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INGRAM HILL
7:30 p.m., Juanita’s. $12 adv., $15 d.o.s.

For 11 years, the Memphis act has enjoyed moderate success touring mid-sized venues and festival circuits around the country, spreading its almost-offensively inoffensive easy pop-rock stylings and lovelorn ballads for a bigger fanbase than one might expect. For most, the name Ingram Hill will elicit a shrug and no bother, but I’m willing to wager my meager tax refund that for every sorority house in the South, there’s at least one Greek letter-chested lady who pores over the group’s easy-listening sentimentality. It’s college rock at its easiest. Think Train, Maroon 5 or OneRepublic rock schmaltz with the lightest dose of Southern edge possible. Guys will probably balk, if not at the music, at their girlfriends swooning along to songs like “Your Smiling Face,” “Love is Just a Word” and “Something to Cry To.” Spokane, Wash., singer/songwriter Jerad Finck opens the night with more touchy-feely, weepy-smiley tunes about girls.

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