SEVEN IN SEVEN

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where we look at shows coming to the region over the next week. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock ’n’ roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singersongwriter or indie, there will always be something to check out.

Here are seven of the best on the docket for the week of March 3:

1

The Beths — Friday at Union Transfer

New Zealand quartet The Beths return in support of their third LP, “Expert in a Dying Field,” which houses a dozen jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that serve as an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzzy indie. The band wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves, one that was fun to hear and to play — in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics about the fear of change and struggle to cope. The record is an extension of the same sonic palette The Beths have built across their catalog, with all the pop hooks embedded in incisive indie rock that also happens to kill in a live setting.

2

John Lodge — Saturday at The Keswick Theatre

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of The Moody Blues classic “Days of Future Passed,” bassist/singer

• The Beths: “Knee Deep”

• The Moody Blues: “Tuesday Afternoon”

• Megadeth: “In My Darkest Hour”

• Softcult: “Love Song”

• Talking Heads: “Once in a Lifetime”

• Black Violin: “Virtuoso”

• Soraia: “I Seek Fire”

John Lodge wanted to do something special. The band had embarked on a U.S. tour in 2017to celebrate the

50th but stopped touring shortly afterward. Lodge wasn’t finished, though, and he’s decided to play the groundbreaking progrock album in full, along with a selection of classic hits by the Moodies. The new version he’s presenting is centered around how Lodge sees the album 55 years later, which in a way reflects his own life that has “passed” to date.

3

Kings of Thrash — Sunday at Midtown Arts Center and Tuesday at Ardmore Music Hall

What do you do when you’re no longer in a prestigious metal band, having been fired by the singer and frontman in charge? Link up with others of the same ilk and perform said band’s music, of course! That’s what bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Jeff Young are doing with their Megadeth pedigree, performing in their entirety the outfit’s thrash watermarks “Killing Is My Business … and

COURTESY OF DANA GRUBB Moody Blues bassist John Lodge and his 10,000Light Years Band will bring their “Days of Future Passed” tour to the Keswick Theatre, Glenside, on Saturday at 8 p.m.