For Your Ears

Gwar, Devildriver, Cancer Bats, Legacy of Disorder
Sunshine Theater
Tonight at 7:30 p.m.
$20
13

Everyone’s favorite head-banging, demon-masked metal band is in town, just in case you missed out on Halloween’s hokey haunts. Attendees in the front row be warned: Gwar loves to spray its audience with fake blood.

For Your Consideration: “Penguin Attack” tells tales of robotic penguins shopping at a local Walmart in a short burst of wailing guitars, comical lyrics and robot-like vocals.

Yellowcard, The Wonder Years, We Are the In Crowd, Sandlot Heroes
Sunshine Theater
Monday at 7:30 p.m.
$20
13

Yellowcard has crafted quite a name for itself in the pop-punk community, and its past two albums have led the group out of its 2007 emo dirge. Touring alongside newcomers The Wonder Years, Yellowcard continues to prove that older bands of the genre still have a bit of punch to their music.

For Your Consideration: “The Sound of You and Me” quickly hits hard, with a swirl of guitar chords and the band’s distinct use of violin.

Title Fight, Pianos Become the Teeth, Single Mothers, Sweet Weapons
The Gasworks
Sunday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m.
Ticket price at the door
All ages

Don’t tell Title Fight that we’re past the early ‘90s; it might just break them. Title Fight is a rough-and-tumble garage punk band, the members of which wear their Jawbreaker influences on their Hot Water Music T-shirt sleeves. This Pennsylvania group is a reminder that tough guys can still write songs about their feelings.

For Your Consideration: “Secret Society” is known for its thumping bass intro and hoarse vocal cords, but is famous for its VHS music video in which a thwarted teenage girl cuts off the face of her secret admirer and wears it. Yeah, it’s gross.

The White Buffalo
Low Spirits
Sunday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.
$12
21

The White Buffalo’s Jake Smith is a somber, sad man. With a trembling voice that would make Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder nervous, Smith is a never-ending sad song with a grizzled beard and an American flag draped across his back.

For Your Consideration: “Wish it Was True” is a down-and-out Southern slow song, meant to be listened to beside a crackling campfire as you stare off into the montañas and think of better times.

Red Elvises, Cowboys & Indian
Launchpad
Monday, Nov.19 at 8 p.m.
$10
21

The Russian-American surf-rock band Red Elvises is known best not by music lovers, but by indie-film lovers. This old school rock ‘n’ roll band was featured in and wrote the soundtrack for the cult classic “Six-Stringed Samurai,” a post-apocalyptic late ‘90s film about a sword-wielding Buddy Holly.

For Your Consideration: “Love Pipe” sees the Red Elvises playing up to its genre’s typical song structure, with shaky guitar solos and “fun-at-the-beach” up-tempo tunes.

Born of Osiris, Unearth, Obey the Brave, The Contortionist, Wolves at the Gate
Sunshine Theater
Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m.
$17
13

Born of Osiris is a technical heavy metal band that ditched its older days of boring breakdowns for atmospheric synths and guitar ballads. While the band’s newest album slowed things down a bit, Born of Osiris still knows how to have a good time with blistering percussion and exaggerated growls.

For Your Consideration: “Follow the Signs” fits the band’s current mold, in which keyboards and crushing guitars mesh with one another.