MELOMANE creates lush, expansive pop music, and the Brooklyn act’s release party tonight for its third album, “Glaciers,” should be a night to remember (not only for the guest musician on the saw, either).
The group will celebrate at the Issue Project Room (400 Carroll St., Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn; [718] 330-0313), a circular music space in an old grain silo on the gritty banks of the Gowanus Canal.
For a twist, Melomane will perform from the perimeter of the space as the audience listens from the center, which, the band explains, will be like a “a live surround-sound ‘Zaireeka’,” referring to the Flaming Lips’ set of four discs that are supposed to be a played simultaneously. There will be a moonlight stroll along the water after the set.
TONIGHT: Lansing-Dreiden‘s new album, “The Dividing Island,” is all over the musical map in a fantastic way. It mixes up prog and classic rock, splashes it with a taste of ’60s- and ’80s- flavored pop, then adds a dash of metal. For this disc, the music collective performs live under the moniker of L-D Section II due to its changing cast of characters, including two new male lead singers, Sect and Ion (two women front L-D Section I). L-D appears at Don Hill’s (511 Greenwich St.; [212] 219-2850) tonight, at Asterisk Art Project (258 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn [L to Montrose]; no phone) and at Tonic (107 Norfolk St. at Delancey, [212] 358-7503) on May 5.
MONDAY: If you’re not at the last night of the Billy Joel concert at the Garden, where you can see his No. 12 jersey celebrating the Long Island entertainer’s 12 sold-out nights, perhaps you can soothe your sorrows at the Two Gallants show at the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St.; [212] 533-2111) .
The San Francisco twosome, featuring childhood pals Adam Stephens (singer/guitarist) and Tyson Vogel (drummer), won’t be performing “Only the Good Die Young,” however. Instead, the duo will perform earthy beauties from its sophomore disc, “What the Toll Tells,” a stripped-down, acoustic, folky effort.
TUESDAY: Rose Melberg, of Tiger Trap and Softies fame, could be the female equivalent of Nick Drake, as evidenced by her first album in seven years, “Cast Away the Clouds.”
Her lovely voice, which shares the ethereal quality of the Cocteau Twins, is paired with delicate guitar or spare piano for a twee-effect.
Melberg, accompanied by members of the band My Favorite, performs at Cake Shop: 152 Ludlow St.; [212] 253-0059) on Tuesday, with Jennifer O’Connor, and on Wednesday at Magnetic Field in Brooklyn (97 Atlantic Ave.; [718] 834-0069).
THURSDAY Plus: Ye old Hangdogs have been sequestered in the dog pound ever since lead dog Matthew “Banger” Grimm left New York for good a few years back.
Since then, referring to bandmembers, drummer Kevin Baier reports: “JC has had open-heart surgery, Karg has had open-arm surgery after breaking it in three places, I have had knee surgery and busted my head open falling off-stage in Italy no less, Rob’s pregnant and Automatic Slim hasn’t found a place to park his car in this town in 10 years.”
But the raucous New York alt-country rockers, who spawned such hits as “Answering Machine,” “They Don’t Play No Country on the East Side of New York” and “Hey Janeane” (for Janeane Garofalo), will have two reunion shows – featuring original and subsequent – members – at Rodeo Bar (375 Third Ave.; [212] 683-6500), on Thursday and next Friday, April 28. Grimm’s new band, Red Smear, will open both nights.
