LANA DEL REY'S CRINGEY/SULTRY DIVA STYLE

(WaMu Theater) It doesn’t matter that she used to be a failed musician called Lizzy Grant (and several other names), or that her past personas looked and sang completely differently than the Lana Del Rey we see draped across posters now. And I’m not interested in the alleged fibs/ploys when it comes to her backstory and just how rich her dad might be. All that matters: Is she talented? Your stance on that voice is a personal choice (or maybe a genetic thing, like cilantro; also, respect to Jackson Hathorn’s take in this week’s Underage column), but I find it skews too closely to the cringeyyy side of sultry. SO SULTRY, and low, but with hints of pouty dramatic baby on downers, with an arsenal of sloppy accents? Oh, and in one flimsy song about coming of age, she whispers the words “Pabst Blue Ribbon on Ice.” Gew. EMILY NOKES
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EYE OF NIX'S APOCALYPSE ROCK

(Black Lodge) The doom vibes at this show are going to be thick as hell. Australia band Whitehorse’s new album, Raised Into Darkness, is a forbidding trudge through the nine circles of Hell. All hope is abandoned in a slow-motion landslide of downtuned guitars, hammer-on-coffin-lid beats, and condemned-man snarls. Portland’s Atriarch summon swarming ordeals of dramatic metal with methodical malevolence. They sound immense, even on computer speakers. Seattle’s A Story of Rats very well could be the heaviest pagan-folk outfit this city has ever witnessed. Their charred drones and tom-tom slugs weigh a ton. Featuring the domineering, eviscerating vocals of Joy Von Spain, headliners Eye of Nix create a tumultuous brand of dark-hearted rock that makes you want to lay waste to civilization. They’ll put a triumphant grimace on your mug. DAVE SEGAL
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RAISE YOUR PULSE RATE AND IQ WITH UK TECHNO SAVANT MAX COOPER

British producer/DJ Max Cooper is a Decibel Festival-approved favorite, and it’s easy to hear why. His music raises your pulse rate and IQ with equal efficiency. Some may know Cooper for his remixes of tracks by Portishead, Ripperton, and Hot Chip, but his own IDM/techno productions demand your respect, too. He expertly balances delicate melodic beauty with scrupulous textural shading and subtly danceable beats, resulting in tracks that are both deceptively odd and smoothly functional. Cooper’s new album, Human, is a lushly produced and intricately designed distillation of his skills. With Nordic Soul. Q Nightclub, 9 pm, $13 adv, 21+. DAVE SEGAL


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