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while showcasing the next phase of their gradually increasing sophistication, with wind-blasted soundscapes and songs that at times border on progressive and technical. The Music Joint show features metal-punk hybrid Extraction Point, grimy rock outfit Something Is Waiting, and grindcore institution Hewhocorrupts, whose music is a dirty riot based on taking the piss out of commercial metal. If you still haven’t had enough a er all these bands have finished slaying, you can do the tube-snake boogie at the free official afterparty at the Music Joint, which features ZZ Top tribute band Eliminator. —MONICA KENDRICK
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The 29th Annual Winter Solstice Concert Series with hamid Drake &
Michael Zerang See Saturday. 6 AM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $30. b
Anne Heaton Jenny Bienemann & Anne Harris open. 7 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, $15. b
Wilmette-born, Milwaukee-based pianist and singer- songwriter Anne Heaton started learning classical piano at three years old, and since then she’s immersed herself in a variety of music. A er studying at Notre Dame in the 90s, Heaton moved to New York, where she sang in in a Harlem gospel choir and toured in a band with jazz drummer Max Roach, among other things. Heaton also wrote her own material, and in 2002 she released her debut album, Black Notebook. Though the lyrics and melodies of its piano-driven folk-pop songs recall artists such as Dar Williams and Sam Phillips, she always enchants with a clear-hearted delivery that’s distinctively her own. On “Let Yourself Be” from her new CD, November’s To the Light (Spill), she off ers a gentle, inspiring nudge of self-love to the listener: over a rainfall of strings and drums, she sings, “Now it’s black every morning / It’s black every night / You will still rise.” The album (which includes an accompanying book of her lyrics and short writings) contains songs inspired by her collaborative work with other songwriters over the past decade, including fellow members of Boston-based women’s singer-songwriter collective Winterbloom. Some of the songs also draw upon the writings of Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, which helps give the record its soothing, spiritual touch. This hometown show is also a release party for To the Light, and Heaton will be joined for parts of her headlining set by opening artists Jenny Bienemann and Anne Harris as well as by local songwriters Frank Marotta and Leah Griffi th. —SALEM COLLO-JULIN
MONDAY23
The 29th Annual Winter Solstice Concert Series with hamid Drake &
Michael Zerang See Saturday. 6 AM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $30. b
Eve Maret Coupler and Hali Palombo open. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western. 21+ F
When asked by online magazine Earhart whether she’s a musician or a performance artist, Nashville multi-instrumentalist and composer Eve Maret described herself as “a spiritual being that seeks to know herself and the divine within-without her through creative acts.” If that sounds like a quote from the liner notes of a new age album, well, you’re not totally off the mark. Maret’s latest album, 2018’s No More Running (Banana Tapes) is an exercise in spaced-out 80s retro electronica; its heady frequencies transmit the bright upli of starry-eyed seekers of generations past, including innovative composers Vangelis, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and Pauline Anna Strom. “Sound of Space Between” makes copious use of synth shimmer as the composition builds and dissolves into ambience around Maret’s heavily processed vocals. “I Can’t Hear What U Don’t Say” is sweet techno disco for gyrating fl esh computers, while “No More Running” slips between odd grinding noises and soaring tones that culminate in a cascade of thereminlike swoops. “Many Moons” is perhaps the album’s most affecting track; Maret’s voice, rising out of a crystalline multitracked chorus, almost seems to come apart as she sings “Everyone I love will change.” It’s not a lament so much as a prayer for a future in which we all get to shi into new cyborg bodies made of vacuum tubes and light. —NOAH BERLATSKY v
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