Peg Simone

Fri., June 4, 9 p.m., $12, with Members of Morphine, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.

by M.J. Fine

rock/pop

It takes brass ovaries to open your debut with a 22-minute meditation on a mother and child felled by floodwaters, but the gamble pays off for Peg Simone, who starts her striking Secrets from the Storm (Table of Elements) with "Levee/1927," which morphs from spoken-word and blues drone into a feedback-drenched rendition of "When the Levee Breaks." Fans of early PJ Harvey and Carla Bozulich, here's your new heroine.