The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: June 17-19

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The time has come again, and we hope you're as pumped as we are for this weekend's psychitzophrenic spread. It's all about the well-rounded experience: You can ponder art over an exhibition of electronica artists at the SLAP Conference, check out a Robert Plant sound-a-like or groove to the sweet vocal caresses of erstwhile R&B criminal R. Kelly. If you're (somehow) still unmotivated, the second annual S.L.UM. fest features some of the most promising St. Louis hip-hop artists in a night that spans 12 hours and at least 100 artists.

Friday

Led Zeppelin 2
Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
9 p.m. | $15

Middle Class Fashion
Foam
With Union Electric, Sleep Feat and Joseph Anthony Camerlengo
8 p.m. | $5

R. Kelly
Chaifetz Arena
With Keyshia Cole and Marsha Ambrosius
8 p.m. | $27.50

SLAP Conference
Regional Arts Commission
7 p.m. | Free Friday, $10 for Saturday and Sunday

Saturday

Harvest Sessions presents The Skekses
Tower Grove Farmers' Market
10 a.m. | Free

Jump Starts
Jefferson Warehouse
With Blood Pony
8:30 p.m. | $7

Nighty Night
Schlafly Tap Room
With May Day Orchestra
9 p.m. | Free

Rockin' For Joplin
Off Broadway
8 p.m. | $8 minimum donation

S.L.U.M. Fest
Atomic Cowboy
2 p.m. | $10-12

Sunday

My Life With the Thrlll Kill Kult
Firebird
With Twitch the Ripper
7 p.m. | $20