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Hank Thompson, two shows Saturday at Schubas: With a string of charting singles that extends from the ’40s to the ’80s, stellar C&W singer-songwriter Hank Thompson not only witnessed many of the significant developments in modern country music, but he also helped bring some of them about. Oldham recorded his most recent LP, “I See a Darkness,” under the moniker Bonnie Prince Billy, and it furthers his move away from mournful, pseudo-backwoods lamentations towards equally stark yet more stately balladry that’s often strangely beautiful. Add it all up and you have Kentucky songwriter Will Oldham, a man with more aliases than a check forger. And his penchant for affectation and obscurity could come from the theater. His innumerable references to death might as well be derived from heavy metal. Will Oldham, Friday at Lounge Ax: The sound of his songs is derived from old hillbilly ballads. But even at his most experimental, Wink generally shuns the cerebral antics of peers like DJ Spooky, preferring to tinker with the temperature of a good groove by tweaking it from space-y chill session to feverish electro-funk. Josh Wink, Thursday at Karma: One of the most popular and influential DJs in the electronic music scene, Philadelphia native Josh Wink crafts club trax that cover the entire spectrum of contemporary dance, from techno to house to drum ‘n’ bass to more abstract sonic forays. But then logic isn’t the forte of anyone in this revue. Given that there’s a tenuous stylistic link between the Lips’ kaleidoscopic pop, Hitchcock’s neo-psychedelic folk-rock and E.A.R.’s free-form spacewalks, the inclusion of Sebadoh makes little sense. stands as this summer’s oddest package tour. The 1999 International Music Against Brain Degeneration Review, Saturday and Sunday at Metro: If nothing else, this four-band bill of the Flaming Lips, Robyn Hitchcock, Sebadoh and Sonic Boom’s E.A.R. The Melvins perform Friday at the Double Door and Saturday at the Fireside Bowl.
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The Melvins’ new record, “The Maggot,” is a chugging acid-metal masterpiece, and it’s the first part of a projected trilogy that will include “The Bootlicker” (reportedly a Pavement/Sebadoh-type pop record) and “The Crybaby,” which will include contributions from Leif Garrett, Beck and David Yow, among others. Since 1986, this Washington combo has unloaded slab after slab of roiling, tuneful, deeply stoned power sludge that somehow crosses Syd Barrett with Black Sabbath. In addition to being the godfathers of grunge, the Melvins also qualify as the world’s slowest, spaciest, most weirdly psychedelic heavy metal band. In the underground rock milieu where all bands strive to be unique yet few are, the MELVINS truly stand alone.