NIGHT OF THE LIVING TRIBUTE BANDS

>>> Saturday, Oct. 29

For the past 11 years, in honor of Halloween, the Olympia Film Society has hosted an event simply known as Night of the Living Tribute Bands. These shows are rare windows into the musical lives of local performers whom we may know from seeing around town, but haven't yet learned of their inner devotions. Frequently, the tribute bands that perform at Night of the Living Tribute Bands are one-offs, assembled specifically for the event and made up of jumbled about musicians from various local bands. "Everyone just comes together for one night," says the Olympia Film Society's Audrey Henley, organizer of Night of the Living Tribute Bands. "We're really fortunate that we have so many great musicians in our town." - Rev. Adam McKinney

[Capitol Theater, 8:30 p.m., $5 w/ costume, $8 w/o costume, 206 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia, 360.754.5378]

C.F.A.

>>> Saturday, Oct. 29

There's a reason Tacoma's C.F.A. (Cody Foster Army) is a T-town music scene staple, and it's only partly due to the band's breakneck thrashing or topnotch facial hair. These dudes (guitarist Dave Takata, drummer Reno Dave Marseillan and Foster) have been there, done that in Tacoma, and they've got the scars and welts to prove it. In the past the Volcano has referred to C.F.A. as a "dynamic," and "powerful," band packing a "heavy old-school hardcore attitude and an uncompromising DIY approach." It's all still true. Saturday, in the band's typical fashion, C.F.A. will lead a pre-Halloween Halloween party at Louie G's Pizzeria in Fife, with Palooka and the Rikk Beatty Band also on the sure-to-be-rocking bill. As with all throwdowns at Louie G's, the show is all ages. Foster tells me kids will "shit themselves" when they see the movie-quality costumed Darth Vader and Chewbacca scheduled to attend. - Matt Driscoll

[Louie G's Pizzeria, with Palooka, Rikk Beatty Band, 9 p.m. all ages, 5219 Pacific Hwy. E., Fife, 253.926.9700]

PETER WOLF CRIER

>>> Sunday, Oct. 30

There's a marshal beat that overtakes Peter Wolf Crier, filling the insides and edges of the band's songs with a stuttering, clanging rhythm. These are break beats that fizzle and surge beneath the kind of tuneful indie rock that has come to be expected from the Jagjaguwar label. The juxtaposition presented with Peter Wolf Crier can be, at times, frustrating, and still otherwise compelling. After a debut LP that established Peter Wolf Crier as a particularly effective practitioner of glowing folk-rock, the band set a goal to play 100 shows in half a year, with this new set of songs being the result of that marathon. The banging on those drums may well represent the ethic that was instilled in them upon the undertaking of such a task, and it's a bang that commands some attention. - Rev. AM

[The Space, Halloween party with Peter Wolf Crier, Birds & Batteries, Goldfinch, 7:30 p.m., $8 at brownpapertickets.com, 729 Court C, Tacoma]

LOS HEADACHES

>>> Thursday, Nov. 3

Hailing from Mexico City, Mexico, Los Headaches makes crisp and catchy garage pop that nominally vacillates between the notions of love and lust - with regards to girls. Sometimes these feelings are expressed with a kind of blushing, bashful naivete; other times - as in "Never Again," which finds Los Headaches wishing they could find a girl to please them, so they'd never again have to please themselves - these feelings approach the pure state of the undeniably sophomoric, yet admirably honest. The dizzying sour grapes and twisting guitars of "I Surely Don't Care About You" rather handily sums up both Los Headaches' talent for driving melodies and the band's ability to sum up all of those childish hurt feelings we can get at any age - with regards to girls. - Rev. AM

[The New Frontier Lounge, with Rose Windows, the Variety Hour, 9 p.m., cover TBA, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]