FRIDAY

>> Thrash metal group headlines 5-band show

Art that makes you laugh is a good thing. Art that can laugh at itself is even better.

Such it is with Municipal Waste, a Richmond, Va.-based band that helped revive thrash metal music in the early 2000s. The group — Tony Foresta, vocals, Ryan Waste, guitar, Dave Witte, drums, Landphil, bass, and Nick Poulos, guitar — has released six albums over the years, giving them clever titles like 2009’s “Massive Aggressive” and last year’s “Slime and Punishment” featuring songs like “Mourning Sex” and “Shrednecks.”

“There’s definitely some humor, but it gets a little serious with substance abuse and revenge topics,” Foresta told Thrasher Magazine, describing the lyrics of their songs. “Believe it or not, we actually put a lot of time into writing our song lyrics. Some songs are borderline serious, but we try to stray away from stuff like that. We think that we would do a better job singing about monsters and … (censored).”

They’ll be headlining a concert featuring local bands Corrupt Absolute, Oceans Deep, Anti-Matter and Badass Noise.

SATURDAY

>> Fundraiser will feature ‘classic’ band

Oahu gets a final chance to see the “classic” Natural Vibrations in concert this week as Wayne Enos, PeniDean Pau‘auli, Kayton “Sly Mongoose” Macariola and Shane Abraham play a “hana hou” show as special guests at Mana Maoli’s first Mana Mele concert of 2016 on Friday at the Turtle Bay Resort.

Bassist Jehua Evans had to return to California after last month’s big reunion concert at Bishop Museum, but drummer Stacy Medeiros, who wasn’t able to play the Bishop Museum show, will be there.

The band headlines as a surprise special guest for Mana Maoli and it’s youth programs that teach academics, business skills and Hawaiian culture through music. Enos is one of many Hawaii musicians who shares his time and knowledge with the students.

Reggae artist Mike Love and Hoku Award winners John Cruz and Paula Fuga are also on the bill. All money raised from the event will go to help fund Mana Maoli programs in Hawaiian charter schools on Oahu and Kauai.

SATURDAY-FEB. 10

>> Celebrate Black History Month with documentaries and movies

Three documentaries, a critically acclaimed feature film and an appearance by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy Smith kick off this week’s Honolulu Museum of Art’s Black History Month events, which this year will have particular relevance to the #MeToo movement.

The four films showing this week were all directed by African-American women, with Freida Lee Mock’s documentary “Anita” described as “an important historical document about an event that prompted a larger cultural conversation about sexual harassment” by The New York Times. The film tells the story of Anita Hill, the lawyer who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. It screens at 4 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A panel discussion on the #MeToo movement will follow the Sunday screening.

Two more documentaries consider charismatic figures in the art world. “The Gospel According to Andre” zeroes in on former Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley, a man of wit and intellect who came from humble beginnings in the South and has come to be considered the most influential African-American in fashion; it screens Saturday at 7:30 p.m., 1 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

“BOOM for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat” delves into the youth of the sensational artist who melded street-art genres with poetry and social commentary; it screens at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday and 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The feature film is “Mudbound” about a black family trying to build a life in the Deep South after World War II, when Jim Crow laws were still in effect.

“It’s a work of historical imagination that lands in the present with disquieting, illuminating force,” said the Times. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. Feb. 10.

Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who teaches at Princeton University, will appear at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 as part of the museum’s Green Room series.

The museum will screen more African-American-themed films in June to commemorate Juneteenth, the day generally recognized as emancipation day, and in August, which has been named Black Futures Month.

TUESDAY

>> Grouplove returns to The Republik this week

Los Angeles-based alt rock band Grouplove returns to The Republik this week with its optimistic synth-rock sound.

The band has produced hits from the beginning with its first single, 2010’s “Colours,” featured in video games, and the 2011 hit “Tongue Tied,” which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. All three of Grouplove’s albums — 2011’s “Never Trust a Happy Song,” 2013’s “Spreading Rumors” and 2016’s “Big Mess” — have reached the Billboard charts.

“Big Mess,” which was in production when the band last visited Hawaii, reflects the “mess” they found themselves in after an extended period of touring. Allmusic.com praised it as a continuation of the band’s “transformation from a kinetic, hippie-dance pop outfit into a mature, if still playful, radio-ready act.” With the song “Welcome to Your Life,” it also reflected the then-new parenthood status of band founders Hannah Hooper (vocals, keyboards) and Christian Zucconi (vocals, guitar). The band haas since released an EP, “Little Mess.”

In addition to Hooper and Zucconi, Grouplove consists of Ryan Rabin (drums), Andrew Wessen (guitars, vocals) and Daniel Gleason (bass). The band started in 2009 when Hooper and Zucconi, who were then frustrated artists in New York, met and within days decided to go to an artists commune in Greece, where they met most of the other current band members.