Sept. 5 show with JAKOB OLAUSSON set in Blacksburg

August 21, 2007 | Mikel Dimmick Spiral Joy Band

Go ahead and notch Wed., Sept. 5, on your time stick for a 7-10 p.m. show at the XYZ Gallery in Blacksburg to feature Jakob Olausson, the Jakob & Sus duo, and the Spiral Joy Band. Jakob, of course, is touring under a wave of attention garnered by the Swedish-beet-farmer-turned-underground-psyc-artist story of his "Moonlight Farm" album, released by DeStijl and SubPop. We know him for his earlier Joshua Jug Band 5 music (and Five Fingers of Death, etc.). That he's playing in Blacksburg is pretty unusual and great, so don't miss it. Some perhaps overly-intellectualized writeups of Jakob's music are [here](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44298-moonlight-farm), [here](http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/2007/06/jakob-olausson.html), [here](http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Jakob-Olausson) and [here](http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3587), and Myspace sites that Jakob and Sus have set up are [here](http://profile.myspace.com/229711948) and [here](http://profile.myspace.com/100821510). Check it out, and see you there, --a;ldkfj