Steve Aoki Bayou Music Center, October 16

Steve Aoki is one of the most recognizable faces in EDM, literally. In a genre in which people are more often known by an alias and rarely recognized, this producer/label-owner/businessman is a true superstar. Although his beats bang and he's worked with everyone from Rivers Cuomo to LMFAO to Kid Cudi in the studio, it's live where Aoki dominates. His shows turn the stimulation knob up to 11, and he can be seen jumping off trampolines, showering the audience with Champagne, and tossing cakes. Real birthday cakes.

His Aokify America Tour, featuring rapper Waka Flocka and dubstep monster Borgore, is one of his biggest to date -- if you're going to be up front, don't wear anything you want to keep clean. CORY GARCIA

Guitar Wolf Walters, October 17

Guitar Wolf can wear the hell out of some motorcycle jackets, but that's nothing compared to what they do their instruments. The Japanese trio has been zealously churning out retrograde garage-rock at its most primitive -- lurching reverb-soaked riffs, hell-for-leather drumming, abundant screaming and howling -- for 20 years now, shades-wearing Far Eastern ambassadors from a world where CBGB never closed. Now the Wolf is back on American shores touring behind their eleventh album full of shimmy and scuzz, Beast Vibrator. With the Coathangers, Coward and Crimewave. CHRIS GRAY

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