Nikki Delamotte

It seems a long time coming for Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, who perform together as the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, to produce an album like ‘Midnight Sun.’

The Pixies have always been about duality – twisting off-kilter jangle into sinister garage pop that granted them the inescapable loud/quiet/loud synonymy – so it’s hard to imagine the events of the past year falling anything but in line with their well-honed and divergent organized chaos.

The Avett Brothers have long been unwavering road warriors, spending the better part of their decade-plus career traversing city to city while managing to put out eight full-length records.