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Nonsequitur Presents Music by John Luther Adams Good Shepherd Center	Sat., November 21, 8:00pm	Wallingford	Music Opera
Parallels between the musical style of composer John Luther Adams and the landscape surrounding him—Alaska, where he’s lived for 30 years—are easy to draw: spaciousness, icy-clear grandeur, profound silence, thunderous and elemental outbursts, rawness, delicacy, stark and... More >>

Those Darlins Chop Suey	Sat., November 21, 9:00pm	Capitol Hill	Music
Mainstream country music stars reality-show blondes with streaky highlights and shrieky voices, over-emoting through ballads so leaden and unimaginative, they sound more like hair bands than hillbillies. Gin-you-wine country music isn't dead, though; it's just been holed up in Murfreesboro,... More >>

Mt. Fuji Records Showcases Sunset Tavern	Sat., November 21, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music
You know your little label is doing okay for itself when you need two nights to showcase all of its talent. Former Cop (as in “the Cops“) and Mt Fuji label head Mike Jaworski has successfully carved a niche for his once-humble label by signing great Northwest bands, from the moody alt... More >>

Julian Casablancas Showbox at the Market	Sun., November 22, 7:00pm	Downtown	Music
Part of Julian Casablancas’ reputation as the Strokes’ frontman has always been his bratty nonchalance – it’s something of a surprise, then, to discover that his solo album, Phrazes for the Young, is fairly surging with exuberance. Phrazes’ songs are brassy and... More >>

The Swell Season Paramount Theatre	Sun., November 22, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music
The Swell Season is the stirring, earnestly emotional duo forged by Irish rocker Glen Hansard and Czech pianist Markéta Irglová. While co-starring in the 2007 sleeper indie hit Once, they fell in love, transforming big-screen fantasy into reality. The film also led to a wildly... More >>

The Hidden Cameras The Triple Door	Mon., November 23, 7:30pm	Pike Place Market	Music
Playing a sort of loping, ecstatic folk-pop, Toronto’s Hidden Cameras have always resisted firm contours. They’re unpredictable as a rule, leader Joel Gibb the constant in a shifting lineup that can swell to great numbers. The band’s fifth album, Origin:Orphan, begins with a long... More >>

The Books The Triple Door	Tue., November 24, 7:00pm more dates/times	Pike Place Market	Music
The Books have kept active in the past four years – touring and releasing a DVD, as well as composing elevator music for France’s Ministry of Culture – but the band’s been taking its sweet time when it comes to making a new album. The follow-up to 2005’s Lost and Safe... More >>

Municipal Waste El Corazon	Tue., November 24, 7:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music
Of all the bands currently riding the “New Wave of Thrash Revival” – Warbringer, Bonded By Blood, Evile, and others – Virginia Beach’s Municipal Waste is not just the best, but also the most broadly popular. And it’s easy to understand why; beyond the chunky,... More >>

Vince Mira and the Dusty 45s The Triple Door	Wed., November 25, 7:00pm more dates/times	Pike Place Market	Music
By the time teen twanger Vince Mira is of legal voting age, he will have recorded with the son of a country legend, collaborated with a member of Pearl Jam, toured the country’s major festival circuit and headlined at venues most artists hope to play after spending years building up their... More >>

Rickshaw Karaoke Nights Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge	Daily, 9:00pm-2:00am	North Seattle	Music
The Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge serves greasy Chinese food and American fare, but nobody ever goes there to eat. The establishment is much better known for satisfying folks who’ve got an insatiable appetite for karaoke. It’s packed with singers until closing every night of the... More >>

Jaguar Love Sole Repair	Wed., November 25, 8:00pm	Capitol Hill	Music
Wrought from the ashes of the Blood Brothers by Cody Votolato and Johnny Whitney, Jaguar Love first employed ex-Pretty Girls Make Graves guitarist Jay Clark as well. The Portland outfit has since scaled back to a two-man core, and in the wake of last year’s self-titled EP and album Take Me... More >>

Greg Ashley Tractor Tavern	Wed., November 25, 9:30pm	Ballard	Music
As far as album titles go, Greg Ashley’s Medicine Fuck Dream from 2003 is about as symbiotic with the music as it gets. He has made other albums, including 2007’s Painted Garden, but Medicine Fuck Dream truly sums up his musical aesthetic. Heavy on swirling, langorous atmospherics,... More >>

Ozzie's Karaoke Ozzie's Restaurant and Lounge	Daily, 11:00am-2:00am	Queen Anne	Music
The appeal of Lower Queen Anne is the idea of something for everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a barely legal frat brother or a 70-year-old karaoke nut, you're either going home with someone's digits, a beautiful stranger, or, at the very least, a good story. Karaoke enthusiasts flock every... More >>

D.R.I. El Corazon	Fri., November 27, 8:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music
Sure, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles haven’t played in five years and haven’t put out a proper studio album in fifteen, but the legendary thrashcore outfit was able to maintain its explosive vigor well into the new millenium until cancer temporarily sidelined guitarist Spike Cassidy. Widely... More >>

Wanda Jackson Tractor Tavern	Fri., November 27, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music
The recent news that country/rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson was going to be working with Jack White on her next album brought a quick “Woo-hoo!” (which was quickly followed by a more Wanda-appropriate “hot dog!”) to many quarters. The album that White made with country icon... More >>

Selena's Salsa Night Selena's Guadalajara	Every week Friday, Saturday, 10:00pm-2:00am	Wallingford	Dance Music
Selena's Guadalajara is a small Mexican restaurant that’s easy to overlook as you're driving past on 45th Street. If you haven’t eaten there, you’re not really missing much. But if you like salsa dancing and you haven’t been there, you should remedy the situation... More >>

The Lonely Forest Showbox at the Market	Sat., November 28, 8:00pm	Downtown	Music
If the Lonely Forest accomplishes nothing else with sophomore release We Sing The Body Electric!, vocalist and songwriter John Van Deusen hopes that when people hear it, they'll stop referring to the Lonely Forest's age and judge the music by its merits alone. Then again, that's how the Lonely... More >>

Buddha Belltown Buddha Belltown	Every week Saturday, 12:00pm-2:00am	Belltown	Music
I celebrated my 23rd birthday by getting plastered, flailing about to Billy Idol, and then dumping my boyfriend of two years via text message. I woke up the next morning hungover, single, and thoroughly ashamed of myself. But that unpleasant experience hasn’t deterred me from frequenting... More >>

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Showbox at the Market	Sat., November 28, 8:00pm	Downtown	Music
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter are wisely restrained when it comes to booking local shows. There are only a handful of opportunities to catch them conjuring their magic each year, so tonight’s performance is truly an event. For their last show of the decade, they’ll be unveiling... More >>

Max Tundra Nectar	Sat., November 28, 9:00pm	Fremont	Music
There's a pure, unbridled joy to the music that Londoner Ben Jacobs creates as Max Tundra. Using a variety of synthesizers and gadgets, he crafts glitchy, hyperactive electro-pop that would sound just as at-home in a video game as it does on the dance floor. Yet, while many electronic artists... More >>

Morrissey Paramount Theatre	Sun., November 29, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music
LONDON – After a series of mishaps at recent concerts in the United Kingdom – including an on-stage collapse and subsequent hospitalization in Swindon due to respiratory problems, and the abrupt cancellation of a performance in Liverpool after he was hit in the head with a beverage... More >>

Music of Africa Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine	Every week Sunday, 8:00pm	Central District	Music
Every Sunday night at Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine, a rotating roster of artists perform music from a different part of the African continent. The first time I went, four drummers pounded out Taranga rhythms, a Senegalese drumming style executed on tall Sabar drums. The four drummers played sitting... More >>

Judith Owen and Harry Shearer The Triple Door	Mon., November 30, 7:30pm	Pike Place Market	Comedy Holiday Music
Like a lot of people, my opinion of the holiday season teeters between fondness and revulsion. Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart had me positively giddy that Christmas was around the corner. Then I went to Best Buy last week and wished Jesus was never born. Judith Owen and Harry Shearer... More >>

Cold Cave The Vera Project	Mon., November 30, 7:30pm	Queen Anne	Music
Philadelphia singer/musician (and poet, and owner of the independent publishing company Heartworm Press) Wes Eisold used to be quite the punk rocker, playing in numerous notable hardcore and noise bands including Give Up the Ghost, American Nightmare, and Some Girls. A couple of years ago,... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco Neumos	Mon., November 30, 8:00pm	Capitol Hill	Music
James Ford and Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco, the most vaunted British DJ extraordinaire this side of the Chemical Brothers, made it their mission to bring house music to the masses, beyond the constrained rave scene and European discothèques. SMD’s sophomore album, Temporary... More >>