Some fascinating rhythms will be emanating from Commercial Street tonight but don't expect George Gershwin's classic song from the Tin Pan Alley era to be soothing the ears of passersby.
No this evening Nanaimo's own Fascinating Rhythm music store serves up Nardwuar the Human Serviette and his band the Evaporators.
The band may cause a bit of a stir, or rather a ripple," Nardwuar told the Daily News.
"We have a song called Ripple Rock, in tribute to the Ripple Rock explosion near Campbell River," he said.
A keen student of politics and history, Nardwuar has received some notoriety during the years by ambushing celebrities and politicians with his "gonzo-esque-style" interviews.
"He's chilled with everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Snoop Doggy Dogg to Pierre Berton," states a press release.
His band, the Evaporators are a high-energy '60s-influenced garage band that plays, what they dub, "infectious audience participatory rock and roll."
"Audience participation is the key for us," Nardwuar told the Daily News. "We want to see everybody get involved."
He admits that even band original songs aren't really all that original.
"Everything we do has been done before -- whether it's from the '60s or '70s punk era, the '80s punk era or the '90s."
Not exactly out on a full tour, the Evaporators are on the road promoting Nardwuar's two-disc DVD and his new project, 'Nardwuar vs. Bev Davies: A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar.'
A keen fan of punk history, one of the reasons Nardwuar and the Evaporators are coming to town is to promote the calendar featuring legendary punk bands, he said.
"I just love history; I think it's cool visiting the different punk eras."
The calendar is Nardwuar's collaboration with renown 91原创 photographer Bev Davies .
It was promoting the calendar that led to the gig at Fascinating Rhythm, he said.
Nardwuar was selling the record at a large 91原创 music swap and Jack Tieleman, who once owned Black Ball Records in Nanaimo, saw him. He told Nardwuar he knew that Fascinating Rhythm's owner Steve Lebitschnig "was doing in stores," said Nardwuar.
"What could be more punk than a free concert in a record store?"
Admission to tonight's show is free and the show is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.