Tonight is the Ball of Wax volume 11 release party at The Sunset. If you don’t know Ball of Wax, the first six volumes are available for download here (and if you like them, you should donate something, as they aren’t exactly a hand-over-fist operation, if you catch my drift, if you pick up what I’m laying down).

The eleventh volume is something a little different: twelve bands were formed at random and given one day to come up with a new song. BoW 11 is an album composed of those songs. The results are pretty similar to other BoW offerings: some ambient electronic-driven music, some weird guitar-influenced fuzzy stuff, and a rampant feeling of experimentation and excitement. Bands like Webelos, Beast Please Be Still, and the Luna Moth will play tonight, and maybe one or two of the one-hit wonder bands will reform onstage.

It’s six bucks, which gets you in, gets you a copy of Volume 11, and the whole thing is a fundraiser for the very worthy Hollow Earth Radio.