Not sure how Tidwell ended up on a bill with electro-candy like the Magic Wands, Paper Route and AutoVaughn: It would've saved us whiplash and gas money if she'd been at the Exit/In with Cake Bake Betty and JEFF. No matter--if there's anybody who deserves the words "next big" in close proximity, it's Nashville's own Little Sparrow, whose voice at full power has the force of Gabriel's trumpet (and whose songs meld the country-folk influences and post-punk noisescapes entwined in her roots).
Fri., Sept. 12, 8 p.m., 2008