Attention, all you humans! The Weirdos were one of the first and one of the greatest of the LA punk bands, responsible for at least two undeniable classics—“Neutron Bomb” and “Life of Crime,” or was that “Solitary Confinement”? Or “Helium Bar”? Or “Message From The Underworld?” Or—well, get the point? Part first-album Ramones, part first-album Damned, part corrosively hostile '60s garage rock—thanks, guitarist Dix and your immortal fretwork—and mostly their own splattered-together version of loud-fast-and-weird, this was a band who defined their own particular kind of American punk, and a band whose spirit lives on in every bug-eyed group of teenage power-chorders.
Thu., Aug. 21, 8 p.m., 2014
