The flamboyant Detroit disco-arena rockers Electric Six understandably draw the same reaction from listeners as the now-defunct glam-rock act The Darkness: “Is this a joke?” This is what you get when your videos feature half-naked homosexual Abraham Lincolns, your band members have names like “Dr. Diet Mountain Dew” and “Tait Nucleus,” and at least half of your songs include one of the following words: “dance,” “party,” “drugs” and “girls.” Yet unlike fellow partymonger Andrew W.K., this sextet (pun intended) never takes itself too seriously, an attitude retained on the new album, “I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master.” When lead singer Dick Valentine aggressively sings, “I have never understood why anybody likes Lenny Kravitz” and “Show me your sexy trash/but don’t make any moves/that agitate my rash,” you can rest assured this party has a keg full of satire. (Andy Seifert) Saturday, March 29 at Double Door
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