I hadn’t heard anything like Langhorne Slim’s music before I slipped on my headphones around 2004 and started playing his song “In the Midnight.” His music had a familiar kind of rootsy sound (this particular song is propelled by upright bass and some lickety-split banjo), and he fits in with artists like the Old 97’s, Josh Ritter and Cake (with all of whom he has shared a stage). But that voice! Slim, born Sean Scolnick in Langhorne, Penn., has this shredded, reedy, punky voice that I had simply never heard used in that kind of music. It was mesmerizing when he played a sweaty, rollicking show at the new Empyrean last July (his first in Spokane), and that voice should be the star of the show again at Aclub. Read our story about this