Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Issues,” in 2022, one of many collection regulars, Joe Keery, launched “Determine,” his second album as Djo. His profession as a musician largely existed within the enormous shadow of the present, and for some time it appeared as if it could keep that approach—not less than till, curiously, almost two years later, one of many songs on “Determine,” the wistful “Finish of Starting,” went viral on TikTok. The one grew to become a bona-fide hit, and it spurred a cult following for Keery as a pop-rock sparkplug, culminating within the launch of a brand new LP, “The Crux,” in 2025. He’s joined on this present by the Australian psych-rock band Pond.—Sheldon Pearce (Forest Hills Stadium; July 17.)
Off Broadway
Primarily based on the gently wistful 1999 movie of the identical title, the musical “A Stroll on the Moon” tracks the sexual awakening of Pearl (Talia Suskauer), a housewife whose marriage to the TV repairman Marty (Max Chernin) is unsettled, throughout the sultry summer season of 1969, by an encounter with the peripatetic shirt salesman Walker (Sam Gravitte). A large moon within the backdrop swells like a balloon—an apt metaphor for a unusually under-oxygenated manufacturing that repeatedly treats epochal occasions such because the moon touchdown as display screen savers for Pearl’s self-actualization. Regardless of its dedicated performances, the present, with music by AnnMarie Milazzo and a guide by Pamela Grey, traces an all too acquainted emotional arc, and does little to evoke the quicksand sensation of falling in love.—R.F. (Laura Pels; via Aug. 22.)
Motion pictures
Ross McElwee’s son, Adrian, in “Remake.”{Photograph} courtesy Music Field Movies
Ross McElwee, a longtime private documentarian whose household figures prominently in his movies, faces tragedy in “Remake”: the dying of his son, Adrian, in 2016, on the age of twenty-seven, from an overdose of fentanyl. This loving, anguished memorial film consists of copious clips of Adrian from the director’s earlier movies and from dwelling motion pictures. Adrian, artistic and energetic from childhood on—and raised within the presence of film cameras—grew to become a filmmaker himself, fusing a ardour for excessive snowboarding along with his cinematic sensibility. He additionally struggled with psychological sickness and substance abuse, and had begun to make a documentary about his troubles. McElwee presents beneficiant and poignant alternatives from his son’s work, whereas additionally reckoning along with his personal life and profession—and with the follow, and the ethics, of filming his household.—Richard Brody (Movie Discussion board; opening July 10.)
