CD release: The acid-jazz/funk maestros were recently faced with the choice of changing the name they've built coast-to-coast, gig to sweaty gig, over the last four years, or entering court $y$tem purgatory to fight for it. The Charlotte-based collective decided that, with a new release recorded with Soulive's Alan Evans in the can, they'd have to make a decision. Find out that decision at the show. In the meantime, the band's new disc doesn't stray far from what has worked so well for so long, since it's built on similar late-'60s Blue Note horn heds with big bottom-end funk/fusion booty-shake. The release is digital via iTunes, but you can pick physical copies up at Lunchbox or Manifest Records. With Hot Politics. Neighborhood Theatre (John Schacht)