Foals w/Preoccupations & Omni (all-ages, 8pm)

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Photo credit: Alex Knowles

Foals

The mathy, unorthodoxly poppy British rock band Foals received the red-carpet treatment from the British music press before they released their 2008 debut album Antidotes, but in the years since they’ve proven the hype was justified. The band’s 2010 sophomore album Total Life Forever built on the syncopated, half-danceable post-punk of their debut with moodier atmospherics and sharper songs that unfolded at a deliberate pace, and their even bigger subsequent albums, including this year’s two-part record Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, have been every bit as exciting and brainy. They’re joined on this bill by the nervy Canadian post-punk quartet Preoccupations (the band formerly known as Viet Cong, until they changed the name in 2016 after complaints that it was offensive).