After two months of mountain climbing, hula-hooping, and soul searching, the blonde trio known as Que Sera returns to the Buffalo music scene this Thursday (Aug. 10), at Nietzsche's, adding new, original songs for this show. Known for their organic sound, seductive lyrics, and spontaneous on-stage antics, the band consists of sisters Alexis and Katherine Joyce, with Kent Weber on the stand-up bass. Those of you who have had the chance to witness Que Sera will be familiar with their harmonizing vocals on tracks like "Denial" and "Girlfriend," which seem to speak to all audiences. This occasion is also the long-standing Buffalo band Original Skin's Reunion Show, which, along with a set by Bob Fera, makes the evening a truly special event. The show is set to begin at 8:30pm. —matt quinn

Having toured Europe three times and consistently taken to the roads of the US, the Flying Luttenbachers now make their way to Buffalo where they will perform at Kitchen Distribution on Thursday (Aug. 10). Comprised of Ed Rodriguez (guitar), Mike Green (bass), Mike Barr (guitar), and the stalwart punk oddball Weasel Walter (drums/sax), the Flying Luttenbachers create an improvisational noise that needs no lyrics. From Weasel’s completely insane drumming to Green’s driving bass, the sound shows their 15 years experience. Founding member Walters —formerly of Chicago’s XBXRX— recently relocated the group to San Francisco. He defines the band’s current incarnation (it has had a constantly changing line-up) as a mish-mosh of no wave, hardcore, grind metal, and free jazz, although overall the sound really defies definition. Caustic Solution will also be performing at the show, which starts at 8pm.

Last Days Of Radio will be celebrating the release of a third album, a live CD entitled In Audio Magic, with an all ages, five-band bill at the Showplace Theatre on Saturday (Aug. 12). LDOR has been performing regularly since 2003, with a sound influenced by Joy Division, Failure, Death Cab For Cutie, Interpol, and T-Rex, among others. Rounding out the lineup is Any December, who will be making their only area appearance of the summer, former Saw Secret Seen frontman Todd Lesmeister and his new band Big Black Car, plus Rusted Bullet and This Is Now (formerly Da’Loris). Show starts at 8pm.

Abbie Grotke, a.k.a. "Miss Abigail," returns this week to her native Buffalo to promote her first book, Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage: Classic Advice For Contemporary Dilemmas (Thunder Mouth Press). She will appear at Borders Books in Cheektowaga on Saturday (Aug. 12), 2pm, to promote her new book, which offers advice garnered from dating and etiquette books from days gone by. Answers to questions like "How Do I Date Multiple Prospects?" and "Why Must I Wait to Wear My White Shoes?" may well be answered by chapters like "Stop Drinking and Listen to Your Mother," from 1939. Abbie got her start at www.chew-the-parasite.com, and now has her own site at www.missabigail.com, full of dated, belated advice, appropriate for anyone with a sense of humor.

Like an ass-kicking harem, The Randies are fresh, energetic, and quickly staking their claim on rock’s testosterone-rich landscape. This quartet out of L.A. features two enthusiastic female vocalists/guitar players, Laura and Laurita, the brazen bass player Sienna, and the group’s lone man, Aaron, rocking out on drums. Since the release of the first album in 2004, The Randies have been on a tireless schedule — including a recent stint on Van’s Warped Tour— to promote a punk-influenced brand of power-pop throughout the country. Scheduled for release at the end of the month, the band’s latest effort Saw the Light (Elicit), promises something new while retaining the raw, honest, rock-n-roll qualities that made the debut album so popular. This Sunday (Aug. 13), 8pm, The Randies bring their passionate stage performance to the Icon for an evening of fast-paced, girl-punk fun. The Rainman Suite opens the show.

Renowned for the intricate scrap metal constructions-cum-musical instruments by which they soundtracked some seriously intense pre-millenial anxiety, apocalyptic art-punk group Neptune has re-emerged from Boston’s junkyards with a fresh batch of abused electronic gadgets and a totally new sound. Adding to their trademark panicked noise and junkyard clangor, the group’s newfound love of skittering electronics and mangled circuitry places them squarely amid the spazzed out electro-punk scene. Live, Neptune gleefully tears at sound, bouncing around the stage in an anxious pitter-patter of explosive electro-noise, with instruments named such things as “oscillator organ,” “electric thumb piano,” “tupperphone,” “electric floor tom,” “telegraph noise box,” and “electric gas pipe.” This is truly a spectacle that has to be seen to be believed, so catch it at Soundlab on Thursday (Aug. 17), 9pm.