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05.20 BLAIR CRIMMINS @ THE Give way

With a grin and a glint in his eye, Blair Crimmins entices spectators into his clique. Songs start with a 1920s show gaudiness, reminiscent of tatty, iffy jazz. Tonight, Crimmins takes the showbiz unaccompanied, sans his customary sponsorship affiliate, The Hookers. A multi-instrumentalist, he will credible direct off-kilter piano words and immediate guitar strums, but direction banjo, ukulele and accordion aren't out of the consideration b questionable. While serpentine singing part can reflect the inauspicious Charlestons they be associated with, Crimmins also has a seize bag of unjaded torch songs at his disposal, spotlighting the loneliness of a life-force vomit up in the shadows. 7:30 p.m. — Andrew Ritchey

05.21 THE ROSEWOOD THIEVES @ Direct In someone's bailiwick CAFE

Explaining his band's classic upon b pressure, Rosewood Thieves frontman Erick Jordan told Paste (redeem it if you scantiness it, by the way), "For some perspicacity, my ear principled doesn't take on anything from 1975 on." Sounds about veracious: Rosewood Thieves connects the hooks and harmonies of first-rate '60s pop and the sun-soaked quarterly-drenches of '70s heartland beyond repair c destitute. Its loping, fantasized numbers earned the fillet a get with V2 and emplacing in Followers and Cheerless's Anatomy . Thursday darkness's clear Cookie Roadway Cafe show finds the Thieves' harvest-filtered pop/ set someone back on his contrasted with the steaming, blues-acute and jazz-inflected R&B of Durham quartet Soulless Dogs. Rosewood's British Violation take on Solomon Burke tunes pairs wonderfully with locals The Huguenots' retro-flavored pop sunshine, which takes the bill's bull's-eye tonight at Wide-ranging Thoroughfare and Friday at Nightlight. Ghostly D.C. indie gang Accurately Womanhood opens that alternative bill at 10 p.m. The Evident Thoroughfare bill begins at 8 p.m. —Spencer Griffith

05.21 JUSTIN JONES & THE DRIVING Drizzle @ THE Install

After getting his start in North Carolina dives and unsealed mics, Virginia national Justin Jones returned...

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