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Mon 3/17 ††† (Crosses) Does Deftones frontman Chino Moreno—as the rumor rounding the music blogs a few years back claimed—actually have a witch-house band? If you’re referring to the strain of ambient techno music made by young molly-poppers with DJ Screw fixations, then not really. Look past those witchy-looking unicode crosses (a tall order considering they stand in not only for the band name but for every “T” in every song title) and Crosses, which includes Far founding member/guitarist Shaun Lopez and producer Chuck Doom, has about as much to do with micro-genre-bandwagon-hopping as Adore-era Smashing Pumpkins or as the Deftones had with the dreadful nü-metal label slapped on them. This year’s self-titled full-length debut is the sound of Moreno giving his scream-box a rest and, as longtime Defotnes and Team Sleep listeners know, that’s when things really get interesting. $18, 9:45pm, Backstage Live, 1305 E Houston, (210) 802-7655, backstagelivesa.com. —Jeremy Martin