Despite his clean cut, all-American image, you have to imagine Huey Lewis definitely indulged in the truckloads of drugs the Eighties had to offer. I mean, c’mon, “Hip to Be Square”?

With that in mind, members of Oh, Beast! and Awesome Cool Dudes have joined forces as the New Drugs, a Huey Lewis & the News cover band fronted by the Chronicle‘s own unflappable Greg Beets. It goes down tonight, at Beerland, and from the looks of that motley crew alone, Hue-Lew’s body of work will be unearthed from the dead and vigorously violated.

And if that wasn’t enough, local spazzes Pataphysics take on Hall & Oates and former Austinite Diamond Caverns returns as Roky Erickson. The whole night gets a kick in the brass from openers Jazzus Lizard.

This article appears in Richard Suttle.

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