The Illinois band Dr. Manhattan delivers the healthy dose of indie quirk and post-teenage angst you’d expect from a band whose name is lifted from a character in Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” comics. As students at Wauconda High School, the band self-released an EP, For the Lonely Lest the Wiser, which caught fire in the Warped Tour community. Not long after, Vagrant Records saw enough promise to sign them. The band’s self-titled debut, released in March 2008, was an accessible, weird, electronics-warped departure from their earlier post-hardcore sound. Last year the band parted ways with Vagrant and released the even more eccentric Jam Dreams.
Dr. Manhattan w/ Two Star, Chris Slone, Tadashi and Taken the Coast
Tonight @ The Rave, 6 p.m.
