Sun. March 4 

 Call it acoustic rock or pumped-up folk. They like to call it "spazzy, folk-tinged acoustic indie-rock." Fancy Trash is a trio from Easthampton that's just released its second CD, "Three cheers for the cheated" (great title) and it opens the three-band bill at T.T. the Bear's Sunday March 4. (Alcantra follows and When Walls Are Built headlines.) There's a jauntiness at time - "Hope is a phase that I'm feeling," sings Dave Houghton in "Lost in the Evening" - as well as some angst, self-recrimination and frustration. They also go sorta off the rails at times, on purpose, we assume. Fancy Trash takes us back to Uncle Tupelo or, maybe, Violent Femmes. Houghton plays acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, harmonica and slide guitar; Josheu Thayer plays upright bass and dobro; Ben Laine is on drums. Tickets: $7.

10 Brookline St., Cambridge, 617-492-0082. ttthebears.com