Wednesday, March 12   12:00 a.m.
Friends   (208 E 6th St)

Stuck somewhere between city-slicker alt-country and indie-pop, Southeast Engine isn't perfectly comfortable in either musical stomping ground. The band's brand of genre ambiguity might stem from its relative isolation: Cutting its teeth in Athens, Ohio, the act so far had the grace to come to grips with its identity more or less removed from the national spotlight. Southeast Engine has that slow-fired, laid-back feel you'd expect from traditional alt-country types, but spruces it up with a dose of indie-kid charm. Their latest effort, the religiously themed A Wheel Within a Wheel is on Misra Records.