Michael Gutierrez Wubson opens “Hack The Planet” on Friday at the Somerville Theatre.

The music scene in New England is a vast Rube Goldberg device consisting of countless wheels spinning within wheels. And one of the spinning wheels that keeps the contraption clanking in good spirits is the North Shore/Boston-area circuit.

On any given night there might be a folk artist from Ipswich who performs at Club Passim, or a metal band from Marblehead that opens for a nationally touring act at The Sinclair, or the entire emo punk scene from Gloucester trucks down to The Jungle for a 10-band rager.

Whatever headaches come with living in the big city (okay, Cambridge isn’t Tokyo, but you get my drift) are offset by the concomitant luxuries, one of which is that art travels to you rather than you

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