[ rock/pop/folk ]

Back in 2008, when everybody in indiedom was falling over themselves to venerate the mid-to-late-period Beach Boys, South Carolina's Explorers Club cut a sweet little record so unabashed in its homage to the early clean-cut, good-times, surf's-up stuff that it bordered on outright mimicry. Their follow-up, Grand Hotel (Rock Ridge), is equally brimming with sunshine, harmonies and adorably blatant sixtiesisms, but it's a much more wide-ranging wayback-machine experience, revisiting an era when "psychedelic" bubblegum pop, blue-eyed soul, Bacharachian sophistication and south-of-the-border exotica all rubbed shoulders along the AM dial (the kitschy, Herp Alpert-styled cover is a big tip-off) — all the while proving that it's never (merely) pastiche if you've got the tunes and the chops. Meanwhile, Doylestown's gentle Americana mavens Honeychurch return at last with the wonderfully warm, autumnal Will You Be There with Me?; 11 languorous folk-pop nuggets slathered in pedal steel, lush harmonies and stately woodwinds, which should fit snugly alongside your favorite Jayhawks and Pernice Brothers discs.

Sun., Feb. 12, 9 p.m., $10, with Roomtone, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.