Don’t Miss It
TAPROOT
Won't you be the most diverse music fan on your block if you catch both Sergio Mendes and ear-pummeling, Michigan-based, nü-metal ear-pummelers Taproot, who perform at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wasted Space at the Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road. Tickets are $15; call 693-5066.
MALCOLM SMITH
Part of a two-week Contemporary Art Collective festival called Off the Strip, Bay Area performance artist Malcolm Smith presents a mixed-media show called "Humanimalgamble," demonstrating how indistinguishable humans are from animals. (Strangely, a Taproot concert proves the same thing.) The free performance starts at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Call 383-3100.
KEVIN RUDOLF
Hip-hop hit-maker Kevin Rudolf (Flo Rida, Lil Wayne and Nas) headlines the "Let It Rock" tour, also featuring Hyper Crush, Go Crash, Cash Cash and The Audition, at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $17.50-$19.50; call 632-7600.
EVERCLEAR
Can it really be 10 whole years since singer Art Alexakis and his crew were everything to everyone? Oh well, so much for the afterglow. Catch them as an old-timer act at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Silverton Pavilion, 3333 Blue Diamond Road. Tickets are $27.50; call 914-8557.
Don't Miss It is compiled by Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Corey Levitan. Contact him at 383-0456 or clevitan@reviewjournal. com
SERGIO MENDES
The boss o' bossa nova rumbas out to Primm this weekend. Mendes performs at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Star of the Desert Arena at Buffalo Bill's, Interstate 15 South at Primm. Tickets are $21.95-$38.45; call (800) 386-7867.
