The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers are back tonight for round two at the Showbox. Woo! And the Lucky Dragons are playing the Vera Project. Dave Segal interviewed the band for this week's issue:

Immersed in L.A.'s fertile DIY culture, based in autonomous zones like the Smell, Echo Curio, and Dublab, Lucky Dragons, according to Rara, view everything they produce as a collaboration. "Our live performances are designed to generate equal power-sharing situations between members of the audience and ourselves," she elaborates. "I would say our working process is similar—hinged on the idea of living in a kind of equality, creating that collaborative space."

Fischbeck further expounds on Lucky Dragons' MO: "I think before we made sounds, we were a band, and everything we've done since the beginning was to change the simple thing of what it means to be a band. This often, but not always, means making or rearranging sounds."

Read his piece on the band here.

And here's what else is happening around town, via this week's Up & Comings:

Shadow Dancer, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Milkplant, C-Leb
(Chop Suey) Shadow Dancer (British producers Paul and Al Farrier) bring their Boys Noize–affiliated electro rock to Seattle for the first time. You know the drill: distorted bass corkscrewing in your face, coked-up 4/4 rhythms, suggestive vocal snippets, frayed tones haunting the periphery and hinting at chaos. This is definitive mid/late-'00s hipster party musique. Allowing for the usual cultural lag time, next year's Hollywood flicks should be lousy with it. Seattle techno knob-twiddler and recent Data Breaker subject Milkplant (Justin Pennell) drops heady, high-definition techno with the sort of rugged Midwestern flavor that's been making the world sweat for decades. Grandiose, drone-y synth purveyors Sleepy Eyes of Death are one Seattle rock band that can hang tough with the electronic bods. DAVE SEGAL

Deerhunter, Times New Viking, Past Lives
(Neumos) Deerhunter's new album, Microcastle, is ostensibly the band's "pop" album, although astute listeners will have discerned a steady pop sensibility underneath even their most shoegazey layers of overdriven effects on Cryptograms. Still, Microcastle is a far more simple, straightforward affair, putting the guitar washes and reverb further in the background of slightly sweeter though still plenty melancholy songs, the most outstanding of which is the fuzzy Sonic Youth daydream "Nothing Ever Happened." Where Deerhunter are carefully composed and artfully layered, Times New Viking are gleefully raw and rough around the edges, all buzzing lo-fi punk sing-along and ramshackle rhythm and melody. The counterintuitive pairing should make for a great show. ERIC GRANDY

Goodness, Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts
(Tractor) What freezes you about Daniel G. Harmann's music is the expanse—a quietly loud expanse. It scans across a highway bridge at night. Someone driving realizes the perfection of hands. Harmann's songs transition and cut from quiet and clean to loud and distorted. They're like fall: muted but loud, sad yet uplifting. The clean, introspective sections of his sound long in a way that makes you long. The louder, voluminous sections of his distorted songs drive in a way that makes you want to drive. You'll see your hands on the steering wheel and realize how perfectly they are designed. When Harmann and his band (the Trouble Starts) get loud, it's more a movement to volume, a use of light and dark they wield well. TRENT MOORMAN

Complete listings can be found here.