Music notes: Dead fans can go Furthur at Allstate

Life after The Dead

Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, veterans of the iconic rock band The Grateful Dead, created a new group in 2009, Furthur. Furthur delivers classic Dead songs along with original material. Catch them in the suburbs this weekend.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont. $39.50-$59.50. Go to ticketmaster.com.

Get ‘Naked'

Naked Raygun, the Chicago post-punk band led by Naperville native Jeff Pezzati, will perform on the night before Thanksgiving at the venerable Metro rock club in the city. Naked Raygun was a key player in the small-but-vital Chicago music scene of the early 1980s, and the band's music — an arty mix of punk energy and pop melody — has been cited as an influence by numerous alt-rock groups that followed.

9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, at Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., Chicago. $23. Go to metrochicago.com.

Box sets galore

This is the time of year when lavish music box sets come out in the hopes that they'll find a place on holiday gift lists. The deluge has already begun, with recently released 20th anniversary sets for Nirvana's “Nevermind” and U2's “Achtung Baby.” Here, according to Amazon.com, are a few others either just released or coming to store shelves soon.

• “The Smile Sessions” (Capitol/EMI), The Beach Boys: A holy grail for rock nerds, this set compiles all the music recorded for the fabled, never-released Beach Boys record, “Smile.” ($139.99)

• “The Smiths Complete” (Rhino), The Smiths: The '80s British pop group is memorialized with a set that includes all eight Smiths albums. ($61.46)

• “Some Girls” (Hip-O), The Rolling Stones: Considered by many critics to be the last great Stones record, 1978's “Some Girls” is back in a lavish remastered reissue. Available Nov. 21. ($143.44)