Alice Cooper at the Amphitheater this past August with Motley Crue Credit: Tracy May

This Mon., Feb. 16 features a few diverse shows to kick off your week. Breakdown below…

Alice Cooper On his last Tampa Bay go-round, the elder statesman of shock rock and top hat aficionado shared co-headlining duties with Motley Crue on their farewell tour. He returns to the intimate Ruth Eckerd stage for the first time since his sold-out "Theatre of Death" stop there in 2009. Don’t know what he has in store with the outrageously horrifying stage production on his current “Raise the Dead” tour, but you can bet he’ll be firing up both the guillotine and gallows; he’s gotta have something to raise, right? (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)–Leilani Polk

Justin Townes Earle Credit: Joshua Black

Justin Townes Earle with Gill Landry If you weren’t willing to make the 200-mile drive to see Justin Townes Earle play beautiful downtown St. Augustine this past November, then you’re in luck. The lanky, once-troubled, hard-picking 32-year-old son of Steve returns to the Bay area for a show in the very same room he played four years ago. He arrives on the tail of releasing two new efforts — last year’s Single Mothers and its companion release, Absent Fathers, out this January. The LPs were recorded together as a double album, but Earle chose to issue them separately so each could make its own statement and take on its own identity. Both were recorded with his four-piece touring band and have no overdubs, extra singers or additional players. In short, it’s stripped down contemporary Americana perfect for showcasing Earle’s brutally frank, sometimes off-putting songwriting. Louisiana multi-stringman Gill Landry (of Old Crow Medicine Show) warms the stage (Crowbar, Ybor City) –Ray Roa

This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.