Popular young Toronto quintet whose music is a rousing, raucous blend of Scottish and Canadian Celtic music with rock, bluegrass, Caribbean, and world music. Instrumentation includes fiddle, bagpipes, tin whistle, guitars, keyboards, and drums. The band’s new CD Gutter Anthems blends rousing drinking songs with pop and rock tunes. $15. [venue info]

The Blind Pig: The Macpodz

Immensely popular local jam band that plays an invigorating mix of R&B, soul, rock, and hard jazz it calls “disco bebop.” Opening act is The Brew, an Amesbury, Massachusetts, pop-rock quartet. Advance tickets $8 ($10 at the door). [venue info]

Club Above: Sounds of the Czars

Local Tiki-flavored surf-rock lounge quartet. 6:15-8:30 p.m. [venue info]

Crazy Wisdom Tea Room: Team Love

Local trio led by singer-songwriter and bassist Tim Berla that plays originals and covers in an eclectic mix of styles, from jazz, swing, and Latin to country. With clarinetist and percussionist Charles Dayringer and guitarist Kip Godwin and guest vocalist Julia Papastavridis. The show begins with a solo set by Berla. [venue info]

Elbow Room: The High Strung

Brooklyn (MI) trio that plays dark, crafty pop with psychedelic overtones. The band won praise from Rolling Stone, which cited its “gift for nervy, agitated melodies that get under your skin as much as they make you hum along.” Opening acts are Lay of the Cid, a Grand Rapids postpunk rock trio, and Dreamtaker, an Ypsilanti psychedelic rock band with a sense of humor. [venue info]

Guy Hollerin's: Laith Al-Saadi Trio

An eclectic mix of jazz, blues, R&B, Motown, and pop, including many originals, by a trio led by this local singer-guitarist. [venue info]

The Habitat Ultralounge: Ultraviolet

Detroit band that plays 70s & 80s rock hits. [venue info]

The Halfass: Friendly Foes

Ferndale indie powerpop trio. Opening acts are City Center, a New York City-based experimental pop-rock jam duo of Saturday Looks Good to Me frontman Fred Thomas and Ryan Howard, and Drunken Barn Dance, a local experimental alt-country and folk-rock band. [venue info]

Tap Room: John Latini & Friends

Acoustic rock-based originals by this veteran local rock ’n’ roll singer-songwriter, who is joined by different guest musicians TBA each week. [venue info]

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