Tonight's flights - Margaret Glaspy EP release at Passim | Doctors Fox + New Beard at the Milky Way

Glaspy was a resident of Boston from 2007-2010 following a cup of coffee at Berklee. Also an accomplished fiddle player, the singer/songwriter gained a foothold for herself at Club Passim before moving off to her current home in New York.

Although Glaspy's preferred style of singing is in the syllable-chewing, somewhat feral Karen Dalton (via Joanna Newsom) vernacular that has become vogue of late, she does some pretty magical stuff with her guitar--which she uses as the bare accompaniment for her tracks. "My guitar is a Harmony Stratotone Jupiter from 1961 and I always run it through a tube amp," says Glaspy via email. "The magic is in those harmony pickups!"

Listen to how she paces and bends the guitar on "Who Said." The percussive, dark-purple, almost banjo-like tone that she gets is pretty magical. The EP just gets better. Counterpoint and thoughtfulness abound.

New Beard dare you to watch the video for their song, "Doom." Suffice to say that this is nuts. The singing alone is pretty sweet, but watch/listen as orchestral and rock instruments fly around (a lithe tuba--believe it!) in cohesive little sandstorms of pop movements, leaving a trail of happy feelings in their wake. A major lead-guitar v. viola battle goes down, while shimmering tamborine and a festive handclaps egg everything on. Unless you're incredibly prescient, you should have no idea what that means until you watch below.

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Margaret Glasby
Club Passim
Thursday, 1/31
8PM, 18+, $10-$12

Doctors Fox + New Beard
The Milky Way
in The Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain
Thursday, Jan/31
9:30pm, 21+, $5