Live Music Calendar

If you prefer 90’s music over today’s, there are a few shows this week that’ll be right up your alley. Tomorrow night, Matchbook Twenty and Alanis Morisette play a sold out show at Toyota Center (MuteMath opens). For rap fans, check out Too $hort at the Meridian Friday night and Snoop Dogg returns with new material at Warehouse Live Saturday night. Finally, Marilyn Manson gives you an alternative to Sunday night church this weekend.

Other shows that we’re excited about: Citizen Cope on Friday night (win tickets!); Houston-native Katie Stuckey at Lucky’s Pub on Saturday (benefiting National Multiple Sclerosis Society); and Built to Spill on Monday night.

Finally the rodeo begins on Monday. Tim McGraw is the rodeo opener this year, while his wife (Faith Hill, for those living under a rock) takes the Reliant Stadium stage on Tuesday.

Did we miss something? Let us know. Here’s the full week line-up. Local bands are noted by an asterisk (*):

Wednesday
• Leslie + the LYs – rock/rap | 8 p.m.at The Backroom (The Mink)
• Spoiled Royals/*Whiskey Boat – rock/Americana | 10 p.m.at Continental Club

Thursday
• Matchbox Twenty/Alanis Morisette/MuteMath – pop/rock | 7 p.m. at the Toyota Center
• *Paris Falls – rock | 9 p.m. at Boondocks
• *Moodafaruka – acoustic | 7:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
• Homeless Benefit (feat: *Free Radicals/*Peekaboo Theory/*Audio in the Pregap) – various | 9 p.m. at Notsuoh
• L.L. Cooper – rock/country | 9 p.m. at Rudyard's
• *Picture Book – rock/pop | 10 p.m.at Continental Club

Friday
• Too $hort – rap | 8 p.m. at the Meridian
• Citizen Cope/JJ Usher – indie/songwriter/pop | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live
• *The Western Civilization/*Papermoons/*Another Run – indie/pop/rock | 8 p.m. at Walter's on Washington
• The Gougers – indie/folk | 7 & 9:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
• *Thee Armada/*The Finalist/Dremnt The End/*The American Masquerade/Great American Actors – alt/rock | 8 p.m. at Fitzgerald's
• *Treehouse Project/*Slivered/Hearts Fail – alt/rock | 9 p.m. at Rudyard's
• *YokoMono/Chango Man – indie/rock/Spanish | 10 p.m.at Continental Club
• Grupo Fantasma/*Ryan Scroggins & The Trenchtown Texans/Paula Nelson – various | 9 p.m. at the Engine Room

Saturday
• Michael Buble – pop vocalist | 7 p.m. at Toyota Center
• Snoop Dogg – rap/hip-hop | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live
• State Radio – indie/rock/reggae | 8 p.m. at Walter's on Washington
• *The Drunks/*The Flamin' Hellcats/Bones – punk/rock | 9 p.m. at Rudyard's
• Katie Stuckey – country | 7 p.m. at Lucky's
• The Lost Bayou Ramblers – folk/roots | 10 p.m.at Continental Club
• Monte Montgomery – singer-songwriter/rock | 7 & 9:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
• *Brian's Johnson/*Hell City Kings/*Fired For Walking – indie/rock | 9 p.m.at The Mink

Sunday
• Marilyn Manson/Ours – rock | 8 p.m. at Verizon Wireless Theater
• 108/*The Jonbenet/Bitter End/*Fight Pretty/*Seeker – punk/rock | 3 p.m. at Walter's on Washington
• *Wolves at the Door/*OZeal/*The McKenzies/The Arms of Sleep/*Brown vs. Board – indie/various | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live

Monday
• Rodeo: Tim McGraw – country | 7 p.m. at Reliant Stadium
• Built To Spill/The Meat Puppets – indie/rock | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live
• *Wicked Poseur – indie/rock | 9 p.m. at Boondocks

Tuesday
• Rodeo: Faith Hill – country | 7 p.m. at Reliant Stadium
• The Scooterz/*The Savells/*Vatos Locos – indie/rock | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live
• Battlefield Band – Celtic | 7 & 9:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck

Pictured L to R: Fred Eaglesmith; Cobra Starship; Jill Scott