RECOMMENDED Bobby Conn brings his glammed-out, eye-shadowed freak flag to Schubas to jump-start the Tomorrow Never Knows festival. The Thrill Jockey rocker describes his new album, “King for a Day,” as “a desperate attempt to lose myself in a candy-colored fantasyland of freaks and fairies.” We don’t think he’ll have much trouble getting lost. The album features an eccentric hodgepodge of musicians, and we suspect they’ll be rotating on and off of the Schubas stage, too. Come early, because it’s gonna get weird. Nu-brass dance devils NOMO bring the funk from Ann Arbor; Chicago pop-outfit Baby Teeth supports its Lujo release, “The Simp” and Toronto’s classically trained instrumental collective, The Hylozoists, do Ennio Morricone proud with a rousing whirl of spaghettified compositions. Chicago’s own Mister Joshua anchors the upstairs from behind the turntables with a down-tempo set. (K. Tighe) Thursday, January 17 at Schubas
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