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MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT, DJ KENOY & MR. MUMU (Dante’s, 1 SW 3rd) In what is now officially the season of industrial nostalgia, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult will begin their 20th anniversary tour right here in Portland. On the heels of Ministry’s final Portland show, it couldn’t be a more timely fit. Of course, both one-time Wax Trax! acts have gone in very different directions since their salad days. Ministry has spent the last 16 years assimilating into an arena-rattling form of political heavy metal, while TKK have done their best to ditch early abrasiveness for disco pop. TKK’s latest full-length, The Filthiest Show in Town, is a cleaner effort than its title implies. “Jet Set Sex” and “Jive Ass Ave.” celebrate plain funk as much as they do sex—certainly nothing here is as dirty as their classic “Waiting for Mommie.” MIKE MEYER