Pokey LaFarge Released this month, Rhumba Country, the 11th album by retro-roots artist Pokey LaFarge, the singer-songwriter downplays the noirish slant of much of his earlier output. “There was a time when I glorified sadness because I lost sight of who I was,” says the stylish, questing 40-year-old, who not long ago moved to Maine to work 12-hour days on a farm while reflecting on his life’s path. “But now I understand that creating and expressing joy is my gift, and gifts are meant to be shared…I used to see my music in dark blue, but now I see it in Technicolor.”
The Savage Young Beatles In the years before Beatlemania swept the US and the quartet morphed into the phenomenon that changed the world and music itself, the Beatles were a raw, leather-clad band of brothers learning their craft by blasting out tough early rock ’n’ roll covers on the Reeperbahn and at the Cavern Club. In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Fab Four’s original invasion, the Savage Young Beatles, who are made up of twenty- and thirtysomethings from both sides of the Atlantic, land with the living, screaming, sweating, yeah-yeah-yeah-ing party. (Steve Forbert tunes up February 2; Rhett Miller returns February 29.) 7pm. $27.69-$44.17. Pawling.