The Silver Jews, that is. The David Berman-led band rock band, out now with the excellent, country-tinged, literate-in-the-best-sense Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, is at the First Unitarian Church tonight, with Israeli heavy rock trio Monotonix opening. Berman and his wife Cassie, who plays bass, are pictured above. Not sure if they're bringing their dog. My interview with Berman from last Friday's Inky is here.
The SJ's music dark, deep and droll country-rock isn't the slightest bit sleepy, but Berman - who's the author of the poetry collection Actual Air, which you can sample here - is expert at writing songs that explore mysteries revealed after one nods off for the evening, like some kind of rock and roll John Keats. On Lookout, it's the superbly spooky love song "My Pillow Is The Threshold." On 2006's Tanglewood Numbers, it's "Sleeping Is The Only Love," a video clip of which is right here.
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