Akron Family

What initially looked like four random espresso aficionados knobbing on their instruments became increasingly engaging when drummer Moshe Rozenberg stepped behind the kit.

Over the span of the its 10-year history, the band has melded folk and rock and free jazz and metal into one dizzyingly splendid package — and made it listenable, to boot.

Blame it on too many run-ins with sweaty, high-as-a-kite Phish fans, or my general impatience with gratuitous guitar solos, but they’ve just never been my thing—which is perhaps why Thursday’s Akron/Family show deserves such high praise.

Crafting an indigenous vibe with some pagan artifacts a frilled turquoise Cherokee quilt is draped over Miles Seaton’s keyboard as the band shuffles unassumingly onto the stage.

Dallas, USA

While that is weird anyone who’s been following the Portland/New York trio would find that not all that surprising.

Admittedly in most contexts vinegar -- as a beverage -- tastes terrible but without anything to drink for an extended period of time it must be pretty damn refreshing.