Dogs in a Pile

Out of Asbury Park, NJ, Dogs in a Pile took a Grateful Dead lyric for their name and ran with it — straight into a heap of jazz, funk, psychedelia, and rock. Formed in 2018 by Jersey Shore guitarist Jimmy Law and drummer Joe Babick, the quintet filled out with Berklee College of Music alumni and now logs roughly 130 shows a year. Their third album, Distroid, delivers the tight and sprawling in…