Music

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Kool and the Gang With two Grammys, 34 top-10 appearances on the pop and R&B charts, and singles like “Celebration” and “Jungle Boogie,” which everyone from Madonna to Will Smith has sampled, is there anything Kool & the Gang hasn’t accomplished? Well, at least one highlight is still to come: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year. 21 and over. ACP Snoqualmie Casino, 37500 S.E. North Bend Way, Snoqualmie, WA 98065 $15 and up Saturday, July 5, 2014, 7pm

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Steely Dan Steely Dan, the jazz-rock duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, hasn’t released new material since 2003’s Everything Must Go, but that’s not stopping them from touring. This, the Jamalot Ever After tour, finds the pair riding on the strength of still-beloved singles like “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Hey Nineteen.” Through Sunday. With Bobby Broom. All ages. ACP Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway N.E., Redmond, WA 98052 $65 and up Saturday, July 5, 2014, 7:30pm

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Sharon Van Etten For all the heartache found in her songs, Sharon Van Etten comes off as remarkably cheerful. Perhaps the L.A. sun is helping.

“It’s my first day off in a little while,” she tells Seattle Weekly in a recent phone call. “I’ve just had a wonderful Mexican meal, and it was perfect.”

The New York-based songwriter is on the West Coast on the first leg of a North American tour that will dip in and out of Europe before ending in December. “It’s pretty aggressive,” she says, “but you kind of have to hit the ground running. I have two new band members, and we’re getting into a groove. The shows are only going to get better.”

Read the entire interview at seattleweekly.com. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., Seattle, WA 98105 $18 adv./$20 DOS Saturday, July 5, 2014, 9pm

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Hank Green Hank Green, one of the Internet’s resident nerds, is one half of the Vlogbrothers, who launched their YouTube channel into popularity in 2007 after posting an original song about Harry Potter. Seven years later, Green’s touring in support of his fifth album, Incongruent, a collection of punk songs about science, My Little Pony, and Shakespearean insults. With Driftless Pony Club. All ages. DML The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., Seattle WA 98121 $17 adv. Saturday, July 5, 2014, 10pm

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Dwight Yoakam Country-music legend Dwight Yoakam is a busy man. Besides an illustrious music career, Yoakam is an actor (Sling Blade and Wedding Crashers), a director (South of Heaven, West of Hell), and the owner of his own brand of biscuits. And on top of all that, he somehow found time to release 2012’s delightfully twangy 3 Pears. 21 and over. ACP Snoqualmie Casino, 37500 S.E. North Bend Way, Snoqualmie, WA 98065 $25 and up Sunday, July 6, 2014, 7pm

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Steely Dan Steely Dan, the jazz-rock duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, hasn’t released new material since 2003’s Everything Must Go, but that’s not stopping them from touring. This, the Jamalot Ever After tour, finds the pair riding on the strength of still-beloved singles like “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Hey Nineteen.” Through Sunday. With Bobby Broom. All ages. ACP Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway N.E., Redmond, WA 98052 $65 and up Sunday, July 6, 2014, 7:30pm

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New Order New Order’s story is well known. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, the band reformed to continue pushing post-punk in an exciting new direction. It’s easy to idealize bands that so defined an era and genre, but what makes New Order so fascinating is how its influence seems even larger today than it was in the ‘80s. So much of modern dance music and indie pop is indebted to the grandiose and wistful hooks of Peter Hook (pun intended, though Hook no longer performs with the band), and both EDM devotees and bedroom-pop loners can find a common denominator in the band’s music. All ages. DH The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 $45-$65 Sunday, July 6, 2014, 8pm

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Asleep at the Wheel Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson has taken his Western swing band on a pretty long journey. Founding the ensemble in West Virginia, the group relocated to California and eventually Texas, incorporating much of those states’ storied music histories into its albums. A few years back it issued Remember the Alamo, draping juked-up honky tonk over Gen. Santa Anna’s battle. Even Willie Nelson’s a big enough fan to collaborate with the band, a partnership that resulted in 2009’s Willie and the Wheel. And on its latest, Havin’ a Party: Live, the Wheel churns through jazz standards, as well as some rockabilly in celebration of the nation’s heritage. Repeats 9:30 p.m. DAVE CANTOR Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $34.50 Monday, July 7, 2014, 7:30pm

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The Pink Slips For everything that may be made easier by the fact that the Pink Slips are fronted by Grace McKagan, teenage daughter of Duff McKagan, the group will have to fight equally hard to be seen and heard as something other than that. With no recorded material available yet (an EP is coming this summer), the live show and a handful of YouTube clips are currently the only way to experience them. McKagan’s vocals seem up to the task, sultry in a Lana Del Rey sort of way, though the band bristles with an energy more akin to that of the punk icons whose photos they are fond of tweeting: Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett. With Jason Kertson, Bleachbear. DL The Vera Project, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA 98109 $8 adv./$10 DOS Monday, July 7, 2014, 7:30pm

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Lauryn Hill Step aside, Mariah; Lauryn Hill is the real elusive chanteuse. Since releasing her critically acclaimed first (and so far only) solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998, the former Fugee has graced the world with more controversy than the handful of singles she’s dropped-most recently 2013’s “Consumerism,” which debuted the night before she left prison after serving three months for tax evasion. Her Tumblr page claims the track is an introduction to a new project, Letters From Exile, which she wrote during her incarceration, but a release date has yet to be announced. All ages. ACP The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 $35 and up Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 8pm

Live Music After Queen Anne’s Farmer’s Market Every Thursday after the Farmer’s market. Live music performed by the talented Jacob McCaslin and Colin Malaska Robert Ramsay Cellars, 1629 Queen Anne Ave N. #102, Seattle, WA 98109 Free Thursday, July 10, 2014, 6 – 9pm

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Light in the Attic Summer Spectacular Light in the Attic Records has been hitting it out of the park lately with a slew of hand-picked reissues and compilations you shouldn’t pass up. Click <a href=”http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/953177-129/wheedles-groove-vol-ii-has-inextinguishable” target=”_blank”>here</a>, <a href=”http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/953179-129/lewis-lamour-is-mysterious-and-intriguing” target=”_blank”>here</a>, and <a href=”http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/953178-129/teenage-optimism-resounds-on-donnie-and” target=”_blank”>here</a>, for our reviews of a few exceptional titles, check <a href=”http://www.lightintheattic.net” target=”_blank”>lightintheattic.net</a> for more about the roster, and don’t miss the first annual Light in the Attic Summer Spectacular, with Donnie & Joe Emerson, Alex Maas of The Black Angels, and Overton Berry Entertainer of the Wheedle’s Groove series. Light in the Attic Warehouse, 913 N.W. 50th St., Seattle, WA 98107 Free Saturday, July 12, 2014, 3pm

Live Music After Queen Anne’s Farmer’s Market Every Thursday after the Farmer’s market. Live music performed by the talented Jacob McCaslin and Colin Malaska Robert Ramsay Cellars, 1629 Queen Anne Ave N. #102, Seattle, WA 98109 Free Thursday, July 17, 2014, 6 – 9pm