BIG GIGANTIC At 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $12 advance, $15 day of show. Boulder, Colo.'s dynamic duo of Dominic Lalli (saxophone) and Jermy Salken (drums). Big Gigantic is an elecronica, hip hop and jazz fusion band that utilizes loops, samples, synths and sizzling creative beats, with the live drums and sax laid over the top. It's an exciting, trippy musical experience that doesn't seem as if ...

BROCK BUTLER AND FRIENDS At 10 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 Loco's, 301 W. Broughton St. $10 All right, here's the deal. Although nobody will say so, I have a sneaking feeling this will be an appearance by the full Perpetual Groove band. It's billed as a "solo" date from the group's resident guitar wizard, Brock Butler ("and friends"), and Butler (a Savannah native) just played a string of solo gigs around the area this past ...

TUBBY LOVE At 10 p.m. Aug. 21 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. Free. There's a song I can't get out of my head this week. It's called "Signs," and it was written (and performed in an utterly captivating YouTube video) by Tubby Love and Emily Elbert, a couple of students at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Anyone familiar with Tubby Love - a.k.a. Savannah native Andrew Terrett - ...

PASSAFIRE At 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. Still cruising at high altitudes on the considerable strengths of 2009's Everyone on Everynight, Savannah's melody-rich reggae/dub emissaries continue to tour the country's swankier rock clubs and jam-band festivals. In fact, they just wrapped up their first go-round on the Vans Warped Tour. Although the band members technically still live in Savannah, they're rarely home; according to singer/guitarist Ted Bowne, ...

COMEDY NIGHT: AL ERNST At 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5 Pour Larry's, 206 W. Julian St. $15. Let us veer slightly off the beaten Noteworthy path this week to focus on something new at Pour Larry's, a favorite City Market watering hole. Po' Lawrence features live bands many times during the week - this time, however, the night was made for laughs. Atlanta-based Al Ernst's mother lives in St. Petersburg, Florida - "where they're ...

AMERICAN GUN At 11 p.m. Saturday, July 31 The Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. With Husky Brunette. It's been three years and change since the rootsy rockers from Columbia, S.C. first kicked off a set on a Savannah stage. The band has been back a few times since, and these days there are probably as many American Gun fans here in SCAD-land as there are up in the shadow of the University of South Carolina. ...

William Fitzsimmons' songs live in that shadowy place between waking and dreaming, when thoughts and memories briefly tango before going their separate ways in the night. His lyrics are poetic and intimate, and they're married to music that's both ethereally elusive and structured like brittle bones.

It's borough-palooza at the Sentient Bean this week: Three dynamic duos, all from Brooklyn, all featuring just guitar and drums. But the similarities end there.

As funk, jazz and the passionate pulse of electronica inevitably find their way into the hearts and minds (and digits) of jam-band musicians, the simple old-school lineup of guitar, bass, drums and a Hammond B3 is giving way to an expanded and limitless school of thought.

The roads around Nashville are littered with the bones of pop or rock stars who chose to “go country,” thinking it would revitalize their nosediving careers. Instead, they got creamed. Nobody cared.

Who needs Cinco de Mayo when the City of Savannah and the Latin American Services Organization are throwing this sizzling hot - and completely free - bash on River Street?

THE WOOD BROTHERS Savannah first met the Wood Brothers in April - they opened the Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi Band concert in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. That's why the brothers are kicking off their summer club tour here. "We thought it would be a cool time to come back and re-visit some of the new fans that we probably got in front of that night," says Oliver Wood, who plays acoustic and electric guitar and sings. ...

UGLY RADIO REBELLION: THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA Some people think of Frank Zappa as that weird guy with the goatee who wrote strange, smutty songs as the guitarist and bandleader for the Mothers of Invention, way back when. That's fine. Zappa never got played much on the radio, so those folks are excused for not knowing the real story. Zappa (1940-1993) was a composer with a hefty vision, brilliantly wide range and a musicianly ...

All the way from BP-beleaguered New Orleans comes one of the most charmingly retro - and intriguingly bizarre - acts to hit the Jinx stage in .... well, in weeks.

G.LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE "I think of us as a rock and roll group," said Garrett Dutton, the Philadelphia guitarist, singer and bandleader known professionally as G. Love. "We definitely incorporate a lot of different flavors ... Making sure the backbeats are funky." What Love and the Sauce serve up is a beefy blend of blues, funk, hip hop and Philly Soul. Dutton, who began his career as a street player, once recalled the band's ...