NEW BEATS

ELY FOR YOU TO SAY You gotta hand it to Joe Ely. Here’s a guy who’s been kicking around the club circuit for the past, what, 20 years or more, consistently puts on one of the most murderous rock ’n’ roll shows you’ll ever see, yet has been laboring under the double-edged sword of that status called “cult” for lo these many moons—and isn’t even bitter about it.