McPherson brings his “Rock ’n Roll Christmas Tour” to The Grey Eagle on Dec. 8.

McPherson brings his “Rock ’n Roll Christmas Tour” to The Grey Eagle on Dec. 8.
The four acts — The Veldt, Moon Hootch, The New Mastersounds and JD McPherson — spotlighted in this edition represent very different styles of music.
Post-rock, Americana-flavored rock ‘n’ roll, primal rock and hip-hop are on the menu this time around.
JD McPherson — who plays The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Feb. 21 — instills his music with the same visceral danger that marked the earliest rock music cuts. And he honors those midcentury sounds with impeccable precision. Just don’t call it retro.