Doors 8 pm, Show 9 pm.

Advance tickets available from The Power Plant until Nov. 10, at Soundscapes (572 College St.) or at the door. $9 for members and students, $10 non-members.

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A musical tribute to Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz's survey exhibition of art about twins, fans, pop culture, and identity now on at the Power Plant, Songs for Jessie Presley is curated by author and journalist Carl Wilson (The Globe & Mail, Zoilus.com) and features Joe Pernice, D-Sisive and The Reveries.

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Elvis Presley would have been an identical twin if not for the stillbirth of his brother Jessie Garon. Even if Jessie had survived, however, Elvis would have been born alone, like the rest of us.

But birth is the last time identity exists in a solitary state. We all look less into the mirror than into the culture for models of who and how to be. Every artist, no matter how original, has at some point mimicked, imitated and aped.

Tonight, some of Toronto's most exciting independent musicians unveil their artistic zygotes by playing covers of songs by their formative influences, alongside the clonings, mutations and deviations that are their own songs.

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Musician and author Joe Pernice was born and raised near Boston, Mass., and now lives in Toronto. He has recorded a dozen albums with bands the Pernice Brothers, Scud Mtn. Boys and Chappaquiddick Skyline; his music has featured in films and TV shows such as "Gilmore Girls" and "Six Feet Under"; and he's written three books. His novel It Feels So Good When I Stop was published this fall by Riverhead/Penguin.

Rapper D-Sisive (Derek Christoff) recently won the 2009 ECHO Songwriting prize for "Nobody With A Notepad" from Let the Children Die - his debut album, although he's been releasing singles and EPs in Toronto since the late 1990s, including the Juno-nominated EP The Book (2008). His inspirations range from Charlie Chaplin to Elliott Smith. "I want to create art. Fuck music," he says. "I want to take the seatbelt off! Otherwise, what's the point?"

The Reveries are Eric Chenaux (vocals, guitar, mouth-speaker), Ryan Driver (vocals, quasi-ruler bass, thumbreeds, mouth-speaker) and Doug Tielli (vocals, guitar, saw, mouth-speaker). As Massimo Simonini has written, “The Reveries remodel songs, songs “consumed” by time, re-finding and expanding them. .... Think of a song, stop it in time, caress it, observe it and play it, discovering how it speaks. The error mysteriously disappears; almost everything seems possible." They have released three albums on the Rat-drifting label, most recently a collection of Willie Nelson covers. Tonight marks their first performance after an 18-month hiatus.