3 Local Music Shows on Thanksgiving Eve

I like candor in a band... Like calling your album title just about what-it-is... "Songs About Girls." Even more candor comes with fully embracing the "big party vibe." So take Six and the Sevens:

Jangled, jaunty shake-em-ups, man, just get right up and dance on the table if you're feeling it. Yes, grab a tambourine if it's near...or just clap along, because the beat won't stall and the piano keeps rolling, guitars are gushing and bluesy vocals are bleating and blaring. Just put the beer down and get up for three minutes and cut a beer-splashed rug to these unabashed garage-pop revivalist numbers, compliments of local quintet Six and the Sevens.

That's what you can experience on Thanksgiving Eve at the release event for their new album, Songs About Girls, which comes out Wednesday with a proper celebration/unveiling hosted at the Cadieux Cafe.

"It's a party record," says bassist John Bissa. "The tunes just seem to pop right out of the grooves."

The band (with Chris Brosky, Jamie Gawecki, Joey Karam, Lawrence McCarter, and Mike O'Brien) recorded Girls at the legendary Ghetto Recorders (where famed garage-rockers like the White Stripes once documented their sounds), aided by Jim Diamond's keen ear for live-wire energy and gritty-pop punch.

The group likes closing their shows by passing around buckets; an invitation to anyone in the audience to gather round and start drumming along with them.

"We encourage anybody to come up on stage," said Bissa, describing a release show in September for Ferndale quartet Jeecy and the Jungle. "That night we got a bunch of people up with us, crowding in and drumming with us. It was exactly the moment I want from Detroit-Music: this big party where the line between the audience and the band is blurred away. That night, we finally captured that, that big party vibe." 

Thanksgiving Eve shows

1. The Sights add signature explosiveness to the Six and the Sevens release party: November 22nd at the Cadieux Cafe (4300 Cadieux Rd., Detroit). Come hear Six and the Sevens and their new record ("Songs About Girls") along with Nick Lucassian's band, Early Jones.

For more information, visit http://www.sixandthesevens.com/.

2. For more gritty, yet glamorous, hard-hitting garage-rock revivalism - you could also consider Amy Gore & Her Valentines - a band holding court on Thanksgiving Eve (11/22) at the Magic Bag. Almost Free and Class Three Overbite will open things up along with the psyche-pop stylings of The High Strung. Amy Gore (of Gorevette) released an album with Her Valentines very recently, titled In Love. 

More information at http://thisisamygore.com/.

3. Just down the block, at the New Way Bar on Wednesday night, you can hear a range of psychedelic folk, indie-rock and quirky orchestral experimentations blending baroque-pop to soulful blues ballads with CHAW / Eleanora / Bastion.

Sample some sounds at http://eleanora.bandcamp.com/.

Whatever happens and whoever you hear, have a safe and happy night (and Holiday weekend).