Springsteen is almost here, Midwest Meltdown at the Foundry and Latin futurism at The Grog: The week in live music from Malcolm X Abram

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform April 5 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, headbangers get 10 bands in one day on Saturday, April 1, at the Midwest Meltdown at The Foundry Concert Club and fans of alt-Latin music get a night of "tropical futurism" on Thursday, April 6, at the Grog Shop courtesy of Combo Chimbita. The Midwest Meltdown is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, this week, featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Tickets for the show are still available at SeatGeek and other places starting at $89 a ticket if you don't mind sitting alone in the rafters. Metalheads can get a heaping helping of headbang-worthy riffage and very few clean vocals on Saturday when The Foundry Concert Club (11729 Detroit Ave, Lakewood). To save you the trouble, here are who is playing and their self-written sub-genre descriptions.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In less than five days, Bruce Springsteen will once again grace a Cleveland stage with his rock ‘n’ roll presence, this time at a show Wednesday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, also known affectionately as “The Rock.” Springsteen fans already know that this is The Boss’ first big arena tour in six years, and he and the E Street band haven’t played in downtown Cleveland since 2016.

But the 2023 tour hasn’t gone off without a few hitches. Earlier this month, Bruce and the E Street Band had to postpone three shows, including one in Columbus and shows in Uncasville, Conn., and Albany, N.Y., due to an unspecified illness. If you have Columbus tickets, you’ll be happy to know the show has been rescheduled for September 21. Of course, if you can’t attend on that date, you’ll be disappointed to miss out, but happy to know that you have until April 16 to request a refund.

If you want to go to the Cleveland show, tickets are still available at SeatGeek and other places starting at $89 a ticket if you don’t mind sitting alone in the rafters.

So far, Springsteeen’s set lists for this young tour have been relatively static, but the encores are action-packed with hits, including, the ‘80s pop treasure, “Dancing In the Dark,” and fan favorites “Rosalita” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” so everyone should leave the arena happy and hoarse.

OTHER STUFF TO SEE AND HEAR

Area metalheads can get a heaping helping of headbang-worthy riffage and very few clean vocals on Saturday when The Foundry Concert Club (11729 Detroit Ave, Lakewood) plays host to the Midwest Meltdown. Tickets for the metal marathon are $12 and are available at Ticketweb.

The most-of-the-day-and-well-into-the-night festival features 10 metal bands beginning at 3 p.m. and keeps going until your brain melts and begins to leak out of your earholes. You know it will be a good metal show when you look at the flyer, and the fonts are so unrecognizable that they render at least half the listed band names illegible. To save you the trouble, here’s who is playing and their self-written sub-genre descriptions. The descriptions are important because no other genre, save maybe dance music, has as many sub, micro and mini genres as metal, so here we go.

There is Pittsburgh’s The Breathing Process, purveyors of “Symphonic Blackened Deathcore,” the unfussy upstate New York “metalcore” band Fight From Within, and the “old school death metal” sounds of Church from Columbus.

Cincy’s Scab Hag has “Swamp-brewed Death Metal” for you to imbibe, and you can bask in some “Eastern Kentucky Deathcore” from What Drives The Weak. The homegrown bands also have plenty to offer, including a heaping helping of “Midwest Despair” from Kingz & Thievez, and Unvow will surely slay with their “Beatdown Blackened Deathslam” while Paradox Rift brings “Experimental Melodic Death.” Finally, Dissected plays “Tiffin Ohio Death Metal.”

But the winner of the least legible band logo at the Midwestern Meltdown goes to the “Appalachian DeathSlam” of Crown Vic, the pride of Ravenswood W.Va. Well done, gentleman. Your logo looks like someone with a severely chronic mucus problem cracked a raw egg into a small glass of lukewarm lard and then dropped that into a pint of room temperature cottage cheese, slammed it all down, yelled, “Metal up your tuckus!” and then snot-rocketed the contents of their nasal passages onto a large pumpkin. Bravo! Dig their dizzying video for the heavy-as-heck single “Baptized in Fire.”

On Thursday, April 6, fans of contemporary Latin music or if you’re just looking for something different to groove on, should consider heading over to the Grog Shop for Combo Chimbita, a quartet of Columbian-Americans from New York playing what they have called “tropical futurism,” a dynamic mixing of cumbia, psychedelic flavors, rock, and elements of dub.

The band, fronted by the intense singer-songwriter Carolina Oliveros along with guitarist Niño Lento es Fuego, bassist/synth guy Prince of Queens and drummer Dilemastronauta released its third album, “IRE” in 2022. The band’s songs are in Spanish, but even if you neither speak nor understand a lick of Spanish, the emotion and intensity found in the political and spiritual-minded music and Oliveros’ powerful, emotive voice, to some extent, translates itself.

Opening for Combo Chimbita will be local bands Unity and rock ‘n soul’ outfit Apostle Jones. Tickets for Combo Chimbita are $15-$18 at ticketweb.com.

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