At this point, rockabilly has become so thoroughly intertwined with punk that it’s almost more shocking to hear to hear a modern musician play traditional, ’60s rockabilly music—not some drunken, high-speed subversion thereof. James Intveld, who plays Vnuk’s Lounge tonight at 8:30 p.m., is one of the most classicist of all the rockabilly performers, so indebted to pioneers like Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran that he makes Chris Isaak...

The joke should have grown stale by now—band mashes up Beatles favorites with Metallica lyrics and thrash-metal attitude—but somehow Milwaukee’s Beatallica keeps finding ways to keep it fresh. The group’s latest album, Sgt. Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band, contains songs like “Blackened the . . .

Those who like their hardcore, thrash metal as offensive as possible need look no further than M.O.D. (also known as Method of Destruction), the long-running New York outift with a penchant for politically incorrect lyrics (we won’t bother reprinting any of them here; just be warned that they’re genuinely offensive). The group headlines an 8:30 p.m. show at Vnuk’s Lounge tonight, playing behind their latest release, Red, White and Screwed.