Shara Worden of Brooklyn, N.Y., who performs as My Brightest Diamond, will be at Solar Culture Saturday night.

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If you miss Friday's Blitzen Trapper show at Solar Culture, it's cool, because an equally great concert is happening the next night at the same place.

Saturday brings Brooklyn's My Brightest Diamond to Solar Culture.

My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, former tour-mate for Sufjan Stevens and an elegant solo artist in her own right.

Somewhere between Regina Spektor and Björk, Worden has this fantastic Victorian croon in her music — which is equally informed by a ramshackle orchestra of strings, detailed in her sophomore effort, 2008's "A Thousand Shark's Teeth."

She's also got a great sense of humor and a giving nature. For each show of the current tour, she's giving away two pairs of tickets if participants correctly answer trivia questions posted on mybrightestdiamond.com.

Recent questions have ranged from "Coca-cola or Pepsi?" to "For whom did Linda Ronstadt sing background vocals?"

Worden also has excellent taste, as evidenced by awesome opener Clare & The Reasons — fellow Brooklynites who probably will be headlining Southwest tours on their own soon.

Admission to the 9 p.m. show is $8.

— Kevin W. Smith

Veteran California rapper Aceyalone plays The Rock on Saturday night.

Aceyalone has quietly been soldiering through the independent hip-hop scene since the mid-'90s and in that time has helped found Los Angeles' Project Blowed, "a workshop designed to challenge and sharpen the skills of all hip-hop heads from emcees, to dancers, graffiti artists, DJs and, of course, listeners," according to its Web site.

Aceyalone's latest album, "The Lonely Ones," was released earlier this month.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with a host of hip-hop acts, including Tucson's Cryptic Wisdom.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show.

— Kevin W. Smith

It's a fairly sizable lineup Friday at Club Congress, with electro-rock act Subtle (from Oakland, Calif.) topping a bill that includes experimental electronic artist Zach Hill.

Mostly Bears and indie-poppers Rcougar will be opening up.

There will also be performances from 21 Pump Street, Zachey Force Funk, and DJ Noah Reason.

In addition, local artists will be selling their work in Congress' lobby at 5 p.m.

Doors for the show open at 8 p.m., and admission is a scant $5 in advance or $7 at the door.

— Kevin W. Smith

Club Congress has a good one Tuesday. It's a benefit show for Camp Wildcat, a UA student-run nonprofit that helps disadvantaged kids.

A large group of local acts will perform, including Feel Good Revolution, AV, Alaska And Me (from Show Low), Vine St. and two Battle of the Bands competitors: Evil Fudd and The Shkanks.

Tickets are $5 and doors open at 6 p.m.

— Kevin W. Smith

Chango Malo drummer Jericho Davidson recently called hard-rocking Garboski one of the best bands in town.

You can tell Davidson if he's right or wrong when both bands perform Saturday at Plush.

Local rock act Mascaron warms it all up at 9:30 p.m.

The show will cost you $5.

— Kevin W. Smith

Prolific English rocker Holly Golightly will play Plush Wednesday with her band The Brokeoffs.

Golightly makes gritty, barebones garage rock you'd expect to come out of Detroit rather than the northern coast of Spain, which is where the new album, "Dirt Don't Hurt," was created in just five days.

The fitting opener is our own bluesman Tom Walbank at 9:45 p.m. The cover charges is $8.

— Kevin W. Smith