Sonic Live in Concert — Civic Theatre, San Diego

Your pulse moves before you consciously remember what that drowning music was. That is the whole premise: the soundtrack that lived inside a CRT television while you pressed right and hoped, performed by an actual ensemble — rock musicians, vocalists, electronics — with visuals cut to every note on the screen behind them. It covers decades of the franchise, which means the argument starts on the drive home about which zone had the best track and never fully resolves. This is not a DJ set and not a remix record. It is a room full of adults who learned the same melodies at the same age, hearing them played loud by people who take them seriously. San Diego Civic Theatre, a Friday evening in September. If Green Hill Zone does nothing to you, skip it. If it does, you already know exactly who you are bringing.