This weekend you can experience a few of the most buzzed about acts in the Bay.
Emily Jane White will play the Red Devil Lounge tonight, July 28, with David J. and the Chelsea Set. White has just released her third album Ode to Sentience in Europe, and you can download her single “The Law” in anticipation of the album’s U.S. release. She has received worldwide attention since her debut album Dark Undercoat (2007).
The Fresh and Onlys also play tonight at the Independent. Its recent release, the Secret Walls EP, took the band in a different, downbeat direction. Catch them while you can at a small venue before the big festival gigs such as Outside Lands become the norm.
Round off the weekend with the beautiful music of Lia Rose at the Cafe Du Nord on Sunday, July 31. Lia just released her debut solo album this January, which she had been working up to since her band Built for the Sea formed in 2005. Some may even know her from the band she was in before that, Minipop. The opening band, Professor Burns and the Lilac Field, is also a unique local folk rock act with some great musicians: Professor (literally) Sean Burns, Lathan Baulding, and Adam Kirk (who plays with other talented local artists like Sean Hayes).
–Shauna Keddy