Showtime!

There's a lot to do this weekend: Tonight alone you can check out one of two shows by Cursed, at End Hits (the first, since sold out, at 8 p.m. with Vatican Chainsaw Massacre, the latter with The Riot Service at 10); The Dirty 30's, CrookedHook, The Possums and The Rotten Pickles at The Bayou or instrumental action with The Empiricals and The Flaps at Barrymore's. Then there's the sold out Airbourne gig at The Capital Music Hall with EndeverafteR, Stone Rider; The Brothers Chaffey and Steve Stacey at Irene's; the aforementioned Creeps, Sexhead, Sedatives show at Cafe Dekcuf; Tanya Janca and Al Wood at Rasputin's; and CHUO benefit action at Zaphod's with The Love Machine, Tallships and Brights. If you want to get out of town, you even see Mahogany Frog, My Dad vs. Yours and Videotape at The Black Sheep in Wakefield.


Pas Chic Chic, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Nov. 17, 2006

Saturday boasts quite a lineup as well, with Pas Chic Chic, Throw Me The Statue and That's The Spirit performing at Zaphod's; young rockers Gob, The Escape Mode, The Transition and To The Rescue hit Mavericks; old punks Teenage Head, Shit From Hell and Garaga playing Barrymore's and The Coggs, Boom Creek and The Polymorphines performing at the Dom.