Once or twice a year your neighbors pull all that big stuff they no longer want out to the curb. Among slackers it’s a secular holiday, and one of the best times to do a little garbage picking or, as I like to call it, “free-range shopping.” Yesterday I came home with a wooden Adirondack chair that needed just two screws to fix. Functional TVs, bikes, tables, dressers, an eight-track player, a church pew—great stuff is out there waiting to be had by those with discerning taste. In a similar way, Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray approach the wasteland of rock-n-roll with their project Heavy Trash. Influences range from Charlie Feathers to James Brown to the Shangri-Las via the Cramps, and the result is a mind-bending celebration of gritty junk rock. Spencer made a name for himself fronting the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, whose high-energy shows in the early 90s kept sloppy, sweaty, R & B vital even before Little Steven’s Underground Garage came along. Verta-Ray played with roots deconstructionists Speedball Baby, and is recognized as an inventive producer and analog tape devotee. Conceived as a side-project, Heavy Trash has taken on a life of its own with the release of its second CD Going Way Out with Heavy Trash (Yep Roc). The CD features backup by label-mates the Sadies, but on the road Spencer and Verta-Ray will be supported by members of Powersolo, the wild Danish garage band that will be opening the show along with Buffalo’s own purveyors of the pervasonic, the Irving Klaws. So mark your calendars, and don’t miss Heavy Trash day.

Tuesday, September 11 at 8pm. Mohawk Place, 47 East Mohawk Street (855-3931/mohawkplace.com). $12 (Ticketweb.com)-$14 at the door