Roadtrips

edited by Matt Ashare

If former Spaceman 3 guy Jason Pierce's Spiritualized didn't satisfy your need for swashbuckling, incandescent neo-psychedelia with a VU twist, you've got two more chances to get your fill. Another Spaceman alum, the alarmingly weird Sonic Boom, does his Spectrum thing on September 3 with the Silver Apples (that's this hippie dude named Simian who's got a homemade noise-making apparatus with steering wheels on it and stuff) at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence; they'll both be at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on September 4 with Salaryman. On the poppier, not strictly experimental-nerd end of things, notorious pop-art wags the Dandy Warhols come down off a Harborlights gig with Radiohead to headline a couple shows of their own. Take a break from requesting the junkie song and ask for "Cool As Kim Deal" when they show up at T.T. the Bear's Place (617-492-BEAR) in Cambridge on August 29 and the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton the next night. Polara open both shows.

Former X gal Exene Cervenka (or Cervenkova, as she's having it this time) is off the spoken-word circuit, back on the punk trail, and playing guitar with Auntie Christ, a trio with fellow former Xer D.J. Bonebrake and Rancid's Matt Freeman with a disc, Life Could Be a Dream, on Lookout. The touring version has Janis Tanaka of Stone Fox (the opening band) replacing Freeman on bass while he's off, uh, being in Rancid. They're at the Middle East on August 31 with the American Measles, and at the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence on September 2 with the bill keough experience.

And for those of you who can't decide between Come and the Geraldine Fibbers -- who are playing opposite each other upstairs and downstairs at the Middle East on August 30 -- there are a couple of options. You can journey out to the Iron Horse the night before to see the Fibbers, or you can go see Come on the 28th at the Met Café.