While there are some significant rock ’n’ roll offerings at Bonnaroo this year, ’Roo-goers won’t hear anything quite like Philadelphia’s The Spirit of the Beehive. Named for Spanish director Víctor Erice’s masterful 1973 film that reflects on the power of the imagination, the band makes philosophically complex and otherworldly guitar-driven music that lands somewhere between post-punk and dream pop. Their third LP, 2018’s Hypnic Jerks, is named for twitches that happen while you’re falling asleep (which some scientists have suggested are vestigial responses that originally kept our ancestors from falling out of trees). It features sometimes-cryptic narratives that seem to touch on living through our unsettled times, which come out of the shimmering texture like half-remembered dreams, propelled by propulsive rhythms and punctuated by samples of field recordings by bassist Rivka Ravede’s father. Dreamy Portland, Ore., rockers Strange Ranger support — expect to hear tunes from their forthcoming album Remembering the Rockets. 8 p.m. at Drkmttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike STEPHEN TRAGESER
The Spirit of the Beehive w/Strange Ranger
