Friday, March 24
Electric Six, Bend Sinister
Club 90NE9, $16, 7 pm
You can go to this show, you can dance real slow, infect the whole human race, but you can’t ignore their techno. You can juke, you can lock, you can pop, you can spacewalk, spend your days asking why, but you can’t ignore their techno. (For further clarification on what this is all means, head over to www.nexusnewspaper.com to check out our web-exclusive Electric Six interview.)
Sunday, March 25
Bahamas, Wake! Owl
Lucky Bar, $15, 9 pm
Bahamas is headlining this show, but Wake! Owl is worth seeing in their own right. Both groups are delightfully personal and folkie. Bahamas’ newest album, Barchords, came out recently, so expect new material. Wake! Owl have a misplaced punctuation mark in their name, so expect hell to be raised and daggers shot out of grammarians’ eyes on this night.
Sunday, March 25
L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres
Metro Studio, $27, 8 pm, all-ages
This show is actually an orchestral presentation of the music of Tom Waits, which by all means is a rich texture of sound worthy of classical representation. And who’s to complain? Tom Waits is beauty and ugliness personified. Check out our interview on page 9!
Friday, March 30
The Brains, The Hoosegow, Durban Poison
The Cambie, $11.50, 10 pm
What do horror-punk rockabilly, skate punk, and late ’70s-inspired garage punk have in common? Well, they’re playing on March 30, so go find out for yourself. (What, you thought there would be some clever answer to that insanely rhetorical question besides the names of the bands playing this show? Never!) Stand-up bass, be damned.
Sunday, April 1
Two Fresh, NiT GriT, guests
Club90NE9, $16, 9 pm
Two Fresh spin live with a drummer on stage; their sick combination of live drumming and electro mixing makes these guys sound like a trip-hop dub-house act. Man, I miss seeing live instrumentation during electronic concerts; this should be a killer show.