For a hot minute in 1993, when they were riding the rambunctious high of Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass, Trumans Water represented indie rock’s pinnacle. They brought a careening, coruscating energy to a scene that too often mistook lassitude for slack cool. Trumans Water’s quasi-comeback album after a long hiatus, O Zeta Zunis, casts their no-wave abrasiveness and rowdy dynamics in a slightly more accessible light, but it still bears a caustic sting. Get ready to spaz. (Funhouse, 206 Fifth Ave N, 374-8400, 9:30 pm, $7, 21+)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...