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The Weekend: Cool Shoes, Rigby Fawkes, Gavin Degraw, Flash Larue and more


Rigby Fawkes.

FRIDAY 7/31

Cool Shoes returns to Downtown Music, with DJs Shortfuze, Risky Biz and Ike, 10 p.m., $5.

Young local alt-rockers Rigby Fawkes come to On the Rocks, 9 p.m., $5.

At Juanita's, the band Rayburn reunites and shares a bill with local singer/songwriter Jessica Carder and pop-rockers Falcon Scott, 9 p.m., $10.

Little Rock's finest bluegrass band Runaway Planet sets up shop at White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5.

At the Afterthought, the Groan Ups play Little Feat, Otis Redding and everything in between, 9 p.m., $7.

 Local party band Tragikly White returns to Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $5.

SATURDAY 8/1

Pop rock singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw comes to Magic Springs' Timberwood Amphitheater touring behind his third album, “Free,” which includes the single “Stay” (one syllable is all you need), 8 p.m., $35.99-$45.99.

Local rockers Flash Larue play Pizza D amidst a light show and a screening of Fritz Lang's “Metropolis.” Sounds heady, 10 p.m.

From Oklahoma, the Hosty Duo plays a joke-y brand of genre-bending rock at Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m., $10.

At Discovery, Justin Sane mans the disco, while Michael Shane works the lobby, midnight, $10.

Earlier, the documentary “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes” examines the sexism and degradation of women in the genre at the Central High Museum Visitor Center, 2-4 p.m., free.

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