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Saturday night, O.A.R. keyboardist MikelParis will be playing Mandalay Bay. Friday afternoon, he’ll be at downtown’s Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park for his latest “TuneTrek” video.

For a band like L.A.’s War, “funk” has always been a feeling, a mindset as much as a genre designation.

The Brian Setzer Orchestra delivers a rockabilly take on seasonal standards.

The soulful singer has three Christmas albums to draw from for “This Christmas — An Evening of Holiday & Hits” on Saturday at the Eastside Cannery.

The frontman of Finland’s HIM isn’t a straight-up metal singer, per se: HIM’s dark, sensual hard rock is as indebted to moody ’80s goth and melancholy alt-rock as it is any “Headbanger’s Ball” veterans.

See former Love/Hate singer Jizzy Pearl and more for free.