THE BOXCARS At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 E. Highway 80, Bloomingdale. $25 This is truly a bluegrass supergroup, began by fiddler and banjo player Ron Stewart, a longtime veteran of J.D. Crowe’s New South (a band that also included Boxcars bassist Harold Nixon). Stewart founded this-here band with mandolin maestro Adam Steffey, who’d spent eight fame and fortune-filled years as part of Alison Krauss and Union Station (from Every Time ...

THE ROYAL NOISE At 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26 Huc-a-Poos, 1213 U.S. 80, Tybee Island; At 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. With Wormsleow and Sincerely, Iris; At 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 Congress Street Social Club, 411 W. Congress St. It's a three-day jazz/funk weekend as the recently-from-Savannah Royal Noise celebrates its first CD release, Keep on Moving. This'll take a bit of explaining: Founding guitarist Johan ...

YARN With Dangermuffin At 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $8 Blake Christiana grew up in Schenectady, N.Y. with a hippie dad who exposed his son to the acoustic, country-flavored tunes of mid-period Grateful Dead, as well as Jerry Garcia's bluegrass offshoot, Old & in the Way. Making his way through the years, Christiana - who's 36 now - grew fond of Willie Nelson, which, naturally, led him ...

LOUIS LOGIC With Camcutta, Bathsh3ba At 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. Ticket info at wormholebar.com Get to know the new Lou! This quote from underground emcee Louis Logic sums up his philosophy quite nicely: "I'm making music that I think is totally innovative and high quality," the New York rapper says. "To me, this is an exciting time for hip hop music because people are getting bored of the old ...

OLD FRIENDS RETURN You know 'em, you love 'em: Live Wire Music Hall's got the Ragbirds Wednesday, Jan 4; this is that eclectic Afro/Celtic/folk/reggae band from Michigan that travels in a van powered by waste vegetable oil. Fronted as always by the amazing singer, songwriter and violinist Erin Zindle, they've just this week issued their fourth full-length album, Travelin' Machine ... A couple of good ones at the Jinx this week: Our  pal B.J. Barham, ...

THE SHANIQUA BROWN MEGAN JEAN & THE KFB At 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. "Iron your party pants and break out the bourbon." That's the published manifesto of the atomically charged Charleston outfit The Shaniqua Brown, which has become a Savannah favorite over the past year. Not that vocalist Rachel Kate Gillon has any need for pants, thank you. She prefers to wear brightly-colored tutus onstage, because ...

SAVANNAH CELTIC CHRISTMAS At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St. Admission $20 adults, $10 children under 12 Indeed, this is a Christmas music show, but it doesn't take place in a club. It's in a church sanctuary. Don't let that scare you off. The second annual Savannah Celtic Christmas is a freewheeling celebration of Irish music and culture, with dancing, good-natured tomfoolery and even beer and wine (that stuff's ...

HOMEGROWN HOLIDAY HOEDOWN At 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16 American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. $10 advance, $15 at the door Unopened, unwrapped toys will be collected at the door for Toys for Tots, as the Accomplices, a relatively new, acoustic-based Savannah string band - celebrate the release of the CD Canned Beans. The hard-rocking Niche shares the bill, just back from a northeastern club tour that includes shows in New York City, Philadelphia ...

DR. DAN MATRAZZO & THE LOOTERS At 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $7 "I'm half Japanese and half Italian," says jam-band keyboard wizard Dr. Dan Matrazzo. "But I'm a redneck at heart." Matrazzo's father is from Baltimore, his mother from Tokyo, and it was in that Japanese capital that he learned to play and had his first taste of success. "I was in a rock band - ...

THE ACCOMPLICES At 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. A confluence of styles and influences, this relatively new Savannah band’s debut CD Canned Beans is all over the map, musically. Some of the tunes are better than others – hey, you could say that about anybody’s record – but the good ones are strong enough to lodge in your ear and hold on fast, and the biggest Q–Tip ...

Seeing as it’s a holiday weekend, when (presumably) the vast majority of college–age music fans are out of town for the big turkey–go–round, Savannah’s club owners (a lot of them, anyway) have opted out of booking those sometimes pricey touring bands.

POKEY LAFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 Ships of the Sea Museum, 41 MLK. Tickets $12 at savannahfolk.org A presentation of Savannah Stopover There’s a reason 27–year–old singer, guitarist and stringband leader Pokey LaFarge makes music that echoes days gone by – early blues and ragtime, swing band, Appalachia and even Vaudeville. “As far back as I can remember,” he says over the phone from his home in St. ...

PETER CASE At 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. With Greg Williams Tickets $20/musesavannah.org With its ringing, Byrdsian electric 12-string guitars and tight harmony vocals, the Plimsouls' "A Million Miles Away" was one of the bright spots of 1983, when rock ‘n' roll was laboring under the delusion that bigger was better - synthesized this and orchestrated that. Some of the most popular music of the ...

According to legend, there was a time in the mid ‘70s when Mother’s Finest was “the most dangerous opening act in rock ‘n’ roll.” Paired with the likes of Aerosmith or Ted Nugent, Georgia’s mighty funk machine invariably stole the show and became the literal interpretation of a hard act to follow.

LIVE WIRE MUSIC HALL WEEKEND 307 W. River St. Jacksonville’s dub/electronica hypno–masters Greenhouse Lounge headline “Dirty Dub–o–Ween” Friday (Oct. 28), with Savannah’s own electronic hip–hop duo Thumbprint (Paxton Willis and Rick Riles). Skrubz and Grisly Adams round out the neon–lit electric bill, starting at 9 p.m. Admission is $10. On Saturday, perennial jam–band Turtlefolk is back with its Live Wire tradition, Turtleween, includuing a costume contest and myriad forms of weirdness, musical and otherwise. Special ...