THURSDAY 8/3

Leisure Club kicks off what it’s calling “a genuine rock revue for dads and punks” at the White Water Tavern, with Bad Boyfriends and new music from Phillip Martin, 8:30 p.m., $5. Pottsville, Penn., glam rockers Crobot return to Little Rock for a show with the formidable Royal Thunder, 7:30 p.m., Rev Room. $10-$15. The Arkansas Travelers take on the Tulsa Drillers at Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 6:10 p.m. Sat.-Sun., $7-$13. Four Quarter Bar throws an afterparty immediately following the Tim McGraw and Faith Hill show at Verizon Arena, with The Salty Dogs, $5. Saxophonist Pamela K. Ward headlines Thursday night at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. Comedian J.R. Brow goes for laughs at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12.

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FRIDAY 8/4

Vocalist Samarra Samone returns to South on Main with a gospel- and soul-inspired set, 10 p.m., $15. Trumpet player and electronic dance music producer Ryan Viser pumps his “brass-infused bass music” at Revolution, with Michael Brown, 8 p.m. Israeli singer-guitarist Bat-Or Kalo and her eponymous band land at Midtown Billiards, 1:30 a.m., $5. Pianist Andrea Zlabys performs at UA Little Rock’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall as part of the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival, 7:30 p.m., $15. Detroit MC Kash Doll lands at the Clear Channel Metroplex, 10 p.m., $20-$75. Bluesman Lightnin’ Malcolm performs at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. Up in Fayetteville, University of Central Arkansas creative writing professor Mark Spitzer reads from his latest book, “Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West,” 7 p.m., Nightbird Books, free. CosmOcean takes its classically trained lead vocalists to Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $5. New Orleans folk ensemble The Tumbling Wheels bring its old time-inspired harmonies to Four Quarter Bar, perfectly matched with an opening set from Trey Johnson and Jason Willmon, 9 p.m., $8. Katmandu lands at Thirst N’ Howl Bar & Grill, 8:30 p.m., $5. Flint, Texas, country singer William Clark Green takes the tunes from “Live at Gruene Hall” live at Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10-$12. Brian Nahlen and Nick Devlin duo at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, and the Big Dam Horns take the stage at 9 p.m., $5. Dirty Lindsey performs at West End Smokehouse, 10 p.m., $7. St. Louis reggae-informed sextet The Driftaways perform at Kings Live Music in Conway, with an opening set from Caleb Patton, 8:30 p.m., $5. Pamela K. Ward and The Last Call Orchestra bring their sax-infused dance set to Oaklawn’s Silks Bar & Grill, Hot Springs, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., free.

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SATURDAY 8/5

Colour Design, Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass and Fiscal Spliff play a rock show at White Water, 9 p.m., $7. South on Main celebrates its fourth anniversary with Sonny Burgess & the Legendary Pacers, 8 p.m., $10. Lypstyck Hand Grenade takes its set to Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. Mark Currey brings tunes from his debut, “Tarrant County,” to Core Public House in Argenta, 6 p.m., free. Ben Byers performs for the happy hour crowd at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., free, and Earl & Them take the stage at 9 p.m., $5. Country bass singer Josh Turner performs his Grand Ole Opry-certified songs on the Timberwood Amphitheatre stage at Magic Springs Theme & Water Park, 8 p.m., $35-$55. Country stars Lady Antebellum land at the Walmart AMP in Rogers on the band’s “You Look Good” world tour, with opening sets from Kelsea Ballerini and Brett Young, 7:30 p.m., $38. South Carolina’s Cranford Hollow brings its Southern rock set to Smoke & Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville, with Austin, Texas, duo Hardcore Sex, 10 p.m., $5. Elmira, N.Y., band Sabella shares an early metal show with Hot Springs’ Census, Of Human Action and Oblivion Rising at Vino’s, 7 p.m., $10. Seth Freeman lands at West End Smokehouse, 10 p.m., $7.

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SUNDAY 8/6

A cappella group Straight No Chaser and Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox are on tour together, and make a visit to the Walmart AMP with an opening set from John McLaughlin, 7:30 p.m., $40-$80.

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MONDAY 8/7

Adam Duritz and Rob Thomas fans, take note: ’90s hitmakers Matchbox 20 and Counting Crows bring their tour to the Walmart AMP, 6:45 p.m., $125. The Hot Springs Concert Band pays tribute to America’s natural landscape with a concert titled “A Celebration of Our National Parks,” 6 p.m., Whittington Park, free.

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TUESDAY 8/8

Yuni Wa and Joshua Asante join forces for a bill at White Water, 9 p.m. The Central Arkansas Library System screens Alex Nicols’ 1958 horror flick, “The Screaming Skull,” at Ron Robinson Theater as part of its Terror Tuesday series, 6 p.m., $2. The Arkansas Travelers face off against the Frisco RoughRiders, 7:10 p.m. Tue.-Thu., $7-$13.

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