Regular readers of the alibi.com blog already know it, and now you do, too. Seminal Albuquerque punk trio Scared of Chaka is reuniting for one show on March 28, at the Washoe Club in Virginia City, Nev. It's the first time Yanul Hernandez (now known far and wide as Dave Hernandez), Dameon Waggoner (now Dameon Lee) and Ron Skrasek (still Ron Skrasek) have played together in 10 years. You have questions. I have answers.

It began with a lie.

VxPxC created the legend that the band had found all its music in a box hidden away in a closet corner. Slowly, the band was releasing the material, members claimed, unearthing it and offering it up to the world. "We got a couple calls from record labels that were like, Oh, we wanna hear all the box set and think about releasing it," says VxPxCer Grant Capes. There's a big interest right now in found material, he adds. Bandmate Justin McInteer commented on an art gallery website that the myth was all a big joke. "That got a lot of people mad," Capes says.

What is it that separates alt.country from its unpunctuated counterpart? Is "alt." just something new artists attach to their brand of country to keep people from picturing Toby Keith? For the Everybodyfields' Jill Andrews, the alt. is the rough edges.

It’s weirdo battle royale. Aunt Dracula from Philly grapples with Yoda’s House and Olvidese from Burque this Thursday, Feb. 28., at Winning Coffee (Harvard and Central). $5, all-ages. (LM)

During our phone interview, singer/songwriter and avid bird watcher Jonathan Meiburg asks to halt our conversation. "Hang on just a second," Meiburg says. "I'm looking at this bird and I can't tell what it is." After fumbling with his binoculars for a moment, Meiburg exclaims, "Oh, it's an osprey! That's what I thought it was."

It’s a neat idea. The Section Quartet takes rock ballads and transforms them into classical ones. But, with a couple of exceptions, I couldn’t help wishing I was listening to the original versions of songs like David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” or the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Phenomena.” When the band takes on tunes with sweeping melodies, like Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” or Muse’s “Time is Running Out,” the results are more promising, but despite all of its “classical music with a lip ring” attitude, the bold experiment largely fails. (SM)