(MUSIC) These Cali via ‘bama hippies got soul (and weed) to burn. Brightblack Morning Light’s new eponymous album on Matador comes in a recyclable Digipak, and the disc itself contains what I call “that good ol’ ectoplasmic campfire music.” Imagine Dr. John’s voudoun-funk masterpiece Gris-Gris coagulating into Spiritualized’s blissful paeans to Jesus and junk, and dusted over with reverent, hushed male/female vocals. Rave down. (Neumo’s, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15 adv, 21+.)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...