Cape Cod this week: Playing Dead, We Are Hydrogen and a Neptune's weekend

Dead and Phish tributes go head to head on Saturday, and Neptune's in Hyannis has music four nights running, Nov. 12–15.

The off-season calendar is short, but it has a center: five shows on the Cape this week, four of them at Neptune's on Main Street in Hyannis. On Saturday night jam fans face a real choice, the Dead in Hyannis or Phish in Mashpee. Here is the week.

Thursday, Nov. 12: The Lynch Brothers Band at Neptune's, Hyannis, 7pm, with The Silent Trees, on the room's Original Thursdays night.

Friday, Nov. 13: Miss Julia Violet at Neptune's, 7pm. She presents *Jagged Little Pill*, so expect the Alanis Morissette album to be the night's material.

Saturday, Nov. 14: Playing Dead at Neptune's, 7pm. A Grateful Dead tribute in a room that holds about 500.

Saturday, Nov. 14: We Are Hydrogen at Naukabout Brewery and Taproom, Mashpee, doors 6pm, show 7pm. A tribute to the music of Phish at the brewery. Tickets.

Sunday, Nov. 15: Sugar Ray and the Bluetones at Neptune's, 5pm. A Sunday blues show with an early start, so you are home before dark settles in for the week.

Neptune's, at 541 Main St., carries most of this week, with music Thursday through Sunday. The Saturday call is yours. Either way, you are hearing a jam band's songs played live on a November night on the Cape.

Sources: OpenDate: The Lynch Brothers + The Silent Trees, Original Thursdays (app.opendate.io); OpenDate: Miss Julia Violet presents Jagged Little Pill (app.opendate.io); OpenDate: Playing Dead – A Grateful Dead Tribute (app.opendate.io); Cakepop (Naukabout): We Are Hydrogen (cakepop.io); OpenDate: Sugar Ray and the Bluetones (app.opendate.io); ckord: Neptune's (541 Main Street, Hyannis) (app.ckord.com)