Registering for classes at midnight tomorrow and still can't miss this show

The Expendables put together one well-balanced show for tomorrow night as their fall tour comes into Boston.

It will have all of the genres that I listed above, with The Expendables being a combination of rock/reggae/punk/ska, not quite sounding like any one else with similar influences. C-Money, the trumpet and keyboard player for Slightly Stoopid and former member of reggae group John Brown's Body, will be performing his solo music that he classifies as alternative hip-hop, which has a reggae/dub tinge to it. The Flatliners will bring the more hard-nosed stuff; they're a punk/ska band from Canada with maybe a little reggae involved, but the guitar is too fast to be able to tell right away.

I saw The Expendables last winter at the same club in Boston, The Paradise, and was not disappointed. Passafire and Iration, bands that are mostly reggae-rock, opened for them and it was a very chill show. The Expendables opened for 311 on their 2009 summer tour, and I got to see them twice because they were the only band that played before the power went out at the Comcast Center and the show had to be rescheduled. Both times they closed with the song "Sacrifice."

That being said, The Expendables are a band that you would definitely like if you're into more well-known bands like 311 and Slightly Stoopid. They're signed to Slightly Stoopid's label, Stoopid Records, both being from California. Not only will C-Money play tomorrow, but other members of Slightly Stoopid will perform for his other live instruments, which there are more of than you would expect for something classified as "hip-hop." There's not much officially released stuff out there by C-Money, but he does perform a lot of live shows, like at the 2009 San Diego Music Awards.

The Flatliners are influential in the punk scene in Ontario, and have toured with The Expendables before. They released their first official album, Destroy to Create, in 2005, and their third, Cavalcade, this year on Fat Wreck Chords.

This is "Do or Die" from their 2005 album.