A GIANT SANTA SACK OF LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT >>>

A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Songs Of The Season Holiday Benefit, with Roy Douglas. Proceeds benefit the Food Connection food bank in Tacoma. All Ages. 7 pm. $5 or 3 cans of food.

Bailey's Motor Inn Olympia - Eastside. Black Top Demon. 21+. 8 pm.

Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC.

C.I. Shenanigan's Tacoma - Ruston Way. Collaborative Works Jazz Trio. 21+. 8 pm. NC.

Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Bedside Manner CD Release Show, with High Noon Horizon, Death First, Basic Radio, Alabaster. 21+. 8 pm. $5.

Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Duke Robillard. 21+. 8 pm. $15-$18.

JR's Hideaway Belfair. The Woodies. 21+. 9 pm.

Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Bob Crow. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. 41 Miles. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC.

Maxwell's Speakeasy Tacoma. Lance Buller Trio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. No Cover.

The New Frontier Lounge Tacoma - Dome District. Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, Basemint, Library. 21+. 9 pm.

• When Sallie Ford came to the New Frontier for Squeak & Squawk earlier this year, I think the audience collectively fell in love with her. In addition to being just about the sweetest person in the world, Sallie Ford is an amazingly capable vocalist. Referring to herself as a "belter," Ford's voice is perfectly suited to the type of vintage soul, roots-rock and blues swagger that she and her band, the Sound Outside, have mastered. - Rev. Adam McKinney

Northern Olympia - Downtown. No Clouds, Ghost Feet, Sea Of Oaks, Stepkid. All Ages. 8 pm.

• Ghost Feet don't tread as lightly as their name might imply, but they do skip across subgenre boundaries with the ectoplasmic ease of something truly spectral. Theirs is richly textured electronic music, with resounding, chiming melodies and cascading bittersweet synth lines slipping and sliding around an ultra-dense carbon core of snare-happy, Boards of Canada-style beatwork. Wonkier bleeps and bloops - along with interjections of cut-up vocal samples - operate at their own figurative stratum entirely. Their stuff takes its cues from enough unique, notable ‘tronic talents (some Prefuse 73 here, maybe a little Lymbyc Systym there) that it feels fresh and original, and not too indebted to any one of its inspirations. They're well-matched on this bill by Sea of Oaks, Stepkid and the jazzy shoegazers in No Clouds. - Jason Baxter

O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Mark Defrenes. 21+. 8 pm. NC.

The Old General Store Steakhouse and Saloon Roy. Junkyard Jane. 21+. 9 pm.

Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Dana Lyons. All Ages. 8 pm. $5-$10.

Vanity Tacoma. 2112 A Tribute to RUSH with special guests the Kari Ehli Band. 21+. 9:30 pm. $5.

Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. All Male Revue Show. 21+. 9 pm.

LINK: More live music tonight in the South Sound