Gig Alert: The Claypool Lennon Delirium

ARTIST: Claypool Lennon Delirium
GIG: Tuesday at Irving Plaza

When bass player and showman Les Claypool was last in New York he was playing a Willy Wonka-themed set on the stage of WNYC’s Greene Space with dancing oompa-loompas and giant mushrooms. What do you do to top that? If you’re Claypool, you recruit psychedelic fellow traveler Sean Lennon and you make a bunch of inscrutable – and perfectly groovy – tunes and release them under the title “Monolith of Phobos.” Get weird with the band tomorrow night at Irving Plaza