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Wicked combo

Steel yourself for some rock 'n' roll so primal that brows will thicken and sagittal crests will grow when Boulder City badasses Dude City team up with Vegas-born duo the Mad Caps at 7 p.m. Thursday at Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $20; call 698-7000.

- Jason Bracelin

Agent Orange

Ratcheting up the torque and intensity of bands such as the Ventures and the Trashmen, SoCal's Agent Orange helped pioneer surf punk in the late '70s and are still riding that wave three decades later. See them at 8 p.m. today at the Cheyenne Saloon, 3103 N. Rancho Drive. Tickets are $13; call 645-4139.

- Jason Bracelin

Double feature

Director Jorge Ameer swears they're "by far the most controversial films of 2012." So what better place to see them than in the back of a fetish shop? Ameer and some of his actors will attend screenings of "Dark Side of Love" (4 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday) and "D'Agostino" (6 and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday) at Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., No. 16. Tickets are $12 at the door or $20 for the double feature.

- Christopher Lawrence

Swingin' jazz

Sing and swing back to those thrilling big-band days of yesteryear with Jazzin' Jeannie Brei & the Speakeasy Swingers at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road. The free concert showcases toe-tapping, finger-snapping tunes of the '30s, '40s and '50s, featuring vocalist Brei and veterans of the Louis Armstrong and Guy Lombardo bands, among others.

- Carol Cling

Farmers market

Winder Farms, which brought the milkman back to Southern Nevada, is expanding our farmers market offerings with a new market from 4 to 8 p.m. Fridays, beginning today, at the Galleria at Sunset mall at 1300 W. Sunset Road in Henderson. The market, which will involve other local food and beverage vendors, will be in the mall's south parking lot.

- Heidi Knapp Rinella

Morgan Page

Massively talented L.A. songwriter Morgan Page DJs at Wynn's XS nightclub tonight. Then he returns to Encore's club Surrender on Wednesday. He brings with him his sumptuous songs: "The Longest Road" (featuring vocalist Lissie and remixed by Deadmau5); "Fight For You" (featuring Lissie); "In the Air" (with singer Angela McCluskey); "Believe" (with Lissie); "Strange Condition" (with Lissie); and "Body Work" (featuring Tegan and Sara).

- Doug Elfman

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