RANI ARBO AND DAISY MAYHEM
Old-world and contemporary folk come together in the music of this western Massachusetts quartet. Arbo is the founder, fiddler and lead vocalist; Mayhem is her zany band. Together they turn convention upside down. Tomorrow at 4 and 8 p.m. at Club Passim, Cambridge, 617-492-7679.
CLINIC
Expect costumes - maybe even scrubs and surgical masks - from this Liverpool quartet, which plans to play its new CD, “Do It!,” in its
entirety, followed by a second set of tunes voted for by fans on the group’s Web site. Tonight at the Paradise, 617-562-8800.
WILL DAILEY
Dailey, the 2006 Boston Music Award winner for Best Male Singer/
Songwriter, performs selections from his highly anticipated CD, “Back Flipping Forward.” Tonight at Harpers Ferry, Allston, 617-254-9743.
DIZZEE RASCAL/EL-P
Rascal, a Mercury Prize-winning rapper from London, has achieved merely cult status on these shores, but he’s scored two top 10 albums in the UK with his gritty “grime” style of rhyme. Aggro-rap opener EL-P is also the owner of Definitive Jux, the label that released Rascal’s latest, “Maths + English,” on this side of the Atlantic. Sunday at the Middle East, Cambridge, 617-864-EAST.
EL PERRO DEL MAR
Warbling Swedish chanteuse Sarah Assbring, whose stage name means “the dog of the sea,” performs
material from her ethereal new CD, “From the Valley to the Stars.”
Fellow Swedes Lykke Li and Anna Ternheim open. Tonight at the Middle East, Cambridge, 617-864-EAST.
’FNX BEST MUSIC POLL
The local alternative-radio station kicks off Bank of America Pavilion’s summer concert season with local soul sensation Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Cambridge electro up-and-comers Passion Pit, Dresden Dolls mastermind Amanda Palmer, along with national acts Death Cab for Cutie, Presidents of the United States of America and former Husker-Du frontman Bob Mould. Tomorrow, 617-728-1600.
