Music, comedy and other fun things
FRIDAY: Aaron Neville, who provided the gorgeous lead vocals for the New Orleans institution known as The Neville Brothers, performs at Meadows Casino in North Strabane, just a few weeks after losing his older brother Art. The 78- year- old Aaron, who had his first hit in 1966 with “Tell It Like It Is,” released his most recent solo album, “Apache,” in 2016. It begins at 8 p. m. $ 40; meadowsgaming.com.
FRIDAY: “It’ll be a rager,” Clutch frontman Neil Fallon said of this tour with Killswitch Engage. You can count on that. Clutch, from Germantown, Md., has been banging its heavy blues boogie stoner rock since 1991 and is hitting the road on another crushing album, “Book of Bad Decisions,” their 12th. There’s less boogie and more metalcore to Killswitch, which comes in advance of eighth album “Atonement,” due on Aug. 16. Also on the bill is Cro- Mags JM, which is the John Joseph/ Mackie Jayson version of the embattled New York hardcore band. Stage AE, North
Shore, 6 p. m. doors. $ 29.50-$ 32; ticketmaster. com. FRIDAY: The Happy Together Tour,
led by The Turtles, celebrates its 10th anniversary with Chuck Negron ( of Three Dog Night), Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (“Young Girl”), The Buckinghams (“Kind of a Drag”), The Classics IV (“Spooky”) and The Cowsills (“Hair”). Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 8 p. m. $ 49-$ 69; thepalacetheatre.org.
FRIDAY: Tonic, the LA grunge band best known for the hit “If You Could Only See,” plays a free show at the South Park Amphitheater with Anger the Ant at 7: 30 p. m.
FRIDAY: Billy Strings won’t be playing the Regatta this weekend as planned, but the music scene here scrambled to find the touring bluegrass virtuoso another stage. The guitarist, mandolinist and banjo player from Michigan will perform at the Roxian Theater in McKees Rocks. Tickets are $ 10 and $ 15 tickets, kids under 12 are free. Info at Roxianlive. com.
SATURDAY: JD Wilkes leads Legendary Shack Shakers, the band from Paducah, Ky., once called “a rockabilly version of the Sex Pistols,” into the Hard Rock Cafe, Station Square, for another wild night that gets to the roots of rock ’ n’ roll. Nox Boys frontman Zack Keim opens at 9 p. m. $ 15; ticketweb. com. SATURDAY: Ace Frehley, who had the most successful of the four Kiss solo albums in 1978, brings a set heavy on Kiss material to the Palace Theatre, Greensburg. 8 p. m. $ 57.50 and $ 65, $ 5 additional at the door. thepalacetheatre.org.
SUNDAY: Bad Religion, the veteran LA political punks last seen here at Highmark Stadium with NOFX doing all of “Suffer,” return for a theater gig at the
Roxian in McKees Rocks, having just released “Age of Unreason,” their first album in six years — a long gap for a band with 17 records. Two things you can always count on with Bad Religion is that they’re always going to speak truth to power and they’re always going to sound just like Bad Religion. With The Lawrence Arms. 8 p. m. $ 35; roxianlive. com.
SUNDAY: Guster, the jangly rock band from Boston, has a fun history in Pittsburgh that includes the Station Square amphitheater show with Ben Folds, the snowy dumpster show on the North Side and the Three Rivers Arts Fest gig with guest singer Mayor Bill Peduto. Guster pops in for another free show at Hartwood Acres, Hampton, supporting eighth album “Look Alive,” on which they surrounded their golden harmonies with “colder,” synthier sounds. 7: 30 p. m. Free.
SUNDAY: There are two versions of UB40, the British pop- reggae group best known for the hit “Red, Red Wine.” One of them features the two original singers, Ali Campbell and Astro. This one, on a 40th anniversary tour, is fronted by Ali’s brother Duncan Campbell with five original members of the group. They play Jergel’s, Marshall, at 8 p. m. $ 40-$ 42; jergels. com.