Wooden Tit, The Touched, Suspected Terrorists

Thanks to Kris Abplanalp for the writeup:

Well color me giddy, ’cause there is one hell of a dirty-ass rock ’n' roll show this Saturday. Hopefully you already know about it, but either which way, pass the word around to those who favor heavy drinking and loud music.

WOODEN TIT (11 pm)
This is the new Asheville, N.C., group lead by Don Howland of the Bassholes, Gibson Bros. & Ego Summit, etc. It is a self-evident truth that Don is a king among the deepest layers of the Midwestern DIY punk world, not to mention modern music period.
Despite compiling one of the richest catalogs of music over the last 30 years, despite everything from Jon Spencer begging his way into the Gibson Bros after Pussy Galore broke up. Or the Bassholes doing records for Matador and John Fahey's Revenant. Or the Los Falanas collaborations with Southern Culture on the Skids. Or mediocre bands like the White Stripes getting so much exposure. Or the Ego Summit record being one of the best records of the last 20 years. Despite all of these things, Don Howland is not the house-hold name he deserves to be. He sort of walks down the path started by The Cramps and Tav Falco, in that he marries punk rock with a twisted roots-deep understanding of some of the best music of the last 120 years: ’77 punk, ’31 blues, '53 R'n'B, '66 punk and '71 soul. He's too dark and twisted to be some old-time revival act or garage rock, and way too ROCK to be in with average "weirdo" music niche. Consider this a god-damn pleasure, this type of thing doesn't happen in town to often.

Mp3's here: http://www.kissnrun.com/woodentitmusic.html

THE TOUCHED (midnight)
Easily one of the best live bands in town and certainly one of the only bands that can be DANGEROUS. This band is the antidote to all of our boring ass indie-rock bands with singers that mumble along as they stare at their shoes and all the scenesters get moist over that great God MEDIOCRITY. Last time I saw them at Lisa's Oak Street Lounge there was 5 inches of standing beer/water/piss/broken bottles whatever that their singer (who had a tip jar over his head) was wallowing through as he wrestled various members of the crowd, it was sort of like doing the worm at Altamont. This show is sort of their 7" RELEASE PARTY. It spins at 33rpm, has 4 songs and is their debut. To these ears it's a god damn beautiful saddle straddle somewhere (but in its its own thing kinda way) between mid70's Cleveland proto-punk and early 80's Texas acid punk. The venerable Brian Turner played them on his most recent WFMU broadcast here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/23165

THE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS (10pm (sharp))
If Reagen fueled an endless fount of great punk bands, why hasn't the Bush Dynasty? Perhaps it's because we're all fucked? The Suspected Terrorist are not only a helluva punk band driving some demented hardcore Flipper type of horse power.. they are also RELEVANT (well damn, how often does that happen these days?) with songs such as: Patriot Act, Torture Island, Fuck Your Stupid Civilisation, Fight Song!, Suspected Terrorists, Mr. America and of course Henry Ford is Dead (and I'm Glad). They recently finished up recording their debut full length, soon to be released so prepare yourself for ST finally getting the recognition they deserve.
Mp3s, etc here: www.suspectedterrorists.com

LISA's OAK STREET LOUNGE
1006 East Oak Street

SATURDAY MAY 26th
10 pm SHARP
$5

Jim James Concert at The Rudyard Kipling

A few tickets are still available at ear X-tacy (1534 Bardstown Road, 452-1799) for the solo concert by Jim James (My Morning Jacket, Mont de Sundua) at The Rudyard Kipling, (422 W. Oak St., 636-1311) on Sunday, June 3. Jim will be joined by poet Ron Whitehead and Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead for the evening.

Here's the itinerary:
Doors open: 6 p.m.
7 p.m. Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead (Jim will join Sarah & Ron for much of their set)
8 p.m. Jim James of My Morning Jacket

Tickets are $34, and all the proceeds go to benefit The Rudyard Kipling.

Concert Listings

Fri 5/18
Moe
Martin Sexton
Angelique Kidjo
Keller Williams
The Nightwatchman
BROWN THEATRE - 7 p.m.

Sat 5/19
Ryan Adams
Suzanne Vega
Paula Cole
Charlie Louvin
Vietnam
BROWN THEATRE - 7 p.m.

The Glasspack
Bible of the Devil
Blade of the Ripper
Arch
THE RUD - 10 p.m.
$5

The Town Criers
JAZZ FACTORY - 11 p.m.

Mon 5/21
Kings of Leon
Albert Hammond Jr.
The Features
HEADLINERS - 8 pm
$25

Thu 5/24
Jamie Barnes
Brooks Ritter
JENICCA'S - 9 p.m.
free

BENEFIT FOR MIKE WELCH
Landmines
Sunday Valley
THE RUDYARD KIPLING - 9 p.m.
$5

Fri 5/25
!!!
The Holy Fuck
HEADLINERS - 9 p.m.
$12

Tyrone Cotton
SEIDENFADEN'S - 10 p.m.

Lucky Pinapple
Mock Orange
Vampire Squid
POUR HAUS - 10 p.m.
$5

Sat 5/26
Ganthet
Posi Bear
Mountain Asleep
When Animals Eat Other Animals
Grimewar
BRICK HOUSE - 6 p.m.
$4

Wicked Tit
The Touched
LISA'S - 10 p.m.
$5

Wed 5/30
Teneia Sanders
STEVIE RAY'S - 8 p.m.

Thu 5/31
Suspected Terrorists
THIRD STREET DIVE - 10 p.m.
$3

Sat 6/02
Johnny Berry and the Outliers
SEIDENFADEN'S - 11 p.m.
$5

Sun 6/03
IamIs
Jamie Barnes
Chemic
MOLLY MALONE'S - 7:30 p.m.

Sun 6/10
BENEFIT FOR KOSAIR CHARITIES
Bonnie Prince Billy
Blowfly
HEADLINERS - 8 p.m.
$5

Tue 6/12
The National
Shapes 'n Sizes
talkdemonic
HEADLINERS - 9 p.m.
$12

Wed 6/13
Bobby Bare Jr.
The Slip
HEADLINERS
$8

Fri 6/22
Tyrone Cotton
JAZZ FACTORY - 11 p.m.

Fri 6/29
Tyrone Cotton
SEIDENFADEN'S - 10 p.m.

Sat 6/30
People Noise
KESWICK- 6 p.m.
$5

Sat 7/07
Metroschifter
TBA

Lucky Pineapple
JAZZ FACTORY - 11 p.m.

Johnny Berry and the Outliers
SEIDENFADEN'S - 11 p.m.
$5

Sat 7/14
The Police
Fiction Plane
CHURCHILL DOWNS

Fri 7/20
"Lebowski Fest" with
Dr. Dog
Vietnam
EXECUTIVE BOWL - 8 p.m.

Sat 7/21
"Lebowski Fest" with
The Legendary Shack Shakers
The Ladybirds
Kentucky Prophet
Lucky Pineapple
Squeeze-bot
EXECUTIVE BOWL - 4 p.m.

Sun 7/22
Permant Black
Redhanded
Casket & Flower
Minnow
BLACK BEAR LAIR
6 p.m. - $5

Fri 7/27
"Forecastle Festival" with
De La Soul
Chicago Afrobeat Project
How I Became the Bomb
Cheer-Accident
SKL
The Old Ceremony
Kelley McRae
Parlour
Noizejoi
World Wide Wojo
Captain of Industry
Scourge of the Sea
Lucky Pineapple
John Boy's Courage
Geoff Koch
The Fervor
THE BELVEDERE

Sat 7/28
"Foreastle Festival" with
Girl Talk
Particle
Mucca Pazza
Wax Fang
The Features
Early Day Miners
The Impossible Shapes
Odawas
The High Water Marks
De Novo Dahl
The October
Ghostfinger
Black Diamond Heavies
The Glasspack
The Pennies
The Hiders
The Harry Pickens Band
Stephen Simmons
Todd Coyle
THE BELVEDERE

Sun 7/29
My Darling Asleep
CLIFTON'S PIZZA - 7 p.m.

RESIDENCIES:
Sundays - Bluegrass Brunch - Monkey Wrench
Mondays - Steve Cooley Bluegrass Band - Gerstle's
Mondays & Tuesdays - Duncan + Hildreth + Tiemann + Wagner - Jockamo's
- 8:30 p.m. - $3
Tuesdays - Kings of Love - Lisa's - 9:30 pm - $2
Wednesdays - Duncan + Stevens + Tiemann - Nachbar - 9 p.m.
Thursdays through Saturdays - Boogie Morton - Vincenzo's
Thursdays through Saturdays - Randy Meyers - Executive West
Fridays and Saturdays - Dick Sisto - Seelbach Bar - 10 p.m.

JAM SESSION / OPEN MIC
Mondays - open mic with Teneia Sanders - Stevie Ray's - 10 p.m.
every other Wednesday - open mic with Dave Bird - Bearno's Highlands - 10 p.m.
Wednesdays - bluegrass jam - BBC St. Matthews - 8 p.m.
Thursdays - bluegrass jam - Nachbar

DJs:
Tuesdays - Ease Off with Jesse Jamz - Monkey Wrench - 10 p.m.
Wednesdays - Midweek Rager with Scott Ritcher - Monkey Wrench - 10 p.m.
Thursdays - The Mighty Barret Avenue Shake with Woody Chancy & Matt
Anthony - Monkey Wrench - 10 p.m.
Thursdays - Roots Rock Night with Graham & Shadwick - Third Street Dive - 10 p.m.
Thursdays - Hello Sound with Jason Clark - Pour Jaus - 10 p.m.
Thursdays - The Get Off with Dwight Johnson - Maker's Lounge - 10 p.m.
Fridays - Lifted Soul with Dwight Johnson - Maker's Lounge - 10 p.m.
Fridays - Global Grease with Kim Sorise - North End - 10 p.m.
Fridays - Jesse Jamz - Asiatique - 12 a.m.
first Saturday - The Good Life with Dwight Johnson - Raw - 10 p.m.
Saturdays - TemptationX - Exile - 10 p.m.
last Saturday - Kim Sorise & BlackOut - Monkey Wrench - 10 p.m.

LOCALLY PRODUCED RADIO ON WFPK 91.9 FM:
Wednesdays - "Kentucky Homefront" - 8-9 p.m.
Thursdays - "Louisville Lost & Found" - 8-9 p.m.
Fridays - "Sound Clash" - 8-11 p.m.
Fridays - "World Force Reggae" 11 p.m. until midnight
Saturdays and Sundays - "Woody's Roadhouse" - midnight until 6 a.m.
Sundays - "Best Coast Jazz" - 10 until 11 a.m.
Sundays - "Inner Ear" - 11 a.m. until noon
Sundays - "Roots 'n Boots" - 6 until 8 p.m.
Sundays - "Sunday Bluegrass" - 8 until 11 p.m.

REGULAR VENUES:
Air Devils Inn
BBC (St. Matthews)
Black Bear Lair
Brick House
Brown Theatre
Clifton's Pizza
Exile
Headliners Music Hall
Hideaway Saloon
Jazz Factory
Jenicca's
Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium
Jockamo's Pizza
Keswick Democratic Club
Lisa's Oak Street Lounge
Longshots Tavern
Mix Things
Monkey Wrench
The 930 Gallery
Palace Theatre
The Pink Door
The Pour Haus
The Rudyard Kipling
St. John's Church
Seidenfaden's
Stevie Ray's
Third Street Dive
Uncle Pleasant's
Za's Pizza
Zena's Cafe