As with any hyped-up, talked-about newcomer on a monolithic mega-label like Sony, you have to ask yourself some good, hard questions about Matthew “Matisyahu” Miller. Specifically, will attendance at his live performance be for the music, or for the sheer spectacle of seeing a fully bearded Hasidic Jew strutting and…

Solo album number four from New York singer-songwriter Adam Green is pleasant Sunday afternoon pop in the vein of Roy Orbison or Leonard Cohen; clean string arrangements overlay acoustic guitar and warm electric piano while Green’s sonorous baritone swings with elegant panache through the lower registers. His delivery is reminiscent…