Quintron & Ms. Pussycat

Any asshole with a laptop can make music, but it takes an especially enterprising asshole to make a light-responsive synthesizer out of a coffee can. Enter Quintron. He and his wife, Ms. Pussycat, have spent more than 10 years perfecting their Frankenstein brand of New Orleans funk, and their spooky circus of puppets, costumes, handmade instruments and hybrid Hammonds is an impressive labor of love. Call-and-response vocals, soulful organ and stuttering drums complete this marriage of big-city swagger and backwoods weirdness. Join the party Monday night in Lawrence, where the couple opens for the Black Lips.