The Zoobombs will play it fast and wild at Bruar Falls and Studio at Webster Hall this weekend
Friday, March 4, Bruar Falls, 245 Grand St. between Driggs & Roebling, $8, 9:30
Saturday, March 5, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., $12, 8:00
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Tokyo-based quartet Zoobombs were formed during a full moon in September 1994, and they’ve been playing it fast and wild ever since. Lead singer and guitarist Don Matsuo, bassist Moostop, keyboardist Matta, and drummer Pocky are set to release the compilation La Vie en Jupon on March 29, containing songs from such previous albums as 1999’s Let It Bomb and Bomb Freak Express, 2001’s Dirty Bomb, 2002’s Love Is Funky, and 2006’s Way In / Way Out. Proclaimed leaders of Japan’s Next Wave and a huge success in Canada, Zoobombs mix grungy blues and indie guitar jangling with hardcore punk flourishes and psychedelic garage rock. La Vie en Jupon is like a crash course in American music, evoking Dylan on “Way In / Way Out,” ZZ Top on “Builbone Blues,” the Mississippi Delta on the swampy “Don’s Dream” (a reworking of “Little Red Rooster”), downtown hipster cool on “Circle X,” and good ol’ funk on “Mo’ Funky” and “Jumbo.” Anarchy and chaos rule the day on the fab freak-out “Highway a Go Go” as well as on “Dolf” and “Get It Together.” And turn it up, because this shit has to be played LOUD. As good as the new, digital-only disc is, it’s as a live band that the Zoobombs have earned their reputation, and they’ll be getting it together at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn on Friday night with Victory & Good Hunting, Columboid, and Nymph and at the Studio at Webster Hall on Saturday with Deluka, the Front Bottoms, the Almighty Terribles, and J. Aims & the Milk Bottles. Expect things to get hairy even though the moon won’t be full.