Diarrhea Planet, So Pitted, Music Band

Every scrap of Nirvana's musical output has been mined again and again for old ideas to revive, for better or worse. So if you're a band from Seattle... and you're signed to Sub Pop Records... and you're gonna do it, you'd better do it well. Bonus points if you source from a section of Saint Kurt's canon that so many others have passed over. Which is exactly why So Pitted — from Seattle, on Sub Pop — sounds so fresh on their new album neo. With 11 tracks clocking in under a half-hour, neo is a disheveled slab of noise-rock, psychedelic punk and grunge that sounds like what would happen if the weird second side of Nirvana's Incesticide collided with In Utero's caustic disillusionment and the two lived happily ever after in the Northwest's muckiest gutter. A perfect sound to close out Easter Sunday this weekend at the Bartlett.