Three to See Friday: Iron Tusk, Ryan Belleville and Night Raiders

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Iron Tusk : “Those working man’s blues just got a whole lot redder,” notes the Bandcamp page of Siksika Nation’s heavy hitters, Iron Tusk. Drawing on shared experiences as sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and friends, Iron Tusk filters a maelstrom of modern conundrums through an electrified plain of post-punk angst and heavy metal fury. Super bangin’ beats and slick licks, their mighty vocals will steamroll over you in all the best ways — and it all definitely strays into the delightfully trippy. The Knot No Howz? and Kroovy Rockers open the concert at Aviary up — just bring extra-strength earplugs if you want to be able to hear anything the next day!

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Details : 8 p.m. at the Aviary (9314 111 Ave.), $12 at theaviary.net

Ryan Belleville : GQ magazine called this cat one of the best comics working today, and you might recognize him as Lionel from the hit show Workin’ Moms. Calgary-born, Belleville often strays into CanCon in the best of ways, making fun of our goofball national rodent, noting the instinctive national pity we have for mailbox attackers and, in one hilarious routine, pointing out how smokers are the only addicts everyone openly hates. Funny chap, check him out in numerous over the weekend.

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Details : 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday, playing through Sunday at The Comic Strip in WEM, $25.95 at wem.thecomicstrip.ca

Night Raiders (2021) : Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044, the action-horror centres on Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), a Cree woman who joins a resistance movement to the military government in order to save her daughter from a state-run institution. Shades of our national shame here, for sure. This 101-minute, Canada-New Zealand co-production is the directorial debut of Danis Goulet.

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Details : 9:30 p.m. Friday, 6:45 p.m. Saturday at Metro Cinema (9712 109 St.), $13

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