In Up & Coming tonight:

The Rumble: The Blakes, U.S.E, Battle Hymns

(Crocodile) Tonight's the inaugural local edition of The Rumble, a series of parties that goes down in NYC, L.A., San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, and now Seattle. The all-local lineup features the Blakes' gritty, tuneful, Anglophile rock, which goes down easy, if with few surprising flavors; Battle Hymns' stark, deadpan-voiced folk-rock songs in the vein of Smog and Silver Jews; and United State of Electronica's irrepressibly uplifting dance pop. U.S.E have a long-awaited sophomore album coming out on their own label in October titled Loveworld. It's a joyous reiteration of all the qualities that many thousands worldwide have fallen smiling head over kicking heels for. U.S.E are the feel-good band of the decade, hands down (I mean, up). DAVE SEGAL

The Curb Side Avengers, No One and the Somebodies, Turbosleaze, Amtraque Fingerbang

(Funhouse) Local duo the Curb Side Avengers' lo-fi garage punk sounds like it's stuck in a perpetual 1977 of the mind: all agitated, congested-nasal-passages vocals; dawn-of-rock, cardboard-box beats; and badly tuned, cheap-guitar snarl. This music is rude and rudimentary, but not without a scruffy charm. Amtraque Fingerbang also keep the fidelity supremely low, but slow the pace and privilege melody a bit more than the CSA. Sparsely pretty, Amtraque Fingerbang's subliminal rock songs are suffused in an alluring twilight that lends them an air of mystique, even if it's obviously the product of flat-broke bohos. Intriguing stuff, nonetheless. DAVE SEGAL

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