Giveaway: Deer Tick + Alberta Cross At Emo's Indoors [Friday]

California's The Henry Clay People are second on the bill, and should actually play a little louder and more rambunctiously than the nuanced Deer Tick. The band play classic bar band material with a bit of a punk bent, but remind us more than anything of The Hold Steady and The Replacements - think melodic and purposefully shambolic. The Henry Clay People aren't exactly in Paul Westerberg territory yet, but they have potential.

From our ACL artist preview: "There's a fairly direct classic rock sensibility to the music of New York's Alberta Cross - to put it simply, fans of Neil Young and Ryan Adams will find this hugely appealing. The band originally formed in London, but you'd never know it from the loud guitars and ramshackle drumming that will immediately make you think of "Southern Man" and "Ohio". Alberta Cross arrive at ACL to support new ATO album Broken Side Of Time (which was recorded in Austin with Spoon producer Mike Mccarthy) after opening from everyone from Oasis to Dave Matthews in recent months. The band calls the record "darker" and "angrier" than their debut album, and cites living in New York as the primary reason for their edginess. Expect a lot of KGSR listeners to wander over to this stage based on the open guitar chords alone - it is Americana with mass appeal."

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