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Steve Wynn performs "Wired"

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Steve Wynn is responsible for some of the greatest underground rock music to ever come from the West Coast. As founder of the legendary group the Dream Syndicate, Wynn pioneered a movement of musicianship that collided 1960s guitar-jangle with post-punk song structure. The Dream Syndicate’s 1982 debut album, The Days Of Wine And Roses, was perceived as a landmark recording that has remained highly influential to indie and post-punk bands to this day. Since the Dream Syndicate’s implosion in 1988, Wynn has remained active as both a solo artist and as the leader of his new band, The Miracle 3. The guitarist/vocalist’s 2002 album, Here Comes The Miracles was a sprawling double-disc masterpiece, maybe the artist’s own personal White Album. Wynn’s new recording, Tick...Tick...Tick (Down There), is the third installment of what the musician calls his “Desert Trilogy.” Recorded in Tuscon, Arizona, on vintage recording equipment, Tick...Tick...Tick mirrors the environment it was recorded in; a stark, desolate landscape that is filled with both loneliness and discovery and that often displays dramatic changes in barometric pressure.

Thursday, March 23 at 9pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E. Mohawk St. (855-3931).$5.