Best Exes, Career Club, Book Lovers

When: Sat., June 29, 8 p.m. 2019

You’re not crazy — Linda Jordan, Jim Cherewick, and Erin Davis of Best Exes have been MIA for the past year or so. Well, they’re back and they’ve got a new drummer, Evan Eklund, and some new songs that they say absolutely do not call to mind Canadian children’s performer “Fred Penner if he were to play dub goth in a church of blind Civil War pie eaters.” Instead, they’ll revisit their retro, lo-fi platonic hand holding DIY indie rock. Book Lovers — a new-ish project from Autumn Wetli, Clara Salyer, and company — will make their Hamtramck debut, as well as Metro Times band to watch, the Detroit duo putting the F-U in Fun-employment, Mark Sleeman and Leah Barnett of Career Club. DJ Greg Baise rounds out the bill.