✔️ = Critic's Pick

✔️ Soft Kill w/Choir Boy/Sleeping Pills Soft Kill won’t release its new album, Savior, until the summer. That doesn’t mean that frontman Tobias Grave won’t share some of the pain that inspired it with Bay area fans at this Tuesday night show. The spark happened when Grave’s wife, eight months pregnant, began to bleed out in the van, on the road in the middle of nowhere. Soft Kill drove through the night before arriving in Sacramento where surgery saved baby Dominick. He was not strong enough, however, to battle off complications from a collapsed lung, which eventually led the two-day-old child to flatline. Grave says he “wrote [the] songs about losing his son, his battle with drug addiction, the many tragedies that came along with that life, and the empty space suspended between mourning and celebration, life and death.” (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO

Joshua Radin w/William Fitzsimmons Personal stories told in his raw, tremulous vocal style will propel this set from 43-year-old Ohio songwriter Joshua Radin. Be prepared to hear lots of soothing, heartfelt songs from Radin’s latest album, The Fall, on Tuesday. William Fitzsimmons (whose work is most famously heard on Grey’s Anatomy) opens the show. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO