Batwings, Stripper Pussy (LA), Vaginals, and Monogamy Party (Seattle) stirred things up at the Ruby Room on Thursday night. Here’s a peek at how that went.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wdGoyGpXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdvYDn92tIQ

Friday’s post-progcore orgy of facemelt at Tower Bar was also a blast.

Opener Randy Chiurazzi, who auditioned for America’s Got Talent a few months ago, channeled raw, organic, free-trade expressions from the Source with a guitar, effects processors, and his homemade sound suit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0Q7-OU8X4

Japanese duo 2Up are no strangers to the wiggle. “This is the only place I have been to a tunnel show with hardcore bands,” guitarist Tetsunori Tawaraya told the Reader last week. “You guys know how to party all the time.” This is correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNE11c7SEC8

Upsilon Acrux confounded wide-eyed onlookers with noodling epic guitar lines that rarely found a chorus to repeat and dual drummers who interlocked but never crowded out the staccato storyline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnxYHLBao5Q

Fresh back from a West Coast tour, local psyche-dredgers Innerds transmuted traditional instruments into tools of interstellar travel, reminding us that “Time is a Person” and reiterating that age-old question, “Who Farted on Mars?” (Though, the songs that follow have other names, which I don’t know.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJUQvpPzDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0GFVcDkHw