AIDS Wolf, last night at the Replay

Coasting into Lawrence in a big white majestic van, AIDS Wolf delivered everything you would expect at the Replay Lounge last night: dissonance, moaning, yelling, screech-infused guitar slides, a hero’s dose of snare-blasts. The inaccessibility of their set suggests such a sonic hazard would make for an empty show, but even for a Tuesday, the Replay Lounge was modestly stocked with those who want, no, need, some obvious chaos in a world so unobviously chaotic. Folks from Kansas City proper made appearances— dudes from rough neighborhoods braved rough highways just to see these Canadians, these Quebecois. A man who no one knows from a place no one lives danced like he was in a Beyonce video.