Music

-- Trans-channel rock band Stereolab has been making pop music out of drones, Moog synthesizers, and snippets of commercial music for 18 years. Whether riffing on Krautrock anthems, making pseudo-Marxist pronouncements, or harmonizing with abandon, the band never fails to seduce. Performing with Le Loup and Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier's side project, Monade. Paradise Rock Club, 472 Comm. Ave., 7 p.m. $22.

-- Leeds rock band The Wedding Present has been around even longer, first recording in 1985. Longstanding favorites of John Peel, the Wedding Present bridged the gap between the twee, DIY "Messthetics" British bands of the early eighties and the indie rock of the nineties. (The band's cover of Pavement's "Box Elder" had something to do with the latter act's subsequent success.) It's a sound you immediately love or hate—and both reactions are completely appropriate. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 7:30 p.m. $12.

Movies

-- If you missed—or couldn't get enough of—yesterday's Women in Prison showcase, swing back by the Brattle for Italian fetish night. Death Laid an Egg (1968) features Jean-Louis Trintignant as a man whose twin passions are engineering a new, headless super-chicken and murdering prostitutes. The Frightened Woman (1969) is a telling look inside the vulva-shaped doors of an Italian sex dungeon. Double feature. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 7:30, 9:30 p.m. $9.50.