Tonight: Occult Detective Club + Something Fierce + The Busy Kids + Noguey, at Vinyl Junkie

Tuesday, March 1st, and there’s some awesome pop-punk goodness going on tonight up at Vinyl Junkie. Denton’s Occult Detective Club are the headliners, and they’re pretty damn good, I have to say, in a seriously Ramones-y vein — they’re somehow tunefully sweet and in-your-face raw at the same time, which is no easy trick to pull off.

Obviously, though, my faves of the night have to be those crazy {Something Fierce} kids, who blow me away every damn time with their fiery-yet-thoughtful take on old-school, Brit-influenced pop-punk. I really, really loved their last two albums, 2008’s There Are No Answers and 2006’s Come For The Bastards, and I’m totally psyched to see/hear what’s coming up next, this year’s forthcoming full-length, Don’t Be So Cruel (review soon, I promise). SF really and truly are one of the best bands in town, no lie.

Also playing are Something Fierce bassist Niki Sevven‘s “other band,” {The Busy Kids}, who I seriously need to check out (and soon), and newcomers {Noguey}, who’re a little less tuneful than their bill-mates but still do a nicely bludgeoning, snotty, over-bassed garage-punk stomp. $5 for the whole mess.

I want to give a virtual high-five, btw, to whoever came up with the flyer — I just gave Munchkin #1 an old Gold Key issue of Uncle Scrooge I happened to find in the garage.