PDX band Symmetry/Symmetry's 2010 tour poster features headshots of band members Joel Uram, Daniel Jones, Mark Cleaver, Andrew Quackenbush and friends all dolled up like weird Aladdin Sane-wannabes - as if they stepped right out of someone's paranoid Halloween nightmare. In reality, Symmetry/Symmetry are far from glam-rock posers (or dreamt flamboyant bogeymen). Their splashy, melodramatic rock seamlessly incorporates electronic elements (including a keenly-employed vocoder), and their songs are impeccably structured, often with crescendos leading to grandiose climaxes worthy of MTV-approved biggies like Muse. It makes complete sense that Uram and Jones have a background in audio production and engineering (pulling shifts at Salem's Marigold Studios), because their stuff sounds polished as hell. Comparisons to Radiohead, U2 and Air producer Nigel Godrich are easy to make, and completely warranted.

[The New Frontier Lounge, guests TBA, 10 p.m., no cover, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]