From country music to hip hop to New Orleans-fueled R&B, there's alot on tap this Friday night. Breakdown below...Marcia Ball with Lipbone Redding Speaking of multiple-award-living female blues icons, Texas-born, Louisiana-bred Marcia Ball is bringing her swinging, boogie-fueled R&B show back to town for another show. Her latest album, the evocative The Tattooed Lady And The Alligator Man, was produced by veteran Tom Hambridge and features another bona fide blues deity, Delbert McClinton. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) —Scott Harrell
DMX with Infinite Skillz There are stories of diehard DMX fans who’ve bought tickets to see their hero only to witness an actual set from him only half the time. And that’s how it goes with the revered Yonkers rapper who no-showed on his November 2014 set at Jannus, leaving most fans pissed and several handfuls not surprised at all. This appearance is the makeup date, and promoters say they’re flying X in a day early just to make sure he shows. Your original ticket is still good at this show, but we’re not making any guarantees about the guy actually making it to the stage. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) —Ray Roa
Alan Jackson with Jon Pardi, Brandy Clark After a quarter-century of making country music, Alan Jackson doesn’t even want to think about quitting. “As long as you still enjoy it and your fans still come, you might as well just go out there and play,” he recently told Country Weekly. The 56-year-old Georgia boy is going to do just that on Friday, and while his blend of old-school honky-tonk and traditional FM-radio country has always been extremely sterile over the course of his career, it’ll be interesting to see if Jackson (who has recently come under fire of gun control groups angry about his upcoming NRA Convention appearance) ruffles a few feathers from the stage this go-around. (USF Sun Dome, Tampa) —Ray Roa
Side Door Blues: Duffy Bishop Band After 40 years in the business, this living legend of the blues and multiple award-winner makes her first appearance on the west coast of Florida, to benefit longtime WMNF program Mo’ Blues Monday. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) —SH
The Sharp Lads with Stegosaurus, Destructonomicon Fubar’s commitment to low-cover (and no-cover) quality rock shows continues on Friday with an appearance by Brooklyn punk outfit The Sharp Lads. The quartet are a freewheeling bunch who dish out reckless, breakneck rock n' roll (“Inventing The Future”) that flirts with late-'80s power-pop (“St. Mark’s Hotel”) and isn’t ashamed of its minor case of substance dependence (“Drug, Booze, and Your Little Sister”). No cover for this one, and Fubar has some cheap booze options to go along with its high-quality craft selection, so your dollars will go a long way. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) —RR
ALSO HAPPENING TONIGHT
Iris Calling Hideaway Café& Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
PlanetRAWK Market on 7th, Ybor City
Resinate Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Wish NIN Tribute with Team Cybergeist State Theatre, St. Petersburg
Geri X, Will Quinlan, Red Feather, Mountain Holler The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
Sage Armstrong with Brian Busto, Felp Hyde Park Cafe, Tampa
Jun Bustamante Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa