Kevin Bronson on May 11th, 2011

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Actor-director Adam Goldberg’s second adventure in pop songwriting, as the Goldberg Sisters, comes at you like a John Lennon apparition through a lava lamp. More often than on his maiden voyage as LANDy in 2009, though, Goldberg’s tweaked-out psych-pop makes sense, even on editable excursions like “Don’t Grow,” “The Heart Grows Fonder” and “Mother Please,” all of which clock in at more than 6 1/2 minutes. The hero of “The Hebrew Hammer” inhabits a weird world, but thankfully he’s prone to his sugar rushes too. And for that we have “Shush,” a Mercury Rev-meets-Beatles jam that sounds like an AM radio hit. The one-take iPhone video posits the song as such, with Goldberg guiding his beater down from the hills and jeopardizing everybody stuck in traffic on Franklin Avenue.

||| Live: The Goldberg Sisters, along with Hands, Venus Illuminato, Corridor and Taylor Locke (solo acoustic) perform Thursday at the Bootleg Theater as part of “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is,” a benefit for disaster relief in Japan. Proceeds from Mischa Barton-hosted go the Japanese Red Cross. [There’s a raffle too.]