Hayden Pedigo

CRITIC'S PICK:
Wed., Dec. 3
Hayden Pedigo, Jens Kuross, The Masquerade - Check out Haden Pedigo's musical genre and you'll often see it described as avant-garde folk. While that might seem like an oxymoron for predominantly instrumental acoustic guitar music that is sometimes relaxing, even bordering on the dreaded "new age" tag, his delicate melodies twist and slither in unusual enough directions to be considered edgy. Pedigo has released two albums this year, the most recent teaming him with noise-rockers Chat Pile adding a far darker, ominous and dangerous angle to his music. Opener Kuross' sparse, murky and dense guitar playing on his recent appropriately titled Crooked Songs, makes a logical opener. - Hal Horowitz