Top weekend shows: Soft Speaker, Nick Lowe, Cave

Soft Speaker: The co-ed quartet throws a curve on its latest release, “The Jockey” (SSPKR) in which it enlists “artists that we highly respect and admire” to interpret eight Soft Speaker tracks. There’s also one ringer, a live Soft Speaker track that captures the group’s fluid interplay, 9:30 p.m. Friday at Subterranean, 2011 W. North Av., $10 and $12; subt.net.

Greg Kot

April 20, 2012