
The concert is tomorrow at 8 admission is $7 (Neil Strauss).ĮLAINE ELIAS/DAVE VALENTINE, Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080. Also on the bill is Some Velvet Sidewalk, Olympia's minimal, faux-naif purveyors of popcorn love. Led by Calvin Johnson of the love-rock group Beat Happening, the band takes disco, reggae, funk and rap and layers them sparse and haphazard under Mr.
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Like ''Showgirls,'' a movie so bad that it's actually good, Dub Narcotic Sound System is a band so soulless and unfunky that it's actually funky. Shows tonight and tomorrow start at 9:30 and 11:30, and the cover is $15 (Peter Watrous).ĭUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM, Brownies, 169 Avenue A, East Village, (212) 420-8392. With the release of a record on a major label it seemed as if Popa Chubby might break out of that particular circuit, but he's back in there, delivering dependable, exciting shows. Bar-band blues, hard, rocking and sweaty. POPA CHUBBY, Chicago Blues, 73 Eighth Avenue, near West 14th Street, West Village, (212) 924-9755. Toshi Reagon, New York's answer to Tracy Chapman, has a big, gutsy, bluesy voice that carries her firm political and personal convictions she's leading a band, Big Lovely. Dan Bern, alone with his guitar, draws on the Dust Bowl nasality of the young Bob Dylan, a repertory of quizzical facial expressions, a fixation on baseball and songs that suddenly knot a handful of odd images into touching insights. * DAN BERN/TOSHI REAGON, Bottom Line, 15 West Fourth Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 228-7880. Here is a selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy pop and jazz concerts in New York City this weekend.
