Tuesday, November 8
Elliot Brood, One Hundred Dollars
Sugar, 8 pm, $20
Touring Days into Years, Ontario-based alt-country/folk outfit Elliot Brood are in Victoria to raise midterm spirits. Plus, the dude plays a banjo, and banjos are dope.
Wednesday, November 9
Mickey Avalon, with guests
Club90NE9, 9 pm, $20
Don’t make a Jane Fonda reference, don’t make a Jane Fonda reference… Ahem. Ambiguous rap artist Mickey Avalon is in Victoria to entertain crowds in what I’m sure will be an enchanting and completely sobering evening. Also, Jane Fonda.
Thursday, November 10
Dan Mangan
Alix Goolden Hall, 7 pm, $26
Delightful, poignant, lively, melancholic, these are describing words… adjectives. Huh? Oh, right, Dan Mangan is in town touring his fantastic new album, Oh Fortune. It’s probably an unfair connection to the both of them, but if you like Mumford and Sons, check Mangan out on November 10. Describing words.
Saturday, November 12
The Arkells, Rich Aucoin
Sugar, 9 pm, $18
What’s that you say? Signed to a major label, they did? Put out a new record, they have? Called Michigan Left, it is? Get out of here, hipster Yoda! Out of the way for some slick alt-rock/pop with The Arkells and Rich Aucoin.
Saturday, November 12
Lights, Nightbox
Club90NE9, 7:30 pm, $22
Toting her brand new album, Siberia, the electronic pop artist Lights is in town at Club90NE9. I’d go, but I’ll have to take a pass on that as I’d just end up staring at her hair the entire time. So creepy.