June 30, 2008

I'll see you there?

As the wobbly-voiced singer of the alt-folk band Clem Snide, Eef Barzelay is best known for mewing about Nick Drake tapes and about playing cards in the backyard. His solo work is similarly bucolic, delivered via his trademark, vacillating pipes. (“Try not to sing the words/As if you’re mumbling in your sleep,” he cautions himself in “The Girls Don’t Care.”) With Shawn Fogel, Brian Bonz, and Ferraby Lionheart. At 7 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com; $12.

(nytimes)