RNDM
9 p.m. • First Avenue • 18-plus • $15
Two guys that Twin Cities music fans know well, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur have teamed up for a seemingly random new band called (fittingly enough) RNDM. Anchored by former Fastbacks drummer Richard Stuverud -- a pal of Ament's from the old Mother Love Bone days -- the trio met up at Ament's place in Montana to jam back in April and wound up with a full album that dropped last week, "Acts." They're only doing a 16-city tour; let's hope Ament immediately goes home to tell his other band to get its lazy butt back here. Madcap drummer Gull opens.CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER
GALLOWS
8 p.m. • 7th Street Entry • 18-plus • $15
After a split with original singer Frank Carter last year citing (what else) creative differences, the inked-up ginger had some interesting words for his former mates, calling the U.K. melodic hardcore outfit a "benign dictatorship" (wicked tumor/fascist burn, bro). But it's all good. Carter has his new Pure Love gig and Gallows snatched Wade MacNeil as the sun was setting on his band, Alexisonfire. The somewhat proggy pummelers, once signed to Warner Bros., recently released their third album of crunchy, unharnessed hardcore, the first with MacNeil's tuneful bark. Montreal metalers Barn Burner, must-see locals Brain Tumors and the Gillespie Killings open. MICHAEL RIETMULDER
THE MONKEES
7:30 p.m. • State Theatre • $59-$79
Hey, hey, they're the Monkees. At least, that's how the trio of Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith, who's finally back on tour, are billing themselves. But can you be a believer if the PreFab Four performs without the eternally cute Davy Jones? He died in February of a heart attack, after this tour was planned. JON BREAM
