The two members of Two Gallants play punk-folk blues and radiate a dark charisma. The drummer’s hair hangs over his face until he surfaces for call-and-response lyrics with the guitarist, who sings with the gloominess and ferocity of an offshore storm. They can whip a room into a frenzy—they were once attacked mid-concert by Houston police—and write elegant, curlicue lyrics: “I followed you into the party/That no one invited me to/But I turned toward the wall ‘fore it started/To diswatch the mistreat of you.” With the Mumlers. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467, $15, 8 pm, balcony all ages/
floor 21+)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....