If you're browsing for easily dissectible summer jams, look elsewhere. Each of this week's selections is a veritable cherry bomb of textures and statements. Be prepared for songs to end in completely different places from where they began, and to be pulled along for the ride. Don't let this feeling scare you off, though. It's how you know you've actually gotten somewhere.

Porches -- "Franklin the Flirt"

What threatens to start as a sardonic slow jam quickly blooms into something beautiful, pained and unexpectedly intricate. Don't for a second think that the song's coating of morose grime has anything to do with a lack of upkeep. On the contrary, singer Aaron Maine's wordplay, atop the instrumentation's plod, carries all the stark elegance of a ballerina pirouetting on an oil barge. To wit: "The purple eyelids sag/There are diamonds in the weed sack/And love's a purple drag/I always go back." A band to be watched, ideally through the saline smudge of breakup tears.

John Vanderslice -- "Harlequin Press"

A hiccupping, off-kilter meditation from Vanderslice's recently released "Dagger Beach," "Harlequin Press" is producer porn at its densest and most rewarding. Those familiar with Vanderslice's studio work -- he's recorded artists like Deerhoof and Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- know that he's a maestro of the sweet slathered atop the jagged. This tune is no exception, with layers of acoustic guitar fluttering above warped, crackling tom-tom thwacks. Even the lyrics seem to obey such a dichotomy: "She replaced the lovebirds with pornographers," Vanderslice sings. "The love scenes with brutal murder."

See also: Solo Trip: John Vanderslice's Challenging New Album "Dagger Beach"

Kill-J -- "Phoenix"

Here's the agreement: We can all stop freaking out about Scandinavian synth-pop at the exact moment it stops being so goddamn good all the time. Until then, there's Kill-J, whose "Phoenix" ebbs and bends with a cyborg grace. Half machine gun vibrato and half vocoded trickery, the tune is similar to Vanderslice's in its alchemy; two otherwise incompatible sonic textures click into place with exquisite results. You end up feeling confessed to, seduced, and cold shouldered with the sort of rapid-fire nonchalance that makes this genre so enduring.

Schoolboy Q -- "Collard Greens," Ft. Kendrick Lamar

What sort of ground is broken with a statement like "Kush be my fragrance/We love marijuana?" What possible revelation lurks below a line like "Shot glass super-sized/She gonna get some dick tonight?" It's easy to write off Schoolboy Q's brand of rap as lazily boastful, nihilistic, and ultimately empty. But to do that would be to ignore an increasingly common (and interesting) struggle that's beginning to surface in modern hip-hop: How do artists address and dissect the blatant emptiness of certain luxuries when their genre thrives so steadily on them? In some cases, by an outright rejection. But more often, as "Collard Greens" suggests, by complex and problematic means -- by diving in headfirst, rooting around, and working through whatever surfaces.

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Published Jun 20, 2013 at 10:44 am (Updated Jun 20, 2013)

Photo by Sherri Kelly Pictured from left: (Top row) Liz Seyer, Alison Marchese, Kevan Kelly, John Herman. (next row) Goober, Trevor Herman, Project Manager, Carlos Fernandez. (third row) Tom Marchese, Joey Kelly, Even Herman. (bench) Sue Ann Kayton, Nicole Herman.

MILFORD Troop 5 from Dingmans Ferry call themselves The Rainmakers because of a reoccurring pattern of wet weather on most or all of their outings. On one particular Saturday in May, the rainmakers set out to complete an Eagle Scout project with applicant Trevor Herman. The rain threatened the Scouts, but they were able to complete painting the porches of the Columns without incident.

Trevor Herman was the Scout in charge of the project, which included power washing and scraping, then painting all the porches and verandas at the Pike County Historical Societys home in Milford. The stately manse, which serves as the official historical society to Pike County and is a local history museum, gleamed in the daylight with fresh paint coating its rails, decks, and ceilings.

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Scout Master Kevan Kelly and his Rainmakers have helped out the Columns before; last year they repaired and painted the Schocoppee Schoolhouse and undertook a spring cleaning project at the Museum.

Mr. Kelly and the Scouts have been very good to the Society, and I have enjoyed the time they have spent at The Columns over the years, said The Columns museum director, Lori Strelecki. I very much appreciate their love of history and dedication to their community.

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