In Up & Coming tonight:
The B-52s(Woodland Park Zoo) With their beehive hairdos, retro lingo, and Hullabaloo dances, the B-52s were a nostalgia act from the beginning—which makes their transition to actual nostalgia act both poignant and meaningless. Helping: the band's surprisingly high-quality recent output, with last year's Funplex a fun and filthy addition to their oeuvre. At tonight's zoo show, expect a smattering of Funplex tracks alongside every single B-52s song you know and love. (They like to have fun even more than you do, and the eternal thrills of their greatest hits are still not lost on them.) DAVID SCHMADER
The Germs, Poison Idea, Krum Bums, the Bloodclots(Neumos) Look, don't even sweat it that the Germs have replaced Darby Crash with a 31-year-old Hollywood actor named Shane West who starred in that reverent, dull movie about Darby Crash last year. Never mind the children dressed like 1977 and the creaky old geezers like Jello Biafra and Fat Mike who are whining that that's disrespectful, that's inauthentic. Darby Crash was the opposite of authenticity—he was a Ziggy Stardust fan, a fabulist and epic liar who burned up his life trying to turn it into myth. So some buffed and blow-dried Hollywood type with nice skin and well-tended teeth wants to step into the shoes Jan Paul Beahm willfully vacated almost 30 years ago? I'm not so sure Darby Crash would've disapproved. BRENDAN KILEY
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