Some of you may recall that before Andrew W.K. was, well, Andrew W.K., he drifted in and out of a bunch of prehensile Skin Graft–ian no-wave noise-metal nonsense bands (at least one of which, the Pterodactyls, were almost as inspired as his AWK shtick). Traveling under his given name, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, he’s joined a reunion of the kings of no-wave noise-metal nonsense bands, To Live and Shave in LA (named after a Ron Jeremy flick!), whose line-up has now expanded to include Don "Gumball" Fleming as well. The band have mounted what will probably be the least-publicized Bush-bashing tour of the year in support of their reissued 1996 mess God and Country Rally (sample "song" "titles": "A Girl Named Kiss-Twat"; "Medication, My She-Bowels!"; "Got Up and Went to Piano Turds"). Opening for them next Thursday, September 16, at Flywheel (413-527-9800) in Easthampton will be a free-jazz trio thrown together by Thurston Moore, as well as recent Sonic Youth openers Magick Markers. TLASILA also play the notorious Safari Lounge in Providence next Friday, September 17.

We always recommend that fans of the weird and extreme check out the internationally famous blind porn-rap star B-Lite (mp3s at www.b-lite.net), but if you can’t see the accompanying X-rated Power Point presentations, you lose quite a bit of the gonzo thrill. Still, a recent B-Lite flyer got crazed shout-outs on the Hollertronix message board, thanks either to the image (Smurf intercourse) or to the poster’s big-Dada inscription: "Fuck Bush and fuck racism. Let’s end one of those tonight! Let’s get together and fuck each other until there is no black and there is no white! In the future, it will just be a bunch of tan-ass motherfuckers sitting around doing mescalin and listening to Stereolab. If you don’t know what ‘Stereolab’ is, then fuck you. Get out of my indie cool house party and go back to the paper mill, you fucking townie." You’ve been warned: B-Lite celebrates September 11 by rocking like al-Qaeda — with the slide show intact — at AS220 (401-831-9327) in Providence on Saturday.

Twice as loud as Lightning Bolt and four times sleazier than the Cramps, Boston’s Tunnel of Love were our favorite local trash-garage-band-in-tights-and-capes way before everyone in New York who likes Liars decided they were cool. Now we hear they’ve maybe changed their name to the Ghetto Fighters — which is even hotter. They’re at AS220 on Monday with the Providence electro duo Mahi Mahi, who in turn travel to the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge next Thursday, September 16, where they’re among the bands paying tribute to the late Kirsten Mallone, who put the synth in Boston synth-punks the Faux, and whose tragic death in a bicycle crash earlier this year left her many friends and fans in shock. Among those performing at the memorial show: Neptune, Gold, Fat Day, UV Protection, Plunge into Death, Cathy Cathodic, and Shore Leave.