You don’t necessarily expect a band calling themselves Obits to be a party band. Given the recent turns in the financial market, naming their eerily-tinged sophomore LP Moody, Standard and Poor gives the album an even creepier vibe than it did a few weeks ago. Co-fronted by Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes mouthpiece Rick Froberg and Edsel frontman Sohrab Habibion, Obits are unwavering to current trends: you’ll never lose sleep worrying about any experimentation with dubstep or electronica showing up on an Obits record. Obits revel in their primitive, aggravated selves, with their records sounding like stream of consciousness rants transmitted live from a damp garage in the part of town you don’t want to venture into after dark. Writing unapologetically straightforward, super-charged swampy jams that serve as reaffirming life anthems for the callous, skeptical masses, Obits are the kind of band you secretly hope never learns to crack a smile. With Disappears, Broomsticks. GREGORY FRANKLIN

Fri., Aug. 19, 8 p.m., 2011