Even in a career as winding as Ken Stringfellow’s, there are certain qualities you can count on. Whether he’s sticking to the power-pop that made and doomed the Posies, churning out spiky rock with the Disciplines or crafting exacting, eclectic solo records, Stringfellow can’t dodge his mellow-gold voice, diamond-cut melodies and clever lyrical conceits. His latest release, Danzig in the Moonlight (Spark & Shine), finds him stretching in a number of directions at once. If you don’t like the tetchy “Jesus Was an Only Son,” the addled “Odorless, Colorless, Tasteless or the country-ish “Doesn’t It Remind You of Something” — a duet with The Head and the Heart’s Charity Rose Thielen — you’re not trying as hard as Stringfellow is.
Sun., Feb. 24, 8 p.m., $12, with Roomtone and Josh Levandowski, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
