Seriously, there are so many bands worth seeing this weekend, we’re making this a music-only edition of Pencil This In.
Spoon
Britt Daniel and the boys bring his coked-out Bowie croon to The Vic tonight. It’s been odd seeing the band go from indie darlings that couldn’t even fill Double Door, to modern rock stars that play prominent spots at Pitchfork and Lollapalooza, but they’re such a damn fine combo we certainly don’t begrudge them their success. The Walkmen open, and they’d better play “The Rat” or we’re going to start a riot.
3145 N Sheffield, 8 p.m., sold out but we keep seeing free promo tickets floating around so you might just get in anyway, 18+
Yakuza
Yakuza’s jazz metal — yes, jazz metal — never fails to confront, confound, and shock. We hear an awful lot of John Zorn in their spastic riffs, and we have yet to see the same live set twice. Actually, we practice a few doors down from them and admit we sometimes just sit there and listen in awe as they twist riffs around drum parts and make them do dirty, nasty, awful things. Excellent.
Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia, 10 p.m., $8, 21+
