Volcanic Theatre Pub is a place for kinds of music, from jammy jams to jazz, emo to electronica and folk to funk. But for the next seven days, the westside Bend venue will be home to a whole bunch of bands that, generally speaking, thrive in the raucous outer reaches of rock ‘n’ roll.

We’re talking garage rock bands and stoner metal bands and even an experimental synth-punk band. Below is a roundup of what’s happening, but first, some details: Henceforth, we’ll call Volcanic Theatre Pub “VTP.” It’s located at 70 SW Century Drive in Bend, and you can learn more or buy tickets at volcanictheatre.com.

Black Lips and ‘Apocalypse Love’

On Thursday, the long-running garage-punk band Black Lips will visit VTP on their “Black Lips Across America” tour. Once notorious for their provocative onstage (and offstage) antics, the Atlanta act is now a (relatively) grown up purveyor of scuzzy, soulful, psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll. Their most recent album, “Apocalypse Love,” according to the band’s website, is a mix of “tub thumping doom-glam, Plastic Ono singalongs, cocktail-shaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lo-fi outsider acoustic-punk.” That’s better than anything I could write!

Black Lips, with Pancho & The Wizards and Profit Drama: 8 p.m. Thursday, doors open 7 p.m., $20 in advance, $30 at the door.

Powerful fuzz rock

Early this year, I praised Portland’s Hippie Death Cult for their memorable songs, excellent guitar heroism and vocalist Laura Phillips’ “entrancing and wizardly singing voice.” All those things remain accurate, and you should see the band Friday night at VTP. But be sure to get there in time to also catch the great Kadabra from Spokane, Washington, a power trio that sings about serpents and clergy and whatnot against a towering wall of heavy riff-tastic fuzz-rock. They are a true gem of the Pacific Northwest hiding out there beyond the limits of the big cities.

Hippie Death Cult, with Kadabra and Slow Goat: 8 p.m. Friday, doors open 7 p.m., $15 in advance, $25 at the door.

Big Fun’s dance-punk

Tuesday night brings a bill to VTP that makes the others in this story look straightlaced. The three openers are local: The Kronkmen have been making deeply doomed surf-rock for 20 years, while Gaspack and Weapon World are new-ish Bend bands that play savage powerviolence and punk. The headliner is Big Fun, a positively bizarre trio from Los Angeles that conjures chaotic dance-punk out of speedy guitars, strangled howls and electronic sounds. Imagine if Devo made hardcore disco record with Nirvana’s noisy “In Utero” mindset, and you’re somewhere in the ballpark of Big Fun.

Big Fun, with Gaspack, Weapon World and The Kronkmen: 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, doors open 7 p.m., $12 in advance, $20 at the door.

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The next big Thing?

Of all the bands in this story, the one with the best chance to make it really big is The Thing. Based in the eternal cool-music hotspot of Brooklyn, New York, they write catchy garage rock songs — a lot like their fellow Big Apple buzz band The Strokes, actually — but they bring a sort of expansive, strummy psychedelic lightness to their sound that sets them apart from so many acts in a similar lane. Also on the bill is Portland blues-rock powerhouse The Macks, who won Willamette Week’s annual poll of the city’s best new bands in 2022.

The Thing, with The Macks and Cptn Over: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, doors open 7 p.m., $15 in advance, $25 at the door.