TMBG

Too many shows, too much drinking. Our heads are pounding from the combination of a weekend of shows and way too much scotch. Thankfully this week offers a reprieve from the continuous run of shows and...what's that you say? This week is a log jam of great shows? Well pull out the earplugs and put on your drinking boots because this week is crammed to the gills with rock, bluegrass, and metal madness.

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Wednesday February 27th

Baby Dee Tammar The Silent Era

The Waldron Arts Center - doors 8, show 9 - $7 sponsored by the Indiana University Department of Gender Studies

Baby Dee is the transgendered street performer cum musician who's melodramatic piano masterpieces have captured the imaginations of fans across the greater 48 and beyond, among them Will Oldham who produced her latest Drag City release Safe Inside the Day.

Tammar are the atmospheric indie-joy of Dave Walter and company who are proud purveyors of lush and ethereal rock.

The Silent Era are a collective of Bloomington musician folk making sweeping, lyrical music that is akin to the soundtrack of some grand unwritten musical running through their heads.

http://www.myspace.com/theonlybabydee http://www.myspace.com/tamarband http://www.myspace.com/thesilentera

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Thursday February 28th

They Might Be Giants

The Bluebird - 8pm - $18

Tickets available at Tracks, Landlocked Music, and ticketmaster.com They Might Be Giants come from a time, let's call it the good old days, when highly literate, two-man geek rock ruled the college radio waves. They rocked your childhood on Tiny Toons and they were the soundtrack to your Gen-X, post collegiate slacking.

http://www.myspace.com/theymightbegiants

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Friday February 29th

The Avett Brothers

The Bluebird - 9pm - $10

Tickets available Tracks, Landlocked Music, and ticketmaster.com. http://www.theavettbrothers.com

Bluegrass with the fun and energy of rock and roll. We can't describe it any better than they describe themeselves: "The songs are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the energy with which they are sung, is really why people are talking, and why so many sing along.

They are a reality in a world of entertainment built with smoke and mirrors, and when they play, the common man can break the mirrors and blow the smoke away, so that all that's left behind is the unwavering beauty of the songs. That's the commotion, that's the celebration, and wherever The Avett Brothers are tonight, that's what you'll find."

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Saturday March 1st

Pelican Black Cobra Unearthly Trance

Rhino's Youth Center - 8pm - $10 pre $12 door

Tickets available at Rhino's, Landlocked Music, Tracks, and online at bloomingtonarts.info.

Pelican and Chi-city's favorite instru-metal sons. Forgoing the forceful wail of their metal brethren, they have their feet firmly planted in prog-rock, pushing the boundaries of metal and creating a sound that is uniquely Pelican.

Black Cobra are a sludge rock metal duo from the city by the bay making up for alack of band members with piss and volume.

Unearthly Trance are bringing doom metal from the bowels of Brooklyn to the metal starved stage of Bloomington.

http://www.myspace.com/pelican http://www.myspace.com/utny http://www.myspace.com/blackcobra

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For information on these and other upcoming shows visit http://www.spiritof68promotions.com

Coming soon to a venue near you:

03.03 Bowerbirds, Phosphorescent, Ruben and Vanessa @ The Waldron Auditorium 03.04 Evangelicals, Headlights, Prayer Breakfast @ The Waldron Arts Center 03.05 Broken Letters, Sticky and the Bees @ Bear's Place 03.07 Arrah and the Ferns, Folklore @ Art Hospital 03.07 The Payton Brothers @ Bear's Place 03.11 Samara Lubelski, Justin Vollmar, Basia Bulat @ The Waldron Arts Center Firebay 03.12 Debate @ Bear's Place 03.17 School of Language @ The Waldron 03.18 Old Time Relijun, Prizzy Prizzy Please, The Big Sleep @ The Bluebird 03.20 Islands, Supreeme, Good Luck @ Rhino's 03.21 The Dirtbombs, Kelley Stoltz, Shake, The Coke Dares @ Jake's 03.21 Glorytellers, Sticky and the Bees, Morrow @ Bear's Place 03.26 Guitar Hero Tournament @ Bear's Place 03.27 Le Loup, Ruby Suns @ The Waldron Arts Center 03.29 Throw Me the Statue, Kentucky Nightmare, Alexander the Great @ Art Hospital 04.02 Why?, The Alarmists (Calm Down) @ Bear's Place 04.07 Okkervil River, Howlin Rain @ The Buskirk Chumley 04.09 Minus Story, The Coke Dares, Tre Orsi @ Bear's Place 04.11 Feist @ The IU Auditorium 04.15 Minus the Bear, The Big Sleep, Portugal the Man @ The Bluebird 04.26 Nomo @ The Bluebird 04.29 Dead Meadow, The Impossible Shapes, Everything Now! @ The Bluebird 04.30 Paleface @ Bear's Place 05.02 Caribou, F--- Buttons @ The Waldron Arts Center

Tickets to many shows available at Landlocked Music and online at http://spiritof68.ducatking.com.