Phosphorescent takes it easy at the Jackpot tonight in Lawrence

Phosphorescent had one of the most perfect country songs of 2010: “Mermaid Parade.” Matthew Houck’s staggeringly sad ballad is a soaring, fragile tribute to a failed marriage. It’s also proof that, despite the lo-fi garage scuzz washing through music’s new underground, an old-fashioned cantina song can still shoot an arrow through a listener’s heart.