There was a bit of a glitch in the matrix last week with some of this week’s show’s appearing a week early. The good news is, you didn’t miss Rich Homie Quan. Cataclysmic blues-rock five-piece from Knoxville, the Black Cadillacs, are more of a can’t-miss, and they’re at the Blind Tiger on Wednesday.

It didn’t happen overnight, but there’s strange symmetry between the justannounced 102 JAMZ Superjam coming up in June and hip hop at the country’s mega-festivals. 2 Chainz played Coachella this year, A$AP Rocky will have played both come June, Wale is already a veteran of both and Future is a bankable threat for next year.

To paraphrase Luke Cafferty, I like country/ And I like rap/ Put ‘em together/ It sounds like crap…the “Friday Night Lights” well of wisdom is a deep one indeed, and thus the book has already been written on Jessta James, who plays Ziggy’s on Wednesday.

Old North State mine twang from Appalachia and a little from the islands in pursuit of an Avett-y folk-pop pedigree, which they’ll test at the Blind Tiger on Wednesday with the Genuine, Love & Valor, and Blakeley Leonard & the Clay Monsters.

Tigerpalooza begins on Wednesday at the Blind Tiger with Asheville electronic improv trio Papdosio and Middle-Eastern funk fusionists Consider the Source, while Minnesota progressive metal outfit After the Burial will tease their forthcoming album at Greene Street with the Contortionist.

Sorry, fans of sloppy renditions of Liz Reed. Dickey Betts’ originally scheduled performance at the Carolina Theatre on Wednesday has been cancelled with no hope for a make-up date. For something comparable, check out his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame DVD, or give the nearest vagrant a guitar and five bucks.

Winston-Salem puts out a sizeable pulse on the indie-rock radar this weekend with the third, and largest, Phuzz Phest. It’s happening all across downtown and beyond starting on Thursday, and some of its best offerings can be found at SECCA, including Mount Moriah, currently the brightest jewel in Merge Records’ trove, at 8 p.

There’ll be an Abe Reid sighting on Thursday, as the reclusive blues rocker joins Bryon McMurry of Acoustic Syndicate for SongCraft Live at High Rock Outfitters. Hit-or-miss Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly visits Ziggy’s with Glueazy.

Last call to get down with Sinkane while the ink on his DFA Records contract is still wet, because the barriers to entry will surely rise. He’s at the Blind Tiger on Thursday with Casual Curious and Oulipo. On the other hand, it’s hard to get excited over the Summer Set’s years of middling output, and they’re at Greene Street Club.

Tampa Bay jam trio Cope span funk, bluegrass and rock with Marcus Horth’s new world groove project the Monkey Mind on Thursday at the Blind Tiger. Periphery overlaps towering vocals on intensely heavy riffs, and they’re at Greene Street Club with Wake of Redemption, Acirema and Bloodline Severed.

The Family throw a freebie at the Blind Tiger for a bud’s birthday on Thursday, because that’s what family is for, isn’t it? The Bluez Junkiez are not the Phunk Junkeez’s dads, but they are at Ziggy’s, while Turntable has really, really over the top pop-rock by Finer.

By press time, Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ show at Triad Acoustic Stage on Saturday will likely be sold out, so head’s up just in case. Early candidates for Worst Band Name of 2013 include Winston-Salem’s wolves & wolves & wolves & wolves, who play the Garage with the more tidily named Over the Earth and Motorist.

There’s no Scoville rating assigned to a drop-dead hottie mashing on a kit while belting infectious vocal hooks, but it’s a guarantee that Brooklyn-via-Israel pop-funk duo Hank & Cupcakes will make you sweat like a scorpion pepper. They’re at the Blind Tiger on Wednesday.

If you like it a little weird, share your VD on Thursday with your loved one at the Flatiron with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands, Matty Sheets & the Blockheads and Banana Lazuli. Otherwise, Triad Stage appropriately offers the Likewise Jazz Trio to kill time between the steak and the missionary.

It’s Christmas and Easter in one week for hip-hop heads, with a celebration of the birth of the immortal James DeWitt Yancey going down at the Blind Tiger on Thursday with a gaggle of DJs and emcees throwing down their best cuts of the most remixable album of all time.

Chapel Hill’s Some Army launches a worthwhile crowdfunding campaign this week to raise funds to record at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium studio in Kernersville.

Former House of Fools guitarist David McLaughlin plays some solo tunes with Joel Hodnett at Turntable on Friday, while ex-Daughtry drummer Joey Barnes brings Luna Arcade to the Blind Tiger and Screaming By Me bring pianocore to the Somewhere Else Tavern.

Murfreesboro retro-funk/glo-fi duo Cherub are sexy, kitschy and extremely danceable in their reimagining of Prince’s Minneapolis sound (see: the video for “Doses & Mimosas”), and they’ll bring the party to the Blind Tiger this Wednesday night with support from Brennan Fowler of Imperial Blend’s chillout project No Deals.

You know the internet has what you’re looking for basically for free at any time of day, right? Since you’re already paying for it, consider checking in at 10 p.m. this Friday night for the premiere of Alan Ball’s new show “Banshee” to support a Greensboro rock and roller.

There’s more on Bit Brigade in the Forecast, but check the radical supporting cast for their Wednesday night show at the Blind Tiger. The Bronzed Chorus leaves the “post” out of post-rock with their sparse, but resolute missives that pulsate with dance floor urgency and headphone clarity alike.