Jupiter quartet B-Liminal (b-liminal.com) features members of two of the top local bands of the 1990s in vocalist/guitarist/percussionist Bryce Rutkowski (Boxelder) and bassist Max Fraser (Doorway 27). On the CD Shore Culture (Secret 7), the reggae input is even more pronounced than it was with Boxelder, thanks to Rutkowski’s influence and the contributions of guitarist Michael Lyons and drummer Mike Berchtold.

Fraser’s tone and bass lines on the songs Conqueror and Strength prove more integral than they were within the pop/rock of Doorway 27. He introduces the strutting The Picture and energized Choices, both highlights because of the harmonic glue that he, Lyons and Berchtold give Rutkowski to surf over.

See B-Liminal (with Orlando band Junkie Rush, and an acoustic set by former Doorway 27 members Bryan Wohlust and Chris Cartrett) at 8:30 p.m. on March 27 at O’Shea’s Pub, 531 Clematis St., West Palm Beach (561-833-3865).

Miami pop/rock band Nothing Rhymes With Orange (nrwo.net) armwrestles between artistry and commerciality on its new CD The Happiness Struggle (Leftfield). Much of that struggle lies with songwriting brothers Carl Almasy Coccaro (vocals) and Rich Coccaro (guitar), but it’s the singer who provides the most dramatics.

On front-loaded prospective singles such as the title track and Offers, Almasy rhymes words with themselves and interjects chants, tricks used more than 40 years ago by singers from Jim Morrison to Robert Plant. Unhappy dirges abound, but the immaculately-produced rocker Escaping Hell features banner work by the brothers, bassist Derek Cruz and drummer Derek Sexton.

See Nothing Rhymes With Orange acoustic at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Living Room, 1709 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach (561-742-4399), and electric at 10 p.m. April 2 at Dada, 52 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach (561-330-3232).

‘ROUND TOWN

Slammie Productions (slammie. com) founder Jim Hayward, a Palm Beach Post Web producer, will marry guitarist Susan Bartel (The Cichlids, Mad as Birds) this weekend, and their open-to-the-public reception will be a concert featuring reunited 1990s alt-rockers The Holy Terrors, punk era guitarist/vocalist Charlie Pickett, glam-rockers The Freakin’ Hott, and the premiere of Trailer Shark (an area metal supergroup featuring members of Raped Ape, Stillkept, Indorphine, Cyst, Pro-Pain, and Gonemad). It’s at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at Respectable Street, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach ($7, 18-and-older, 561-832-9999). …

An upcoming benefit for Palm Beach County Commission District 2 candidate Paulette Burdick also includes musical reunions. See Gin Weintraub and Andy Stein, formerly of Inhouse; Greg Burdick, Bob Kendall, Gail Darling and Glenn Moody, formerly of the Banyan Street Jug Band; plus the Pickett Sisters; all at 5:30 p.m. March 26 at the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, 253 Barcelona Road , along Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach ($25, 561-655-9700).