Friday 9
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CATFISH HAVEN This local trio, which has been playing genial, shaggy boogie rock and indie-folk jams since 2001, recently signed with Secretly Canadian, which will distribute its self-released 2002 EP, Good Friends. A new EP and full-length are scheduled for early 2006. Sybris and Wilke Surprise open the early show, which is all-ages; Stag Party and Clyde Federal open the late show. 7 and 10:30 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, 773-525-2508, $10. –Monica Kendrick
MAKERS The Makers came up in the Estrus garage-rock camp in the early 90s, and they easily could’ve burned out there a long time ago. But since 1998 they’ve been progressively stretching their sound, and their latest album, Everybody Rise! (Kill Rock Stars), shows just how flexible they can be: they ease into a patient, stalking blues-rock pace on “Sex Is Evil (When Love Is Dead),” indulge in sweet pop on “Run With Me Tonight,” play Stonesy R & B pastiche on “Ordinary Human Love,” and on “Matter of Degrees” batter down the walls where other bands just walk through the door. The Sights and Thunderwing open. 10 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, 773-278-6600 and 800-594-8499, $10. –Monica Kendrick
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PREFUSE 73 Scott Herren and company return to town for their third visit since May, pushing the second Prefuse 73 release in the past four months. For the Reads the Books EP (Warp), a 23-minute collaboration with hyperliterate electro-chamber-pop group the Books, Herren’s created a dazzling mashup, pairing their gentle, cello-laden melodies with extroverted beats, sampled shards of the latest Prefuse 73 album, Surrounded by Silence (Warp), and vocals by Claudia Maria Deheza. He knocks the Books around with jagged rhythms and the odd blast of distorted guitar, but always leaves the group’s core serenity intact. Diverse, the Mobius Band (see Tuesday), and DJ Intel open. 9 PM, Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace, 773-478-4408 or 866-468-3401, $15, 18+. –Peter Margasak
