Wednesday, April 13Corey Harris and Henry Butler DuoGuitarist Harris and pianist Butler are two of the snazzier blues players around, and together they should be nigh near irresistible. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, 7:30 p.m. $20.50–$22.50Thursday, April 14Atmosphere + GrayskulALSO SEE CD REVIEW, P. 53. After releasing the excellent Deadlivers on Rhymesayers, Grayskul—Oldominion’s Onry Ozzborn and JFK, and bass player Rob Castro—left town to tour the country. They’re stopping through with Atmosphere, but the tour’s not over. Hear them live now, as Deadlivers is the latest surge pushing Seattle’s hip-hop into the national scene. Neumo’s, 8 p.m. $15/$18David ThomasDavid Thomas is one of the most entitled men in music—which is a nice way of saying that he sometimes seems like a pain the ass. Blame it on his highly attuned sense of modernist art. Great to listen to, but we wouldn’t want to be in his band. Sunset Tavern, 9 p.m. $10ZombiSEE FEATURE, P. 47. El Corazon, 8 p.m. $8Regina SpektorSoviet Kitsch is the name of this now–New York critical favorite’s debut album; by many accounts, her live show is every bit as intriguing as her back story. Crocodile Cafe, 9 p.m. $8/$10Friday, April 15U.S.E.The city’s most deliriously fun live band just gets better with every show, which is saying something; they’ve also been parading good new material and strutting their stuff on the road. Dolour and Friends for Heroes open. VERA Project, 7:30 p.m. $8 members/$9Album Leaf + Plastiq PhantomTristeza guitarist Jimmy LaValle’s Album Leaf have been slowly gaining critical momentum following last year’s In a Safe Place (Sub Pop); Plastiq Phantom (aka Imputor? Records head Darrin Wiener) should do as well thanks to his smart self-titled disc from 2004. Neumo’s, 8 p.m. $10Library Science + Matt CorwineThe indie-dub maestros of Library Science and local electronica (and occasional SW music-section contributor) Corwine are a pretty inspired pair; one of the better local electronic bills this year so far. Rendezvous, 9 p.m. $5KumaKuma’s new Fast Colliding, their third self-release, shows the local band moving through more stark performance. Chop Suey, 8 p.m. $8The Black Lips + Tractor Sex FatalityJesus but these guys are a mess. Wait, so are those guys. Between Atlanta’s Black Lips and the local openers, well, I wouldn’t want to be the Funhouse’s janitor. Both bands deal in the kind of performance-heavy garage rock that ends in blood and broken bones. Funhouse, 4 p.m. $5Saturday, April 16Spanish for 100The fast-rising rock band has just done its first KEXP in-studio session, and has issued a debut EP, Metric, produced by Phil Ek. Mortimer and Weary open. EMP Liquid Lounge, 10 p.m.The New YearThe New Year take lines of thought (not really lyrics, but dialogue) and apply them to guitars that sound naked no matter what they’re dressed up in. This is the kind of mood rock that makes grown men cry. Ladies, be there for them. Crocodile Cafe, 9 p.m. $10/$12Toots and the MaytalsThough True Love (V2), Toots’ first album in ages, was sort of dispiriting (did he really need to duet with Gwen Stefani?), he’s always an amazing showman, with maybe the greatest singing voice to emerge from Jamaica. Showbox, 8 p.m. $25U.S.E. + Bruno PronsatoSEE FRIDAY. Pronsato’s been issuing great records on his Orac imprint for a few years now; if you like to shake your stuff to the headliners, make sure to check him out, too. VERA Project, 7:30 p.m. $8 members/$9Mix Master Mike + Electric Six + VHS or BetaSee SW THIS WEEK, P. 43. Neumo’s, 8 p.m. FreeSwarming HordesThere is fast metal, and then there is metal played at such a speed that methamphetamine use would not account. Swarming Hordes fall much closer to the latter. Their instru-metal is blindingly fast; it’s also epic, like flying over the Swiss Alps at Mach 2. Chop Suey, 9 p.m. $6Federation XFederation X recorded their self-titled debut on the cheap, in the small hours at WWU’s aging basement studio. For the next two albums, they sort of went to the other end of the spectrum, recording American Folk Horror and X-Patriot with Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, Fucking Champs) and Steve Albini, respectively. Now they’re bringing things back home—frontman Bill Badgley aborted school in N.Y.C., and the trio is completing Rally Day, sure to be full of swaggering riffs and artillery barrage percussion, back in Bellingham. Funhouse, 9:30 p.m. $6DeerhoofSEE FEATURE, P. 52. Paradox, 8 p.m. $10MooncalfMooncalf used to have a laptop guy as their drummer. The result sounded something like Modest Mouse without the depression, or Built to Spill without the sonic abandon. Word on the street is they have a drummer now, which should make for a more entertaining live show. High Dive, 9 p.m. $6Sunday, April 17The Wedding PresentSEE FEATURE, P. 45 . Neumo’s, 8 p.m. $12/$14