What is it?

A cover of The Cure’s timeless single “Close to Me.” What is it not? The cover by the Get Up Kids.So who is the band? They are Why? out of Berkely, on the dependable “It’s-just-stupid-nerd-rap” label Anticon. Why should you listen? Because they take a classic, manic pop song and make it a romantic, sludgy little lullaby. Do I hear an accordion? What else? Local bandmember Doug McDiarmid needs to come to Scrabble Sunday ’cause I heard he’s the Master. Why? plays the Vera Project on March 17 with the elusive Mount Eerie.