The Trashmen

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When you get namedropped in a Pynchon novel -- as the Trashmen were in this year's Inherent Vice -- maybe that's enough to transcend all the one-hit-wonder jokes people make about your band. But getting to play a packed homecoming at one of the city's great club venues isn't half bad, either, and as one of Minnesota's earliest brushes of rock'n'roll fame via 1963's deliriously spastic #4 hit "Surfin' Bird," the Trashmen hold a special place in local history. And the openers are no slouches -- The Neanderthals are a quartet of self-described "numbskulls" with a retro-garage rock sound and Flinstonian attire, Davie Allan and the Arrows innovated fuzztone and made it synonymous with '60s biker flicks, and the 99ers maintain the unlikely tradition of Twin Cities surf rock that the Trashmen made possible. (Photo by tnarik)
Sat., Nov. 21, 9 p.m., 2009