Welcome to the end of spring and the beginning of summer. We here at Spirit of '68 are sitting around the office watching to Prince go buckwild all over Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella and lamenting the fact that we weren't there but getting all kinds of excited over the week we are about to have.

Tuesday April 29th @ The Bluebird

Dead Meadow

The Impossible Shapes

Everything Now

Gravitas

doors 8 pm/show 9 pm - $8 - Tickets available at Tracks, Landlocked Music, and ticketmaster.com

Do we really need to sell you on this bill? Okay fine. Dead Meadow make the kind of bass heavy, syrupy, psychedelia others only dream of. The Impossible Shapes have emerged from the studio with a new album in tow and a sound unlike anything they have done before. Everything Now are Bloomington ex-pats returning with their signature brand of folk-psych-and-roll. Gravitas are the best Bloomington band no one has actual seen. You will spend the entirety of their set waiting to pick your jaw off of the floor.

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Wednesday April 30th @ Bear's Place

Paleface

Ruben and Vanessa

Leah Kessler

10 pm - $5

Paleface spent the early 90's as part of NYC's anti-folk movement, learning his trade from Daniel Johnson and sharing Fruity Pebbles across the breakfast table as Beck's roommate. He toured with The Crash Test Dummies and Billy Bragg and after surviving label politricks and a failing liver, he cleaned up and started spending time with the Moldy Peaches and Regina Spektor. He joined the Avett Brothers in their mountain hideaway to help them record Four Thieves Gone and now he is hitting the road with musical compatriot Monica Spamalot.

Ruben and Vanessa are a folk duo who are simply a joy to watch. Their music is sweet and playful and if Spring had an official soundtrack they would be its composers. Leah Kessler is quietly a guitar goddess be she fronting Jonbenet Sasquatch, paying tribute to Bjork, or getting her folk yayas off.

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Friday May 2nd @ The Waldron Arts Center

Caribou

Fcuk Buttons

doors 7 pm/show 8 pm - $10 advance/$12 door - Tickets available at Landlocked Music and http://spiritof68.ducatking.com.

Online allotment is being refreshed and should be up and running again later today.

Caribou is the creative output of doctor of mathematics cum musician Dan Snaith. His latest release, Andora, is a dose of 60's psychedelia that would make the Zombi's proud. F--- Buttons are a two-man auditory wrecking crew from the UK who add melody and dance rhythms to the world of noise rock creating something that is absolutely brilliant.

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