MUSIC
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
7:00 PM

Pere Ubu
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$25 advance; $30 door
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/lpr-x-pere-ubu-august-17th-2018/

Pere Ubu roared out of Cleveland in the mid-'70s, and their combination of guitar punk and synthesizer-driven musique concrète helped birth post-punk.  There are tunes under the noise -- and there's noise over the tunes (sometimes they alternate).  Amazingly, their last album, released last year, was about as good as their classics from the '70s and '80s.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the show:  the Brooklyn Modern Peruvian restaurant Llama Inn has opened a sandwich shop in the Village called Llamita (why oh why couldn't they have stuck with their original name "Deli Llama"?)!  The menu looks great!  I am REALLY excited about this.  After the show: Existing Conditions is a new avant-cocktail bar from avant-cocktail king Dave Arnold, cocktail publisher/entrepreneur Greg Boehm, and cocktailian secret weapon (until now!) Don Lee.  The cocktails are stunning, superb, great (right now I'm pretty hot for the Canary -- but don't rule out the Helicopter).  I haven't tried Chef Josh Eden's food yet, but it looks really good as well.