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Episode Six of Season Two of 'The JamBase Podcast' features an interview with Eric D. Johnson who returns to discuss the new Fruit Bats album, performing his Worst Show Ever and more.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, theater, comedy, museums, family events, and more.

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Metallica, Fruit Bats, Feist, The Wood Brothers, The Tallest Man on Earth, Neil Young, Temples, Black Thought & El Michels Affair, Dirty Heads, Dinner Party, Angel Olsen, BT ALC Big Band, and Waiting On Mongo.

At their best, Fruit Bats tap into the SoCal world and song tradition of Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann, and Warren Zevon. This LP has a few of these moments.

Geoffrey Himes traveled to the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., to see Bill Frisell, Bonny Light Horseman, Los Lobos and more.

Opening this year's concert season at the Codfish Hollow Barn precisely one day after the release of their latest album A River Running to Your Heart, Eric D. Johnson and his outfit Fruit Bats headline an April 15 engagement at the Maquoketa venue, the musicians' previous recording – 2021's The Pet Parade – lauded by Flood magazine as "harmonious, reflective, and lyrically

Highlights for April 13-19 include Wiz Khalifa, Mark OConnor, Yeat, Adeem the Artist and the War and Treaty.

Eric D. Johnson, writing and recording under the moniker Fruit Bats, often includes geography in his lyrics. Nowhere is that more apparent than in A River

Reviews of new music by Hozier, Lana Del Ray, boygenius, Owl City, Fruit Bats, and Taylor Swift - and more.

Fruit Bats will play the Hi-Fi in Fountain Square on Wednesday, April 12th. A River Running to Your Heart (Merge) will be released on Friday, April 14th.