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SUNDAY, SEPT. 27
Appropriate for a band named for the piles of toxic waste strewn across areas of their home state, Oklahoma’s Chat Pile focuses the balled-fist invectives on their new album, Who Loves the Sun, squarely against infrastructural failures in the contemporary United States. They might downplay being pegged as a metal band, and indeed naming your album after one of the twinkliest Velvet Underground songs isn’t particularly kvlt, but their music’s a lot more intense and politically outspoken than just about anything else to feasibly pass for indie rock in the past few decades. Revolution Hall, 1300 Stark St. 7:30 pm. $41.85. All ages.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29
Perfume Genius’ music has swelled over the past 15 years along with his fan base, with bigger budgets and bigger arrangements; you don’t call your album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately unless you’re a maximalist at heart. But some fans of singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas’ indie-pop project believe it was never better than when it was just him alone at a piano in his early days, recording heart-wrenching ballads like “Mr. Peterson” from what sounded like a lightless room. His upcoming tour as a duo with keyboardist Alan Wyffels returns to these roots. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. 8 pm. $52.35. All ages.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
The violent splatter of cross-genre slurry that emerges from the speakers at an Igorrr concert defies expectations at every turn. How can music made with such obvious rigor and discipline sound so much like it’s being dreamed up in real time? Opera samples, metal stabs and breakbeats all claw for space in his compositions, but it’s the steadiness of French producer Gautier Serre’s hand that keeps his music from devolving into chaos. Secret Chiefs 3, whose leader, Trey Spruance, made similarly unhousebroken music as a member of Mr. Bungle, opens. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 7:30 pm. $41.25. All ages.
