Ships, Drug Rug, Corridor, Ghosts & Liars
(Comet) There’s only one song. One lonely live recording called “Cut Along” is posted on Ships’ MySpace page and it’s this beautiful and psychedelic song that starts out sounding like twinkling stars and turns into something more. It’s the song that would be playing in the club during Claire “The Princess” Standish and John “The Criminal” Bender’s first date, if they ever went on a date outside of detention. It’s mysterious and a little dark like him, but it’s also pretty and subtly sparkling like her. The two would just stare at each other in the beginning, then the song would climax, the two would kiss, and the band would play louder and the camera would pan around them and the heart of everyone watching would swoon and they’d love the fact that the song playing isn’t an obvious new-wave pop hit because that shit was done to death by 1985. It’s hard to say what the rest of Ships’ material sounds like, though. Because they only have one song posted. One lonely little song. MEGAN SELING

OLIVIER LATRY My nominee for sleeper gig of the week. Latry, whose much-anticipated concert was canceled last year, returns with a program of French organ music by Tournemire, Duruflé, Jehan Alain, Jean Langalais, and Dupré. I’m a fan of his complete Messiaen cycle on Deutsche Grammophon, so I’m eager to hear him essay the titanic L’Ascension by Olivier Messiaen. St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 382-4874, 7:30 pm, students pay as able/$15 suggested donation. CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI