OM, THRONES, LICHENS (9 PM) ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) If all this sugary Christmas music is sending you into diabetic shock, here's the perfect antidote: the drawn-out stoner-metal-psych of Om, whose slowly ponderous meditations are certain to transport you to a gorgeous headspace where there isn't a fucking sleigh bell around for miles. NED LANNAMANN DOLOREAN, MERIDIAN [...]

Three reasons to see OM at the Bottom Lounge tonight (as if you need three): 1. You can't imagine the unspeakable heaviness obtained with just a bass and drums 2. Watch this and you won't have to imagine: 3. See what new drummer Emil Amos brings to the table. Doors at 8, 21+, $15
the new om record has arrived. much like every other om record i hear you mutter. but no! this bugger positively explodes with technicolour mayhem. ahh not really, but there is a creeping expansion of their distinctly repeato-minimal hypnopsyche sound. variations on a theme? kindof almost for sure. their whole career seemed to be building inexorably towards pilgrimage and it's perfectly pitched tectonic balance of the ludicrous and sagacious, power and poise . they sounded eons old yet utterly modern. then hakius jumped the transcendental ship last year and i figured that it'd [...]