Oteil Burbridge
Monday 7.2
Radix
High Noon Saloon, 9 pm
Quite Nyce and Seek of the up-and-coming Boston-based duo Radix display a knack for tag-team rhyming on top of warm, at times laidback grooves. Iowa rapper Coolzey, Dana Coppafeel, Lucha Libre, KingHellBastard and MC Starr & DJ Pain 1 fill out this hip-hop party.
Tuesday 7.3
Brittany Shane
King Club, 9 pm
This sweet-voiced Madison expat has spent her post-millennium years making a name for herself in the Bay Area. With major-label backing, her latest pop-rock hybrids would already be on mainstream radio. Electric Automatic opens.
Wednesday 7.4
Concerts on the Square
Capitol Square, 7 pm
This week's pops concert falls right on the Fourth of July, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra can't let that happy coincidence go to waste. Called "Stars and Stripes Forever," the program evokes the United States in its many moods, from patriotic ("The Star-Spangled Banner") to playful ("Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The vocal ensemble Five by Design helps out with American-made harmonies.
Family Fireworks Festival
Elver Park, dusk
Q106 stepped in to save the annual Fourth of July party. Cue sparklers!
Go Motion
High Noon Saloon, 9 pm
Omaha's Go Motion sound a lot like one of those old U.K. bands (e.g., the Cure) that went in for pumping bass, chiming guitars and earnest-cum-arch vocal parts that just made you want to stand up and embrace somebody. In other words, they're an inspired choice for this too-brief mid-week holiday. Whore du Jour and I Am Miss America play the support slots.
Thursday 7.5
Page France
Cafe Montmartre, 9 pm
Michael Nau's ringing brand of Christian-imagery-heavy folk-rock is about ecstasy, not fire and brimstone, which may explain why his band, Page France, is a hit with indie critics just about everywhere. Sleeper of the week. Brighton, MA, opens.
Oteil Burbridge & the Peacemakers
UW Memorial Union Terrace, 9:30 pm
Bass ace Burbridge's stints with the Aquarium Rescue Unit and the Allman Brothers made him an A-lister in jam-band land long ago. On his own, he favors everything from George Benson-style scatting to funk grooves to swamp rock. Expect a big ol' party down by Mendota.
