KINGDOM OF MAGIC
No one expects you to be perfect, but we do expect you at this show tonight, which features Denver’s hardest-hitting metal duo, with Stuntcock and Suns of Ra. Bender’s Tavern, 314 E. 13th Ave. 9 p.m. $7.
OTIS TAYLOR
This Boulder trance-blues master will play songs from his latest Telarc disc, “Definition of a Circle,” tonight with the Clamdaddys and Tempa & the Tantrums. Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Ave., 8:45 p.m. $10.
JOHNNY BRIGGS MEMORIAL BBQ
The seventh year of this fundraiser features Los Terribles, Derailed, Buzzard, Amputators and others. Pay an extra couple of bucks for the raffle and a grab bag (Hell’s Half Acre CD of previously unreleased songs, vintage stickers, etc.) Saturday at Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., 3 p.m. $7-$10.
EYES & EARS
Not only should you check out this band, which sports members of Call Sign Cobra and Big Timber, Scott Baio Army, you should see post-punk openers Lion Sized once more before its winter hiatus. Saturday with Machine Gun Blues and the Soda Pop Kids, Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, 9 p.m. $6.
Staff writer John Wenzel can be reached at 303-954-1642 or jwenzel@denverpost.com.
