The big gigs: Middle Kids, Travis Scott

After putting on one of the best Entry touring shows of recent memory last year, the youthfully cute and energetic but maturely lyrical and refined Australian band is back touting its full-length album for Domino Recordings, "Lost Friends." The LP lives up to all the buzz generated by the trio's slow-bursting 2016 single "Edge of Town," with frontwoman Hannah Joy adding a little more Matt Berninger-like brooding ambience to the band's spit-fiery, spirited '90s-indie-rock sound. Highly recommended. (9 p.m. Fri., 7th Street Entry, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., $15-$18, first-avenue.com.)

Rolling Stone's review dubbed the Houston rapper's first major arena-headlining tour "The Greatest Show on Earth," and Twin Cities fans now get to see if that's only because of its ambitious, amusement-park-themed stage production or because Scott has grown into a more dynamic and compelling showman than the one who topped off the 2017 Soundset fest. He has certainly grown in stature, with his album "Astroworld" returning to No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week after the Drake-accompanied single "Sicko Mode" broke big, and with all the gossip-site write-ups around his new daughter with Kardashian family member Kylie Jenner. "Mo Bamba" hitmaker Sheck Wes, Trippie Red and Gunna open. (7:30 p.m. Sat., Target Center, 600 1st Av. N., Mpls., $36-$77, axs.com.)

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER