Let’s squeeze all the pleasure we can out of this last drop of summer and see some live music! Here’s some of the best shows that are happening in the next few weeks.

Cloud Cult are wrapping up their tour in the Pacific Northwest this week — go check them out on one of their final tour dates of the summer here in the US!

Cloud Cult on Tour
8/25 Seattle, WA @ Neptune
8/26 Portland, OR @ Mission Theatre
8/27 Blodgett, OR @ BurntWoodstock

Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson are also finishing up their tour, ending it with three dates in the Wild West.

Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson on Tour
8/26 Wilson, WY @ Q Roadhouse
8/27 Bozeman, MT @ The Emerson Theatre
8/28 Spokane, WA @ The Knitting Factory

There’s a few stellar festivals happening in the coming weeks as well:

Brooklyn: Afro-punk Festival, 8/27-28
This year’s line-up includes Cee Lo Green, Santigold, Janelle Monae, Fishbone, Toro Y Moi, Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, Ninjasonik, Cerebral Ballzy, Gordon Voidwell, Reggie Watts, Res, Joi, Rocky Business, Straight Line Stitch, Gym Class Heroes, Das Racist, Kenna, Tamar-kali, Bad Rabbits, Joe Jordans Experiment, Jersey Klan, Radkey, and DJ’s Stack-Aly, Jillionaire, Dances with White Girls, D://BOi, dj.shErOck, and toni*K! In addition, the Nike Battle For the Streets Skate and BMX Competition, the largest street skate and BMX competition in NYC will return with the nation’s top amateur skaters and BMX riders in a competition to be judged by top professionals in both sports including Nigel Sylvester and P-Rod. Did I mention ADMISSION IS FREE?? Well, it is. It’s free to get in. Hell yeah.

Los Angeles: FYF Fest, 9/3
FYF Fest will be returning to the Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown L.A. this year and will feature performances by Descendents, Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Guided By Voices, Girls, No Age, Glass Candy, and many more.

Seattle: Bumbershoot, 9/3-5
Check out this lineup: Minus the Bear, Little Dragon, STRFKR, Shabazz Palaces, Warpaint, Eyehategod, Champagne Champagne, Campfire Ok, Red Fang, Wiz Khalifa with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Broken Social Scene with The Lonely Forest, The Kills, Butthole Surfers, Carbon Leaf, Anti-Flag, Das Racist, Atari Teenage Riot, Tennis, The Jim Jones Revue, School of Seven Bells, Daryl Hall & John Oates with Fitz and The Tantrums, The Reverend Horton Heat, YACHT, LAKE, and My Goodness. My Goodness indeed! That’s just a small fraction of the artists that are performing, and I didn’t even get into the art exhibits and films that are happening. What a festival!

If you’re too far away to head out to any of these shows and want to know if there’s anything going on in your town, feel free to tweet us @verbicide and we’ll look into events happening in your neck of the woods.