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Soccer Mommy (with Hana Vu)

The Rialto Theatre 318 E. Congress St., Tucson, AZ, United States

Sophia Allison, alias Soccer Mommy, emerged as one of a crop of indie-rock revivalist girls in the late teens, but quickly distinguished herself with her clever, ironic lyrics; her catchy pop harmonies; and her louche, modishly-depressive perspective. Also writes a hell of a bass riff. Hana Vu shares Allison's bedroom-indie aesthetic, mining the crunchy, distorted guitar sounds of 90s indie alternative bands and filtering them through a skein of teenage-girl journal pages.

$30.00

Melrose Street Fair

Melrose District N. 7th Ave. and W. Glenrosa Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

It's a street fair! It's free! You can buy tchotchkes and go to the local bars! Depending on your tolerance for people in leather dog masks, it's kid friendly! It's for charity (probably?)!

Free
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Magic City Hippies (with Mustard Service)

The Van Buren 401 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Shaggy Miami alt-funk collective Magic City Hippies merge the sensibilities of funk and indie rock, with a soupcon of smooth R&B, acid jazz, hip-hop lyricism, and the sample-driven eclecticism of early Beck. Intentionally genre-bending, the band in many ways resembles the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but much less irritating; and, above all, is just trying to groove.

$35.25
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M3F Fest (featuring LCD Soundsystem, Justice)

Steele Indian School Park 300 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ, United States

LCD Soundsystem and Justice headline the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, with supporting acts including Alvvays, Slow Pulp, Confidence Man, Summer Salt, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

$175

Playboy Manbaby (with Dune Rats, Boy Wonder)

Crescent Ballroom 308 N. 2nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Phoenix band Playboy Manbaby headline this indie punk roundup with their chaotic, absurdist garage rock, wearing satirical punk influences like The Dead Kennedys on their sleeves. Fellow ironists Dune Rats and Boy Wonder open the show.

$22

Femmes of PHX (with sarah june., Big Bug, Right Rosemary, Maeby)

The Rebel Lounge 2303 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ, United States

The Rebel Lounge hosts this roundup of local female-fronted bands. sarah june. headlines with soft, introspective acoustic pop that evokes modern sadgirls like Phoebe Bridgers. Incongruously, Maeby appears to perform some kind of electroclash technopop. Many of these other bands don't even have an Internet presence! So underground!

$16.13

Wand

The Rebel Lounge 2303 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ, United States
$18.00

Saint Motel (with Great Good Fine Ok)

The Van Buren 401 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Saint Motel's perky indie pop sounds suspiciously like it might be used to advertise a Target summer sale, but it's poppy and fun and maybe we don't have to think about this stuff quite so much and are allowed to just dance occasionally. Great Good Fine OK take this sound in more of a dreampop, indie-electro, MGMT direction. Falsetto abounds.

$30

Sir Woman

Valley Bar 130 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ

Sir Woman's bouncy bedroom pop rests on a foundation of synths and drum machines and borrows more liberally from funk, soul, R&B, and disco than her sadgirl peers, with a sound closer to smoothcore, ready-for-NPR contemporaries like Lake Street Dive and easy-listening forebears like Hall and Oates.

$22

Pokey LaFarge (with Cicada Rhythm)

Crescent Ballroom 308 N. 2nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Neo-bluesman Pokey LaFarge brings indie rock sensibilities to bayou roots-rock instrumentation. One nerd who spent his childhood listening to Dr. John, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Donovan can recognize another. Cicada Rhythm's backwoods harmonies evoke a similar slew of Americana revivalist influences.

$39.32
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Destroy Boys (with Farmer’s Wife, Deux Visages)

Crescent Ballroom 308 N. 2nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Destroy Boys interpolate grunge, punk, and metal into a modern mélange of tough-girl rock and roll, with vocals reminiscent of bands like French Vanilla, Cherry Glazerr, and Cry Babe. Farmer's Wife similarly evokes predecessors like Nirvana and the Meat Puppets; Deux Visages is no less aggressive but occasionally reveals a softer, sweeter vocal delivery.

$40.35
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The Linda Lindas (with Be Your Own Pet)

Walter Studios 747 W. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Los Angeles garage wunderkinds The Linda Lindas formed at a music camp for girls and hit it big quick, opening for Bikini Kill and recording a soundtrack for the film "Moxie" while still in their teens. I think they're still in their teens. Former high school prodigy garage band Be Your Own Pet reunites to open the show.

$25