MUSIC
Earphunk with Genome
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn
Admission: $10

The Yacht Club is getting funky for back to school with a two-act prog-funk performance Saturday night.

Up-and-coming jam act Earphunk will headline the event. The quintet, which hails from New Orleans, is making its way across the country on the back of its latest album, Sweet Nasty, released late in 2014.

The group offers audiences a unique blend of classic funk rhythms, deep, grooving, and psychedelic bass lines, and high-energy jams designed to get people up and moving. These guys have never shied away from the unusual, and they have embraced unorthodox methods of getting their music out there; When they uploaded their latest album to BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing service with a bad rep in the music industry, they gave away more than 500,000 digital copies.

Accompanying Earphunk for this stop will be Genome, a Chicago-based group that mixes organic funk and psychedelic jams with jazz, world, and electronic music. On its website, Genome promises to “create an ecstatic dance party that transcends time, space, and earthly boundaries.”

So if you’re looking to get a little weird on your first weekend back at school, Yacht Club invites you down, recommending you check your preconceptions at the door.

— by Adam Buhck