by FLANNERY CASHILL
This Friday, the Bottleneck gets nasty with a night of Detroit garage rock. The Dirtbombs play retro sleaze alongside the Terrible Twos, new-wave punks with Screamers keyboards. Rockabilly troubadour Dan Sartain joins. Bring your fifteen-year old girlfriend.
Lawrence's The Roseline play dusty, back-porch indie rock the same night at the Brick. The Roseline and local dainties the Belles open for Chicago’s Head of Femur.
And if your Dad’s not busy, take him to see They Might Be Giants at the Beaumont Club.
Saturday and Sunday shows after the jump.
More alt-country on Saturday night, when ’68 Comeback play rock and roll songs about rock and roll in the hopes that Quentin Tarantino might beg them for a cameo. The Riot Room show also features the big-truck blues of the Gaslights, crooner Chad Rex, and indie openers Dead Girls Ruin Everything, who drink Heineken instead of whiskey.
At the Record Bar, Olympians the Old Haunts play dark, creaky garage punk, with shadows of fellow Northwesterners Dead Moon. Locals Thunderbird Kingsley and American Catastrophe open.
Sunday night Snowden and the Colour Revolt play at the Jackpot and share their glassy, shimmering indie rock with Lawrence.
And another Sunday evening ends with bewildered yuppies, cheese fries, and drunk punks when Hopeless Destroyers
and Attack on Uranus play needling guitar solos at Fred P. Ott’s.
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