Thursday, Dec. 11

Antibalas has taken on the unenviable task of carrying on the legacy of a genre that was arguably perfected by its inventor, Fela Kuti. Yet the New York Afrobeat band not only builds on Fela’s blueprint through their influences from Cuban and Jamaican music—they’ve turned their take on the Nigerian bandleader’s sound into a cottage industry, serving as the house band for Bill T. Jones’s Fela! musical on Broadway while showing up on recordings by everyone from Mark Ronson (that’s them playing horns on “Uptown Funk”) to TV on the Radio. The Get Down, 680 SE 6th Ave. 8 pm. $35.44. 21+.

Friday, Dec. 12

Acid King makes comfort-food heavy metal, the kind your mom used to worry about. The San Francisco doom band aims for the same pleasure centers in the head typically ti

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