10. AGE RINGS

Excuse the cliche, but every once in a while, the second time really is a charm. Age Rings, a Boston indie-rock band with serious buzz, rose from the embers of Slater, a ragtag outfit formed when members were high schoolers in Hanover. It’s with Age Rings, though, that Ted Billings has found his calling as a brooding frontman indebted to Matthew Sweet. After playing around town to packed houses, Age Rings is finally celebrating the self-release of its debut, ‘‘Look . . . The Dusk Is Growing,’’ with a Wednesday residency at T.T. the Bear’s all this month. (Next week’s supporting acts include Hallelujah the Hills, Christians & Lions, and Headband. Then, on Oct. 25, it’s the Sterns, Ketman, and Ryan Lee Crosby.) We could tell you that ‘‘Everything’ll Fall Apart’’ is the tastiest bit of synth-rock we’ve heard this year, or that Will Spitz, Phoenix music scribe extraordinaire, tears it up on guitar. But really, the press kit says it best: ‘‘Each live performance has been a manic experience: Seven people sardined onstage singing and stomping and bashing keys, strings, tambourines, and cymbals. Controlled chaos, as they say.’’

T.T. the Bear’s, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 617-492-2327. 9 p.m. $9. www.myspace.com/agerings

--JAMES REED