For Your Ears

El Ten Eleven, Slow Magic, The Rip Torn
Launchpad
Saturday, Feb. 2 at 9:30 p.m.
21
$8
El Ten Eleven is a two-man instrumental band with the musical approach of a six- or seven-man band. Layers of guitars, bass, keyboards and drums crinkle throughout El Ten Eleven’s music.

For Your Consideration: El Ten Eleven’s “My Only Swerving” features contemplative guitar lines akin to Modest Mouse and Ratatat-esque drum beats.

Silverstein, Like Moths to Flames, Secrets, GlassCloud, Issues
Sunshine Theater
Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.
13
$15
Oh, poor bands from the early to mid-2000s. As with most millenials, Silverstein’s awkward growing-pain years of guy-liner and tight jeans have done the band no justice. However, its most recent material provides a worthwhile dose of pop-punk.

For Your Consideration: Lackluster screams aside, “Massachusetts” packs a punch with driven drums and a catchy chorus.

Floozy
Outpost Performance Space
Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.
All ages
$12

Floozy is a local trio of women who can play everything from brooding jazz to upbeat folk tunes. Between playing covers of Dolly Parton and the Beastie Boys, Floozy will be dropping its debut album at this album release performance.

For Your Consideration: “Spoons” is a bluegrass folktale that spirals together a story of the gallows with a rather fierce spoons solo.

KND: Kids Next Door, Gaddo Spekktakk, Mallie, Quwali, D-Sik
Launchpad
Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
13
$5
No, this event doesn’t include a return from the late, great cartoon show “Kids Next Door.” KND is a local hip-hop duo that has caught the attention of quite a few hip-hop blogs. Members Benz Shelton and Nick Nuvo tend to spit 100 words a minute, and their beats are definitely catchy.

For Your Consideration: “Say You Like Me” features an upbeat piano track, while Shelton and Nuvo trade-off lines while name-dropping Albuquerque.

The Ben Miller Band
Low Spirits
Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 9 p.m.
21
$5
Very few bands include a washboard as a noted instrument, but Southern country group The Ben Miller Band takes this credential in stride. This band performs the very definition of Southern twang.

For Your Consideration: Harmonica, washboard and banjo unite in “Follow You Down,” an earnest deep-South tune.

Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried and Me, Russian Circles
Sunshine Theater
Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m.
13
$25
Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried and Me and Russian Circles round out three very different facets of metal. Like a well-concocted suicide soda, i.e., one composed of every flavor in the fountain, Coheed and Cambria’s ‘80s-influenced metal meshes well with Between the Buried and Me’s bruising chords and the noodling guitars of Russian Circles.

For Your Consideration: Coheed and Cambria’s “The Suffering” is an ode to pop-metal, with lead singer Claudio Sanchez reaching a high vocal squeak that would make Rush’s Geddy Lee look the other way.