Friday at last! As you contemplate your escape from the 9-to-5 grind, why not listen to Montréal’s masters of pop precision and melodic shimmer? Canadian indie rock band TOPS is bringing their Bury the Key tour to The Heights Theater with special guest Babe Corner on September 12! Win your way in.*

JUST ANNOUNCED

• Powerhouse metal band Seven Kingdoms is headed to White Oak Music Hall on December 18, promising a night of soaring vocals and intense riffs.

• Try all you want, but no one can do it like Peter McPoland can. Tickets for his White Oak Music Hall show on February 18 are on sale now!

• Bottoms up! Kathleen Madigan is bringing her hilarious The Day Drinking Tour to 713 Music Hall on March 20! Get tickets.

• You asked, so Nate Bargatze is doing it! Catch the Big Dumb Eyes tour at the Toyota Center on June 19.

• Plus, fresh show announcements from Ralph Barbosa, Pandora, Flans, Keller Cox, Cash Cobain, and many more!

FREE STUFF FRIDAY

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• INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FEST. Tomorrow at Midtown Park.

• JAPAN FESTIVAL HOUSTON. Sunday at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

• AFTR DRK. Sunday at Bauhaus.

• DAN ELECTRO’S FREE POOL MONDAYS. Every Monday at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar.

WHENEVER

• RICE VS HOUSTON. Saturday at Rice Stadium (6PM).*

• SIMPLE PLAN. Tonight at ​713 Music Hall (6:30PM).

• BLIND MELON. Tonight at ​House of Blues Houston (7PM).

• QUEREMOS REGGAETON. Tonight at Noto (10PM).

• RALPH BARBOSA. Tonight at The Houston Improv (11:45PM).

LOCALS ONLY

• Hotel Daphne, a six-year project by Houstonian Ben Ackerley with Bunkhouse Hotels, opens January 5 in the Heights. Reservations launch this Wednesday for the boutique hotel at Ashland and West 20th.

• Fountain Life opens a 5,000-square-foot River Oaks facility in December, offering advanced health screenings. The company’s fifth location, and second in Texas, sits beneath Park House at 4411 San Jacinto St.

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‘Til next week!