Local girlpunk roundup featuring healthy helpings of keytar and yelling. Earplugs recommended.
Local metal fest celebrating seven years of Der Wurst Hotdogs, benefiting Project Roots. Possibly intolerable but the hot dogs look good.
The Phoenix Idiotarod celebrates the classical tradition of drunken shopping cart racing, shamefully excluded from the next as well as every previous Olympics. We're too late to design our own cart (unless...?) but we could get some beers, watch the idiots go by, and potentially crash the afterparty.
The preeminent psychobilly bandleader returns to the valley with blues-funk revivalist Black Joe Lewis, featuring mariachi-punk outfit Piñata Protest. A variety of goofy, punk-inflected roots music for the whole (Harper) family.
Classic Southern California punk outfit The Zeros re-re-unites, this time apparently without founding member Robert Lopez, a.k.a. "El Vez" the world's preeminent Mexican Elvis impersonator. Opening acts the Jerk Officers, as the aesthetics of their name suggest, espouse a back-to-basics hardcore punk philosophy; French Girls also tread familiar territory, though perhaps not as a principled stance.