Mon, Aug 17, Pissed Jeans

The name says it all. Pissed Jeans: angry but as familiar as your dad’s sports-fueled temper tantrums. This Allentown, Pa., band throws down noisy, teeth-gnashing hardcore that owes a lot to the likes of such ’80s icons as Black Flag and Flipper. It’s not hugely original—heck, they’ve even been described as “four white male high school graduates [who] hardly look further than their own appendages for artistic inspiration.” OK sure, but we get that sometimes you just need to get that aggression out and songs such as “I’ve Still Got You (Ice Cream)” and “People Person” are just the conduit for diluting all that pent-up, denim-inspired rage. 1050 20th Street, (916) 447-1255, www.whitedenim.com/pissedjeans.