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It may sound like a limited palette, but the music on cellist Daniel Levin's Fuhuffah is remarkably varied, juggling sounds, textures and approaches that don't allow for the suggestion of monotony. I'm just gonna fess up here: I heard Lissy Trullie's jangle-poppy cover of Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor" and thought it was a band with a guy singer. Their forthcoming project, Guignol & Mischief Brew Fight Dirty, is a true meeting of the wanderlusting minds: Brew and Guignol functioning as a single band with Petersen and Nicolay swapping songwriting duties. Nothing wrong with annual Messiah performances, candlelight choral processions or carol sing-alongs. Before anyone could name-check them, Bethlehem's Weston made punk like the Pixies with a warm, eerie vibe mixed in with its thrashing rhythms and paranoid lyrical sensibilities.

Less cartoonish and more nasty than most versions, director Megan Nicole O'Brien's production features fresh takes on carnivorous plant Audrey II. Nearly 15 years ago, feisty talk show host Jane Velez-Mitchell put her addiction to alcohol on lockdown, and now she's ready to reveal the gritty details. It's young emerging artists who are trying to establish their own aesthetic ... working outside the box." The photos were shot by preteens from those very neighborhoods. Considering the strength of the work we saw coming from a single session, we're excited to see what the best of The Goodlands' entire run looks like.