CMJ: Tuesday [Amy Phillips]

Photos by William Kirk; Above: Shearwater Emmy the Great [Music Hall of Williamsburg; 7 p.m.]It takes balls to call yourself Emmy the Great, and Emma-Lee Moss has got 'em. I just wish she'd take 'em out and swing 'em around more often. The London singer-songwriter's debut single, "We Almost Had a Baby", is a deceptively sweet tune about abortion, while another song steals Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" wholesale and gets away with it. (Side note: this is not the first time that this has been don...

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