The Weekend: 10 Years, Cool Shoes, Sean West and more
10 Years.
FRIDAY 8/22
Knoxville alt-metal up-and-comers 10 Years headline the second “Music in the Park” event, with Ashes Divide, 3rd Degree and Monoxide Project, 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free with a canned food donation to an Apex Tickets outlet. Go to musicintheparklr.com for locations.
The dance and art event “Cool Shoes” returns to Downtown Music with DJ sets by Wolf-E-Wolf, Disco Itch, DJs S & T and DJ Discipline and live art by Chris Baber, 9:30 p.m., $5. Open to all ages.
Rising Dallas band the New Frontiers pair pedal-steel twang with plaintive indie rock at Juanita's, 10 p.m., $8.
Earnest pop-rock act Jackson Waters headlines at Sticky Fingerz, with hirsute singer/songwriter Sean Michel opening, 9 p.m., $5.
Armed with glowsticks and fitted with dancing shoes, drum and bass fans gather at “The Autopsy Cybertribe Event” at the Village, 9:30 p.m., $5; all ages welcome.
Aspirational.
SATURDAY 8/23
Conduit Entertainment presents a night of unplugged hip-hop and R&B at Crush Wine Bar with the live hip-hop act Epiphany and One Night Stand, soulster Sean West, live band Solfude and Crystal Hayes, 9 p.m., $5.
Notfest 7 at Galley 26 will feature musicians from bands like the Glands, Western Meds, Hector Faceplant and Ho-Hum fiddling with "samplers, brass instruments, home-made assemblages of metal and wood, plastic pipes, bassoons, Casio keyboards, gold fish bowls, electric pitchforks, and violins." So look out for experimentation. They'll be some drama, too. Not Jr. happens from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Afterwards things get at least PG-13, free. BYOB.
Little Rock's honky-tonk heroes the Salty Dogs headline at White Water, 9 p.m., $5.
Benton native Bryson Van Cleve returns to Sticky Fingerz with his roots rock, L.A.-based band the Show, 9 p.m., $7.
At Discovery, Dave McRoberts and Michael Shane DJ in the club, while g-force keeps it moving in the lobby, midnight, $10.
