Pleasures Tonight at The Goode-Crowley Theater

The Pleasures of Merely Circulating will kick off a southwestern tour with a show tonight in Marfa.

Channeling a line of high energy from Bo Diddley through “Helter Skelter” to The Stooges, Husker Du and beyond, The Pleasures of Merely Circulating are fast, powerful, and delicious.

A trio based here, The Pleasures of Merely Circulating are a happy contradiction of Jeanne Sinclair’s golden throat and violent guitar riffs, with a rhythm section schooled in, well, everything: rock, swing, reggae, country—you name it. In previous lives, drummer Robert Halpern made a living playing the Texas dancehall circuit, bassist/songwriter Chris Cessac played bluegrass and wrote a book that won a national award for poetry, and Sinclair secretly mastered most of the Robert Johnson catalog on her acoustic guitar. In this life, they have come together to conquer the world as The Pleasures of Merely Circulating.

TPOMC will be making their El Paso debut at 10 p.m. Feb. 16 at the House of Rock & Roll, 4645 N. Mesa. They will also be playing at 10 p.m. Feb. 17 at Burt's Tiki Lounge in Albuquerque, and 9 p.m. March 3 at the Liberty Theater in Marfa. Band myspace is here.