Every time an LP or 45-sized package darkens my mailbox, I’m hoping that it’s the latest from the Virginia-based imprint Big Neck Records. Before heading south, ex-Buffalonian Bart Hart was running the fabled Sanctuary nightclub on Franklin Street, and he started putting out seven-inches because some of his favorite bands—like Baseball Furies and the Blowtops—had no other way to do it. The last couple of years Hart has returned to Buffalo to host the Queen City’s biggest, noisiest and (let’s be honest) only real garage rock festival. Among the lineup this year are Bantam Rooster, Live Fast Die, Tractor Sex Fatality, Vee Dee, Clockcleaner, Homostupids, Red Red Red and local favorites like Trailer Park Tornados and the aforementioned Blowtops. The biggest surprise of the weekend is an appearance by the Kyoto all-girl quartet GitoGito Hustler (pictured), a blitzkrieging, bopping band that knows very little English outside of phrases like “Buy me beer!” and “Rock and roll!” There are always plenty of surprises during Big Neck’s two-day takeover, even the promise of “giving free Big Neck crap out at the day show.” So even if you don’t like the label’s uncompromised, unfiltered brand of raucous rock, hey—there’s always free crap!

9pm, Fri & Sat. Mohawk Place, 47 East Mohawk Street. $8. 3pm, Sat. Staples, 253 Allen Street. $5. Visit myspace.com/paininthebigneck for full schedule.