Wednesday nights are always interesting in one way or another. This Wednesday night is interesting in that a fantastic group, called Slow Animal, will be prowling the stage at The Strutt. How many bad puns can I squeeze in to one post? We’ll find out. Bad humor aside, though, these guys are great. They’ve got a big, borderline psychedelic feel to them that washes throughout, with some excellent soundscaping and high-energy guitar-work and strange but sweet vocal harmonies. Don’t take it from me though, check ’em out.

Playing the role of support will be two new local projects that don’t really have any recorded works out yet. The first is Andy Savina and Mark Thompson’s new Lifeplan, which, if you know anything about Andy and Mark, is sure to be killer. The second is some punk’s new project Saxsquatch and Bridge Band. One could call it fusion. One could also call it seat-of-your-pants improvisational music. One could, similarly, not worry about postulating and come see it first-hand. Either way, there’s really no telling what will happen in that set, so just suffice to say that some excellent musicians will be on deck to make some tunes occur.

It should be a fun show in any case. Slow Animal is coming all the way from Jersey, so come on down and show ’em how we do in the Zoo.