ODESZA'S OF-THE-MOMENT BLISSED-OUT BEATS

(Neumos) A few things about Odesza: 1) They’re a production duo that met while attending Western Washington University, 2) They’re named after a ship that sank and left one of the member’s uncles as one of two survivors, 3) They make the kind of instrumental electronic that’s incredibly popular right now—all nostalgic-sounding, pitched up-or-down R&B/pop vocal samples and ambient textures with deep, sweeping bass lines, and syncopated programmed drums. Fortunately, they avoid sounding like typical Soundcloud trend-hoppers thanks to the undeniable quality of both 2012’s Summer’s Gone album and last year’s My Friends Never Die EP, and this headlining set is well-deserved. Florida producer Kodak to Graph and LA Anticon/WeDidIt member D33J are fitting openers that should keep the vibers vibing from the start. MIKE RAMOS
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IF THE DAD-ROCK JEANS FIT: STEPHEN MALKMUS, PLUS SPEEDY ORTIZ

(Neptune Theatre) The number of bands in the 21st century putting the “die” in indie rock has reached epidemic proportions. Thankfully, Massachusetts’ Speedy Ortiz don’t belong to that dubious music-biz sector. Granted, there’s nothing world-changing happening sonically on their debut album, Major Arcana. But the foursome—led by dulcet and declamatory guitarist/vocalist/U Mass poetry instructor Sadie Dupuis—craft melodically tart (that sweet-and-sour guitar interplay) and knottily structured songs that’ll push buttons in anyone fond of Helium, early Liz Phair, and, yes, early Pavement. Speaking of whom, leader Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks have a new platter: Wig Out at Jagbags. It’s the sixth LP of Malkmus’s post-Pavement career and it finds him stretching ever farther into circuitous prog and psych-rock complexity—and the dad jeans fit better than expected. He’s still clever and allusive in lyrics department, with “Lariat” alone referencing Tennyson, Grateful Dead, Sun City Girls, Bongwater, the Sweet, and listening to music from the best decade ever, “the eigh-eigh-dees.” Dunno about you, but the more Malkmus departs from his Pavement steez, the more I like his music—still, he should keep his mitts off Ege Bamyasi. DAVE SEGAL
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HEY YUPPIE: GO WATCH A ROCK SHOW IN A REAL DIVE BAR

Do you know the Blue Moon Tavern is about to celebrate its 80th anniversary?! Did you know it narrowly escaped a wrecking ball in 1989, but now has official landmark status? A landmark indeed—those bar stools and old tables once hosted the likes of poets Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, Dylan Thomas, and even Allen Ginsberg. Now it’s one the best (and only!) places in Seattle to see a rock show in a real dive bar setting. And who wouldn’t want to see party-stompers the Country Lips, roadhouse rockers the Mama Rags, Ramones tribute band the Dees Dees, and rowdy Gainesville, Florida duo the Shitty Dudes play in honor of this grand ole tavern? Anniversary shows and celebrations continue there through April 20. KELLY O
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DARLINGCHEMICALIA'S INFECTIOUSLY MORBID POST-PUNK

Darlingchemicalia’s new album, Spun in White, is a claustrophobic web of gothic post-punk. This Sacramento band’s intoxicating songs combine bleakness with hedonism, revealing moments that can be strange and beautiful, infectious and funereal. Ian and Stephine Bone, a husband-and-wife duo, trade vocals like baying black wolves under a brightly lit moon, and their sound might be perfectly executed on their catchiest song, “Marijuana,” which begins with the line “Suicide, suicide, suicide on your mom.” Elsewhere on this bill tonight, you’ll see the Dumps, Seattle’s preeminent scatological garage-rock band, along with Wimps, who bring a workman-like punk approach to songs about eating dog pills and escaping mundane modern lives. Heartland, 8 pm.
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