Brooklyn's Neo No Wave / Post Punk heroes deliver the sonic assault as usual, and different every time. Sear off the sonic mind wax buildup with the blast torches of one of the best live bands around.

Nick Sakes (ex-Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite, Sicbay) and Chrissy Rossettie (ex-My Name Is Rar-Rar, The Hex) met at Chicago's Fireside Bowl back in 2001, when Sicbay shared a bill with Rossettie's former band, the head-spinning neo–No Wave outfit My Name Is Rar-Rar. Flash forward to '09, when Sakes (then living in Minneapolis) and the Brooklyn-based Rossettie reconnected online and struck up a long-distance romance. Soon Sakes headed east, and within a few months, the pair had hatched a new musical entity, named Xaddax in honor of their shared love of "palindromes and pointy letters." A flurry of live shows commenced. - Hank Shteamer

Atomic Hips is a no-fi, low wave band from Brooklyn NY.