TONIGHT: Beep!

By Rev. Adam McKinney on February 4, 2011

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In my childhood home, I would often stand down the hallway from the computer room, wherein my father would sit and listen to records. Bizarre songs that seemed to go on forever that sounded like jazz, but filtered through a kind of loopy logic that always found its way back to rock ‘n' roll. Of course this was progressive rock, and at the time it made me feel queasy and scared. Beep sound like my remembrance of progressive rock, aggressively transported through time and space to find me and turn my stomach into knots once more. Their music works like sense-memory to make me feel again like a kid peering around the hallway corner, confused and intimidated by the strange sounds emanating from the computer room.

[Northern, with Ben Kamen, Heatwarmer, 9 p.m., $5, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia, northernolympia.org]