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Dexter’s Laboratory | The Offspring teamed up with Canadian superproducer Bob Rock to create their most recent album, 2008’s Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.

THE EXPERIMENTAL SCIENTIST
Gobble Gobble
The Hydeaway • June 13
$10 | At the door
One of the surprising things about Gobble Gobble’s new album Neon Graveyard is that, once you scrape away the layers of fuzz and distortion — and you’ll need a couple of bottles of Soft Scrub to do the job — is just how unabashedly Edmontonian it is. The album is definitely fixated on death and decay, but the witty references to stuff like Misericordia Hospital and the Body Worlds exhibit at Telus World of Science give it all a surprising relatability. And we can’t wait to see how Cecil Frena duplicates these sounds live.

THE POLITICAL SCIENTIST
The Offspring
Northlands Agricom • June 13
$45 | Ticketmaster
While the leaders of the world scramble to keep their countries afloat, we citizens of North America can take solace in the fact that Dexter Holland and his band of miscreants are going to do their part to help. To ensure that their fans’ are heard in these difficult times, The Offspring have launched the Shit Is Fucked Up Tour — a series of town hall-style meetings where you can go to raise your voice at full volume. If politics aren’t your bag, don’t worry: these meetings bear a startling resemblance to a punk rock show.

THE SCIENTIST
Coldplay
Rexall Place • June 18
$49.50 | Ticketmaster
In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, frontman Chris Martin hinted that Coldplay’s next record could quite possibly be a concept album. He wouldn’t go into greater detail because he was worried that his concept might, you know ... suck, but if the group’s track record is anything to go by, we think Martin could put out a tribute to Florence Foster Jenkins (YouTube her; you won’t regret it) and it would go platinum in a week — provided, of course, that he didn’t do something crazy like call the album Apple.