Senses Fail — With a fresh album on the shelves — Life Is Not a Waiting Room saw its release last Tuesday — New Jersey screamo outfit Senses Fail keeps the flame alive. Melodic verses give way to gruff screaming, more macho than moaning, while double bass-drum hits and ’80s metal guitar solos nestle themselves amid pop-punk palm-muting and a snare-hit backbeat. It’s the formula the band’s been riding to Warped Tour-level success since 2004’s Vagrant Records debut, Let It Enfold You. Since then, there’s been a new LP every two years, like clockwork. In that sense, this tour is right on time. Like-minded bands Dance Gavin Dance, The Number 12 Looks Like You and Foxy Shazam open the show. - B. Reed
Headliner’s: 7 p.m., $17 ($14 advance); 796-2333, headlinerscolumbia.com.
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Toro Y Moi — Shedding the guitar-centric aesthetic of his role as frontman for the Capital City quartet The Heist and the Accomplice, Chaz Bundick builds his Toro Y Moi songs around blown-out bass notes and frantic, elastic snyth melodies. Drum machine loops and fuzzed-out keys mesh with Bundick’s simple vocal melodies and distant delivery. Here, indie rock’s slacker charm and electronica’s melodic buzz work together, more successfully than might’ve seemed likely. Pop structures melding with dance music timbre isn’t anything new, but it’s what’ll keep the show cohesive when Toro Y Moi’s follows the folk-pop of local Austin Crane and the piano-pop of Layfayette, La., road warriors Brass Bed. - B. Reed
New Brookland Tavern: 7 p.m., $5 ($8 under 21); 791-4413, newbrooklandtavern.com.
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