Thanks in part to their excellent full-length debut, 2010's Caress, the high-octane shoegaze stylings of Durham's Free Electric State are a known quantity (and if they're a quantity you're fond of, you should show up early to catch like-minded openers Brief Candles). The same can't be said yet of Knives, the other local act on this bill, with only a few area shows to their name. If the few snippets of industrial-strength post-rock they've issued online are any indication, they shouldn't be unknown for much longer. —David Raposa