First time for everything: Patrick Wolf, the Germs headed to Minneapolis

The slowly climbing temperatures and sudden decline in your desires to do anything but lay around in your underwear all day can mean only one thing: Summer is fast approaching, and with it the annual ironic increase in the number of shows there are to see just when the temperature makes its annual swing to "scorching" from its winter nadir of full-on frostbite potential. But a few faces that we’ve never seen before will be stopping through town to make it even harder to justify spending the summer drinking beer on your couch and watching So You Think You Can Dance.

The Germs are a band that, for all intents and purposes, shouldn’t exist, seeing as its founder, main songwriter, and philosophical ringleader Darby Crash has been dead for nearly 20 years. But then, a dead frontman is no reason to stop touring—just ask Alice In Chains, Blind Melon, etc.—so the reunited Germs continue to play a sort of touring Las Vegas punk revue with actor Shane West (who played Crash in the 2007 film What We Do Is Secret) putting on his best scary face and giving “Lexicon Devil” the same intensity he brought to films like Dracula 2000. The Germs' 16-city tour  includes a stop June 22 at Triple Rock Social Club.

Patrick Wolf is no stranger to playing pretend or working with actors: The British multi-instrumentalist went from the doused-in-white-noise, gray-hued Brother Grimm of Lycanthropy to the charming chamber-pop crooner of The Magic Position, and his forthcoming The Bachelor is said to pit those two personas against each other, T.I.-style, in a “nihilistic battle” with help from guest vocalist Tilda Swinton. (Yes, that Tilda Swinton.) Wolf hasn’t spent much time touring the States, but his new label Nylon Records (yes, that Nylon) aims to change all that with the Nylon Summer Music Tour also featuring Plasticines, Living Things, and Jaguar Love. (Along for the ride for some reason: Former Cobrasnake muse Cory Kennedy and her newest challenger for the title of "most famous for no discernible reason" cover model Peaches Geldof, who will act as your "hosts" by making every girl in the audience feel at least 20 pounds overweight and giving every dude who jerks off to Last Night's Party a total guilt-boner.) He hits the Fine Line on June 14, just when the weather should be cresting into warm summertime bliss—the perfect time, in other words, for something refreshingly new.