Chicago’s roots-pop gene pool has been skimmed, and the group calling itself THE FLAT FIVE is the happy result. With the natural gift to blend into almost any musical terrain, these five young-ish masters roam at will from the Beach Boys to the Magnetic Fields, ancient country to neo-cabaret, gently melodic originals to gruesome old Americana. The world’s biggest and most mellifluous jukebox? The Flat Five might be, though their first concern is pleasing themselves, not you. Left to their own devices, they will get busy translating feeling into tone, improvising gorgeous harmonic structures and grooves, and poking curiously into posterity’s dusty little corners. Their self-pleasure is your show. Genre: Indie Rock