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Friday4
Ballrogg, VertexCaveJacuzzi Boys
Saturday5
EntombedLionel MarchettiPocahauntedYakuza
Sunday6
Jonathan Biss with the Brentano String QuartetLiza MinnelliWarpaint
Wednesday9
Golden Filter, The Hundred in the HandsDave Holland QuintetDamien Jurado
Ballrogg headlines. 9:30 PM, Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee, second floor, 773-772-3616, donation requested. —Peter Margasak
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JACUZZI BOYS Now that Arizona has pulled ahead of the Sunshine State in the “Who Has, Per Capita, the Stupidest Assholes in the Country?” contest, it feels a little better to pay attention to Florida’s garage-punk scene—of which Miami’s Jacuzzi Boys are as fine a representative as you’re likely to hear. Orlando-based label Floridas Dying has been working tirelessly to bring the music of this scene to audiences beyond the peninsula, and late last year it released Jacuzzi Boys’ debut LP, No Seasons, whose upbeat three- or four-chord sweat jams combine Stonesy rhythms and psych-tinged guitars, recalling both the ooga-booga pounding of the Black Lips and the careening-around-in-the-open feel of early Meat Puppets. The boys are confident enough in the swing and sway of their Nuggets-y guitar lines to ride them right up to their breaking point before shifting gears—whether by pulling back, collapsing, rebuilding, or just ending the tune. The slow-fast-slow swirl of “Komi Caricoles,” the beach-party blast of “Planet of the Dreamers,” the econo-style “Sister Ray” shimmy of “Dock,” the “Get Off of My Cloud” waltz-march of “The Park (Dig It)”—they all say their piece and split before wearing out their welcome. Mannequin Men headline; Jacuzzi Boys, CoCoComa, and Maximum Wage open. 10 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401, $8. —Brian Costello
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WARPAINT It doesn’t seem too difficult for a group of attractive young ladies from LA with movie-star connections (their first drummer was actress Shannyn Sossamon, sister of guitarist-vocalist Jenny Lee Lindberg) to get a lot of easy buzz, but Warpaint‘s appeal goes deeper. They actually rip: “Elephants,” the standout track on their Exquisite Corpse EP (self-released at the beginning of last year and reissued by Manimal Vinyl in October), revolves around a nimble, highlife-inflected guitar arpeggio and a burbling bass line, neither of which any sort of dilettante could come close to pulling off. And they’ve got ideas: Though their songs show a fair amount of Cat Power influence, the hypnotic, circular melody of “Billie Holiday” and its interpolation of Mary Wells’s “My Guy” are brilliant. And deep, dreamy moods like the one that dominates the record don’t come along by accident. This set is part of the Do-Division Street Fest; see page 53 for more. 4 PM, Damen Stage, Division and Damen, 312-850-9390 or do-divisionstreetfest.com, $5 suggested donation. —Miles Raymer
