Hey spring breakers! Are you wondering how to spend your week off? Maybe you're hoping to pencil in some activities around your busy schedule of dragging your feet around Tacoma, lamenting your friends who are vacationing on some beach in California. But after taking a look at the all-ages music scene's immanent future, you have no excuse not to have a far better time than your abroad counterparts. Here are three shows that will make your musically astute friends bummed they left town. 

Enemy Combatants

Tuesday, March 19, 8 p.m., The Red Room

This Seattle band is heading down to Tacoma tonight to bring an onslaught of hardcore punk to The Red Room. Double knot your shoelaces and put on your moshing pants, for they will exercise no mercy in putting on a high-energy performance.

Survival Knife

Wednesday, March 20, 8 p.m., Northern

Publisher Pappi Swarner is going to kill me for mentioning this show, but it's just too good. As you have read 14 times on this website, this four piece - featuring two members from the band Unwound - has a sound as elemental as it is rare. Weekly Volcano scribe Nikki McCoy has its backstory here, including the band's tour with Modest Mouse. Weekly Volcano scribe Timothy Grisham reviewed Survival Knife's debut single here, as well as interviewed opening band Deathfix here. Maybe if you're lucky two or three Volcano writers will writer about the other opener Lois before Wednesday.

Lori Goldston and Marisa Anderson

Friday, March 29, 9 p.m., Northern

If you're yearning for an evening of incredible musicality, this is a show not to be missed. Cellist Lori Goldston will be performing at the Northern, bringing her beautifully haunting sound to Olympia. Goldston, founder of Black Cat Orchestra, has collaborated with the likes of Nirvana and Cat Power, and has provided the scores for several films. Joining Goldston on the bill that evening will be Marisa Anderson, blues guitarist extraordinaire. With her swampy guitar style and quintessential tone - drawing on everything from Delta blues to country and even West African guitar - Anderson has forged a sound that is completely her own. Her debut recording, Holiday Motel, was an Outmusic nominee for best female debut recording back in 2006. Her next studio album, Mercury, is scheduled for release this June on Mississippi Records.

So there you have it, three upcoming shows that will make for a musically fruitful spring break.