The Afrobeat-influenced Nomo are playing the Croc tomorrow night. The 21+ show is with Sly Lothario and it costs $10 (buy tickets), but you and a date could go for free! To enter, send your full name to freetickets@thestranger.com with NOMO in the subject line. Two winner's will be notified this evening via e-mail (so you better hurry!).

In this week's music section, Dave Segal says this about the band's latest record, Invisible Cities:

The new Invisible Cities (Ubiquity) further expands on NOMO's idiosyncrasies. The opening title track soars into the humid world-jazz processionals that marked Don Cherry's best '70s work. NOMO's cover of Moondog's "Bumbo" captures the sui generis composer's unruly rhythmic bustle and melodic eccentricity. "Crescent" subtly paraphrases John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" and adds serene flute accompaniment and restrained hand claps; it's a paradoxically chilled party jam. "Ma" features a bizarrely tuned guitar motif, seraphic female sighs, and spy-flick brass that mesmerize and induce tension with the rarefied skill of Mission: Impossible/Dirty Harry soundtracker Lalo Schifrin. "Banners on High" spirals into psychedelic jazz's most transcendent airspace, while "Elijah" and "Nocturne" float onto a heady, spiritual astral-jazz plane that nods to Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana's cosmic bliss-out LP Illuminations.

Good luck!