House of Nasty with Autumn Zero and Outnumbered Friday, April 17 doors open 7 p.m. City Nights Theater, Capital City Bar and Grill www.houseofnasty.net myspace.com/houseofnastyonline

Springfield’s hardest working and hardest playing hard rockers, House of Nasty, celebrate a special career night with a hometown showcase on Friday, April 17, for Refugee Entertainment, a record company based out of Cleveland, Ohio. The show comes complete with all the rock concert trimmings of full sound, flashing lights and mood-inducing fog, plus plenty of onstage action from bandmates Micky Shomidie (bass), Andy Armstrong (lead vocals), John Scully (drums) and Troy Blasko (guitar) as the group opens wide the door into the House of Nasty and says “Come on in.” Other big 2009 summer shows for the rocking quartet include opening for Slaughter at the Macon County Fair, a return engagement at Rocklahoma in Pryor, Okla., and a spot at Rock Gone Wild in Algona, Iowa. Here’s wishing the band all the best. Show ’em what you got, boys.