Not a lot of big shows this week, but plenty of good ones. Tri-C JazzFest temporarily takes over the city. Peabody’s has your recommended weekly doses of metal (California’s As Blood Runs Black and Germany’s Heaven Shall Burn). Islands opens the show for rapper Saul Williams, Trent Reznor’s unlikely new collaborator. But the two under-the-radar discoveries of the week are California’s Vendetta Valentine (click the video above for a blast of electro-rock) and the Death Set. Read on for the week’s full concert cheat sheet, complete with notes. – D.X. Ferris
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2008.