Kaki King

Atlanta-born Kaki King initially made a name for herself several years back via her prowess on guitars of all kinds (acoustic, electric, lap steel, etc.), using tapping, picking, looping, layering, and percussive techniques to absolutely astonishing ends. Rolling Stone named her a "Guitar God"—the only woman ever so hailed by the magazine (a sad-but-true fact, but I digress . . . ); in November, when she performed a song with Foo Fighters at a London show, Dave Grohl noted to the audience, "There are some guitar players that are good and there are some guitar players that are really fucking good. And then there's Kaki King." While all of that remains true, the thing that stands out about King's brand-new Dreaming of Revenge isn't necessarily her instrumental mastery but the songs, and how her absolutely alluring, breathy voice and her storytelling mesh with post-rock, campfire-folk, and dream-pop textures, often in an appealingly haunting way. King is coming to town with a four-piece backing band, which promises much more than simply a night of "Guitar Hero." With Matt Sheehy. MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG
Fri., March 21, 9 p.m., 2008