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There's a free show at the gazebo in Old Town today at 4 p.m. with soul and dubsters New Traditions sharing the bricks with Arcata's dayglo-polished pop group Paradise Inc.

Later on at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space, you can check out a Bay Area bedroom folk/electro/lo-fi blend as Oakland's Wizard Apprentice rolls through town with Julius Smack. Local support is provided by rapper SIRI and comma comma, which plays ecstatic orchestral repetitions in the (near) dark ($6).

Finally, tonight at 8 p.m. up at the Van Duzer Theatre, you will find Chico's own pioneering "California-sound" jam band The Mother Hips ripping it up like it's 1995 ($36).