Iceage at Echoplex

Iceage, suffice to say, this is much better than your teenage punk band ever was. It still projects the dewy youth, but that only makes the nicks from Crass and the Birthday Party feel all the more sincere and un-winked-at. It plays with the basement-show abandon of a quartet having the best time out of high school it could have possibly imagined. Singer-guitarist Elias Bender Ronnenfelt has an endearingly liberal definition of what constitutes the edge of the stage while he plays, making his spit-flecked groans even more physical for those in the front rows. Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. Fri. $14. Attheecho.com.