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Published: Apr 28, 2009

This'll be a fun test for the wide-open-mind hipsters and the spiritual-not-religious tourists who'll come to the Keswick on Wednesday to bask in the secular-ish glory of Sharon Jones. Because opening act Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens is the righteous real deal. She's an Alabama church singer who uses her magnificent pipes to praise God with every breath. Will there be shoutin' in the amen corner? Will the kids skip her set for a 45-minute smoke break? Or will they testify? —Patrick Rapa

If you go to deadwhale.com and click on "Bubble Spinner," you will never get anything productive done, ever again. All you need is patience, aim and a strong right wrist to knock all the bubbles out of commission before more bubble brothers get sent in to screw up your high score. For chrissakes do not visit deadwhale.com. You've been warned. —Carolyn Huckabay

With such a deliciously punk rock name, you know Whore Moans are building on a firm foundation of '80s hardcore. On top of that, things get weirder: Is that the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" popping up in "Rise and Shine" from their second album, Hello from Radio Wasteland? Why, yes, it is. But after the power-pop-tinged aural assault, it's the last song, acoustic ballad "Before the Frost," that really kicks your ass. Hear them at the Khyber today or give a listen at myspace.com/whoremoanssuck. —Molly Eichel

In the title story from Robert Boswell's latest collection, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a bunch of philosophizing jerkoffs turn a house-sitting gig in the mountains into a squatter's passion play. There's drugs and sex, crime and drama and you just know somebody's gonna end up dying and ruining everything. Awesome stuff. —Patrick Rapa

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Lessons Learned
Colson Whitehead
Fine-Tooned
Get Physical
Lucia di Lammermoor
Appetite
Show Some Love
Philadanco