Jukebox the Ghost

Fri., Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12, with Meligrove Band and Dynamite Walls, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Dec 8, 2010

[ rock/pop ]

The title of this Philly-via-D.C. threesome's eminently likable second record, Everything Under the Sun (Yep Roc), hints at their soft-pop eclecticism, but it also evokes the proverbial "nothing new," and aptly so, as they specialize in exactly the same sort of smart, melodic, piano-based pop-rock that critics have praised as "well-crafted" and detractors have derided as hopelessly dorky ever since the Beatles first invented it, way back at the dawn of time. Jukebox has toured with Ben Folds (to whom they've received innumerable, not unwarranted comparisons) and with the irredeemably nerdy likes of Barenaked Ladies and Tally Hall, but also, perhaps tellingly, with their Philly fellow transplants in the harder-rocking Free Energy.

Fri., Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12, with Meligrove Band and Dynamite Walls, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

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