Enter Shikari
Nearly 20 years after forming as Hybryd in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, British alt-metal rockers Enter Shikari just dropped their fifth album, The Spark, preceded by a single for “Live Outside” that continues their penchant for mixing punk, hardcore, and experimental alternative rock. The last half dozen times they played San Diego, including this past March, was at the all-ages Soma, but this time around the globe they’re hitting the Irenic in North Park, for a February 25 shindig that features the same foursome that first named their band after a boat owned by the uncle of singer Rou Reynolds in 2003. The bill includes British grunge-punk quartet Milk Teeth, which’ll be plugging an EP titled Go Away, due in November via Roadrunner Records, and Single Mothers, a Canadian punk rock band based in London, Ontario.