Music Annie Clark went to Berklee, paid her indie-cred dues in Sufjan Stevens' touring band and the Polyphonic Spree, and named her solo project St. Vincent after a church where which she fell in love and the hospital where Dylan Thomas died. Her songs are chamber pop clad in synthesizers and charm. Middle East Downstairs, 8 pm, 18+, $12. Carnal Carnival Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys know how to throw a......

Music --Multimedia artist and musician Brian Dewan will join Bostonist faves Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, and S. Joe Hazelwood at Church. Of course, the Broken Toys are promising frilly panties and corsets. 69 Kilmarnock Street, 9:00 pm. --The Lemonheads make a return to the Middle East. Evan Dando is bringing members of the Descendents with him. Dando still has a wild streak--he talked 'shrooms and Cro-Magnon man......

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys Saturday, October 20, 8:00 pm Lizard Lounge Official Site Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, last seen on Bostonist during the closing of Somerville's Sky Bar and the Great Lowell Cable Access Television Fiasco of 2007, will be bringing their experimental goth-rock to the Lizard Lounge. Their website promises that they combine "music, shenanigans, toys, and voice to make an organic industrial texture-core Death-folk ride......

Club Sky Bar has to close because the owner found the $40,000 bill for installing a required sprinkler system to be far too high. Hence, Sky Bar, which nurtured metal and goth bands, is having one last, lengthy blowout on Sunday. Many bands will be playing the gig, including Graveside Service as the headliner. The full lineup is on the MySpace page of Anderson Mar, who was the club's booking agent. The event starts on......

And to think, we just posted about a perfectly harmless Scavenger Hunt for nudes at the MFA ... A man was offended at the sight of naked ladies cavorting during Lowell's late-night, cable-access New England Punk Goth Metal show. How come that never happens on our cable access? Anyway, when the Lowell Sun spoke with the offended man, he described what he saw as "total, complete, nothing-on nudity." Apparently "total, complete, nothing-on nudity" is worse......