THE SOCIETY OF ROCKETS

Where the Grass Grows Black (Underpop)

Imagine the Gris Gris ground up and reconstituted as an acid-washed boogie-woogie band. Then add a heaping cup of Stax-Volt horns and pop hooks — only somewhat discernable beneath wall-of-chicken-fat grooves (courtesy of these ex–Shimmer Kids Underpop Associates) — and you got one highly delectable, blackened, handcrafted-in-SF link to those not-so-tight blues-rock brudders from way back. (Chun)

CD release show Wed/22, 8:30 p.m., Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 Fourth St., SF. $6. (415) 546-6300.