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and Wham!'s falsetto "Everything She Wants," you'll find plenty of wiggle room for Velella Velella's subtle (but no less exclamatory) funk-pop. The Seattle band mdash;whose name is a species of jellyfish mdash;come to town in support of Bay of Biscay, a self-released record full of compositions built on non-sequitur shout-outs ("You're your hands!

" "Move your feet!") and a swathe of dreamy flute, vibraphone, and guitar. When synthesized, it all qualifies for a Dust Brothers remix.

It's a sound that's as iridescent as a jellyfish, with just as much sting. With Solid Gold and Point Juncture, WA. 21 +.

9:00 p.m. mdash;Kate Silver
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If any band's been synonymous with excessiveness, it's the Red Hot Chili Peppers: hard drugs, dysfunction, death, dicks in socks, energy like a stack of plutonium, and high-strung-pop-funk as the new language of Caucasian Nation.

The new Stadium Arcadium (Warner Bros.) brings the band's ethos of excess to new heights: two discs (titled Jupiter and Mars, respectively); 28 tracks (originally 38, to be released as three mini-albums in six-month intervals); a No. 1 chart debut in the U.

S., the U.K.

, and 25 other countries; more truckloads of goopy critical praise; and another Top 10 single in "Dani California," the first of seven planned singles (the second, "Tell Me Baby," has already joined the charts alongside "Dani"). "Dani California" is powered by the latter-day Peppers' foolproof formula: a crisply syncopated beat propelled by Flea's visceral bass, John Fruciante's versatile guitar playing navigating the rhythm with slithery wah-wah and heavy-metal thunder, Anthony Kiedis's jivey rhymes about SoCal ennui, and big, up-front production from Rick Rubin. The video for "Dani" has the band time-tripping through rock history, portraying (I think) Elvis, the Hollies, Iron Butterfly, Gary Glitter, the Dolls, the Pistols, the Misfits, Poison, Nirvana (unplugged!

), and themselves-simultaneously paying tribute to their heroes while dramatizing the "we're inspired by everything [made by white guys between 1957 and 1994]!