Peter Wolf Crier returns home

Peter Wolf Crier has been on tour with the Heartless Bastards for the past month and will continue to tour with them through Thursday in Sioux Falls, S.D., but for professional reasons that make concert promoters and booking agents seem like bigger dweebs than music critics, the duo is NOT playing with Erika Wennerstrom & Co. tonight at the Varsity Theater. PWC's absence -- to be clear, it was never actually advertised on the Varsity bill -- did make room for another great local band to open the show, Alpha Consumer (Mike Lewis, Jeremy Ylvisaker and J.T. Bates). Meanwhile, PWC's Peter Pisano and Brian Moen are still in town with the tour and will show off what a month of steady road work has done to their live show with a free in-store Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis, a promo gig for their Jagjaguwar-re-released debut "Inter-Be." The guys are also scheduled to perform before Mason Jennings, Cloud Cult and Tapes 'n Tapes at Saturday's very promising Lowertown Music Festival. For a taste of what we've been missing, here's a pretty cool if a tad unsteady live clip that a fan shot of Pisano and Moen in Philadelphia on the Bastards tour.