Also this issue: Lefty Hooks Lefty’s Deceiver picks up new tricks and throws down the rock on Cheats. -John Vettese The Folksman The music world pays tribute to Philadelphia’s living legend Gene Shay. -Mary Armstrong Mallard Rising Synth music avatar David Borden updates the Moog cookbook. -A.D. Amorosi Mary Bichner -Patrick Rapa Haley Bonar -M.J. Fine Mastodon -Paul Burress Fruit Bats -Sam Adams The Party of Helicopters -John Vettese

May 8-14, 2003

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Adrian Crowley

Combining the melancholic inevitability of Come with a forlorn voice that suggests Will Oldham after ingesting Jeff Buckley, the music of Dubliner Adrian Crowley is bleak, stark and beautiful, like being pulled off into a lulling, slightly menacing sleep. When You Are Here You Are Family (Ba Da Bing!) was produced by Steve Albini, who recently brought us the similarly enthralling Nina Nastasia. It's a travelogue of sorts, both physical and emotional, where Crowley knows all the best roadside attractions, not to mention the side roads where you can pull over and shut your eyes for a spell.

Sat., May 10, 8 p.m., $8, with Kurt Heasley, Greg Weeks and Mazarin, Rocket Cat, 2001 Frankford Ave., 215-574-2942.

—Sam Adams