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The Irving Klaws Live Album Show

For a decade, the Irving Klaws have been one of Buffalo’s coolest bands. It’s partly their mind-bending mix of Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson-inspired psychedelic madness crossed with pummeling rockabilly, charged-up surf sounds, snotty garage and twisted blooze. The rest is all a credit to guitarist, singer and theremin manipulator Dave Gutierrez and bassist and singer Rob Peltier, and their unflagging vow to make truly unique rock-and-roll music and to always put on a good show. Yes, its the Klaws’ live shows that have earned them their wild reputation, from costumed Halloween affairs to go-go dancing spectaculars to supporting the legendary bands that inspired and instigated them like the Cramps and the Damned. So it’s fitting that they choose to record their first album in six years (and their first since ace drummer Bob Hanley began his membership with the Klaws) as a live one. The band is inviting every mixed-up weirdo, fetish freak, psychedelic dropout and music-loving nutrocker to be a part of what will become a live record scheduled to come out on their label, Pittsburgh’s Get Hip imprint, sometime in 2008. In just two sets the band hopes to stir up enough trouble and noisy mayhem to land you on Santa’s naughty list just for being at the Mohawk Place that night. Knowing the Irving Klaws, it’s bound to be a crazy night, and one we definitely won’t be able to forget, as it will be committed to tape.

Friday, December 21 at 10pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. (855-3931/mohawkplace.com). $5