Tuesday, July 29: Skyline Music featuring Tweed Funk at Kadish Park, 5:30 p.m. (FREE)

Chances are—even for moderate festival goers—you’ve stumbled upon Tweed Funk during a summer block party without even knowing it. The six-piece band retreads the jazzy, R&B territory that many other groups have plodded through in the past. However, lead singer Smokey Holman and company do it better than anyone else in the city. Relive some nostalgia while seeing the premiere view of the city from Riverwest’s Kadish park on an easy-going Tuesday night. (308 E. Lloyd St.)

Also: Chill on the Hill featuring Vitrolum Republic with Whiskeybelles and Ethan Keller at Humboldt Park, 6 p.m. (FREE) – (3000 S. Howell Ave., BayViewNeighborhood.org/Chill_On_The_Hill)

Wednesday, July 30: Crocodiles with Jaill and Towers at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. ($10)

The skuzzy, lo-fi San Diego four-piece Crocodiles conjures the slow churn of Jesus and Mary Chain and the hooks of early girl groups into a fuzzy but nonetheless catchy mess. The results are disorientating and memorable, like a lucid dream where the laws of physics don’t necessarily apply. After garnering some early buzz from Rolling Stone around its debut, 2009’s Summer of Hate, the band never received the response it earned after three more solid records. Its latest, last year’s Crimes of Passion, loses some of the noise and focuses its attention on even catchier melodies, but don’t think they’ve gone too much to the pop side. The lead single is titled “Cockroach. (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

Also: RX Bandits with The Dear Hunter and From Indian Lakes at The Rave, 7 p.m. ($18.50) – (2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., TheRave.com)

Thursday, July 31: Breadfest featuring The Calamity Janes, Old Earth, Songlines/Dreaming Tracks and Ash at People’s Books, 5 p.m. ($6)

There are various opportunities in Riverwest for musicians to play yearly events—chief among them Locus Street Festival and this Saturday’s Center Street Daze—but those annual parties don’t exemplify the neighborhood’s scrappy, DIY character as well as the South-by-Southwest-esque  Breadfest, run by the scrappy, DIY music collective Breadking. Culling 50 bands from mostly Riverwest, the festival has expanded in its second year from two days to four, filling 10 stages (mainly indoor) throughout the neighborhood. Individual tickets cost $6, day passes cost $10 and all-inclusive passes cost $25. (804 E. Center St., PeoplesBooksCoop.org)

Also: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band at the Pabst Theater, 6:30 p.m. ($49.50) – (144 E. Wells St., PabstTheater.org)

And: Phil Vassar with Maggie Rose at the Wisconsin State Fair, 7:30 p.m. ($20-$25) – (640 S. 84^th St., WIStateFair.com) 

And: Breadfest featuring Zebras, Estates and Paper Holland at Bremen Café, 9 p.m. (FREE) – (901 E. Clarke St., BremenCafe.com)

And: Breadfest featuring Work, Nick Stuart, Softly, Dear, Marielle Allschwang, Bum Illeum, Mike Fredrick and King Courteen at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 9 p.m. ($6) 

Friday, August 1: Breadfest featuring Holy Shit! with The Olives, Dinny Bulca and Anthony Sanders at Jackpot Gallery, 6 p.m. ($6) – (1001 E. Locust St., Linnemans.com)

Also: Breadfest featuring Mortgage Freeman, Calliope, The Alular Pearls and Light Music at Riverwest Public House, 9 p.m. ($6) – (815 E. Locust St., RiverwestPublicHouse.WordPress.com)

Also: Tigernite with The Jones Island Flood and The Stud Spiders at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. – (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com) ($5)

Saturday, August 2: Center Street Daze Festival featuring F/I, Soul Low, Couch Flambeau, Three. Stacks. Eliot, at the Impala Lounge and Jazz Gallery, 12 p.m. (FREE)

The bigger block parties need to offer some small deviation from the norm in order to differentiate from the endless street festivals that flood the city come summertime. Along with a diverse music lineup, Center Street Daze puts on the massively fun cart race, dodgeball tournament and pinball tournament, along with the more serious-minded classic car show and billiards tournament. New on the schedule this year is the Dusty Fingers Street Dance Party outside the Uptowner. (Center Street between Holton and Humboldt avenues, CenterStreetdazeFestival.com) 

Also: Volunteer with Hot Coffin and Old Northwest at Cactus Club, 10 p.m. – (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

And: Breadfest featuring The Fatty Acids, Migo, Caley Conway & The Lucy Cukes, Twin Brother, Pushmi-Pullyu, Awkward Terrible, Antler House, Gauss and Marcy at Garden Park, 12 p.m. (FREE) – (815 E. Locust St.)

And: Breadfest featuring The Championship, Lawrence Peters Outfit, Thriftones and Lousy Trouts at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 9 p.m. ($6) – (1001 E. Locust St., Linnemans.com)

And: Axis Sova with Dogs in Ecstasy, Orb and Midwives at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m. – (900 E. Center St.)

Sunday, August 3: Wooden Shjips with Moss Folk at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. ($12)

After 2011’s breakthrough West, two members of the psychedelic group Wooden Shjips moved from San Francisco to a more stable environment up in Portland. Last year’s follow-up, Back to Land, doesn’t suffer from a feeling of disconnectedness that being apart usually brings, but rather is the band’s smoothest-sounding and most melodic effort to date. (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

Wooden Shjips – Back To Land from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo. 

Also: Breadfest featuring Grasping At Straws, Oh, My Love, The New Seven, Jon Wayne, The Gazettiers and Cherryball at Stonefly Brewery, 3 p.m. ($6) – (735 E. Center St., StoneflyBrewery.com)

And: Breadfest featuring WC Tank, WebsterX, D’Amato, Birong and Conundrum at Mad Planet, 9 p.m. ($6) – (533 E. Center St, Mad-Planet.net) 

And: Blessed State with Worn Leather, Foreign Lawns and Bored Straight at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m. – (900 E. Center St.)

Old Earth photo by Adam Ryan Morris.

Tuesday, July 29: Skyline Music featuring Tweed Funk at Kadish Park, 5:30 p.m. (FREE)

Chances are—even for moderate festival goers—you’ve stumbled upon Tweed Funk during a summer block party without even knowing it. The six-piece band retreads the jazzy, R&B territory that many other groups have plodded through in the past. However, lead singer Smokey Holman and company do it better than anyone else in the city. Relive some nostalgia while seeing the premiere view of the city from Riverwest’s Kadish park on an easy-going Tuesday night. (308 E. Lloyd St.)

Also: Chill on the Hill featuring Vitrolum Republic with Whiskeybelles and Ethan Keller at Humboldt Park, 6 p.m. (FREE) – (3000 S. Howell Ave., BayViewNeighborhood.org/Chill_On_The_Hill)

Wednesday, July 30: Crocodiles with Jaill and Towers at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. ($10)

The skuzzy, lo-fi San Diego four-piece Crocodiles conjures the slow churn of Jesus and Mary Chain and the hooks of early girl groups into a fuzzy but nonetheless catchy mess. The results are disorientating and memorable, like a lucid dream where the laws of physics don’t necessarily apply. After garnering some early buzz from Rolling Stone around its debut, 2009’s Summer of Hate, the band never received the response it earned after three more solid records. Its latest, last year’s Crimes of Passion, loses some of the noise and focuses its attention on even catchier melodies, but don’t think they’ve gone too much to the pop side. The lead single is titled “Cockroach. (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

Also: RX Bandits with The Dear Hunter and From Indian Lakes at The Rave, 7 p.m. ($18.50) – (2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., TheRave.com)

Thursday, July 31: Breadfest featuring The Calamity Janes, Old Earth, Songlines/Dreaming Tracks and Ash at People’s Books, 5 p.m. ($6)

There are various opportunities in Riverwest for musicians to play yearly events—chief among them Locus Street Festival and this Saturday’s Center Street Daze—but those annual parties don’t exemplify the neighborhood’s scrappy, DIY character as well as the South-by-Southwest-esque  Breadfest, run by the scrappy, DIY music collective Breadking. Culling 50 bands from mostly Riverwest, the festival has expanded in its second year from two days to four, filling 10 stages (mainly indoor) throughout the neighborhood. Individual tickets cost $6, day passes cost $10 and all-inclusive passes cost $25. (804 E. Center St., PeoplesBooksCoop.org)

Also: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band at the Pabst Theater, 6:30 p.m. ($49.50) – (144 E. Wells St., PabstTheater.org.)

And: Phil Vassar with Maggie Rose at the Wisconsin State Fair, 7:30 p.m. ($20-$25) – (640 S. 84^th St., WIStateFair.com) 

And: Breadfest featuring Zebras, Estates and Paper Holland at Bremen Café, 9 p.m. (FREE) – (901 E. Clarke St., BremenCafe.com)

And: Breadfest featuring Work, Nick Stuart, Softly, Dear, Marielle Allschwang, Bum Illeum, Mike Fredrick and King Courteen at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 9 p.m. ($6) 

Friday, August 1: Breadfest featuring Holy Shit! with The Olives, Dinny Bulca and Anthony Sanders at Jackpot Gallery, 6 p.m. ($6) – (1001 E. Locust St., Linnemans.com)

Also: Breadfest featuring Mortgage Freeman, Calliope, The Alular Pearls and Light Music at Riverwest Public House, 9 p.m. ($6) – (815 E. Locust St., RiverwestPublicHouse.WordPress.com)

Also: Tigernite with The Jones Island Flood and The Stud Spiders at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. – (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com) ($5)

Saturday, August 2: Center Street Daze Festival featuring F/I, Soul Low, Couch Flambeau, Three. Stacks. Eliot, at the Impala Lounge and Jazz Gallery, 12 p.m. (FREE)

The bigger block parties need to offer some small deviation from the norm in order to differentiate from the endless street festivals that flood the city come summertime. Along with a diverse music lineup, Center Street Daze puts on the massively fun cart race, dodgeball tournament and pinball tournament, along with the more serious-minded classic car show and billiards tournament. New on the schedule this year is the Dusty Fingers Street Dance Party outside the Uptowner. (Center Street between Holton and Humboldt avenues, CenterStreetdazeFestival.com) 

Also: Volunteer with Hot Coffin and Old Northwest at Cactus Club, 10 p.m. – (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

And: Breadfest featuring The Fatty Acids, Migo, Caley Conway & The Lucy Cukes, Twin Brother, Pushmi-Pullyu, Awkward Terrible, Antler House, Gauss and Marcy at Garden Park, 12 p.m. (FREE) – (815 E. Locust St.)

And: Breadfest featuring The Championship, Lawrence Peters Outfit, Thriftones and Lousy Trouts at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 9 p.m. ($6) – (1001 E. Locust St., Linnemans.com)

And: Axis Sova with Dogs in Ecstasy, Orb and Midwives at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m. – (900 E. Center St.)

Sunday, August 3: Wooden Shjips with Moss Folk at Cactus Club, 9 p.m. ($12)

After 2011’s breakthrough West, two members of the psychedelic group Wooden Shjips moved from San Francisco to a more stable environment up in Portland. Last year’s follow-up, Back to Land, doesn’t suffer from a feeling of disconnectedness that being apart usually brings, but rather is the band’s smoothest-sounding and most melodic effort to date. (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., CactusClubMilwaukee.com)

Wooden Shjips – Back To Land from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo. 

Also: Breadfest featuring Grasping At Straws, Oh, My Love, The New Seven, Jon Wayne, The Gazettiers and Cherryball at Stonefly Brewery, 3 p.m. ($6) – (735 E. Center St., StoneflyBrewery.com)

And: Breadfest featuring WC Tank, WebsterX, D’Amato, Birong and Conundrum at Mad Planet, 9 p.m. ($6) – (533 E. Center St, Mad-Planet.net) 

And: Blessed State with Worn Leather, Foreign Lawns and Bored Straight at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m. – (900 E. Center St.)

Old Earth photo by Adam Ryan Morris.