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Like any good Western, Spindrift's story is a convoluted yarn. Formed in Delaware in 1992, they flirted with experimental post-punk for a decade before its founding member, Kirkpatrick Thomas, decided to move them west in 2001. A chance meeting with Brian Jonestown Massacre's maverick leader, Anton Newcombe, led to a friendship that spurred a reinvention of Spindrift's sound, one they dubbed "psychedelic spaghetti Western." And, like The Doors covering Ennio Morricone, the eight-piece band recently recorded the soundtrack to the independent movie, The Legend of God's Gun. Yes, it is a Western.

—Kevin Pearson

Sun., Aug. 31, 8 p.m., $8, Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888, thekhyber.com.

Dennis Kleiman

The Dub Trio is the Sly & Robbie of Greater NYC with rhythmatists Joe Tomino (the drummer who doubles on melodica), Stu Brooks (bass/keyboards) and D.P. Holmes (guitar/keyboards) acting as groove doctors for records by G-Unit, Common, Mos Def and such. But CDs like Exploring the Dangers and Another Sound is Dying are noisier efforts than dub's usual hum, and fleshier too what with the Trio recording its tracks "live" in real time.

—A.D. Amorosi

Thu., Sept. 4, 8:30 p.m., $10, with Saudi Arabia, Balcony at the Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-222-live, thetroc.com.

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong were each doing OK on their own, but they gained traction when they bundled up in The Paper Raincoat. Sunny pop songs can get soggy quickly, but "Motion Sickness" and "Sympathetic Vibrations," from their Safe in the Sound EP, are crisp every time.

—M.J. Fine

Tue., Sept. 2, 8 p.m., $9-$11, with Matt Duke and April Smith, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

Its South Street store may've closed, but that won't stop Relapse from kerranging deep-dark metalheads worldwide. Origin shreds it hard and fast with a techie edge and hosts four male voices (Paul Ryan, Jeremy Turner, Mike Flores, James Lee) and two guitars to do its dirty work. It's been that way since the quintet started recording 10 years ago. So how doomed-up is their new CD, Antithesis (Relapse)? I just died and this'll be my wake.

—A.D. Amorosi

Mon., Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. (sharp, over by 11 p.m.), $10, with Mortal Decay, Unrest and Quartered, The M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.

The Norwegian duo of saxophonist Frode Gjerstad and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love are a free-jazz perpetual motion device, an accelerated blur delivering improvised sound at hyperspeed. But they may just meet their match in 84-year-old Arkestra leader Marshall Allen. The indefatigable altoist is always the last to throw in the towel, continuing to deliver wave after wave of upper-range bleats as his compatriots are checking their watches and packing their gear. Rest up for this one.

—Shaun Brady

Thu., Aug. 28, 8 p.m., $12, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.com.