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Rock This Town 
Joseph Lord's guide to the Louisville music scene
City Block to reopen as Spin?
Closed since this spring, the enormous downtown club complex that hosted great shows including last year's amazing The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers show looks like it will be getting a new tenant. Read this from The Courier-Journal.
Rachel Grimes tomorrow at 21C
Louisville music mainstay Rachel Grimes has a new record out, and she's performing Thursday evening at 21C Museum.
October 8 Hear + Now music series
21C Museum 700 W. Main St
Louisville, KY 7 doors; 7:30 show $10/14
She's also playing this weekend at the (very cool) Boomslang Festival in Lexington.
Go to her webs...
Tony Bailey, prolific Louisville musician, has died
Louisville musician Tony Bailey died last week. Mostly a drummer -- a very powerful drummer -- Bailey's extensive Louisville music credentials included Phantom Family Halo, Dead Child, Crain, Rude Weirdo and many others. Click the links to hear some of Bailey's incredible work.
Jim James to play Rud show
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Pour Haus: Closed
The Pour Haus has closed. The bar on Shelby Street had served as a music venue for scores of rock shows in Louisville since opening in 2006, including the annual Wax Fang-Danny Glover Cover Band New Years' bashes, Pere Ubu and dozens of Louisville bands. This comes just days after the announcement that The Dame in Lexington was closing. ...
Silversun Pickups to play Lexington
Smashing P-- er, I mean, Silversun Pickups will play on Sept. 28 at Buster's Billiards and Backroom, 899 Manchester St. in Lexington. Manchester Orchestra and Bowling Green's Cage The Elephant are also on the bill. Tickets are $25 advance, $28 day of show and go on sale Saturday via ticketfly.com and Lexington's CD Central. Silversun Pickups' la...
AC/DC to play Freedom Hall
Hard rock legends AC/DC will play on Oct. 6 at Freedom Hall, according to the band's website. Tickets go on sale Saturday, no word yet on prices.The Australian band released its fifteenth studio album, "Black Ice," in October to decent reviews.
Halloween with the Monsters of Folk
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, M.Ward, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis -- collectively known as Monsters of Folk -- are touring this fall, and Louisville get's a special treat: Halloween at the Louisville Palace with the least scary monsters ever. Pre-sale tickets will be available July 28 and public tickets will be available Jul...
Ernspiker's gear up for sale
More than 75 instruments and other gear from Dave Ernspiker's collection are going up for sale. Earnspiker, who died in April at 39, was one of the city's most respected rock guitarists, playing most recently with Big Rock Show. (Also, very briefly, he was the guitar teacher at the old Music Warehouse for a 16-year-old me -- a great guitarist an...
DJ Jazzy Jeff vs. Cordish
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