Three I-still-think-it-is-weird-that-rabbits-live-in-the-city reasons to cinch up that elastic waistband and head on over to Lincoln Hall this very night…

1. Recently, Greg Kot wrote a piece about how 35 years after the fact Germany’s Neu! are finally cool. I might argue that the cool started earlier than that, but one cannot deny the number of bands, many of them local, that use the “motorik” sound of Neu and run with it. Tonight, you can see from where all of your favorite bands have been lovingly stealing. Michael Rother is playing the songs of Neu! -- as well as some Harmonium and solo stuff -- live with the help of Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan. This is a pretty big deal.

2. Hey, look, speaking of Sonic Youth, Chicago’s Disappears are opening! Actually not one of the local bands that directly uses the Neu! template, Disappears still make a fine opener as they do use their love of late 80′s dissonant guitar rock to great effect on their debut, Lux. So maybe it’s a few degrees of separation in that Disappears clearly love Sonic Youth who clearly love Neu!, but that’s not too much of a stretch to put these two together. All you need to know is that you’re going to hear some rad music tonight. All the words above really are just a fancy way of me saying that.

3. Two bands means…a video! Well, I found a sweet one for y’all. It is literally a dude playing side one of Neu’s debut on what looks like the turntable he originally played side one on in 1972 and nothing more. Nine plus minutes of that. Enjoy:

9:00 p.m. Wednesday, 9/8. Lincoln Hall. 21+. $20.