You've sufficiently gorged yourself on holiday leftovers, now it is time to stuff your ears with a veritable smorgasbord of musical collection odds and ends. Greene Street Club will give you all that you can handle to snap you out of your Tryptophan-induced coma with six bands of wildly varying influence on Friday.

One step up from that noisy audience recording So you didnt manage to score those highly sought-after tickets to see Phishs three-night reunion run Hampton, Vir. this coming March. Dont feel too bad, because you were probably just one of well over 100,000 heads with the same gripe.

Heres some huge news for the drum bass fiends out there or just fans of electronic music in general. One of the biggest names on the DnB circuit will be performing right here in town. Damien Higgins, better known as Dieselboy (www.myspace.com/humanimprint), will be playing to what will surely be a packed house at Club Rain this Saturday.

It's always frustrating to me when a musician goes solo and plays material created with his original band, especially when the rest of that band is completely able and willing to play together again. Such is the case with the Talking Heads and frontman David Byrne

Yes, you read that last part right. Alex Skolnik, formerly of Savatage, leads the cast through the rock opera/symphonic metal renditions of Hark the Herald Angels, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and their own original, similarly-themed work.

In the mood for something just a wee bit different? Saxophonist Ornette Coleman (www.ornettecoleman.com) will make the last of four US stops, and the final stop of his world tour, at Chapel Hills Memorial Hall on Thursday. The 78-year-old jazz legend was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent work, Sound Grammar,.

It always seems a little unusual, yet somewhat refreshing, when you come across teenagers who are deeply rooted in 60s and 70s music lore. After all, arent the younger ones historically supposed to be on the cutting edge of every musical trend and fad? It looks like someone didnt tell that to the Lonely H (www.

Its not often that Ill dip outside of the Triad music candy jar in this space, but it is sort of a slow week musically and it seems like appropriate timing for this one. The Beastie Boys.

The band has toured almost nonstop since 2005, when they formed as a two-man band in Gold Coast, Australia and moved their base to the rowdy Baltimore bar scene.

Say there fellas, have you done something in the recent past to get yourself in the doghouse with your special lady friend? More than likely, it was football related and occurred on any of the past few Sundays. Its entirely possible that you have and just dont even know it yet.