WINTER IN SPRING
Winterpills is a well-named band — there’s something sleepy, ethereal and wintry about its sound. At the core of that sound are Philip Price and Flora Reed, who offer much of that ethereal feel via their intertwining vocals. Though the group is known for its delicate sense of song, Winterpills does away with some of that delicacy on the brand-new album “Love Songs.” Fans of Price’s longtime band The Maggies will find echoes of its upbeat pop sensibilities. The CD release party saw its first installment Thursday, but it continues Friday at 8 p.m. at The Parlor Room in Northampton. www.signaturesoundspresents.com
ANOTHER GOOD BET
Thursday, Dr. Rafael Campo of Harvard Medical School swaps his lab coat for literary garb when he reads from his sixth volume of poetry, “Alternative Medicine.” It starts at 8 p.m. in the Pruyne Lecture Hall at Amherst College.