Attention, lonely hipster blokes! Is there a paucity of tattooed punk girls in your life? If so, you'd be well served to get tickets to see Peter Murphy at El Corazon on May 30, Mike Ness at the Showbox at the Market on July 9 and 10 and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Showbox SoDo on September 23.

I promise you that you'll see hundreds of such women at these shows -- every one of them beautiful, iron-willed and smarter than the devil. You may even see some of the same pretty punk girls from one show to the next, because while Cave, Murphy and Ness play in very different styles, they all have roots deep in the punk rock of the 1980s. Yes, the ladies will be out there, fellers, and dressed in such a manner as to beguile your senses. The bad news is that they won't be at these shows to listen to you.

Peter Murphy is promising a career retrospective spanning the artful alternative rock of his solo career and his oft-imitated, coldly erotic work with Bauhaus. Mike Ness has been playing up his country influences of late, but I don't imagine for one second that he'll hesitate to play a generous number of Social Distortion numbers (and tell the charming, profanity-laden stories that go with them). And Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have a new album to promote ("Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!") and two decades' worth of Johnny Cash-like murder ballads to perform.

Basically, what I'm saying is that you could go to the shows just to listen to some good music. There will be a hell of a lot of it to go around.

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