Sounding part California surfer part guitar-strumming folk-grass traveler, Peasant, a.k.a. Damien Nicholas De Rose delivers songs that make you feel like it’s his music that you hear playing in the background of a montage of your life, right there with your first kiss and college graduation. And it’s his latest album, Shady Retreat (Paper Garden Records), that categorizes him with the likes of Melpo Mene and Andrew Bird. With his gentle voice exalting honest and vulnerable lyrics, you can almost feel him holding your hand as you amble down the back roads sipping cola with those butterflies in your stomach. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Katie Bennett