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Dirty Blues-Pop: Talk about a friend of Tacoma - Drew Grow, and even his Pastors' Wives, feel like long-lost soul mates of Grit City. Originally won over by the warmth of the arts-slash-music scene emanating from The Warehouse (R.I.P.), and intrigued enough to come back even after the DIY venue's demise, the pop-sensible, hipster-spiritual Drew Grow and Pastors' Wives will be filling the Loft at Urban Grace this time around - more specifically, Friday. Since many of the same faces in charge of the Warehouse's final incarnation are helping get the Urban Grace Loft off the ground as a venue, Grow's return to their artist-first embrace only makes sense. "All of you Tacomans (That can't be right - it looks like Taco-man) have been really kind to us," Grow wrote to me in email. "The Tacoma music world that we know is a stunning pocket of creative people." He's right about most of it. With Big Sur, Valerie Warren, Friday, May 21, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $10, The Loft at Urban Grace, 902 Market St., Tacoma, thewarehousetacoma@gmail.com - Matt Driscoll
Hip-Hop: The Bay Area's Mystik Journeymen (Sunspot Jonz and Luckyiam of Living Legends), A+ (Hieroglyphics), Bored Stiff, Z-Man and Equipto visit Olympia's Royal Lounge for an early show tonight. Just added are Tac-Town's award-winning MC Wojack, and fresh off the release of his album, Words to The Wize, Josh Rizeberg. The tour features a dope lineup of some of hip-hop's finest underground MCs. Friday, May 21, 8 p.m., $12 advance, The Royal Lounge, 311 Capital Way N., Olympia, 360.705.0760 - Michael Swan