I love my music-writing gig. I can choose to preview any show I want. There isn't a scene I'm attached to. I'm not stuck with dreadlocks or a mohawk or a cowboy hat or a fedora or a trucker cap. I can listen to whatever I want, whatever the mood, and I can write about it with sincerity. That being said, this week's mood is fucking punk rock. And the band I'm previewing - Angie and the Car Wrecks - is talented, with pulsing and grinding and gnarly lead female vocals. It's speedy and tight, gets you in the gut and revs your engine. Punkabilly might describe them, but so does psychobilly, blues, country and metal, a nice hybrid if you ask me. Please, go and see Angie and the Car Wrecks live. Your primal parts will thank you.

ANGIE AND THE CAR WRECKS, w/The Load Levelers, The Assassinators, 10 p.m., McCoy's Tavern, 418 Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.352.0696