Music Preview: Pretty & Nice and the Toothaches

The Toothaches
with Pretty and Nice, Math The Band, The Bynars
Great Scott (1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston)
9pm, $8

Tonight, Great Scott offers two of Boston's most frenetic, infectious bands in one night of brain-imploding craziness. So brain-implodingly crazy, in fact, that we've resorted to making up words.

Pretty & Nice members are fresh off the band's fifteen-kabillionth tour this year, further adding to the piles of evidence suggesting an existence as androids sent from the future of rock and roll. (Believe it, people; there have been studies.) The band's album, Get Young, is a kaleidoscopic tour through the last thirty years of pop and punk, condensed into twenty seven minutes of unbridled kinetic energy. It's like a workout for your brain. Their live shows are often so intense that the boys in P&N move at sub-light, relativistic speeds. Watch as they spasm in slow-motion.

And The Toothaches return from Brooklyn (we'll forget that ever happened) to drop the hottest pop-bomb Boston has seen in years: the band's 7" release party! The Toothaches are reputed to be the most fun band in Boston, and for good reason. They play a type of folk-hued dance rock that relies as much on distorted guitars as it does on glockenspiel and keyboard. And their songs take over like a disease; an ebullient, danceable disease. Come witness pop insanity as the band wiggles its way into your hearts and then never leaves.

Post contributed by P. Nick Curran.