From the preview Thirty-Plus Years in Yellow Boilersuits and Red Flowerpot Hats:

Devo, Reggie Watts

(Moore) I understand that Freedom of Choice was a big hit...

That was kind of the reason for doing it in the U.S. But I was the guy who was pushing [to do] album two. Even as recently as this year, we were doing festivals and shows where we played a lot of material off of album two. Some of my favorite Devo songs are on album two, like "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA." I thought that's the one that would make sense and didn't think all of the songs on [Freedom] were worthy of performing live. We never played "That's Pep" or "Ton o' Luv," and a couple of others. But then we started rehearsing them, and I started loving the album and the sequence of it. It's been kind of fun to play. I'm still memorizing some of the lyrics that I haven't sung since 1980, but I think that's going to be a good show. DAVE SEGAL

From Up & Coming:

Venetian Snares, Wisp, NAHA, Cyrusrex

(Nectar) Winnipeg is a cold, intimidating place. Stranded in the void of the prairies, prone to strange bouts of erratic violence (as seen in last year's gruesome Greyhound beheading), and struggling to assert its modernity in a province plagued by rampant poverty in its northern settlements, Winnipeg hardly seems like a city that could foster one of the strongest modern IDM musicians. Yet Venetian Snares—the project of producer Aaron Funk—thrives in the inhospitable climate of Manitoba's capital. Geography inevitably plays a role in sculpting an artist's soul, and Winnipeg's harsh attributes lend an alien and adversarial air to Funk's breakbeat science. There's a cold hostility to his art, a deliberately difficult precision. It's impressive work from a hardy individual. BRIAN COOK

Electric Tickle Machine, the Flight of Phanuel, $2,000 Puma, the Wheelies

(Comet) Like many bands today, Electric Tickle Machine play exuberant, scrappy garage pop. Does anything in ETM's exuberant, scrappy garage pop distinguish it from the plethora of similar-sounding groups? Not so much, really. Their new self-released debut album, Blew It Again, suggests that they're good at this sort of thing, and Matt Boynton (Bat for Lashes, Gang Gang Dance) has given the songs on it an appealing cavernous feel, while sensibly keeping the feral-boy-ish vocals from stealing the show from the fuzzy keyboards and crashing, jangling guitars. It's all solid enough, and one wouldn't be at all surprised if Animal Collective tapped Electronic Tickle Machine to open for them on their next tour. DAVE SEGAL

And there's always more in our complete music calendar listings.