SIBLING RIVALRY, WINNEBAGO, CANDYSOUND, ELCH

Tonight in the U-District, Seattle lo-fi psych-garage rockers Winnebago will churn out drifting, bedroom-born guitar jams. Their scaled-back, lysergic embellishments will likely please fans of indie rock in the vein of Deerhunter, and they're paired on this bill with Sibling Rivalry, a pleasantly poppy band reminiscent of the Shins. The Redmond/Seattle-based six-piece's upcoming EP, Only Child, comes across as an artful teenage homage to Chutes Too Narrow, but not as fond of hand claps and glee. A total polarity to Winnebago's sparsely reflective rock and Sibling Rivalry's casually jubilant tunes, Elch are perhaps Bellevue's noisiest exports. With spoken-word vocals slated over tense, propulsive riffs, they sculpt harsh and foreign-sounding frequencies like the post-hardcore love creation of Slint and rusting factory machines. Any of the three songs on their lone release, Depone, could be a cathartic and precise outtake on Spiderland, and that's a massive compliment. The arty noise of Depone pokes my no-wave pleasure buttons. With the Bellingham band Candysound and their '90s-era Kinsella-esque rock. Heartland, 8 pm.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK, THE VENUS 3, PETER BUCK

If you listened to "college rock" in the 1980s, you might know British songwriter Robyn Hitchcock as a member of the post-punk band the Soft Boys, or for his solo work with the Egyptians and beyond. But if you weren't alive in the '80s, here's a starter course: Hitchcock's beautiful songs are a heaven-glazed, whimsical delight, with surreal lyrics (see "Furry Green Atom Bowl") that kidnap ears and minds to wholly magical realms. Hitchcock, who recently became a sexagenarian, has described his music as "sadness cloaked in fun" and also says the songs on his latest record (his "twentysomethingth"), Love from London, are "paintings you can listen to." Getting wound up in Hitchcock's warmly eccentric neo-psych jangle folk—along with his improvised, fantastical, between-song monologues—is likely the best way to spend this Tuesday night. Plus! He'll be performing with Venus 3 and Peter Buck, some of whose members also make up half of indie legends/semi-mortals R.E.M. Neptune, 8 pm, $20.