Will Downing Hatebreed Bob Mould Jay-Z

Next week

Roxbury’s Dimock Community Health Center stages its 17th annual black-tie jazzfest gala, "Steppin’ Out," next Saturday, November 13, with the World Trade Center decked out to recall more than a half-dozen legendary jazz clubs. Those settings will be populated by a bunch of actual jazz heavyweights: Andre Ward, Will Downing, Pieces of a Dream, the Original Blue Notes, Al Vega, Crucial Massive, and many more. Tickets are $150; call (617) 442-8800, extension 1006, or visit www.dimock.org/steppinout2004.

Next month

If you’ve already copped tickets to Hatebreed’s holiday show at the Palladium in Worcester — the annual Stillborn Fest, named after frontman Jamey Jasta’s record label — note that you’ll have a few extra days to digest your Christmas turkey before hitting the pit. Originally scheduled for December 26, the gig has now been pushed back to December 28 to accommodate additional Stillborn Fests in Philadelphia and New York. Hatebreed are still the only outfit that’s been announced for the Palladium show, but among the bands expected to join them are Agnostic Front, Candiria, God Forbid, and Stillborn’s latest stars, Full Blown Chaos. Tickets are $16; call (800) 477-6849.

And beyond

We applaud Hüsker Dü/Sugar daddy Bob Mould for keeping up with the times: like most indie-rock hipsters half his age, he’s got his own blog (Google boblog and pray the dude from Doo Rag doesn’t sue him for rights to the name) as well as his own DJ night. We’re also thankful that Mould’s tinkering with electronica hasn’t eclipsed his heavy, heavy songbook, and we’re hoping he digs deep into the memory crates — a little Workbook, pretty please? — when he hits the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, on January 14. It’s 18-plus, and tickets are $15; call (617) 423-NEXT.

Def jams

Oh, snap. As this section went to press, the hip-hop world was waking up to the news that a weird weekend gig at Madison Square Garden brought a fitful end to the "Best of Both Worlds" tour of Jay-Z and R. Kelly, with Kelly claiming that someone in Jay’s entourage had maced him halfway through the gig and Jay’s camp claiming that Kelly just plum lost his nerve. Word is that Jay will carry on with "friends" TBA for the tour’s FleetCenter engagement next Sunday, November 14. Our suggested replacement for Mr. Kelly would be Linkin Park. After all, Jay and Linkin Park recently teamed up for Collision Course, an EP that slams together songs from The Black Album with tracks from LP’s Meteora — in effect coining the first totally legit release to surface from the remix craze spawned by Danger Mouse’s Grey Album. Due November 30, the EP is a tie-in with MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups, a new show that brings the bootleg-remix craze to a live concert stage; the program starts this Wednesday, and the first single — LP’s "Numb" underscoring Jay-Z’s "Encore" — should hit the air this week. Tickets for the FleetCenter gig, at $39.50 to $75, are available through Ticketmaster; call (617) 931-2000.