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Chicago garage rock and rockers The Peelers will be at W.C. Don’s on Tuesday. They’re in the same loud, hard rocking vein of Orange Recording label mates The Drapes, Immortal Lee County Killers II and Thee Shams. Charlie Mars will bring his exquisite college pop/rock back to the Hal & Mal’s Red Room, next Saturday, March 26, $7. Joey Plunkett of Geronimo Rex opens (this was originally scheduled for Tuesday).

Heads up for 105 Capitol goes Club Crunk, Thursday, March 31, when Trillville hits the downtown nightspot. It’s $10 at the door, and 18 and up.

Remember, the Check Advance place may close at 6, but the ATM is all night. Thrills come ample and cheap this week.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.