E-Mail This Article to a Friend Fabulous! The Scissor Sisters hit T.T. the Bear's, plus a Bow Wow Wow revival and more

Sister sledgehammer

The next big thing in mock-rock fabulosity? We give you the Scissor Sisters, the missing link between Fischerspooner and the Darkness. Their latest single, "Take Your Mama Out," sounds exactly like Elton John. Even stranger, their club-hit cover of Pink Floyd’s "Comfortably Numb" sounds exactly like the Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees. The rest of their songs are pretty hot too: "Lovers in the Backseat," a Duran Duran–ish new-waver narrated by a voyeuristic taxi driver; "Tits on the Radio," in which a disco queen trades sexual favors for fast food; the soon-to-be gay-dance-club staple "Filthy and Gorgeous." Formed in New York, the Sisters went to London to follow the tried-and-tested route of landing on the cover of every English rock mag before trying their luck here; the British have begun to catch on, and you can expect to see a domestic release of the Sisters’ homonymous debut toward the end of the year. In the meantime, you can get your tickets now for their Boston-area debut at T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street in Central Square, on May 16; call (617) 492-BEAR.

Old dogs, new tricks

No Doubt’s summer blockbuster tour with Blink-182, which drops by the Tweeter Center in Mansfield on June 8, may be the last time the band convene for a while — Gwen Stefani is due to release her dance-floor-friendly solo disc later this year, and it wouldn’t surprise anyone if that disc destroyed the pop airwaves for the next two years. Meanwhile, one bandmate has already lined up an alternate gig: drummer Adrian Young has signed on to beat the skins behind singer Annabella Lwin in a revival tour of her ’80s group Bow Wow Wow. The bubblegum new-wave confectionaries, best known for their cover of the Strangeloves’ "I Want Candy" (and probably a bigger influence on recent No Doubt than, say, Talk Talk), will swing through on a tour that hits the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, on July 17. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 day of show; call (617) 864-EAST.

They’ll fly away

With a little backing from Delta’s new cheap-airfare subsidiary, Berklee College of Music has been singing a different tune lately. The seventh presentation in Song’s Nothing Conservatory About It concert series dusts off Berklee’s two acclaimed church-music chorales — the 55-member Reverence Ensemble (whose alums include Paula Cole and Susan Tedeschi) and the smaller ensemble Overjoyed — for "Hallelujah! Amen!: An Evening of Gospel Music." They’ll perform on April 26 at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $10, and there’s a drawing for a free round-trip airline ticket; call (617) 747-2261.

Here come the Brides

Simple arithmetic dictates that a group featuring one member of Mötley Crüe and one member of L.A. Guns will be, well, big in Japan. But thanks to the mega-indie Sanctuary (which, aptly named, has become a wildlife preserve for coulda-beens, has-beens, and niche-market groups), the Brides of Destruction, with Nikki Sixx on bass and Tracii Guns on guitar, have gotten respectable US distribution for their debut, Here Come the Brides, which will bring Sixx back to clubs for the first time since the Crüe were on their way up. And if the Brides’ disc isn’t exactly a return to Shout at the Devil glam metal, it’s a step in the right direction — newcomer London LeGrand, their handpicked frontman, gives shout-outs to the MC5 and Hanoi Rocks. The band hit the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, on May 6 with Amen, Living Things, and Sonicult. It’s an 18-plus, 7:30 p.m. show, and tickets are $17.50; call (617) 423-NEXT.