I've written several times before about People Under the Sun, but here's the deal for the uninitiated: beyond being reliably catchy providers of psychedelic synth-rock, People Under the Sun are perhaps the Tacoma music scene's most committed aesthetes. Not content to simply call it a day at paying homage to the New Wave pioneers that have clearly served as influences, People Under the Sun go so far as to cram their stage with a bounty of outmoded technology. Blocky computers and vintage Korgs surround the band, making it hard not to recall how David Byrne swooned over the sterile beauty of microchips in True Stories. While rumor has it that the band has recently begun pairing down the equipment (read: they're ditching floppy disks), they're still very much analog-powered.

PEOPLE UNDER THE SUN, w/ the Silver Dollars, Bod, 7 p.m., The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, cover tba, 253.572.4020