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VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY: EROTIC CITY ( The Spare Room , 4830 NE 42nd) Hey, all you sexy mofos: The Spare Room is the place to drive your Little Red Corvette for a Valentine's dance fest by Erotic City, Portland's wonderful cover band of the Diminutive Purple One. It's Prince tunes all night, with more sexy dance moves than you can shake a crying dove at. COURTNEY FERGUSON LANGHORNE SLIM Bunk Bar , 1028 SE Water) Langhorne Slim just [...]

TOO SHORT, STEADY THE BOSS, DJ CHILL ( Roseland , 8 NW 6th) Three decades later and 19 full-length albums, Too $hort is still dropping rhymes about all of his favorite things... and if you don't know what those things are, stop reading now. Even if 45-year-old Todd Shaw never shook his pimpin' ways, he's still managed to maintain the respect of rappers past and present (Tupac, the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z). Plus he was $tylizing his name with dollar signs long before Ke$ha and Gene $immon$. Too $hort has his 20th album coming out later this month called [...]

Friday, February 10, 2012 LO MODA RECORD RELEASE 8:00pm. The WindUp Space . 12 W. North Ave. "Station North", Baltimore. With... MONSTER MUSEUM Facebook RSVP.

THE PHARMACY, THE SHIVAS, GHOST MOM, MYTHOLOGICAL HORSES ( Ella Street Social Club , 714 SW 20th Pl) Read our article on the Pharmacy . YACHT, LOVERS, JEFFREY JERUSALEM ( Wonder Ballroom , 128 NE Russell) According to the Mayans, we have less than a year before the apocalypse, so now is as good a time as any to (A) start thinking about what comes next and (B) immerse ourselves in hedonistic orgies. [...]

The Right Place To Be EP by Adventure Galley VILLAGE FREE SCHOOL BENEFIT: HURRY UP, ADVENTURE GALLEY, FATHER FIGURE ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Since supporting education is vitally important right now, don't miss tonight's Benefit for the Village Free School (a cool nonprofit private school that focuses on freedom, responsibility, and community involvement), featuring the Thermals-infused super band Hurry Up! as well as bouncy sets from Adventure Galley and Father Figure. Go on—have some fun for the kids! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY [...]

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 WAR ON WOMEN RECORD RELEASE $7. 1o:00pm. Golden West Cafe 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden, Baltimore. With... ALICE BAG BIG MOUTH DONNA LETHAL Facebook RSVP. Sponsored by Celebrated Summer Records.

Latest tracks by goldenBEARS THE GOLDEN BEARS, 1939 ENSEMBLE ( Bunk Bar , 1028 SE Water) Read our article on the Golden Bears . LOS CAMPESINOS!, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) Read our article on Los Campesinos! ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER, DOMINANT [...]

PERFECT PICKLE: DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID, CÉCILIA UND DIE SAUERKRAUTS, DENVER, PETE KREBS ( Holocene , 1001 SE Morrison) In its second year running, the Dill Pickle Club's Perfect Pickle combines more than a few of your favorite things: a pickle tasting/competition featuring submissions from the likes of Biwa and Olympic Provisions, among others, live music from bands like Denver, celeb judges like Dave "Killer Bread" Dahl, and more! MARJORIE SKINNER Dutch by Still Caves STILL CAVES, ZODIAC DEATH VALLEY, BATH PARTY [...]

FATHERS DAY by Neal Morgan NEAL MORGAN, WHITE HINTERLAND, MARISA ANDERSON, PWRHAUS, SEAN PECKNOLD ( Holocene , 1001 SE Morrison) Read our article on Neal Morgan . SLABTOWN BENDER: KID CONGO POWERS AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, DON'T, PROBLEMS, CYCLOPS, BLOOD BEACH, & MORE ( Slabtown , 1033 NW 16th) Brian Tristan, AKA Kid Congo Powers, came up in the LA punk [...]

LOST LANDER, YOURS, HOUNDSTOOTH ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) Read our article on Lost Lander . THAT'S MY JAM!: DJ BEYONDA, ILL CAMINO ( Bossanova Ballroom , 722 E Burnside) It's finally here: the booty-shakingest event of the winter, That's My Jam dance party and contest! Limber up for some high-velocity dance pop jams spun by DJ Beyonda and Ill Camino, as well as a dance crew contest with cash prizes! Don't miss [...]

Saturday, February 4, 2012 MURDER RECORD RELEASE $7. 1o:00pm. Golden West Cafe 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden, Baltimore. With... DOUBLE NEGATIVE TRIAC WARGAMES Facebook RSVP.

Friday, February 3, 2012 2 Art Shows in Hampden/Remington! Let's get arty! I AM THE KING: A Benefit for Brad Deason 7-9PM. Atomic Books . Hampden, Baltimore. 3620 Falls Rd. A party/silent art auction benefit for Brad Deason, in order to help out with some of his medical bills after surgery. It's also First Friday in Hampden! Confirmed contributing artists (more TBA): Josh Sisk Ben Claassen III Nolen Strals [...]

LAURA GIBSON, BREATHE OWL BREATHE, MIKE MIDLO ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Laura Gibson . SLABTOWN BENDER: THE TRASHIES, TOP TEN, UNNATURAL HELPERS, STAN MCMAHON, DENIZENZ, TACOCAT, & MORE ( Slabtown , 1033 NW 16th) It's time to have the funnest blackout you'll never remember with the annual Slabtown Bender. Drink 'em up and dance 'em down at this weekend-long series of shows, tonight with the Trashies, TacocaT, and [...]

HEEB REMIXED: WEINLAND, ST. EVEN, GIDEON FREUDMANN ( Holocene , 1001 SE Morrison) The Oregon Jewish Museum has enlisted Weinland's Adam Shearer and Aaron Pomerantz to put together Heeb Remixed, a night of local Jewish songwriters and musicians. Weinland will play, naturally, along with Gideon Freudmann of Portland Cello Project and St. Even (AKA Steve Hefter)—plus knishes and Manischewitz cocktails. L'chaim! NED LANNAMANN Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch by Youthbitch YOUTHBITCH, DISKORDS, BOOM ( Star Bar , 639 SE Morrison) [...]

According to Facebook , it's Revival Drum Shop 's birthday today. And it's true that the Northeast Portland percussion emporium opened its doors in February 2009, and in three short years it's become a reliable, well-loved source for all things drum, specializing in custom and vintage items. Tonight the Creative Music Guild hosts a show at the drum shop featuring a solo set from Luke Wyland —perhaps better known as one-half of AU. Wyland typically handles keyboard, pedal steel, and vocals for AU but tonight's improvised set will see him playing solo accordion [...]

13 MONTHS OF SUNSHINE: AFRICAN SOUNDS DANCE PARTY ( Holocene , 1001 SE Morrison) Bless the rains for staying outside as DJs Cuica, Spencer D, Jason Urick, and the guys in Brainstorm create 13 Months of Sunshine: Africa Sounds Dance Party, a night full of sunny, happy dance music. Why didn't someone think of this sooner? WILL ELDER [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Here's a clip of heavy-psych band Radio Moscow show, from their January 7 in Ames, Iowa. The band kind of broke up after this, and you'll see why. Here's the short version, distilled from Radio Moscow's PR people: "DRUMMER HURLS FRONTMAN PARKER GRIGGS' OWN GUITAR INTO GRIGGS' HEAD—SENDING HIM TO THE EMERGENCY WARD TO RECEIVE 14 STITCHES TO THE FOREHEAD." But as you'll see from the video, it looks like Griggs might have started the whole incident by throwing his guitar at the drummer to begin with. As least that's how it looks to me. [...]

GHOST, BLOOD CEREMONY, ANCIENT VVISDOM ( Hawthorne Theatre , 1507 SE 39th) I have heard exactly one heavy music fan claim they did not care for Blood Ceremony's self-titled 2008 debut. Are you fucking kidding me? Unabashed Iommi-worshipping guitar, sinister organ, and lyrics birthed from the Necronomicon swirl from netherworldly depths to otherworldly heights—and that's just the first song. Once vocalist/organist Alia O'Brien puts her lips to the mouthpiece and conjures that first flute (yes, flute) solo, the trip really begins. This dark sorceress leads a druggy, unholy dance at the altar of the RIFF, her minions banging [...]

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, TRAGEDY, DRUDEN ( Branx , 320 SE 2nd) The sky is dark, and the floodgates of Northwest rain have opened, creating the perfect environment to summon forth Wolves in the Throne Room. From a fabled farm compound, the Olympia band channels the energy around us into a rampage of black metal that might stop you from caring whether the sun ever returns. MARJORIE SKINNER [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

THE PARSON RED HEADS, TOMMY KEENE ( Mississippi Studios , 3939 N Mississippi) In his introduction to the power-pop progenitor's ferocious performance on Late Night in '94, Conan O'Brien declared Tommy Keene "one of the best pop songwriters in the business." A single spin of his 1986 benchmark album, Places That Are Gone , will tell you that's no exaggeration. Anybody with a penchant for pop is guaranteed to be fairly keen on, well, virtually everything Keene has released. His output is remarkably consistent, and unlike conspecifics Chris Stamey or hell, R.E.M., Keene hasn't chilled out with the [...]