Music
Joshua Boydston
Psychostick with Soul Crisis, Switchblade Rosie, God in the Machine and Severed by Sin
8 p.m. Friday
Bricktown Live, 103 Flaming Lips Alley
236-4143
$12 advance, $15 door

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Known for the Doug Loves Movies podcast and smoking enough pot for an entire Wu-Tang Clan, comedian Doug Benson returns to the City Arts Center stage, 3000 General Pershing, at 7 p.m. Thursday. (No 4:20 show?) He’s touring in support of his latest CD, the double-disc Smug Life. His pal Graham Elwood opens. (DLM fans, bring your name tags just in case!) Tickets are $22-$25. Visit ticketstorm.com.

Thursday

Hey! Read This:
• Doug Benson's Potty Mouth CD review

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Described as “honest songwriting delivered in a hauntingly beautiful yet gritty, neo-traditional Americana wrapper,” the East Nashville duo known as Doug and Telisha performs 8 p.m. Thursday at The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley, in support of their current album, Ghost of the Knoxville Girl. Tickets are $15. Call 524-0738 or visit bluedoorokc.com.

Thursday

Horror
Rod Lott
For being A Vampire's Tale, the story sure is dominated by an antiquities dealer named Jacob (Doug Bradley, the Pinhead of the Hellraiser series). With his hateful stepdaughter and newly pregnant wife, Jacob moves to the country to live on a farm.