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No, this isn’t a Halloween post, though it could be. Viva Voce will be playing at Johnny Brenda’s on Friday the 13th (cue sinister music here) with Silversun Pickups and Like a Fox.

Be Your Own Pet are endorsed by Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore's label is putting out their records), which is practically enough right there to make us like them. But it turns out their music is good, too! As R5 Productions says, they sound like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were still good. Crazy, brutal rock with a lead singer who even sounds a bit like Karen O. But they rock in their own right, delivering pure, full volume, head-banging thrash music. And they're playing the First Unitarian tonight at 7:30PM with the very '60s retro rock Black Lips (whose live show is apparently crazy wild, involving violence, nudity, arson, and flying bodily fluids - so be warned!) and "demented and manic" local band Clockcleaner. Doesn't sound like an appropriate group of bands for an all ages show in a church, but...whatever! Rock and roll!!!

Well, we haven't got Wilco in town tonight, but we do have a couple of guys from Wilco. It's guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Glenn Kotche, and they're playing the First Unitarian Church at 8PM. Each guy will do a solo set, and then they'll form together ("just like Voltron," R5 tells us) to perform as a live improv duo. But if you're expecting a Wilco-esque show, it sounds like you're out of luck. Separately they are known for pretty strange, experimental, avant garde kind of music; together they are apparently even weirder. Should be an interesting show! For more info and some intriguing music samples, skip on over to the R5 website.

Tue, 9/12, 6PM

More local music news: Dr. Dog has a busy autumn ahead. On September 14th, they'll begin touring with The Raconteurs and on September 12th, their new EP will be released.