Les Chauds Lapins + Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra

Roulette Sister Meg Reichardt and Ordinaires founder Kurt Hoffman team up in the French pop ditties of Charles Trenet and similarly tasty froth in Les Chauds Lapins. The band's new album, Amourettes, is out on Barbes. Ethan Lipton is to lounge-lizardry what Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau is to policing, presenting his singular, funny-miserable take on life via jazzy, brass-festooned songs. It's good stuff, and tonight he plays behind a recent fan-funded album, Honker.