Mid-week malaise got you down? Step inside Stubb’s this evening for a chopped beef sandwich and easy melodies to help your melancholy mood. Singer-songwriter Gary Jules provides a gentle folk sprawl of guitar and hand claps that will help you get over any hump day. A veteran of fine albums such as Greetings From The Side and Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets, his latest self-titled effort matches their potency by once again lacing his acoustic......

THURSDAY [9] music • Ice Age Cobra, Maaster Gaiden at The Mohawk music • Crash Gallery, The Last Gasp, Future Clouds and Radar, Red Leaves at Emo's music • 2nd Annual Miracles on 8th Street at Stubb's ($70, 7pm) music • 2006 Hotel Cafe Tour with Cary Brothers, Rachel Yamagata, Tristan Prettyman, Joshua Radin, Jonah Matranga, Jim Bianco, Sara Bareilles at The Parish Room music • Joshua Radin at Waterloo Records music • CREEPOUT......

Cary Brothers, Rachel Yamagata, Tristan Prettyman, Joshua Radin, Jonah Matranga, Jim Bianco, and Sara Bareilles will grace The Parish's stage on Thursday night as part of the 2006 Hotel Cafe tour, which has blossomed from a rag-tag gang of L.A.-based musicians harmonizing in a Hollywood coffee shop into a tour bus full of artists with credits like appearances on Grammy Award winning soundtracks (Garden State). Throughout the U.S., the tour offers a variation of......

Gomi Kitti -- they (formerly) of the large red cat head on South Congress -- has returned to Austin, now situated in the swanky new 2nd Street District. They'll be hosting a slew of events this week along with everyone else in the neighborhood, so check 'em out while you're between day parties: Eliza Page Friday March 17th: Protokol (Opcode Boston) 5-7pm Saturday March 18th: In-store Designer party and jewelry trunk show with renee garvey......