If you thought TWOTENANNY was fun, you’re right. Indeed, the only reason there won’t be a third is because Bring Back the Guns has patently refused to perform in it as ELECTRIC SIX, which is the second greatest band of all time after SPACEHOG. So THANK THE MAKER that there are some folks out there putting on real deal music festivals that don’t hinge on Matt Brownlie’s broken collar bone intransigence. We’re talking specifically about Noise and Smoke, the most wicked of things this way coming on Saturday. The whole big party takes over both Dean’s and Notsuoh on Saturday night and promises to rule like a measuring tape with a built in level and scratchpad. Let’s peep some bullet points that you simply must know:

1. The Mydolls are playing. This seminal new-wave band from our very own streets hasn’t played together since Ronald Regan was president. There will be people at this show drinking beers who weren’t even born when they threw it in the last time around. That’s epic. We cannot overstate how big a deal it is that they are playing and more than we can apologize for landing the Skyline Most Extreme Party Call Me Executive Jet on the light rail track Saturday night in an attempt to get back from Vegas in time to see them.
2. Cover is 8 dollars (nine if you pick up advance tickets at Sound Exchange). But you should take 30+. That way, you can pick up one of the hand-screened Noise and Smoke posters made by Liz Molina and Mydolls t-shirt by Anna Garza. Don’t expect either of them to be available after this show. Actually, don’t expect either of them to be available much longer after doors open.
3. The Homopolice are playing. Is there a hotter band than the Homopolice right now? ALREADY in Houston Press. ALREADY sporting exclusive tracks on Houston’s Most Hated. ALREADY wearing enough leather to make a canoe. And best we can tell, they have yet to play more than 15 minutes or so in a row.HAUTE.
4. The lineup: Brutal. A skilled matching of some of the most fun and visceral music in the city (Born Liars, Teenage Kicks) with some of the most challenging and outsider (Balaclavas).

EPIC. CRASH INTO YOU THERE.