Sure, the real Hoosier Dome was demolished up a few years ago but its ghost is haunting the outskirts of Fountain Square. At 1627 Prospect Street, just off of the main drag in Fountain Square, across the street from the empty shell that was once Sam’s Saloon, lies a humble little store front with a tired old sign that reads “Tobacco 4 Less”. If you venture inside, however, don’t expect to find any Swisher Sweets; it’s The Hoosier Dome.

Without a sign, it’s easy for the all-ages venue to get lost in the sea of nothingness that surrounds Fountain Square, The Hoosier Dome is worth checking out. With a capacity nearing 200, the venue is a perfect middle-ground for shows too big for The Dojo but not big enough to fill the seemingly cavernous halls of E.S. Jungle or The Earth House.

• THE HOOSIER DOME: Good times

The Hoosier Dome has hosted a few high-profile shows, including Lemuria, but the obscure location has kept the venue a mystery to most of the city’s music fans. This Friday, the venue is hosting Eat Something Fest, a celebration of vegan foods and the punks that eat them.

Headlining the food pitch-in punk fest is gloomy, gritty Midwest punk trio Like Bats. Now in their third configuration, the band is returning to Indianapolis for the first time with the new lineup. The only original member is founder Mike Duda, who could not be reached for comment at press time. But even with the new lineup, Duda

Also playing are Cincinnati Charlie Brown-core punks You Blockhead! along with Occult Detective Club, Boilerman, The Late Ones and local punks Giant Giant Robot.

If you’ve never tried vegan food or never been out to the Hoosier Dome then you should not miss Eat Something Fest. Bring your appetite and bring your earplugs because Friday is going to be a wild and delicious night.

• MIKE DUDA: The original Like Batstard.

• Das Racist

Thursday

The Wood Brothers at Radio Radio
Brothers Chris and Oliver Wood worked as professional musicians for about 15 years before they found their way to working together. The two went on different paths when they came of age: Oliver left their home state of Colorado for Atlanta, where he came to front the blues-rock band King Johnson, and Chris fell into the avant-garde jazz scene of Manhattan and Brooklyn, eventually becoming part of the organ-led trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. But about five years ago, their parallel paths intersected (geometrically impossible, we know), and they began shaping a sound that blends rock, folk, country, blues, funk, soul, gospel and engaging wordplay. Scott Hall's profile tells the rest of the story. 8 p.m., $15, 21+.

The Welcome Wagon, Liz Janes at Trinity Church
To be sure, not everything released on Asthmatic Kitty Records is produced by Sufjan Stevens, who co-founded the label. But Stevens did play a huge part in putting together debut releases by local singer-songwriter Liz Janes and husband-and-wife gospel duo The Welcome Wagon, and in incorporating those artists’ bedroom and family room recordings into dense, often-playful, chamber-pop arrangements. Led by a Presbyterian minister and his wife, The Welcome Wagon sings sacred music from across the generations, including Old Testament psalms set to music, Protestant hymns and more recent material, such as a surprisingly soulful take on Danielson’s “Sold! To the Nice Rich Man.” Janes will perform an opening solo set and lead a local choir that will accompany The Welcome Wagon. 7 p.m., $10 door, all ages.

Queens of the Stone Age, The Dough Rollers at The Vogue
Josh Homme has a remarkable ability to balance several projects at once (including bands, film scores, solo projects), but his stoner rock band Queens of the Stone Age still took something of a break after the release of 2007’s Era Vulgaris so that Homme could team up with former Queen Dave Grohl and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones to form the super-group Them Crooked Vultures. This year his interests lead him back to the Queens, who are rehearsing a new album that Homme called a “trancey, broken thing” when he recently spoke with The Guardian. 8 p.m., sold out, 21+.

Friday

Culture Shock feat. Grey Granite, Growing as a Second Generation, Kyle Long, Beaner Threat, Know No Stranger at the Athenaeum Theater
Celebrate that big old melting pot (and give back to your community) by heading out this weekend to Culture Shock, presented by Spitting Llama Productions in conjunction with the Latino Youth Collective (LYC) and the Cultural Cannibals. Several kickin' bands are set to perform, including DJ Kyle Long, La Republica, hip-hop trio Beaner Threat and local Ethiopian dance group Growing as a Second Generation. All proceeds will go towards a scholarship for an immigrant student picked by LYC. 7 p.m., $10 donation (culturalcannibals.com), 21+.

Beat Debris, Accordions, Amo Joy, Joe Molinaro, Adam Kuhn, Vacation Club, Buff Orpington at Big Car
Big Car gets into the record business this week with the release of an LP by local, art-rock four-piece Beat Debris in a limited edition of 300, each with a unique album cover designed by a local artist. Band members have been hanging around Big Car for years — Tom Burris, who started Beat Debris as a solo project in 1992, revived his group in 2007 with a performance at Big Car’s Murphy Art Center space, and the group’s current drummer Jessica Halverson started playing with Burris at the behest of Big Car executive director Jim Walker. With a bunch of Big Car regulars, including the zither-led folk rock outfit Accordions, saccharine-sweet pop band Amo Joy and Fountain Square garage rockers Vacation Club. 8 p.m., free, all ages.

Das Racist with Andy D, Action Jackson, Gabby Love at White Rabbit Cabaret
The guys in Brooklyn hip-hop trio Das Racist aren’t afraid to speak their mind. Take the title track to their 2010 album, "Sit Down, Man," which sees one of the group's emcees, Ashok Kondabolu, calling out cultural and political figures — Robert Mugabe, Carlos Mencia, Glenn Beck, Toby Keith, Rand Paul — that he'd like to see disappear from the nation's consciousness. Or "Fake Patois," which chastises non-Jamaican artists such as Jay-Z, Miss Cleo and Jim Carrey who have performed with a stereotyped, Jamaican accent. But they can also party: Witness the pot-infused silliness of “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” which nicely captures the absurdity of our strip-malled landscape. Danielle Look spoke with Das Racist's Victor Vazquez earlier this week, asking him about his group's latest record and how politics informs his work. 9 p.m., sold out, 21+.

Saturday

Junk Box Mike, Jethro Easyfields, Morgan n’ Tom, Aaron Buckner at Birdy’s
Junk Box Mike, the local singer-songwriter and sometimes host of the Open Mic at Corner Wine Bar, rounded together an all-star group of local roots musicians to play on his latest album, "From My Recliner," including three Spudpuppies (Gary Wasson, John Gilmore, Delmar Lincoln) and John Martin, once of Sindacato. He’ll debut the results Saturday with the help of all of those collaborators, as well as a whole gaggle of guest stars (John Bowyer of the Cousin Brothers, Cara Jean Wahlers) and openers (notably, another open mic host, Jethro Easyfields). 7:30 p.m., $5, 21+.

Max Allen Band at The Mousetrap
Blues and jam guitarist Max Allen is coming off a big win: He and his band knocked off a few other acts in the local edition of Hard Rock Café’s Battle of the Bands, which put them in the running to perform at this summer’s Hard Rock Calling festival in London’s Hyde Park. To get to London, they’ll first need to get the go-ahead from a group of industry professionals (who will winnow a current group of 14 finalists down to 10), and then to win an online competition voted on by the general public. The band debuts a new live record Saturday at the ‘Trap, and is at work on a studio album, "Everyone Thinks You’re Weird," due this summer. Rob Nichols caught up with Allen just after his win, logging this entry in his roots-rock blog. 10:30 p.m., $3, 21+.

Sunday

Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three at Noble Coffee and Tea
On March 15, Third Man Records put out two singles on its Blue Series, one by locals We Are Hex, the other by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, a St. Louis-based country swing outfit. With LaFarge’s twangy, sharp, wry voice leading the way, the group recorded “Pack It Up” and “Chitlin Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County” for Jack White, and will bring the results to Noblesville’s Noble Coffee and Tea, which serves as a sort of concert space for that town’s Blue Stone Folk School, an outfit devoted to keeping alive the kind of traditional music so dear to LaFarge and his cohorts. 2 p.m., $15, all ages.

Old 97s, Teddy Thompson at The Vogue
The Old 97s are on the road behind October 2010's The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1, which, despite the title, is not actually a live album: The Dallas-based group rehearsed for recording sessions at their hometown’s Sons of Hermann Hall, but actually laid down tracks at Austin’s Texas Treefort Studio, meaning that a Grand Theatre was never involved. Still, the record sounds more energetic, loose and lively than the stalwart, alt-country band’s recent efforts, which may have suffered because lead singer Rhett Miller has been splitting time between his long-lived full band and his solo career. Miller’s boldest move on the record is his reworking of Dylan's "Desolation Row" as "Champaign, Illinois" ("Oh then if you die fearin' God and painfully employed / No, you will not go to Heaven / You'll go to Champaign, Illinois"). 8 p.m., $18 door (plus applicable fees), $20 door, 21+.

Tuesday

Electric Six, The Constellations, Andy D at Birdy's
An over-the-top dance-rock band with a hit-and-miss sense of humor, the Detroit-based sextet Electric Six has been playing the region for the better part of the decade, making it to the UK charts in 2003 with a hit, “Danger! High Voltage,” that was rumored to feature vocals by then-neighbor Jack White, and mining the same glam-rock-from-a-Detroit-garage vein ever since, with less commercial success but plenty of inspired moments, including “Clusterfuck,” from 2010’s Zodiac, which opens with the convincingly crooned lines, “In the writings of the Druids / Lies a recipe for Druid fluid / Sounds like a most refreshing drink to me.” 8 p.m., $12 (plus applicable fees), 21+.