Charlotte will get a little colder tonight as Ice Cube hosts The Coors Light Search for the Coldest MC semi-final at The Fillmore featuring guest judge Ice Cube and a special performance by Fabolous.

City Invasions is bringing the rock of P.O.D. and Love and Death (featuring Brian "Head" Welch of Korn) along with hip-hop by Thi'sil, Flame and The Rep to Memorial Stadium on Saturday, June 30. The free concert starts at 5 p.m. and is the brainchild of Invasion founder Amy Lambert, a recovering drug addict who created the concert series as a way to reach out to people suffering from addiction.

It's a story of resurrection... and weenies. After its death in 2005, 106.5 The End's Weenie Roast is alive and well once again.

The other main headliner has not yet been announced. Local band submissions will be taken in July. Tickets will go on sale Friday.

From 1995-2005, the Weenie Roast brought in big names like Bloodhound Gang, Jewel, Jennifer Nettles Band, Better Than Ezra, Creed, Bush, Cake, Moby, Everclear, Papa Roach, Nickelback, Good Charlotte, Dave Navarro, 3 Doors Down, Andrew WK, Staind and Shinedown. Local bands have always been incorporated into the festival including Muscadine, Doubting Thomas, Sunny Ledford, Jolene and Leisure McCorkle.

Jack Daniel, 106.5's program director, said the station ended the Weenie Roast on its 10th anniversary in 2005 because it seemed like a good time to end things. "It's a pretty big undertaking to put on a show like that," Daniel says.

For the price of a bar of soap, you could party for a good cause.

Derek Buchanan (aka DeeJay Linoge) has organized a charity event for the homeless at the Chop Shop on June 6. Cover charge is one donated useful item like soap, toothpaste or canned food.

DeeJay Linoge will be spinning as well as North Carolina DJs Donnie B, Mad Influence, Hipnotic v/s Prophet, Tober, Skinner, Audio Rush, RIDGID1, Damien the Omen, DubMonster, Rasputin and Yellow Fever. Visual artists James Smith, Quali Scales and Ashbash will be showing with other artists to be later announced. There will also be a raffle with a grand prize of $50 dollars to Wild Oats tattoo. Raffle tickets can be purchased with one useful item that can help the homeless.

All donated items will be distributed to the homeless through Nichole Jaworski and Serve Charlotte's Homeless. Serve Charlotte's Homeless (formerly Steele Creek Outreach,) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of Charlotte's unsheltered homeless population.

So dance, drink, maybe even win a free tattoo - and you could help a homeless child.

Interested in seeing David Childers perform, but not interested in leaving the comfort of home? Childers will be performing live on StageIt on May 25 with special guest Randy Saxon.

Here's another summer music festival for your calendar - and this time, it's homegrown. The inaugural Gnarnia music festival will take place at the Beech Mountain Resort near Boone on August 9-11.

Gnarnia also offers alternative performances like immersive theater, cirque performers, aerialists, bhangra dancers, stilt walkers, fire dancers, poets, fashion designers, b-boy battles, mud wrestling tournaments and bicycle jousting. There will also be more health-conscious opportunities like guided movement, yoga, meditation and massage along with instructional workshops on activities from urban farming to performance techniques.

The festival follows in the footsteps of an ever-growing number of North Carolina music festivals like MOOGFest, Hopscotch and Bele Chere - although this is certainly the first one where you can both bicycle joust and listen to electronic world music fusion. To take a look at the full lineup and get more information, go to www.gnarniathefestival.com.

The Fresh Music Festival is coming to Time Warner Cable Arena on July 1, 2012. Performers include Charlotte R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo, R&B singer Keith Sweat, the original human beatbox Doug E. Fresh, new jack swingers Guy and female R&B group SWV. ... Are we sure they should be calling this lineup "fresh"? We'll assume it's only a reference to Doug E.

Friday Live! at the Factory announced its 2012 schedule today which features national and local artists.

The schedule includes some of the bands as last year - Cowboy Mouth, Vertical Horizon, Tonic and Ed Kowalczyk of Live - and a few of local bands are also on the schedule including the Hot Gates, Chris Cook and Simplified.

Advance tickets are $5 and available online here. Tickets at the show are $10. A 10-concert "super pass" is available for $35. Each ticket also includes admission to Bask, Butter, Osso, The Saloon, Wet Willies, Small Bar, Matties Diner, Halo and VBGB Beer Hall and Garden.

Each rain-or-shine concert will start at 6 p.m. and end by 10 p.m. A portion of the proceeds of each concert will benefit the "Back to Life Foundation."

Here's the complete schedule:

April 27 - Southern Culture on the Skids, The Aqualads
May 4 - TBA
May 11 - Lit, 1000 Horses
May 18 - Cowboy Mouth
May 25 - The Connells
June 1 - Soul Asylum, Simplified
June 8 - Los Lonely Boys, Chris Cook
June 15 - Vertical Horizon
June 22 - Tonic, The Hot Gates
June 29 - Ed Kowalczyk of Live