Here's what Dave Segal says about Kraak & Smaak, who play Nectar tonight:

For a group named after two of the most heinous drugs extant, Dutch trio Kraak & Smaak—Wim Plug, Oscar De Jong, Mark Kneppers (they expand to a septet live)—aren't really a mind-altering proposition. They made inroads in the States with their 2005 album Boogie Angst, which is much more boogiecentric than angsty. The disc abounds with easily digestible (yet not cloyingly so) lounge funk laced with blaxploitation-soundtrack flourishes and big beat gestures. This year's Plastic People contains the kind of amiable house music and breaks cuts favored by radio jocks like KCRW's Jason Bentley. The single "Squeeze Me" comes off like the Crystal Method jamming with Tom Jones; the chorus—sung by Ben Westbeech—recalls the late-'60s hit "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (made famous by Blood Sweat & Tears and Lou Rawls). It's slightly left of middle-of-the-road fare for casual fans of dance music. Noted musical authority Perez Hilton described K&S as "Amy Winehouse meets Moby." So now you know.

Also happening:

Henry Rollins
(Moore) Henry Rollins has been a most notable figure over the course of his now nearly 30-year career in the realms of punk rock, spoken word, and as an "alternative" celebrity. He's done everything from spoken-word appearances such as this one to publishing books of prose and anecdote to driving the bumpy tattoo van in Jackass. The fact that he hasn't really done anything good since he was barely out of his teens in Black Flag has proven moot in the ever-steamrolling Rollins creative machine. Perhaps most inscrutable of all of his maverick moves, however, was his contribution to The Crow soundtrack, which was a grindingly literal song about a wholly unrelated comic-book character, Ghost Rider. What's the science, Henry Rollins? SAM MICKENS

Partman Parthorse, A.H. Kraken, Love Tan
(Funhouse) French noise-rockers A.H. Kraken create static, unwavering, bass-heavy tangents of raucous punk—think Arab on Radar meets Public Image Limited meets A Frames, or just think: really fucking good. If you're not interested yet, here's the band's own description of their sound, translated from French by the magic of the internet: "The border between experimentation and the does not import what is thin... to the two-thirds of the concert lacks it idea shows does me to lean for the second option. The minutes pass and the group resembles more and more to a band of junkies to the psychotropes improvising a substitute of music." Or maybe they're talking about someone else. GRANT BRISSEY

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