PRE is down making the noise jump. PRE knows sound moves quicker in high pressure and PRE is five moonlit faces chopping up the moonlight into strobelight. Guitar, two bass, drum and moon shriek: Akiko Matsuura, John Webb, Rick Bennett, Matt Warburton and Kevin Hendrick play in to the strobe.

Like an ADD child raised on Sesame Street tapes on fast forward, you get the feeling that nothing holds the Mae Shis attention for very long. The LA band likes to make short, frantic, yelping, bleating songs. ... As makers of mix-tapes and sound collages, the band seemed equally adept at furiously channeling post-punk gods, creating lilting hip-hop beats, evangelical bird-screeching, grooving to funk then easing into a lucious glitch-pop ballad. Local bands Triangle and Robin Williams on Fire open.