WEEKLY VOLCANO: MUSIC IN THE SOUTH SOUND TONIGHT >>> Don’t know what to do tonight? Don’t worry, we have you covered.
Jonathan Richman will make us and many other audience members cry and swoon and feel like we’re falling in love with everything. Ice cream, mosquitoes, the Velvet Underground, the Abominable Snowman, not doing drugs â€" these things will become our bestest friends. Richman plays the Capitol Theater Backstage at 8 p.m.
Olympia thrash metal rockers Christian Mistress â€" a local favorite â€" will be joining Pierced Arrows for a free show to celebrate Tara’s birthday at 9 p.m. inside The Brotherhood Lounge. (If you know Tara, this means something to you.)
Like indie rock migrants, unshaven and unforgiving, the Pharmacy bumble about this country of ours prescribing messy amounts of psych-pop-punk like doctors slinging elixirs out of the back of a horse drawn cart to wide eye and hopeful pioneers. They play an all-ages show with Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, and Sugar Beats at 7 p.m. inside The Den @ urbanXchange.
Portland’s World’s Greatest Ghosts’ music is frequently exuberant â€" driving explosions of color and magick (as they’d say). Passionate vocals are shouted past careening cymbals, power pop guitars and swirling synths. While the lyrical subject matter may occasionally bend towards things like death, the band has a tendency to take it to fantastical extremes. Catch them tonight with Blue Horns and the Nightgowns at 8 p.m. inside The New Frontier Lounge.