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MARDI GRAS PARADE AFTERPARY

New Orleans ensemble Coolbone Brass Band will bring Crescent City swagger to Yellowhammer Brewing's Mardi Gras Crawfish Boil. Coolbone will perform 6 to 7 p.m. Then, from 7 to 10 Huntsville classic-rockers 5 O'Clock Charlie take the bandstand. Medical District area restaurant Cajun Steamer will host a crawfish boil on the back patio. This is the perfect afterparty for the Mardi Gras Huntsville Grand Parade. (The parade starts at 4:30 p.m. on Meridian Street and will wind through downtown streets.)

Mardi Gras Crawfish Boil, 6 -10 p.m. Feb. 10, Yellowhammer Brewing, 2600 Clinton Ave. W., free to attend (ages 21 and up only), facebook.com/yellowhammerbrewing

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LIVE MUSIC

Some musical side-projects are just a little more worth paying attention too than others. Jack Ingalls, multi-instrumentalist with psysh-rock faves Flaming Flips, also fronts Space Face, an appropriately titled Memphis based combo. Space Face’s music is often ethereal and smoothly propulsive, as on their song “Radiator,” in a manner Tame Impala fans will enjoy. But Ingalls, who joined the Lips after first starting with that band as a behind the scenes tech for, can also knock listeners upside the head. As on the “Cowboy Lighting,” a standout cut from Space Face’s latest album “Sun Kids.” Local acts Seminole Strut (a group whose sound evoking Kings of Leon), DJ Hug and new band Impossible Machine (who draw from influences including Queens of the Stone) will open Space Face’s Huntsville show.

Space Face, 8 p.m. showtime Feb. 5, SideTracks Music Hall, 415 Church St., $10 advance $12 door, facebook.com/sidetrackshsv, spacefacemusic.com

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COMEDY

Actor/comedian Mike Epps, a veteran of such films as “The Hangover” and “Next Friday,” performs a set up stand-up.

Mike Epps, 7 and 9:15 p.m. Feb. 9, 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. Feb. 10, Stand Up Live, 2012 Memorial Pkwy. S.W., $35-$50 (plus ticket fees and two-item minimum), huntsville.standuplive.com

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PUNK ROCK KARAOKE

Live out your CBGB ambitions by belting out songs from such artists as Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Ramones and Misfits at Punk Rock Karaoke.

Punk Rock Karaoke, 8 p.m. Feb. 10, Maggie Meyers Irish Pub, 1009 Henderson Road N.W., free to attend, facebook.com/maggiemeyersirishpub

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NEW ALBUM

Muscle Shoals guitarist Will McFarlane once told me in passing he “gets paid for the notes he leaves out.” His tasty fretwork is a clear highlight of “Step On It!,” the new album from Big Shoes, a band comprised of Shoals and Nashville musicians. McFarlane and Big Shoes keyboardist Mark T. Jordan have both been members of Grammy-winner Bonnie Raitt’s band. Drummer Andy Peake, singer/guitarist Rick Huckaby, guitarist Kenne Cramer, bassist Tom Szell and percussion Bryan Brock round out Big Shoes’ lineup. The musicians’ collective resume includes work with Van Morrison, Delbert McClinton, Etta James, Taj Mahal and Bobby “Blue” Bland.

"Step on It!" by Big Shoes, available now, $9.99 download, $12.97 CD, cdbaby.com

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