To start the new year, Johnny D’s Uptown’s gearing up for the Somerville club’s final couple of months with “One Last Time at Johnny D’s,” a Friday-night series with “legendary” Boston bands. This Friday offers the Stompers, those dawn-of-the-’80s heroes from East Boston who crossed into national exposure with songs like “Never Tell an Angel” and “American Fun.” Over at the Lizard Lounge, outre slide-guitar virtuoso Dave Tronzo helps fuel groove collective Club d’Elf. And Friday also marks the Regent Theatre’s local film premiere of “Little Girl Blue,” a documentary on Janis Joplin, with a live appearance by Kate Russo, who has sung with Joplin’s original band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Saturday’s Hot Stove Cool Music show at the Paradise Rock Club introduces the new outfit BOTO (or Band of Their Own), which sports Tanya Donelly and Gail Greenwood (Belly), Chris Toppin and Hilken Mancini (Fuzzy), Jen Trynin, Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies) and Jenny Dee, known for fronting the Deelinquents. Now that’s a female supergroup with local connections! Add a reunion of the Gigolo Aunts, plus other musicians and pro baseball players (and some who do both), at Cubs GM Theo Epstein and sportswriter Peter Gammons’ annual event and look for a hit to benefit Theo and Paul Epstein’s Foundation to Be Named Later. Also on Saturday, Nirvana-esque rock reigns at the Sinclair with a potent bill led by the noisy, melodic wallop of Toronto trio Metz (above) as well as Nashville’s likewise ’90s-styled Bully, led by turmoil-chewing frontwoman Alicia Bognanno.

Another one of Boston’s standout underground bands from several years ago, with a sound that evoked the Jeff Buckley Band with an edgy dream-pop sprawl, Magic Magic returns to action on Sunday to launch its weekly January residency at Great Scott.