Picks of the week
05/14/2009
SHAWN JONES Often we don’t realize how many highly accomplished musicians are in our midst, playing bars and small clubs around Ventura County to smallish crowds. So it is with Shawn Jones, who’s been quietly establishing himself in Ventura’s music scene though he’s credited on records by a laundry list of R&B and Nashville heavy hitters. With five albums under his belt and a relentless U.S. and international touring schedule, Shawn’s skill as a songwriter and vocalist in the vein of Stevie Winwood has put him on stage with the likes of Leon Russell, Eric Johnson, Derek Trucks, David Lindley and others. In 2007 he played on Deanna Carter’s The Chain and Waylon Jennings was so impressed with his live performance that he took Jones under his wing, offering him recording and live gigs. Sunday, May 17, 2 p.m. Watermark W20 Lounge, 598 E. Main St., Ventura. 643-6800, www.myspace.com/shawnjonesmusic.
METALMANIA Headbangers take heart: not just one, but three, count-em three, all metal bills are happening this weekend to sate your appetite for destruction, at least for a while. Bonus: they’re all-ages shows. The first, courtesy of Viceroy Promotions, includes Legacy of a Tyrant, The Fall of Babylon, Marybell, The Syncope Threshold and Negative Zero. The same night Megasound Studios presents: Encoma, Carnal Deity, Scourge and others. The following night, Megasound Studios will host mixed bill of what they call “punk” with metal and experimental stuff from If it Kills Me, Katacumba, Alexithymia, XmalcolmX and Hostile. Friday, May 15, at Rock City Studios, 2258 Pickwick Drive., Camarillo. 383-3555. Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16, at Megasound Studios, 3203 E. Main St., Ventura. 644-mega.
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