Stargazer Lily

Rock/pop

They're calling it quits after three albums, but Stargazer Lily's too professional to just fuck off without a kiss goodbye. Their farewell show doubles as a retrospective and a CD release party: Starlazer Gilly, their less pop/more country incarnation, will open with songs from the new Big in Texas, and then the foursome will bring out special guests and video footage for a proper send-off. Stargazer Lily may have lost some of their bite with last year's Young Professionals, but let the record show they were ambitious till the very end. Though major-label machinations killed their momentum, they've remained one of this city's hardest-gigging bands. Steph Hayes and Susan Rosetti are bound to resurface soon enough — it's impossible to imagine their voices out of harmony for long — but for now they've got to implode.

Fri., April 22, 9 p.m., $15-$18, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

—M.J. Fine

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