two shows upcoming

While I will again be out of town this weekend, two shows might be worthy of your collective interest here in the dee-eff-double-you area. Trees has Man or Astroman? and Trans Am on Friday night. Sez CMJ of MoA?’s last album: “This latest collection finds Coco The Electronic Monkey Wizard and company exploring the depths of math-rock angularity and effects-driven psychedelia without losing focus of their primordial style. The result is like mainlining a compound of high-power blotter acid and some Capri Sun into your inferior human cranium.” Make what you will of that. Trans Am is alternately brilliant and boring, but probably worth a little of your time. (Examples of their Teutonic flavor of brilliance: Play in the Summer and Let’s Take the Fresh Step Together/I Want It All.)
Then Saturday, the scene breaks out the big guns, with the Dismemberment Plan coming to Rubber Gloves. If any member of the crabwalk.com Denton contingent wanted to record the show, that person would get the favor of his or her choice from Site Management.
(Incidentally, to any Austinites out there, these two tours unite Sunday for a giganto show at Emo’s. Six bands, ten bucks — what a deal.)