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Nashville's Back Lot
The Folk Alliance Showcase reveals the gears of the music-licensing machine.
-Mary Armstrong

Keep Moving
The Secession Movement is a band with a plan.
-Paul Burress

Old Gods Alive Again
The Choral Arts Society exhumes our musical lineage.
-Peter Burwasser

Aereogramme
-John Vettese

The Aislers Set
-Sam Adams

TV Smith
-Sam Adams

Mary Timony
-M.J. Fine

Dysrhythmia
-Paul Burress

March 27-April 2, 2003

musicpicks

Lo-Hi

If Lo-Hi would just stick to the sweaty, shouty schtick they do best ("Runaround," "Three Fish"), their second album, Say It More (Tiger Style) would be a solid rock 'n' roll relic that befits their legacy. (Singer-guitarist Hollis Queens and bassist Jens Jürgensen did time in Boss Hog.) But then they'd deprive us of the sneakier antics -- a U2 lick on "Creature," Queens' Peaches doppelgangering on "Dig Thru," the minimalist partytude of "Leopard Skin," the idealistic "Little Plant" -- that chug, swing and tiptoe through the barrage of garage. No doubt their stage presence is heavy on swagger -- their rep depends on it -- but they've got more up their sleeves than an image-making pack of cigs.

Fri., March 28, 8 p.m., $8, with The English System, The Nightlights and Pattern Is Movement, The Balcony, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-LIVE.

—M.J. Fine

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