With The Evens, Amy Farina barrels on the drums, sometimes sounding as easy as morning fog rolling over settled water, other times sounding as sharp and heated as a first piercing. When she sings, she saturates with feminine power. Together with Ian MacKaye's sometimes plucking, often grinding guitar and hard-hitting vocals that evoke nostalgia for your first Fugazi or Minor Threat album but also wakes up little pieces of your heart that weren't there before, the duo makes a memorable sound.

Read Nikki McCoy's interview with Ian MacKaye in the Music and Culture section.

THE EVENS, 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, Eagles Hall, 805 Fourth Ave., Olympia, $7 door, $8.25 at brownpapertickets.com, 360.239.9907