Cut Copy are at Neumo’s tonight. Eric Grandy interviewed the band’s Tim Hoey for this week’s music section, here’s an excerpt:

Most of all, there’s Modular Records’ star band of the moment, Cut Copy, whose fairly brilliant sophomore album, In Ghost Colours, debuted at number one on the Australian charts.

“I don’t think we’ve ever thought of ourselves as a charting kind of band,” says multi-instrumentalist Tim Hoey, on the phone from Sweden. “I guess that maybe says a lot about what’s happening in Australia at the moment. I think maybe the lines have been blurred between dance culture and indie-rock scenes. Certainly in Melbourne, you’ve got rock kids coming to dance clubs and dance kids going to rock shows. It’s only been the last couple of years that our kind of music, that scene, has really taken off. It’s always been dominated by really middle-of-the-road, boring classic-rock music—the Vines and Jet were the big charting bands when we started out.”

Read the full story here and see them play tonight at Neumo’s with Black Kids and Mobius Band.The band’s also playing a free in-store at Easy Street Queen Anne at 6 pm.

Cut Copy - “Lights and Music”

Also tonight:

Night Marchers, Muslims
(Chop Suey) You get the impression watching John Reis (aka Speedo, formerly of Drive Like Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt, and Hot Snakes, among others) that the dude will probably keep cranking out hard-driving, feedback-charged, raw-throated rock until the day he keels over dead. Like much of his post-Jehu work, Night Marchers eschew posthardcore artiness for straight, heavy riffs, mixing grinning, self-deprecating showmanship and banter with mean, scowling screaming. Fellow San Diego band Muslims are less amped up and abrasive, their brand of garage rock tending toward loose rhythms, hints of desert twang, and dry fuzz all sublimated for the sake of lead singer Matt Lamkin’s damaged pop songs. ERIC GRANDY

Listen to Night Marchers:
“Who’s Lady R U?”

Mad Rad, Party Time, Champagne Champagne
(Nectar) You may have recently seen the name Mad Rad, either in Run DMC’s classic style or otherwise, oh, everyfuckingwhere. Give them this: Dudes’ promotion game is tight. Tight enough to pack the main room at Chop Suey at a recent show full of hands-up hyped-up fans. Their tracks posted online don’t sound like much, but these guys are game party starters live. If their lineage isn’t evident from their neon apparel and raunch rhymes, their use of two Spank Rock jams—”Backyard Betty” to soundtrack an onstage dance battle, “Put That Pussy on Me” as a backing track for some rap—should clear things up. Openers Champagne Champagne feature Blood Bro Mark Gajadhar on production and the MC talents of a gentleman named Pearl Dragon. Party Time are, presumably, excellent. ERIC GRANDY

Click here to listen to Mad Rad.
Click here to listen to Champagne Champagne.

Click here to see what else is happening tonight.