THE WEEK AHEAD: WOLF! THERE IT IS!*

• There’s no shortage of lupine-loving live acts to choose from this week: Montreal’s oft-spazzy Wolf Parade plays at Webster Hall; fizzy New York pop outfit Voxtrot are at the Mercury Lounge, pimping their new EP, Raised by Wolves; and Australian Sabbath ripper-offers Wolfmother are at Bowery Ballroom tomorrow night. Proving once again that the indie-rock community has only a handful of ideas, most of them painfully stupid.
  

• If someone boring you know is in town and wants to go out, jazz pianist Chick Corea—our fourteenth-favorite songwriting Scientologist of all time—is at the Blue Note Thursday night. Ask nicely, and maybe Chick will perform his fourteen-hour instrument-free new suite, “Silent Birth.”

• The Death Cab for Cutie/Franz Ferdinand tour rolls into Hammerstein Thursday and Friday night. Make sure your mom picks you up a few blocks away at Sbarro’s, so the other kids won’t see.

• Douchebaggy guitar-wank Joe Satriani plays at Nokia, wondering if more indie-rock snobs would like him if he was called Wolftriani.

* We apologize for the awful, awful Tag Team pun, but it's been a long day of wordy toiling. We never knew our computer could sweat so much.