COMEDY FEST—FINALLY! The best weekend of the entire year is back with the four-day knee-slapping Bridgetown Comedy Fest. With 100-plus comedians (including Dana Gould, Jonathan Katz, Jessica Williams, Kyle Kinane, Kurt Braunohler, and Jackie Kashian) and dozens upon dozens of comedy shows in this year’s brand-new hub around East Burnside, expect to get an amazingly thorough core workout. COURTNEY FERGUSON
Thurs-Sun, fest pass $99-124 (tickets also available for individual shows), see bridgetowncomedy.com for full schedule
MUSIC—Show your ears how much you love ’em with tonight’s stacked bill of powerful sound: Hot Victory’s dueling drummers conjure otherworldly drones and mammoth beats, while Seattle’s Noise-a-Tron amplify their minimalist approach to a gargantuan scope of dizzying noise, and A Volcano sweeten the pot with screaming sludge. NED LANNAMANN
The Foggy Notion, 3416 N Lombard, 9 pm, $5