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Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Three Dollar Thursday, with 12 Gauge Saint, Curse Of The North, Regional Faction, Metal Mark. 21+. 9 pm. $3.

Lagerquist Concert Hall Tacoma - Parkland. PLU Regency Jazz Ensemble. All Ages. 8 pm.

Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Heidi Vladyka. All Ages. 7 pm. NC.

Northern Olympia - Downtown. Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez, Derek M Johnson, Soup Purse, Dead Air Fresheners. All Ages. 8 pm.

• It's not easy to labor in purposeful obscurity for more than a decade, cultivating an atmosphere of secrecy and hard-line artistic weirdness, but Olympia's Dead Air Fresheners have been going strong (and going secretive) for nigh on 13 years now. The creatively-uncontained, nominally-instrumental band (sometimes joined by spoken word performers) is a regular at Oly's Experimental Music Fest, where their droning, shrieking, aleatoric sounds are warmly received by the attendees' hard-bitten cochleae.  With their rotating roster of masked improvisers, a Dead Air Fresheners performance is like a Halloween-themed edition of "Guess Who?" simultaneously piquing the audience's curiosity and forcing them to forgo any desire to relate to the musicians themselves and asking them instead to focus all their attention on the thrumming, effects-addled vibrations being generated. - Jason Baxter
  

O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall Band. 21+. 7 pm. NC.

Rock the Dock Pub & Grill Tacoma - Downtown. Acoustic Open Mic. Hosted by Dustin Lafferty. All Ages. 8 pm.

Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm.

Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Come Out And Play Open Mic. Hosted by Kim Archer and Nick Sandy. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC.

Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart. All Ages. 8 pm. $8-$12.

Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Taco Thursday, with Jerry Miller. 21+. 7 pm. NC.

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