There's nothing funny about Gun Outfit's music - they're a melodically gifted, rightfully acclaimed band with a flair for melding the clean guitars and drawling vocals of post-punk and '90s slacker rock with the aching, whiskey-soaked world-weariness of country music classics. Dylan Sharp and bandmate Carrie Keith write, sing and play guitar, and their recent influences include everything from '60s psychedelia to Spanish hardcore music. "I was listening to a lot of Barbara Manning when I was writing (the songs on the band's new High Places EP)," Keith says. While Keith also cites super-heavy Oly band Son Skull as an inspiration, she says that country greats like Lucinda Williams are some of her most consistent muses. 

[Northern, Gun Outfit with Des Ark, Pygmy Lush, All Green Lights, Thursday, March 31, 8 p.m., all ages, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia, northernolympia.org]