The legendary Fishbone plays tonight at Fitz’s with The Expendables, Supervillains, and Ryan Scroggins & The Trenchtown Texans. This is sure to be packed so make plans to get there early or get your tickets here. Fishbone’s new album, Still Stuck in Your Throat is available now.

Another packed concert tonight will be Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Elvis Perkins in Dearland at Warehouse Live. My pick, however, is to catch Ragged Hearts at the Jet Lounge, which is next to the Engine Room. You can read my interview with CYHSY in the April issue of Envy.

Friday night is Deep Ella’s CD release show at Warehouse Live. Million Year Dance, The Wartime Social, and Five Dollar Friend are also on the bill.

Other shows this weekend include:

Thursday, 4.26.07

Free Radicals @ Notsuoh
The Scattered PAGES @ Brasil (10pm-12am)
Audrey Auld Mezera @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
Vedera/This Is Me Smiling @ Walter’s on Washington
Paula Nelson Band @ The Continental Club
Delbert McClinton/Susan Tedeschi @ Verizon Wireless Theater

Friday, 4.27.07

Solas @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
Type O Negative/Celtic Frost/Brand New Sin @ The Meridian
Tyla/Sister Devastation/Ragged Hearts @ The Proletariat
Free Radicals @ Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar
The Generic Tribe (CD release)/Novice/Confuzatron/Hearts of Animals @ Walter’s
Chicago/Kool and the Gang @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Amplified Heat/Dirty Leg/Iron Clad @ Rudyard’s
The Seas/Thomas Helton/Stimuli @ Notsuoh
Mine Flow @ The White Swan
Disco Expressions @ The Continental Club
Two High String Band @ Last Concert Cafe

Saturday, 4.28.07

Dale Watson/Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers @ The Continental Club
Two Star Symphony/Leslie + the LY’s/Tha F***ing Transmissions @ The Proletariat
Real Live Tigers/Cory Derden/Sabra and the Big Brothers @ Notsuoh
Cross Canadian Ragweed/Gary Allan @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Cowboy Mouth @ Fitzgerald’s
The Small Sounds @ Rudyard’s
Kelly Willis @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
George Thorogood & The Destroyers/Monkeybeat @ Warehouse Live
Jordan/Kit Likwid/DJ Archaic/Swift-E @ SDC Warehouse (1620 Keene)
Opie Hendrix @ Last Concert Cafe
Ronnie Milsap @ Stafford Centre (Stafford)

Sunday, 4.29.07

Men, Women + Children/Oohlas/Margot @ The Mink
Tyla/Modern Kicks/Sister Devastation/Ragged Hearts @ The Proletariat
Neil Hamburger/Pleaseesaur @ The Orange Show
Glasnost @ Notsuoh
Brett Dennen @ The Meridian
Tommy Dardar @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

There’s also a wealth of festivals this weekend (list after the jump…)

Friday:

2007 Texas Crawfish & Music Festival, featuring Burden Brothers, Rebirth Brass Band, Wade Bowen, Glass Intrepid, Brian Jack, Soul Rebel Brass Band, Paris Green, Honeybrowne, Bon Ton Mickey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Step Rideau, Walter Chenier, Hayes Carll, Zona Jones, & more @ Historic Old Town Spring (Spring)

HBC Fest III, featuring Stalking Chloe, Sound Breaking Ground, Dine Alone, Epic, Savage Evolution, Rainchild, Mindflow, Prognosis, Fallbrook, & Truck @ Fitzgerald’s

Baby-Mini Fest, featuing Romanticism, Skyscrapers Walk Among Us, Upon A Burning Body, The Letting Go Process, Assailants, Red Waltz, Novista, Zap ‘Em Dead Bartholomew, Hematidrosis, & A Word To The Suffering @ Java Junction

Saturday:

Houston International Festival 2007, featuring Wayne Henderson & the Jazz Crusaderes, Patrice Pike, Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys, Carolyn Wonderland, Jeni Lynn, Baby Jay, Traffic Jam, Atash, Yellowman & the Sagittarius Band, Afrissippi, Woody Russell, Sherman Robertson, Les Amis Creole, Arthur Yoria, Fondue Monks, Lil Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers, Norma Zenteno, Rick Lee & The Night Owls, & more @ Downtown Houston

Make-A-Wish Foundation Concert Benefit, featuring Magistral, La Lady Cigarrete, Stateside Stereo, Scenic Woods, & Ryan the Magic Man @ Lamar HS

Sunday:

Houston International Festival 2007, featuring Lucinda Williams, Johnny Bush, J. Paul Jr. & the Zydeco Nubreeds, The Stone Coyotes, Hongmiam Cantonese Opera Group, Kaitlyn Knippers, Tody Castillo, Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Jesse Dayton, Vieux Farka Touré, Clinton Fearon, Los Texmaniacs, Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band, Scott & the Soul Tones, Clouseaux, I.J. Gosey, & more @ Downtown Houston

Enjoy the sun!