Roadtrips

edited by Matt Ashare

If you don't already have a ticket to Terrastock at Providence's Rogue Lounge (401-331-0877) this weekend, April 25 through 27, it's too late -- the festival is sold out. But you can still catch some of Terrastock's best acts at other venues. Ohio's Witch Hazel, who play the Rogue on the 25th at 8, join Boston's-own Syrup USA on April 28 at the Green Street Grill (617-876-1655) in Cambridge. Neutral Milk Hotel and the Olivia Tremor Control, who have Terrastock sets on the 26th at 5:30 p.m. and the 27th at 2 p.m. respectively, join forces at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on April 27. And if you can't make it to the big WBOS/92.9 Earth Day Concert and Festival (617-787-0929) at the MDC Hatch Shell on banks of the Charles River in Boston to see the Verve Pipe with Boz Scaggs, Widespread Panic, Modern English, the Bone Shakers, Ashley MacIssac, Patty Griffin, and Jonathan Edwards on April 26, you can catch them a week later with Tonic at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence.

Feel-good rappers De La Soul hit the Strand (401-272-0444) in Providence on April 24 and Axis (617-262-2437) in Boston on April 29. Fat Bag and Rustic Overtones join De La Soul in Providence and then play their own show together at Avalon (617-262-2424) on April 30. England's techno-driven Sneaker Pimps open for G. Love & Special Sauce on April 25 at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, in what has to be one of the stranger pairings of the week. The Pimps go on to headline Axis on the following night with Chimera opening.

Former New Orleans truck driver Camus, who sings in a voice that'll remind you of Tom Petty and has the songs to back it up, joins Big Mouth and Spacehog at the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence on April 26 and begins a residency at Bill's Bar (617-421-9678) in Boston on May 1, which continues with shows on the 8th and 15th. And diehard English punk fundamentalists the UK Subs celebrate their 20th anniversary of rebel rocking with a tour that hits the Met Café on April 28 and the Middle East on April 29.