Fri. Feb. 1

 She re-invents David Bowie's "Modern Love," she's been played on both "Grey's Anatomy" and NPR's "Acoustic Cafe" and she's drawing raves from the mainstream and the underground press. Megan Hickey, sings and plays lap-steel guitar, leading a ever-fluctuating cast of band members she calls The Last Town Chorus. Her sound can be spare, barbed and stinging, but the New York Times has called her "closer to U2 than Buck Owens ... the lap steel doesn't ground her in tradition. It suspends her voice amid longings and memories" and England's The Sun opts for "utterly beguiling." Her voice reminds people of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval - soft, mournful, hypnotic - and the music has a hypnotic, entrancing quality. All this, in the most intimate of venues, the tiny Lizard Lounge just outside Harvard Square. Hickey and The Last Town Chorus are there Friday Feb. 1 with Low Anthem opening around 9 p.m. Tickets: $10.

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