The Tank: 279 Church St @ Franklin, Tribeca, Manhattan, 8pm, all ages, $8

While not the typical cure prescribed for Sunday hangovers, this grating high volume Todd P bill promises to chase your lethargy away with its unusual collection of vigorous acts from around the world – any of the three alone worth dragging your saggy bottom over the bridge and through the ghetto of affluence that real estate agents affectionately christened, “Triangle Below Canal.”

Tonight our town is proudly represented by the relentless blast of one of our finest, Child Abuse. Mathematical but soulful, tight but loose, and ambitiously organized but rocking out of control, Luke Calzonetti’s keyboard/bass/drum trio will blow your wig into your face, and then into my face, and then into the street.

Tokyo’s DMBQ, regrouped and back for the first time since the tragic van accident that claimed the life of their beautiful and explosive drummer Mana “China” Nishiura, are psychedelic hard rock showmen whose off-the-cuff live shows are a slightly dangerous, undeniably flamboyant, and ultra-fun. Somebody put ‘em in a stadium already.

First, and certainly not least, Baltimore’s Ponytail combines some of the most dynamic drumming, unpretentiously masterful dual-guitar work, and unconventional vocal stylings of any band out there. And, just in case you can’t make it out tonight, Kamehameha, their 2006 debut album, is an excellent translation of the giddy art-school spazz-fest onto recorded media.

More effective than asprin, Gatorade, and hair of the dog in the right doses.

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