Two Shows Tonight

CROCODILE CAFE

• The Curious Mystery
• Sugar Skulls
• Delta Hymax
•  $6, Doors @ 9 p.m.

I generally don’t recommend the Crocodile Cafe (due to lack of cheap beers, over abundance of Stranger-loving hipsters, and a hideous confiscation policy executed by their thick-necked security).  But tonight the Curious Mystery and Sugar Skulls make it worth stopping by.  The Curious Mystery play spaced out folk rock (kind of).  The lead singer strums autoharp and banjo while cooing away in a voice filled with innocent bloodlust and intrigue.  Sugar Skulls bring the joy-prog with a line-up featuring violin, bass, keyboards and drums.  “We don’t live in a world that was made for us/We live in a world that was made for them!”

ReBAR

•  Malak
• Wah Wah Exit Wound
• Hemingway
• Zdraastvootie (Portland)
• $5, doors at 9 p.m.

Malak bring the minimalist psych metal.  Wah Wah Exit Wound supplies the over-the-top bar band prog.  Hemingway is psyched-out weirdness from the some of the folk(s) that brought you Playing Enemy.  Zdraastvootie is prog-psych-jam madness (with wind instruments) from Portland.

Support!!!

Ah — next week as well

8/9 Wah Wah Exit Wound, Nymph (Japan/New York), T.I.T.S. (San Francisco), Nudity (Olympia) @ the Comet

8/10 SPOILS, Climax Golden Twins @ the Jules Maes

8/11 Sean, Times of Despearation (Sacramento), Fortress of Victory

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