Critic's Pick: Diarrhea Planet

During their initial run from 2009 to 2018, Diarrhea Planet made a teenage dream of what a rock band ought to be into reality. The Nashville punk-pop guitarmy gestated in the dorms of Belmont University and grew into an international touring machine that brought a lot of people together, despite starting as a kind of joke with a scatological name japing at experimental noise bands. DP played a significant role in bringing Nashville rock to the world in the 2010s, through a blend of songs that are often genuinely thoughtful (setting aside their early fan favorite and forever signature “Ghost With a Boner”) and a beast of a rhythm section. And of course, they brought an absolute explosion of guitars attacking sweet-sour hooks and anthemic riffs with a barrage of throaty power chords, pinch harmonics, fretboard tapping and controlled feedback. After touring on their third album — 2016’s Turn to Gold for storied local indie Infinity Cat Recordings — they laid down their axes while they were ahead and went out in a blaze of glory, but have popped up when the stars aligned (including a Bonnaroo tent show in 2023 that they warmed up for with, uh, a headline gig at the Ryman). Sunday night, they’ll take over Eastside Bowl with assists from two Music City punk-ish rock bands on the rise, Gremlins and Ghost Town Remedy.

7:30 p.m. at Eastside Bowl

1508 Gallatin Pike S., Madison