David Wax Museum

Fri., Feb. 11, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Feb 9, 2011

[ folk/americana ]

Befitting a man who calls his band a "museum," the title of David Wax and associates' third album, Everything Is Saved, suggests our modern tendency to leave no impulse undocumented, no sentiment unarchived. But their music evokes an earlier age when memory was cultural rather than digital, and its products all the more precious. Not unlike a scrappier, more acoustic Los Lobos, the Boston outfit — theoretically a duo (Wax on various Mexican guitars; Suz Slezak on fiddles and quijada, or donkey jawbone) — commingle the musical heritages of Mexico and the U.S. (back-porch folk; dusty country) for a beguiling cross-cultural hybrid all their own.

Fri., Feb. 11, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.

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