Some Birds of Avalon.
Chris Denny, famous locally and beyond for his high warble, plays Juanita’s, with killer psych-pop-rock band Birds of Avalon (familiar to those who caught Ted Leo’s last Juanita’s show), catchy singer/songwriter Jeremy Fisher, who has a stop-motion music video where a cigarette comes to life, and Brooke Wagner, 8:30 p.m., $8.
At White Water its bands with names that sound like they were pilfered from childrens’ stories: Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears do baroque power-pop a la Jellyfish or A.C. Newman, and Johnny Nobody does slightly heavier indie rock, 9 p.m., $5.
New Monsoon, from the Bay Area, bring together loads of instruments and disparate genres, for one big jam at Revolution, 8 p.m., $10.
Emo-ish pop-punk band Wheatus is at Vino’s before heading to SXSW and returning to LR for the Inksplosion. Plus, NYC’s Dead Man Dreaming, a metal-punk band. With Arkansas’s At Our Finest.