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The gallery will host a concert tonight featuring theSixth Species Ensemble, a Michigan State University-based ensemblespearheaded by MSU music graduate Phillip Sink, who is also a composer,saxophonist and teacher. The concert features new works by fellowuniversity composers, including Victor Marquez, Phillip Sink, LouisAndriessen, Tim Patterson and Mark O’Connor. The Sixth Species Ensemblehas been a semester-long collaboration in which MSU musicians joinforces as a composer collective devoted to performing only new works byliving composers. One of the pieces the ensemble will perform is Sink’sown song cycle, “Dans les Nuages,” for baritone, harp, vibraphone andbass clarinet. To preview Sink’s song, “When We Were Young,” recordedby the Sixth Species Ensemble, visit www.phillipsink.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 30 @ (SCENE)Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing. $5 public, $3 with studentID, all ages, doors at 7 p.m.; music at 7:30 p.m.

Mac’s Bar  gets  heavy

Since Cavalcade signed with Housecore Records (a labelowned by former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo) the Lansing-basedweird-metal band has kept busy playing shows, recording tracks for anupcoming album, and even touring with Down, Anselmo’s own metal band.“(The members of Cavalcade) are extreme in their own sense, but theybring a whole new element to the genre,” Anselmo said in a 2010interview. On Friday, Cavalcade plays Mac’s Bar, along with headlinersSleepeater, a Grand Rapids “doom-pop-dream-metal band” with no shortageof obnoxious screams. Opening the show is Record of War, a Lansinghard-rock band made up of Tyler Babcock, Erik Jacobsen and Greg Maher(previously from the local Lansing band Endless Aisle), along with JohnPeterson on vocals. 

Friday, Dec. 2 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, 18 and over. $5, 9 p.m.


Country-fried Tex-Mex tunes at Fiddle

A long-time favorite on the national folk scene, TishHinojosa spends most of her time in Europe, only doing a couple ofAmerican tours each year, On Friday, she plays the Ten Pound Fiddle;the music starts at 8 p.m. In this rare swing through the Midwest,she’ll perform songs influenced by harmonious country, folk music, evensome Hispanic sounds. Concertgoers can expect songs sung in English,but also a few in Spanish. Born in 1965, Hinojosa was the youngest of13 children and was raised by Mexican immigrants. After becoming afixture in the folk-music world, she’s charted twice on the BillboardCountry Charts and has recorded 18 albums, including some titles forRounder Records, a notable American-roots label.

Hinojosa’s latest CD, “Our Little Planet” (CRS/VareseSarabande Records), features a stripped-down country-western sound. The12 original songs on this collection feature a deeply Americana mix oftraditional bluegrass and her trademark sound of contemporary folk andTex-Mex. Check out songs and videos at www.mundotish.com. 

Friday, Dec. 2 @ Ten Pound Fiddle —Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Grove Street East Lansing, Lansing.Public $15, members $12, students $5. Box office at 7 p.m., doors at7:30 p.m., music at 8 p.m. More information at: www.tenpoundfiddle.org.

You better werk

Ohio-based jam-band The Werks returns toMac’s Bar on Saturday for a night of “psychedelic dance rock.” Since itformed in 2007, the band has released three albums, and made a name foritself across the map, thanks to devoted fans and busy promotionalstreet teams. The group produces a dance-party vibe that fuses theshredding guitars, wild organ jams and even some straightforwardclassic rock. Its signature sound is centered on its use of funk-slapbass, synthesizers and modern dance beats. The band holds its annualWerk Out Music and Arts Festival each September.Opening the show is TyBeat, who combines electronica, hip hop and live-instrumentation into avaried set of experimental music. The Grand Rapids native is equalparts songwriter, producer and drummer. He applies rock-and-rollstyling to original hip-hop grooves, creating a live show that’ssomewhere between a “gritty punk rock show and late-night Detroitrave.” Fans of DJ Shadow might want to check out this set. 

Saturday, Dec. 3 @ Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, 18 and over. $10, 9 p.m.


SuperDre returns to Lansing

Emerging Michigan-born producer and DJSuperDre spins funky-minimal techno Saturday at The Loft. Alsoperforming are locals Robert Perry and DJ Sammy.

SuperDre, a Grand Rapids DJ/beat maker,has shared bills with the likes of DJ Irene, John Acquaviva andTerrence Parker. She performs most of her sets on turntables, but shealso incorporates the use of midi controllers.
For more information, visit www.reverbnation.com/superdre.

Saturday, Dec. 3 @ The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing,  $5 advance, $7 for 21 and over, $10 for 18 and over, must be 18 to enter, doors 9 p.m.

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