Broadway

Admission: $10-$20

Saturday, October 3 Dixon, Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin, 11:45

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RED NIGHTS: AN EVENING WITH GAVIN FRIDAY AND FRIENDS

Carnegie Hall

57th St. at Seventh Ave.

Tickets: $35-$250

212-247-7800

Sunday, October 4 Popular Irish singer Gavin Friday appears with more than two dozen special guests, including Laurie Anderson, U2, Maria Mckee, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Courtney Love, Shane MacGowan, Chloe Webb, Eric Mingus, Lydia Lunch, Elizabeth Ashley, Flo & Eddie, Bill Frisell, and more, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Red Nights organization to help eliminate AIDS in Africa, 8:00

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JOHN WESLEY HARDING’S CABINET OF WONDERS

(le) poisson rouge

150 Bleecker St.

Admission: $15

212-505-fish

Wednesday, October 7 John Wesley Harding with Tanya Donelly, Rick Moody, Patrick McGrath, Todd Barry, Michael Zegarski singing the work of Daniel Felsenfeld), Martha Plimpton, and Rosie Thomas, 10:00

WHITE HILLS

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The Bell House

149 Seventh St., Gowanus

Wednesday, October 6, $12, 7:30

http://www.thebellhouseny.com

http://www.myspace.com/whitehills

Based in New York City but apparently from another galaxy, White Hills plays psychedelic space rock that goes off in all kinds of heavy, far-out directions. Their recordings are often hard to track down, either self-released or released on small labels in very limited editions on vinyl and CD, although Thrill Jockey is just bringing out 2007’s raucous HEADS ON FIRE, in which White Hills founder and guitarist Dave W., bassist Ego Sensation, and drummer Bob Bellomo freak out on such killer tunes as “Radiate” and “Oceans of Sound” before calming down with short throwaway “Return of Speed Toilet.” But then the band reaches new intergalactic heights with the endlessly groovy ten-minute “Visions of the Past, Present and Future,” which encapsulates what White Hills are all about, consisting of furious jams, electronic meanderings, space-age blasts, and slowed-down, ethereal breaks. And then they really blow your mind with the atmospheric twenty-six-and-a-half-minute epic “Don’t Be Afraid,” which sounds like a soundtrack to a creepy psychedelic thriller set aboard a ghost ship. The album concludes with the nearly nonstop fury of “Eternity,” which pauses only for a few seconds of eerie children’s laughter. Thrill Jockey also released the two-track vinyl A LITTLE BLISS FOREVER this year, which sold out instantly. And now comes the vicious twelve-incher DEAD, a four-song EP that includes the sonic blasts “Another Coming,” “Red Sun,” a remix of “Oceans of Sound,” and the deadly title track. The band will be playing what should be a wild and woolly show on October 6 at the Bell House with Wovenhand and Silver Summit.

GIRLS & BOYS: THE HOLY FUCK

Holy Fuck will be leading late-night dance party at Webster Hall (photo by twi-ny/ees)

Webster Hall

125 East Eleventh St. between Third & Fourth Aves.

Friday, October 2, $1-$25, 10:00

http://www.websterhall.com

The Holy Fuck are four dudes from Toronto who play low-fi electronica-type dance music without electronics. Seriously. When we caught them a few years back at the Bowery Ballroom, they spent thirty-five minutes having a lot of fun — us too — opening for !!! Two goofy guys spent the set in front on homemade trestle tables, an ocarina, 35mm film sequencer, and some really cheesy keyboards — as in physically decrepit-looking items, not particularly Farfisa-sounding things. The two live musicians were a drum-beating moptop with an admirable Moe haircut and a hyperkinetic bald guy who wielded quite an ax. They weirdly suggest a little prog rock in their soaring keyboards, laid over and in between lots of twitchy dancing stuff and crazy beats working together and off each other, with intense guitar work on the side. It was like . . . Emerson, Lake, and Palmer at 90 BPM on Red Bull. And lots o’ it. On October 2, they’ll be headlining the weekly Girls & Boys all-night party at Webster Hall, with Autoerotique, resident DJs Alex English, Kids with Snakes, Gavin Royce, Rekles, and Trash! with DJ Jess & Alex Malfunction.

JOHNNY HEADBAND

Johnny Headband brings its disco beat to NYC

Brooklyn Bowl

61 Wythe Ave.

Friday, October 2, $5, 9:00

718-963-3369

http://www.myspace.com/johnnyheadband
http://www.brooklynbowl.com

This side project of Detroit band the Electric Six features brothers Keith and Chad Thompson playing their enticing brand of retro indie psychedelic disco funk. With Keith on bass, Chad on electronics, RGS on drums, and Pan!c on guitar, Johnny Headband plans to shake your booty at Brooklyn Bowl, playing songs from their sweet new EP, PHASE 3 (available for free on their Web site), which consists of “Wastin Time,” “Fly Song,” and the epic “Death of a Disco Beat,” as well as tunage from their previous record, the full-length HAPPINESS IS UNDERRATED, which includes “Motor Cycle Time Machine,” “Funktionslust,” and “Transition Storm.” Johnny Headband — the name makes us immediately think of John Travolta in the 1985 workout film PERFECT — are part of a rather eclectic bill on October 2 with .357 Lover and Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees. Yes, that’s right: a heavy metal celebration of the brothers Gibb.

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