Weekly Music Picks: The Aftermath Edition

We're still groggy from the party last weekend, so all apologies for the slow delivery of this week's music selections. Bostonist is still working up to multiple lists, featuring your classical agenda over the weekend because we know you want culture and the rest of the best coming at you on Monday because, well, we know you want to rock.

Monday, 3/27
Magnolia Electric Co. (Songs: Ohia's Jason Molina) presides over an evening of mild singer-songwriterness. The lovely Nedelle and blog-hyped Destroyer open.
Middle East Downstairs
18+, 8 pm, $12
Magnolia Electric Co. : myspace | web site | Leave The City .mp3 | purchase
Destroyer: web site | It's Gonna Take An Airplane .mp3 | Students Carve Hearts Out of Coal .mp3 | purchase
Nedelle: web site | Begin To Breathe .mp3 | The Natural Night .mp3 | purchase

Tuesday 3/28:
Bernardo Monk & Mass Tango
Perhaps, like Bostonist, you love Astor Piazzolla's jazz and contemporary classical influenced "tango nuevo." And maybe you're even hip to groups like Gotan (get it?) Project that mix and mash tango with electronica and downtempo beats. Well then, maybe it's time you heard some roots music. Buenos Aries transplants Bernardo Monk and Fernanda Cajideyou formed Boston-based Mass Tango in 2001 and focus on traditional styles and compositions from tango's golden age ('40s and '50s). Featuring pianist Octavio Brunetti and Hector del Curto on bandoneon (you can never get too much bandoneon).
Regattabar
$14, 7:30PM
website | los pajaritos.mp3 | flor de lino.mp3

The Kinks' Ray Davies performs solo.
Orpheum Theatre
18+ $35 7:30PM
Ray Davies: myspace

Wednesday 3/29:
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
...And you will know them by the trail of Pitchfork reviews.
TT the Bear's
18+, 9:25 pm, $9
ILYBICD: myspace | web site | When You Go Out .mp3 | purchase

Scout Niblett
Indie songstress Scout Niblett with Mike Wexler, Tigersaw, Ryan Lee & The Mindless.
Middle East Upstairs
18+ $10 9PM
Scout Niblett: myspace | Uptown Pranking.mp3 | purchase

The Orb
"What were the skies like when you were young?" Although the Orb's two most recent albums have incorporated hip hop beats and harder edged microhouse sounds than their landmark 90's albums, these ambient house pioneers inventors should wash Avalon in glorious sound.
Avalon
$20, 8PM
website | wikipedia

Wally's Stepchildren
Jazz-funk with Wally's regular Wednesday night Stepchildren gig. Get your jam on.
Wally's
9PM

Thursday 3/30:
David Murray Quartet
World Saxophone Quartet co-founder and loft jazz veteran Murray brings his powerful tenor (and perhaps bass clarinet?) to the Regattabar. As a leader, Mr. Murray has worked with a who's who of contemporary and avant garde jazz greats, including Anthony Braxton, don cherry, Olu Dara, Henry Threadgill, and James "Blood" Ulmer (to name but a few). His current quartet features Jaribu Shahid (bass), Pheeroan Aklaff (drums) and Lafayette Gilchrist (piano).
Regattabar
$22 7:30 & 10PM
website | wikipedia

Sofia Koutsovitis
The warm, sensuous alto of Argentinian jazz singer Sofia Koutsovitis graces Ryles. Although a NYC resident since completing her masters at the New England Conservatory a few years ago, Sofia is still a regular on the Boston jazz scene. She performs a mix of Latin jazz, experimental, and traditional South American folk music with her octet: Adam Schneit (sax), Dan Blake (sax), Jason Palmer (trumpet), Leo Genovese (piano), Jorge Roeder (bass), Richie Barshay (drums) and Jorge Perez Albela (percussion).
Ryles
$10, 9PM
website (including clips)

Friday 3/31:
Cesaria Evora
Our favorite barefoot Cape Verdean vocalist plays the Orpheum.
Orpheum
8 pm, $30-$50
Cesaria Evora: web site | Carnaval de Sao Vicente .wav | purchase

Michel
Camilo Trio
Latin jazz pianist Michel Camilo will do his best to make sure March goes out like a lion, at least in Harvard Square (as the Regattabar's promo notes, "to see him perform live is to witness the energy of a tropical storm being unleashed on 88 keys"). Over the years, Camilo has played with such Latin jazz legends as Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chucho Valdés, and Airto Moreira. Of course this gifted jazz and classical pianist (and visiting Berklee professor) is fast becoming a legend in his own right. Catch him with Charles Flores (bass) and Dafnis Prieto (drums).
Regattabar
$28, 7:30 & 10PM
website | wikipedia | see you later.mp3 | piece of cake.mp3

Big Takeover
Indie rag the Big Takeover dubbed Ad Frank "poet laureate of the lovelorn." While seen around town lately playing solo, he's with his band the Fast Easy Women, which includes members of Francine and the lovely Sarah Rabdau; both will be playing double duty on the bill.
TT the Bears
21+ $9 9PM
Ad Frank: myspace | Unspeakable.mp3 | purchase
Francine: myspace

Saturday 4/01
MichelCamilo Trio
see Fri 3/31

dEUS
Prog rockers dEUS with Eastern Conference Champions, Jonny Pape, and local Smiths-influenced band The Douglas Fir.
TT the Bears.
21+ $10 9PM
The Douglas Fir: myspace | Wherever You Go.mp3 | purchase

Mieka Pauley
Recently returned from SXSW, Mieka Pauley plays with Harriet Street.
Paradise Lounge.
9 PM 18+ $12
Mieka Pauley: myspace | First Stone.mp3 | purchase

Sunday 4/02
Wally's Stepchildren 2
Miss da funk on Wednesday? Wally's gives you the traditional Sunday night of jazz-funk to prepare for the week ahead.
Wally's
9PM

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Yet another Canadian super-group, and they're rumored to be as good as all the others. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? with Blanks and Bakula.
Great Scott
18+ 9pm $8
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?: myspace | Emptyhead.mp3 | purchase

Lora Valente, Matt Durutti, and C. Fernsebner contributed to this post