Guys holler in bars all the time and they're rarely worth paying attention to, but Scott Miller is the rare exception. The former V-Roys frontman is a decade into a solo career that has seen him far surpass his former band's heights, making a series of excellently crafted bar-room pop records long on characters as well as hooks. The latest addition to the Miller canon is "For Crying Out Loud" (F.A.Y. Recordings), which kicks off with the razor-sharp unemployment anthem "Cheap Ain't Cheap (For Crying Out Loud)" and just gets more pointed from there. Miller plays Raleigh's Lincoln Theatre on Sunday night at 8 with Reckless Kelly.
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Tonight: Speaking of appealing wiseacres, English singer/songwriter John Wesley Harding plays an Urban Ministries of Durham benefit at St. Philips Episcopal Church, The Old Ceremony plays Carrboro's Cat's Cradle, Band of Heathens is at Raleigh's Berkeley Cafe and the annual Troika Music Festival continues through Saturday at various venues around Durham, highlighted tonight by I Was Totally Destroying It at Duke Coffeehouse (see Page ).
Furthermore: The extraordinarily self-confident standup comic Dane Cook holds forth at the RBC Center on Sunday (see Page 1D), the same night bar-band keyboard legend Ian McLagan plays Raleigh's Pour House; Tuesday brings the Get Up Kids to the Cradle, and Hasidic Jewish reggae icon Matisyahu (see Page 10D) to Raleigh's Lincoln Theatre (plus a free 6 p.m. performance at Raleigh's Schoolkids Records); '70s icon Jackson Browne plays solo at Durham Performing Arts Center on Wednesday; and the great Mitch Easter gets out of his studio long enough to play Raleigh's Tir Na Nog on Thursday with Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies.
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