Here's your future.

The Thermals play tonight at the Black Cat DC. Surprised this one's not sold out yet. $13, doors at 8, Thermals onstage at 10:30. I'm sure they'll play some material off their righteously catchy 2006 record, the Body, the Blood, the Machine, as well as new stuff from Now We Can See, which apparently is about death. But they're so upbeat.

Apparently, they've been doing a couple of covers live (not always)--a Breeders tune and Nirvana's Sappy, otherwise known as Verse Chorus Verse and originally released on every Columbia House subscriber's favorite alternative comp, No Alternative, a record I both think is awesome and am kind of embarrassed for (much like the entire 1990s).

The Breeders -- Saints