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I've noticed that in recent weeks the in-store performance schedule at the much-loved independent music store Good Records is broadening. For years, the store limited its frequently entertaining free performances to the predictable: indie rockers and popsters (with an emphasis on the more experimental and fashionable of these) and quality local acts in mostly similar veins.

Lately, though, some decidedly un-fashionable acts have graced the Greenville Avenue space: brainy prog-rockers 3, over-the-hill (but, oddly, still relevant) alt-rockers Local H and, on June 21, a Phoenix-based, hard-edged techno rock duo with perhaps one of the goofiest band names in my recent memory: the Medic Droid (they must be gamers).

Actually, the band is more fashionable than initially apparent. It's signed to an Epic Records imprint (its debut, What's Your Medium, will be released June 10), it has 168,000 MySpace friends, and it's aligned with the improbably still-growing emo-punk movement and sounds like a cross between Orgy, Muse and New Order. One question: how's it gonna play techno at an acoustic performance?

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