Mon. Nov. 5

American roots rock comes in many forms - from Ryan Adams to Wilco to Mekons (all right, they're mostly English but they've lived here forever and roots rock is in their rep). Nic (in photo) and Heather Dillon, married musicians from Champaign, Ill. who go by the moniker Casados, have a quiter take on it. debut disc, "Passages," catalogs their journey as musicians, with songs about the people they've met: a wide-eyed drifter, a pentitent divocee, a dogmatic slacker, etc. Yes, there's a sense of Drake-ian (we mean, Nick) quiet desperation about it all. They're at T.T. the Bear's Monday Nov. 5, with Jacob Tyler Wolfgang, who released his first EP "Bless Our Burning Heart" in May, opening. Starts at 9. Opening is Steven Fiore. Closing the night is Spitzer Space Telesceop. It's part of TT's "Other Side of the Bear" acoustic Monday series. Tickets; $3.

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