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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Rock/pop

Making music out of cans, bells, bongs, gongs, guitars, pump organs, autoharps, electric violin and any number of homemade stuffing and amplified doodads, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are simultaneously ridiculous and sublime, luridly horrific and delicately beautiful. On their Seeland label debut Grand Opening and Closing, San Franciscans Nils Frykdahl, Carla Kihlstedt (of Tin Hat Trio fame) and friends cram almost as much tremoring terror into nine tracks as the Stooges did on Funhouse, cluttering all edges of an elongated elastic "Sleep Is Wrong" and their sullen, stolen harried-Hank Williams moment "Ambugation" with psychotic reactive improv-rock-calamity while still finding room for vocals. Born of Bay Area art-provocateurs Idiot Flesh, SGM carry on and on and on with prog-rock pugnaciousness but without the pomp or circumstance. Yet, they manage to be goofy and gracefully tuneful. Go figure.

Tue., May 14, 8 p.m., $7, the Troc, 10th and Arch sts., 215-922-LIVE, www.thetroc.com.

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