Winter Blues All-Stars, 3 p.m.

The Winter Blues All-Stars is a collaboration of graduates of the River Music Experience's Winter Blues program, led by Ellis Kell and Hal Reed. The kids have been practicing hard, so their set will be sure to amaze the audience!

(Editor's note: This concert was canceled on June 13.)

What's essential to know about the Redstone Room's June 14 headliner can be summed up succinctly: Richard Lloyd was one of the guitarists of Television, the seminal band whose 1977 Marquee Moon is widely considered a great debut, an unmistakable influence on post-punk and alternative rock, and a classic, period.

The All Music Guide calls it "a revolutionary album, but it's a subtle, understated revolution. Without question, it is a guitar-rock album - it's astonishing to hear the interplay between [singer/songwriter/guitarist] Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd - but it is a guitar-rock album unlike any other," composed entirely of "tense garage rockers that spiral into heady intellectual territory, which is achieved through the group's long, interweaving instrumental sections ... ."

But to reduce Lloyd to a member of Television - whose initial incarnation disbanded in 1978 after two sterling studio albums - is to diminish a more-than-respectable career as a performer and songwriter outside of that band, and to rob the world of a fascinating person.

The Los Angeles-based quintet Spindrift has developed a reputation for its cinematic sound - something that started with a score for a film that was then only an idea in the head of bandleader Kirpatrick Thomas: The Legend of God's Gun, which later became a 2007 feature written and directed by Mike Bruce. One track for that film was used in 2008's Hell Ride - executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino - and Thomas now has three additional film-score-composer credits with Spindrift.

But this tack for the band - playing at Rozz-Tox on May 19 - is a relatively recent development. Spindrift was formed in the early 1990s in Delaware, and was at that point an experimental psychedelic-rock band. It was only in 2001, when Thomas heard Ennio Morricone's music for the Sergio Leone classic Once Upon a Time in the West, that his band changed course.

The Detroit trio Koffin Kats - headlining an all-ages show at the River Music Experience on May 5 - performs in the musical subgenre known as psychobilly, and the fusion of punk and rockabilly isn't particularly well-known or popular in the States.

So it's a bit strange that bassist and singer Vic Victor, in a phone interview last week, called psychobilly a "music genre for everybody." The style's biggest name is probably the Reverend Horton Heat, whose top-selling albums have managed to reach only the lower quarter of Billboard's top 200.

Yet Victor said that when the uninitiated but curious - those who don't realize that the upright bass has a place in rock music - show up to a Koffin Kats gig, they're usually converted. "Everyone's invited," he said. "That's kind of the idea with this new record. We didn't write it for the psychobilly crowd. We wrote it for anybody who likes rock and roll and driving music."

That album is Our Way & the Highway, and while Victor probably overstates its appeal as universal, there's no denying that the Kats' brand of psychobilly deserves a wider audience; the band's music is relentless but also loaded with hooks, strong melodies, and alluring harmonies on top of the aggressive rockabilly groove. If Green Day deserves some of its superstar status, then the Koffin Kats are worthy of at least a piece of that pie.