You've sufficiently gorged yourself on holiday leftovers, now it is time to stuff your ears with a veritable smorgasbord of musical collection odds and ends. Greene Street Club will give you all that you can handle to snap you out of your Tryptophan-induced coma with six bands of wildly varying influence on Friday.

One step up from that noisy audience recording So you didnt manage to score those highly sought-after tickets to see Phishs three-night reunion run Hampton, Vir. this coming March. Dont feel too bad, because you were probably just one of well over 100,000 heads with the same gripe.

Heres some huge news for the drum bass fiends out there or just fans of electronic music in general. One of the biggest names on the DnB circuit will be performing right here in town. Damien Higgins, better known as Dieselboy (www.myspace.com/humanimprint), will be playing to what will surely be a packed house at Club Rain this Saturday.

It's always frustrating to me when a musician goes solo and plays material created with his original band, especially when the rest of that band is completely able and willing to play together again. Such is the case with the Talking Heads and frontman David Byrne

Yes, you read that last part right. Alex Skolnik, formerly of Savatage, leads the cast through the rock opera/symphonic metal renditions of Hark the Herald Angels, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and their own original, similarly-themed work.

In the mood for something just a wee bit different? Saxophonist Ornette Coleman (www.ornettecoleman.com) will make the last of four US stops, and the final stop of his world tour, at Chapel Hills Memorial Hall on Thursday. The 78-year-old jazz legend was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent work, Sound Grammar,.

It always seems a little unusual, yet somewhat refreshing, when you come across teenagers who are deeply rooted in 60s and 70s music lore. After all, arent the younger ones historically supposed to be on the cutting edge of every musical trend and fad? It looks like someone didnt tell that to the Lonely H (www.

Its not often that Ill dip outside of the Triad music candy jar in this space, but it is sort of a slow week musically and it seems like appropriate timing for this one. The Beastie Boys.

The band has toured almost nonstop since 2005, when they formed as a two-man band in Gold Coast, Australia and moved their base to the rowdy Baltimore bar scene.

Say there fellas, have you done something in the recent past to get yourself in the doghouse with your special lady friend? More than likely, it was football related and occurred on any of the past few Sundays. Its entirely possible that you have and just dont even know it yet.

Youre walking shoulder-to-shoulder through a sea of humanity, trudging along parallel to a nearly identical column moving in the opposite direction. There are vendors in every direction serving up provisions to satisfy any sweet, salty or spicy craving imaginable, while the Grateful Deads.

There will be actual seats from which to experience this duo and their backing band (something you dont normally see these days), which is nice, but its first come, first serve. If you miss out, no worries, the dance floor will be open to everyone with plenty of.

The end of the summer season is the perfect time for releasing albums. Everyone is back from vacation, tied down to work and school, looking for a temporary escape through audible art to help the transition along through that commute to work or walking in between class.

Heads up. No really, don’t turn your back or you might end up in a trashcan, or stage dived upon. But they aren’t even the headliner. The evening should be focused around one thing in specific: the Silver Jews (www.silverjews.net). They too have had a summer release, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea,.

Now that election time is coming up, it’s going to be harder to find events that aren’t supporting or basing their intention on some sort of political pull or promotion. But the good news is, regardless of which way you lean there are going to be a lot more events in turn because of this.

Any chance we get to let you know about evenings that encompass multiple forms of entertainment, we do. Some of the best ideas come from taking a music concert and adding in any other form of art. Friday happens to be one of those nights. Deep Cover Movement and iWish Entertainment.

Girls, your hearts will start pitter pattering soon as you hear who is performing in Raleigh this Friday night. I’ll give you a hint: “I swear, by the moon and the starts in the skies. And I swear, like the shadow that’s by your side. I’ll be there, for better or worst, ‘till death do us part.

I’ve just decided to designate the upcoming Cats Cradle (catscradle.com) show as a dance party on Friday, though it was probably inevitable that the boogie would break out at some point in the evening anyway, with indie-electro-fun groups like Matador’s Jaguar Love (www.takebacktheradworld.com) and Kill Rock Stars’ Shy Child (www.myspace.com/shychildmusic) on display.

I’m not sure if there has ever been a wider variety summer weekend of concerts for you to choose from. And if you hold broad and eclectic music tastes like myself you might find yourself going out a few nights in a row. Thursday is the new Friday — and I almost dropped dead when I heard internationally-renowned blues-folk artist Amos Lee.