Friday

An Evening w/ King Sunny Ade & his African Beats. 9:30 club. $25. All ages.
The Paulverizers, Idle Americans. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Oleta Adams. Birchmere. $39.50.
Novalima, Pistolera. Black Cat. $18/$22. All ages.
Lovvers, Small Doses, Cigarbox Planetarium. Comet Ping Pong. All ages.
John Legend, India.Arie. Merriweather Post Pavilion. $36–$109.
Hello Society, Marbin, Lucky Dub. The Red & [...]

We'll skip the obvious joke about band titles with double v's and say that indie rock seems to really love its noise these days: Nottingham, England's Lovvers, however, serve up a much more elemental tonic to the brainier stuff we've become used to on this side of the pond. As part of its first U.S. [...]