We've arrived at the weekend, which means a full night of live music ahead on this Fri., March 18, as well as some quality concerts coming up on Saturday and Sunday. A breakdown with highlights for tonight below.

The Sh-Booms EP Release Show After finally finishing a new self-titled EP with Grammy-nominated producer Alan Armitage (Boyz II Men), Orlando septet The Sh-Booms are ready to drop it like it’s hot. A preview of first single “Usage Fee” finds the full-throated force of pipes that is frontwoman Mizz Bren bolstered by tight, effusive, brass-burnished garage-soul with definite Motown doo wop appeal. Support at their Bay area release show comes from Chicago’s soulfully breezy Fat Night and St. Pete shoegazy Seafang. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)

Bowie Festival Memorial Show The next homage to the late art rock icon features David Bowie-inspired art and goodies, glam-pushing face painters, a Thin White Duke impersonator, and sets jam-packed with Bowie odes by local acts Trigger City Trio, Acting Natural, Row Jomah, Jordan Esker and the Hundred Percent, the Colleen and Andy Show, Alexander Bowers & Wesley Bland, Vita Devoid and Redfeather. The $5 admission goes directly to the performers, which are otherwise playing solely for their love of the fallen icon. (Local 662, St. Petersburg)

Trae Pierce & T Stone Band w/On the Avenue Orlando-based Trae Pierce is a badass bass-banger and slider with booming soulful vocals and talkbox chops he flexes leading his hip hop-soaked blues and funk rock group, T Stone Band. In addition to the feather in his black trademark top hat, Pierce more than three-decade career includes the distinction of playing sideman to James Brown, The Ohio Players and the Blind Boys of Alabama (with whom he won one of his four Grammys), not to mention producing and recording with a range of artists, from Flo-Rida to Emmylou Harris. Live, he’s proves himself a showman with plenty of exuberance and fine-tuned finesse. (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa)

Equinox Hip Hop Show To ring in the March Equinox – which happens on March 20 at 12:30 a.m. – Venture throws a show featuring all manner of diverse hip hop-rooted talent: Lux Bando, Bay Sir, Hanashi and Makai Alexander, DEA & Saint, and Tyrell Golden. Admission is $5; doors at 8 p.m. (The Venture Compound, St. Petersburg)

We The Kings with AJR, She Is We, Elena Coats & Brother James We profiled Bradenton’s We the Kings as the pop punk outfit was on the come up back in 2007, after their self-titled debut made it to No. 37 on the Billboard Heatseekers charts. In the nine years and five albums since, they’ve enjoyed more chart time, most lucratively in 2011’s Sunshine State of Mind, and performed four Warped Tours between 2008 and 2014. This date supports 2015 sixth album, Strange Love. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Los Lobos Cali’s elder statesmen of soulful Chicano rock turned out a fine new LP last year, Just Another Band From East L.A. In his review for CL, longtime music writer Eric Snider lauded the album as having the same virtues of 1992’s revelatory Gates of Gold: “focused eclecticism, supreme hooksmanship, spirited playing, beguiling arrangements, soulful singing and — probably most important — a sense of daring rarely heard in such a long-standing band.” Check out Snider’s story about Los Lobos here. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)

ALSO TONIGHT
Backtrack Blues Band: Chicago Blues (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)
The Hip Abduction Album Release Show w/Mike Pinto/UNRB (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones (Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg)
Benefit for 4 Bears: Skull & Bone Band/Ragged Old Souls/George Pennington Band/Crash Mitchell (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Stick Martin (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin)
Bride of Chaotica (The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg)
The Iliad/Grim Lordis/Chlover/Outside Atlas/Red Light Beacons/Seek Well/Dogpound/Richard Cory (Brass Mug, Tampa)

COMING UP THIS WEEKEND
Cannibal Corpse w/Abysmal Dawn/Cryptopsy Sat., March 19, The Ritz Ybor, Ybor City
Green Frog Moon Festival Sat., March 19, Sacred Lands, St. Petersburg
Rock Brothers Presents Michael Tolcher Sat., March 19, Hideaway Café & Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
26th Annual Country in the Park w/Crystal Gayle/Jimmy Bush and Will Yancy/Bay Bluegrass/Clemons Road/Pirate Flag Sat., March 19, England Brothers Park and Band Shell, Pinellas Park
Florida Ska Events Presents: Ska Spring Fling w/Monty Montgomery/Control This!/The New Rulers Sat., March 19, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa
Samurai Shotgun Album Release Party Sat., March 19, Crowbar, Ybor City
Spring Beer Fling w/Rusted Root/The Broadcast/NoNeed/Four Star Riot/Luxury Mane/Logan Grant/The Johnny Zoom Hi-Fi Show Sat., March 19, Coliseum, St. Petersburg
Sassafraz w/Teen Girl Squad/DJ Blassafrass Sat., March 19, New World Brewery, Ybor City
Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra Sat., March 19, Palladium Theater at SPC, St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay Food & Wine Festival: George Thorogood & The Destroyers Sat., March 19, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Blues Music Experience at the Kapok Tree w/Rory Block/Bobby Messano/Rev. Billy C. Wirtz/many more Sat., March 19, Kapok Tree Clearwater
Undertone/The Dood/Everwar/The Defiant/Chronologic Sat., March 19, Local 662, St. Petersburg
Wayland w/Stonegrey/A(K)New/Sahe/Shotglass Serenade/Esque Sat., March 19, State Theatre, St. Petersburg
Acme Jazz Garage Sat., March 19, Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Uncle John’s Band Sat., March 19, Blueberry Patch, St. Petersburg
Oceans: A Pisces Expression of Love for the Venture Compound w/LILITH/Direwood/Infinite Third/Jun純/Mouth Council/The Omni Project/Shifted Grimm Sat., March 19, The Venture Compound, St. Petersburg
Harmonica Lewinski/Kevin K Band/The Pretty Voices Sat., March 19, The Bends, St. Petersburg
Ari and the Alibis Sat., March 19, Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Steven Carey & Friends Sat., March 19, Hideaway Café & Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
Atom N Evol CD Release Party Sat., March 19, Brass Mug, Tampa
The Black Honkeys Sat., March 19, Ringside Café, St. Petersburg
Richard Nader’s Doo Wop Reunion XVI Sat., March 19, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater
WMNF Presents: Karibbyan Kruze Music Fest w/Impulse/Zuberi & Crew/many more Sun., March 20, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa
ABBATH W/High On Fire/Skeletonwitch/Tribulation Sun., March 20, The Ritz Ybor, Ybor City
Judy Collins Sun., March 20, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Tampa Bay Food & Wine Festival: MercyMe Sun., March 20, Busch Gardens, Tampa
Get The Led Out – American Led Zeppelin Tribute Sun., March 20, Tampa Theatre, downtown Tampa
Sara Rose Sun., March 20, The Independent Bar and Café, Tampa
Bryan Lee Sun., March 20, Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa
Uncle John’s Band Sun., March 20, Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Consider The Source Sun., March 20, Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin