Our Friday best: Post Malone, SPCO, Yola and 'Table'

Post Malone

It's hard to know what to expect from the pop/hip-hop singer of "Circles" and "Sunflower" fame this time around, since St. Paul is only the second stop on his fall tour (after Omaha on Saturday). Also, his new album, "Twelve Carat Toothache," is a more subdued and personal record that doesn't exactly lend itself well to a big arena concert setting. Still, the 27-year-old Texan showed off a charming and humble persona when he packed Xcel Center two nights in a row on his 2019 tour behind his breakout album, "Hollywood's Bleeding." His "Cooped Up" collaborator Roddy Ricch opens. (8 p.m. Sun., Xcel Energy Center, 199 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $85-$638, ticketmaster.com.)

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

SPCO opens its 64th season in its now customary conductor-less form, playing a suite from Igor Stravinsky's lively ballet music for "Pulcinella" and a movement from 20th-century composer (and jazz musician) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Sinfonietta No. 1. The concert concludes with a sleeper pick when folks debate the best of Beethoven's symphonies: The Seventh is both exhilarating and deeply moving. (8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.; Ordway Concert Hall, 345 Washington St., St. Paul; $12-$50, students free; 651-291-1144 or thespco.org.)

ROB HUBBARD

Yola

JON BREAM

The National

Another postponement from the summer of 2020, the Ohio-reared New York indie-rock vets returned to the road in 2022 with only a new single to promote, the Bon Iver-accompanied "Weird Goodbyes." Its members have certainly been busy otherwise, though, with Aaron Dessner co-producing Taylor Swift's last two albums, he and twin brother Bryce scoring the "Cyrano" movie, and lots more. All great, but it's nice to have the quintet back on the road, where its sometimes gloomy music is usually more riveting and uplifting than on record. Indigo Sparke opens, touting a new album produced by Minnesota's own Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief. (6:30 p.m. Wed., Surly Brewing Festival Field, 520 Malcolm Av. SE., Mpls., $51, axs.com.)

C.R.

'A Streetcar Named Desire'

CHRIS HEWITT

'The Show'

Through movement, theater and a high-octane glittery design of sound and lights, Emily Michaels King and Debra Berger draw on nostalgia and fantasy to peer into femininity. The duo, called E/D, play their teenage selves, their fantastical alter egos and their adult selves in this work that turns femininity upside down with sparkle and messiness. "The Show" was set to debut in 2020 and postponed twice. (7:30 p.m. Sat.-Mon. & Sept. 15-17, Crane Theater, 2303 NE. Kennedy St., #120, Mpls., pay-what-you-choose, edmakesart.org.)

SHEILA REGAN

'Table'

C.H.

Odesza

Since forming 10 years ago as students at Western Washington University, electronica duo Harrison Mills, aka Catacombkid, and Clayton Knight, aka BeachesBeaches, have become Grammy-nominated mainstays on the U.S. dance club scene, drafting such artists as singer Leon Bridges and electronica producer Golden Features to collaborate. This year, Odesza landed on 89.3 the Current's playlist with "The Last Goodbye," a catchy new dance track featuring contemporary interpretive queen Bettye LaVette's 1965 single "Let Me Down Easy." (6:30 Mon. & Tue., the Armory, 500 S. 6th St., Mpls., $67 and up, ticketmaster.com.)

J.B.

Fiesta Latina

MELISSA WALKER

'Lumberjacks in Love'

It's 1912. We're in northern Wisconsin. And four lumberjacks are about to have their lives turned upside-down by the arrival of a mail-order bride in this new musical. (7:30 Thu.-Fri., 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., Lyric Arts, 420 E. Main St., Anoka, $34-$42, 763-422-1838, lyricarts.org.)