Weekly Worcester Shuffle on WCUW 91.3 FM community, found online at www.wcuw.org, where you can listen to this show, and all of the other programs on the station.

Thursday night, Grand Evolution and Traphiq help split the bill at Tammany Hall; and the Black Eye Bone Daddys open for Flock of Assholes at the Lucky Dog.

On Friday, it’s a special benefit for Y.O.U., Inc. to raise money for the Wetzel Center Playground with sets by Jediah, Audio Nation, Sandal Machine Foot and more to be announced. The show starts at 6 p.m. at the Lucky Dog Music Hall on Green Street. Also Friday, Lest You Forget is over at the hookah bar Spiritual Haze; Hat On, Drinking Wine plays Biagio’s Grille; the Beatle Butchers have their take on the Fab Four (which isn’t the typical tribute type) at The Dive Bar; Leaving Eden rocks Jillian’s; Brett Talbert’s singing his tunes at Creegan’s and Sean Ryan from Uncle Billy’s Smokehouse is flying solo, and acoustic, at the Galway Bay; the Swing Dixie Jazz Band brings a taste of swing to the Grafton Inn; and Jason James brings his guitar to Vincent’s.

On Saturday, Puddle of Mudd joins Red, Safety Suit and Temperedcast at The Palladium; Jon Short’s belting out the old time blues in the Shiproom at The Hotel Vernon; Soul Movement is out in Northboro at Tom’s Gourmet Marketplace; Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters usher in a new season at the Green Rooster Coffeehouse; One Bullet Solution joins Skulltoboggan and others at the Lucky Dog for a night of metal; the Silverbacks crank out classic rock, R&B and blues covers with Laurie Kollios on lead vocals at Greendale’s; Dusty Cobb’s singing his stuff at The Q on Chandler Street; and again, Sandal Machine Foot’s following up its Friday night show with another one down at Ralph’s, along with the New Collisions; the Last Call Band plays covers at the Wheelock Inn in Millbury and Clamdigger’s packing 0em in to the Galway Bay; Weight of Gravity opens for Gilmour’s Breakfast, which is a Pink Floyd tribute, at Tammany Hall; Jediah rocks Oxfords in Oxford; and Mike O’Connell’s band plays rock-blues at Gilrein’s.

On Sunday, Jon Short does his weekly thing at Vincent’s; Detour 45 and Ruckus share the stage at Tammany.

On Tuesdays, Bill McCarthy hosts his long running open mic night at Greendale’s; and The Howl continues its residency at the Lucky Dog.

Some other noteworthy events going on in and around the city…

On Friday, make it a point to attend Scott Erb’s booksigning for “Twenty Worcester Artists and Their Work Spaces” at the Davis Gallery. (w link)

On Saturday, Higgins Armory hosts its popular Festival of Ale, which is an evening of tastings from local brewers, talks and treats in the medieval atmosphere of the Great Hall. The event runs from 6-9 p.m. Visit Higgins.org to get tickets; and a new exhibit opens at the Worcester Art Museum called Human Nature(s), which examines works in a range of media by an international roster of contemporary artists who search for answers to the timeworn question, "Who am I?" and invite us to rethink what constitutes our "human nature."