Emma Feel and Friends

If the Band That Saved the World was a classroom full of sugar-tripping kindergartners, then Emma Feel is a strip club full of dancing kindergarten teachers — it’s just that pervy. Slightly weak in the area of chops but totally making up for it in swagger, stomp and badonk-a-donk-donk, this Kansas City retro-funk band has just minted its second album, All Things Dirty and Delicious, which is no act of false advertising. The album’s stripped sound — just bass, guitar, drums, keys and slick white-boy vocals — makes a delightful offering for anyone who unashamedly proclaims that Midnite Vultures is Beck’s finest album. Also releasing a CD at this show is Action Figure (pictured), which uses its kung-fu grip to rock hard-edged pop-punk with catchy choruses and raw-nerve guitar hooks. Bridging the two bands is Seaside Riot, a brand-new mod-rock outfit fronted by ex-Go Generation leader Devin Blair. Punk and soul bed down in Seaside’s sound, calling to mind the Jam and Elvis Costello, whom Blair sounds uncannily like at times. The group recently contributed a track to Howitzer Records’ compilation News of the World, Mk II and seems to have pulled up on the scene like a Vespa-driving mod kid on uppers.