A little goes a long way when it comes to psych-rock. This can be a hard lesson for a lot of bands to learn. When the Sex Pistols came around to bring music back to basics, they were reacting to the bloat of bands like Pink Floyd, who had taken psych-rock to its breaking point, and then fallen off a cliff into the howling void of pretension. Still, the lessons that '70s psych bands taught us were not in vain, and some restraint applied to the right blend of mind-melting antics can be very effective. Enter Indigenous Robot, who cram the stomping menace of Black Sabbath and the masculine poetry of the Doors into something resembling Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Psychedelia still works, as shown in Indigenous Robots' in-and-out brevity, which allows them to pack a considerable amount of punch into three minutes or less. 

INDIGENOUS ROBOT, w/ Glass Elevator, 10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15, Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, no cover, 360.943.5710

INDIGENOUS ROBOT, w/ Bottlenose Koffins, Static and the Cubes, 10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, Half Pint Pizza Pub, 2710 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, $5, 253.272.2531