Alternative rock superstars Coldplay perform this week at Levi’s Stadium behind their newly released full-length record “A Head Full of Dreams.” Also, Rey Res, Ozomatli and Iamsu! rock the inaugural Cukui Music Festival at Great America. Finally, Sonido Clash continues to expand its influence in the South Bay music scene with its Music & Mezcal Fest.

Frankie Valli
Thu, 7:30pm, $50-$130
Mountain Winery, Saratoga
While the musical Jersey Boys has been a smash hit around the world, there’s still no substitute for the genuine article. Frankie Valli—the iconic 82-year-old singer from New Jersey—is still going strong, more than five decades after he first hit the charts with his group, The Four Seasons, whose story inspired the acclaimed Broadway show. Fans should have no problem remembering the words and singing along with favorites such as “Walk Like A Man,” “Sherry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What A Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” (SM) 

The Martian
Thu, 7:45pm, Free
Courthouse Square, Redwood City
A surprise dust storm forces a team of astronauts to evacuate the red planet in a hurry. In the ensuing chaos, one man is left behind and presumed dead. Luckily, that man is Matt Damon—or, more precisely, Mark Watney—an innovative and quick-witted biologist who must use his smarts to let NASA know he’s OK, grow potatoes, distil water from hydrazine candles and hack together all sorts of other solutions in order to stay alive long enough to be rescued. Even if you know the outcome, the film will still be fun to watch under the stars in Redwood City’s Courthouse Square. (MH)

Easy Zine Fest and Art Show
Fri, 7pm, Free
Social Policy, San Jose
Ever since the advent of cheap, at-home printing and consumer photo-copying, zine making has been a popular and powerful form of self-expression. And even in a world where Tumblr and WordPress make blogging easy, zines retain a kind of cachet the web can’t match.. Just about anything can be written or drawn up for a zine—from silly little cartoons to seething political screeds. The Easy Zine Fest provides an outlet for zine enthusiasts to buy or trade their DIY publications. Comics by Saoirse Alesandro and collages by Rick Oseguera will also be on display as part of this South First Friday event. (ST)

Blasterjaxx
Fri, 10pm, $20-$25
Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale
Long before Skrillex and Diplo blew up in the U.S., the Northern Europeans were cranking out electronic bangers. Dutch electronic duo Blasterjaxx are known for their many collaborations with EDM producers like David Guetta, Hardwell and Afrojack, to name a few. Their remix of Tiesto’s “United” became the official anthem of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and their single “Faith” was a huge hit in the Netherlands and Sweden. In 2015, they cracked the top 20 in DJ Magazine’s top 100 DJ list. (ST)

5 Seconds of Summer
Fri, 7:30pm, $25-$79.95
Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View
The boys of 5 Seconds of Summer came up fast—moving from YouTube stars to providing direct support for One Direction and even landing on the cover of Rolling Stone. Their 2014 self-titled album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at No. 1 in 13 countries. Unlike other contemporary boy bands, such as The Jonas Brothers, 5 Seconds have cultivated a bad-boy image—posing naked on the cover of Rolling Stone and boasting about casually hooking up with fans on the road. The band is on tour once again in support of their second LP, Sounds Live Feels Live. (ST)

The Guys/Veils
Fri, 8pm, $28-$32
Pear Theatre, Mountain View.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 had an immense impact on America, and repercussions of that fateful day can still be felt throughout the country. In 2010, a wave of demonstrations known as “The Arab Spring swept through the Middle East. Two plays focus on these pivotal moments in history—giving audiences a glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens impacted by the revolutionary forces surrounding them. In The Guys, the relationship between a journalist and a New York City Fire Department captain is explored. Veils follows Intisar, an African American Muslim student and her roommate Samar as their political and cultural differences collide. (ST)

Starover Blue
Sat, 7:30pm, $10
Art Boutiki, San Jose
With the success of Netflix’s Stranger Things (itself an echo of 2010 experimental film Beyond the Black Rainbow), it’s clear: synthesizers are definitely back in style, and dream pop duo Starover Blue are here to give listeners a synth fix. Though they now hail from Portland, the band started out in San Jose. After posting an open letter about leaving home, they relocated to the Northwest, where the rain and mist have clearly crept into their sound. Opening the show is San Jose power-pop group The Albert Square, whose last record was released on New York-based, pay-what-you-want label Quote Unquote Records. (MH)

Coldplay
Sat, 7pm, $50+
Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara
Heirs apparent to U2 and The Police, Coldplay are easily one of the biggest rock bands in the world. And they’re coming to one of the biggest, most technologically advanced stadiums in the U.S. on their current world tour. The British band’s seventh full-length album, A Head Full of Dreams, features collaborations with Beyoncé and Oasis co-founder Noel Gallagher, and is the first since the band’s lead singer Chris Martin engaged in a “conscious uncoupling” with his longtime former wife, movie star Gwyneth Paltrow. Despite A Head Full of Dreams’ tepid reviews from music critics, this is Coldplay we’re talking about here, and the show is sure to be packed with hit after megahit. (NV)

Mini Maker Faire
Sun, 10am-6pm, $3-$15
History San Jose
Nowadays just about anything you need can be easily obtained—whether you go to a store or purchase it online. Yet there exists a community of tinkers who prefer create their own goods from scratch. Members of the maker movement—from computer hackers to traditional artisans—rely on their knowledge and hands to produce new things or turn obsolete items into useful objects. In the past, makers worked alone on their inventions and modifications, but today there are fairs that celebrate their innovations, which allow them to unite and share. (ST)

Claudeo come from San Diego with one purpose in mind—to get people on their feet to dance. In the process, they’ve chosen some unusual places for dance parties. Here in San Jose, they selected the local dive-bar of choice, The Caravan, where they are playing this Thursday, September 13th. But Claudeo—who are Ivan Deyoung-Dominguez and Chris Changchien—are determined to get some feet moving no matter where they go.

The duo met in 2011 while working together on a project for UCSD and realized they both shared a mutual passion for making crowds shake their booties. But underneath the surface of their interest in pounding drum beats and screeching synthesizers, they also shared a passion for indie-pop songwriting, inspired by bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Coldplay.

They mix keyboards and guitars while trying to employ elements from the rock and electronic world in a pop setting. The end result is a mishmash that falls somewhere between Daft Punk and the Killers. For a dance band, they have a fair amount of variety in their songs with even a few sappy acoustic ballads for the slow dances.

Claudeo plays The Caravan on Thursday September 13th at 10pm. The show is free.

“About five years ago, these bizarre dark songs started creeping into my head,” says Catherine Pierce. “I don’t know what shifted.”

Before that, she and her sister Allison, who’ll open for Coldplay Friday and Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, had been toiling in a folky obscurity since their 2000 debut, The Pierces.

But with 2007’s Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge, something changed. It was sly, subversive and a little shocking in all the right places, with songs like “Secret,” with its haunting lyric “two can keep a secret when one of them is dead,” and “Boring,” featuring a long list of “girl-on-girl, ménage a trios…marijuana, cocaine, heroin” that are all rejected as dreadfully tiresome. The sisters’ songwriting wit got sharper, and their eccentric but slick indie-pop sound more sophisticated.

“I think we had just grown up a little bit,” says Catherine, who attributes some of their reluctance to cut loose before Thirteen Tales to their upbringing in Birmingham, Alabama.

“Growing up in the South, you’re taught to be polite. The first two albums are nice and polite,” she says. “I think they were more the visions of the producers.”

But once their own, more twisted musical vision was out there, pop culture started taking notice. “Secret” was used in the memorable teaser for the third season of Dexter, the one where the donut box fills with blood. (And really, could there be a better band to do music for a Dexter promo than one called the Pierces?) Since 2010, it’s also been the theme song for the TV show Pretty Little Liars.