Roadtrips

Having just completed a national tour supporting their latest great CD on Matador, Gently Down the Stream, local indie-rock heroes Come return to home territory. On April 2 they're at the Call (401-751-2255) in Providence with rickety urban bloozebreakers White Hassle, a side project of Railroad Jerk frontman Marcellus Hall, and the Good Furies. Then they head to the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge for a two-night stand in the club's cozy upstairs room. On April 3, while the Fall headline downstairs, they're again joined by White Hassle and the Good Furies, as well as the Boom (featuring members of NYC's June of '44). The April 4 bill features the Fully Celebrated Orchestra and Pee Wee Fist.

The local legions of devotees of indie-folk goddess Ani DiFranco will have to hop in the car to see her this time around. Her spring tour bypasses Boston but hits the Whittimore Arena (603-862-4000) in Durham, New Hampshire, on April 3; the Mullins Center (413-733-2500) at UMass-Amherst on April 4; and the Providence Performing Arts Center (401-421-2787) on April 6. Chris Brown and Kate Fenner open all three shows.

Tim Reynolds, guitarist from that really huge band who play Foxboro this June, brings his TR3 to the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton on April 8, the Call on April 9, and the Middle East on April 11. Amphetamine Reptile brimstone-and-hellfire noise-rock madmen the Cows hit Middle East on April 5, and the Call on April 6. Moo.

--C.C.