Selling your style as substance is tricky business (for every Blade Runner, there are a dozen Ultraviolets). New York's brash, shamelessly gussied-up Semi-Precious Weapons make a valiant effort - they're in the business of looking good, and singing about how good they look ("I can't pay my rent/ but I'm f***in' gorgeous"), so it makes sense that the moment's eminent "look at me" queen of all things superficial and super-catchy, Lady Gaga, hired the Weapons as support for her Monster Ball tour. For those wary of seeing the glittery Gaga/SPW cluster-fuss at the Tacoma Dome, there's an afterparty at Jazzbones, where attendees can get a taste of the band's showy mélange of studio-polished rock-and-roll tropes. There's no telling if frontman Justin Tranter will stage dive alongside a fishnets-and-little-else-clad Gaga (as they did at a recent Lollapalooza performance) but either way, Semi-Precious Weapons will definitely provide spectacle.

[Jazzbones, with Phantom Twin and DJ Chase, 10 p.m., $10, 2803 Sixth Avenue, Tacoma, 253.396.9169]