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Before Ellen and before Cho, there was Suzanne Westenhoefer. Fearless, bold, unapologetic, and freaking hilarious best describes Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer. She’s made a career out of telling the truth. And, the truth is, life is funny and no one is off limits. From her mom’s Last Will and Testament to her dog’s embarrassing discovery, Suzanne shares stories that leave audiences in stitches. The first openly gay comedian in the United States, Suzanne has delivered gay material to straight audiences in mainstream comedy clubs beginning in NYC since the early ’90s. After accepting a dare, she entered the world of comedy by accident and her life has never been the same since. Suzanne soon became the first lesbian comedian to garner an HBO Comedy Special, earning her a Cable Ace Award nomination. Additionally, a performance on "Late Night with David Letterman" marked the first by an openly lesbian comedian.
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| Kathleen Edwards / John Doe |
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Aladdin Theater
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$20.00 adv / $20.00 dos * 8:00 PM
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- Critics agree that Asking For Flowers is the "strongest album yet" (Rolling Stone) for Kathleen Edwards. Though the young Canadian made a name for herself on her previous two records, Flowers "deepens her artistic voice without losing any of her tomboyish edge or Tom Pettyish energy" (No Depression). Edwards was recently nominated for the prestigious Canadian Polaris Music Prize, which celebrates and rewards the creativity of predominantly independent Canadian musicians. The Polaris Music Prize, which is similar to the UK's Mercury Prize, is a juried award determined by journalists, broadcasters, bloggers, and programmers from across Canada. - On June 12 Yep Roc Records will release John Doe's much anticipated A Year in the Wilderness, the follow-up to 2005's acclaimed Forever Hasn't Happened Yet, of which Rolling Stone said, "John Doe proves again that this punk legend/journeyman actor can still make great music." Produced by long time collaborator Dave Way and John Doe in Los Angeles at The Way Station, the album opens with the haunting sound of a church organ in the 20 second piano vignette "The Wilderness," then launches into the gritty "Hotel Ghost," setting a darker tone than his previous solo efforts. Doe laments, "Recording in winter always hits you right in the guts, `cause it usually rains and makes you want to close down and pull inside." Yet like all of Doe's work, Wilderness continues to explore the artistic and emotional common ground between punk rock and American roots music with its simple yet powerful-and in this case animalistic-themes of love, loss, destruction and redemption.
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| $15.00 adv / $18.00 dos * 9:00 PM |
20-year career. 100,000 records sold. 100 gigs a year. For this eclectic upstate New York band, success isn't quantitative. It isn't being in constant rotation on Top 40 radio stations or video networks. It isn't how much money's rolling in or even how many people are in the band. "We just do what we do. And it's a very natural thing. It's a thing we find joy in and it's a lifestyle that we've pursued for... ever," says guitarist/vocalist Jeb Puryear, one of the band's two primary songwriters. "We don't manipulate any of our circumstances for the market." That includes the band's sound, which piles reggae, rock, country, zydeco, Cajun, and folk on top of old-time fiddle music to create a combination best described as original American dance music. The Aladdin Theater welcomes back Donna the Buffalo on her nationwide tour of her new album Silverlined.
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| Yeasayer |
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Aladdin Theater
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$15.00 adv / $15.00 dos * 9:00 PM
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It would be an untruth if we were to tell you that our hearts weren't ailing and our ears weren't sleeping before we stumbled across some YEASAYER demos over a year ago. Nibbling at the idea of raising the white flag, we have since then lifted our chins and turned about face. Over the past year, we have somehow managed to keep the music of YEASAYER under lock and key. With a recording process that took place in two states, two cities, four buildings, and spanned 11 months, you would think it was a strenuous affair. It wasn't; it was a pleasure. The outcome, YEASAYER'S debut release, 'ALL HOUR CYMBALS,' is a completely mystifying and magical travel. Pulling from every spectrum and mashing, then re-mashing, YEASAYER have bent genres until they’ve become unrecognizable. It would only be a lazy stab to make modern day comparisons. Please, make this an exercise. ` YEASAYER'S components are four, with each one a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and chanter. Founded by half of a barbershop quartet, then followed by the rhythm, YEASAYER is a tight brotherhood undisrupted by the external. Live, the four bring out the boogie, radiating heat waves and rhythms. Songs once laid to tape are constantly restructured and reworked, show to show, for a new experience.
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