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Aesop Rock at the Mohawk . Ian Matthias Bavitz, better known as Aesop Rock, was at the forefront of the alternative and underground hip-hop acts that emerged in the late '90s and early part of this decade.

On a night when it seemed all anyone could talk about was the sold-out xx show at Neumos, it shouldn't have surprised me that the Crocodile appeared just over half full for Vic Chesnutt .

For a guy in desperate need of health-care reform, Vic Chesnutt isn't a fan of President Barack Obama's plan.The 45-year-old singer-songwriter was left a paraplegic following a car accident in 1983.

Three years after Vic Chesnutt broke his neck in a drunk driving accident, he was discovered on-stage in Athens, Georgia by R.E.M.a s Michael Stipe.

"I'm total folk musician. My granddaddy taught me how to play guitar; his dad taught him how to play guitar.

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Vic Chesnutt, the Black Heart Procession, the Eccentric Soul Revue, Akira Sakata, Surfer Blood, and more By Peter Margasak , Miles Raymer , Kevin Warwick , Brian Costello and Bill Meyer Music Picks archives>> thursday5 VIC CHESNUTT If there's a more harrowing rock song than "Coward," the tune that opens ...

Ever since he released his first Michael Stipe-produced album Little in 1990, Vic Chesnutt has carved out one of the most unusual careers in the singer/songwriter pantheon.

Ever since he released his first Michael Stipe-produced album Little in 1990, Vic Chesnutt has carved out one of the most unusual careers in the singer/songwriter pantheon.

ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL and perplexing songwriters to rise out of the South in the last 20 years, ornery Georgian Vic Chesnutt has made 16 distinctive albums, all of them with different musicians including Widespread Panic , Michael Stipe and Van Dyke Parks .

Tuesday: Seth Rogen stars as an ambitious mall cop who competes with a veteran detective to catch a flasher in "Observe and Report." Wallace and his brainy pup/partner Gromit open a bakery and investigate the recent disappearance of a host of local bakers in the animated "Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death." CDs Tuesday: Pearl Jam is back ...

Vic Chesnutt experiences moments of epiphany like you and I eat breakfast. Here's one from 1993, and a chance encounter with the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg when the two were performing at the same club.