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After Thanksgiving, we can think of no better way to detune and unpressurize than to club hop. Don't know what to do tonight? Don't worry, we have you covered.

During the past 17 years as an international DJ, Lakewood-grown Donald Glaude has been responsible for seeding vibrant musical landscapes for audiences up and down the West Coast. He's back in his hometown tonight spinning with dAb, Omar and J-Fresh at The Swiss.

The one-man-folk-band thing is getting a wee-bit played out. That said, Ghostwriter is NOT played out - and the shtick is anything but boring. While Steve Schecter - the man who is Ghostwriter - has the country-fried, chicken feather bit down - there's also a gloominess to what he does that keeps things interesting. Check it for yourself tonight at The New Frontier with Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel and the Fun Police.

Hell's Kitchen continues its string of final shows at its Sixth Avenue location with all-female AC/DC tribute band Hell's Belles headlining with The Jet City Fix and Witchburn at 9 p.m.

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Featuring members of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, Seattle band Valis (pictured) has catapulted into space and back creating their own brand of Northwest rock. Check them out tonight with The Hard Way at The Eastside Club Tavern.

New York singer-songerwriter Julia Ilowiecki joins Andrew Vait & The Lonesome Pioneers, and Olivia De La Cruz at 8 p.m. inside Stonegate Pizza.

Freedom Records Present Underride, VIII Days Clean, Cold December, Ashley from "Rock Of Love" at 9 p.m. inside Jazzbones.

Grant Valdes, the singer-songwriter in the Seattle nightmericana band The Empty Moon, is in Olympia at Le Voyeur around 10 p.m.

Columbia, the rock band out of B.C. Columbia with a big sound, plays the New Frontier Lounge with Stefan Paul George at 9 p.m.

Dilithium Piston is at Bob's Java Jive tonight, too.

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Squirt - Dick Rossetti, Eric "The Swede" Olson, and Electric Vee Vee Roark - after 14 years, has decided to play one last string of shows starting here in Tacoma tonight at Hell's Kitchen, which was the Central Tavern back when Squirt was crankin' it in the early '90s.

Tacoma's legendary The Fabulous Wailers hold s CD release show for the band's latest effort, Rooster Rock, tonight at The Swiss.

An impromptu acoustic open mic is doing down from 5-8 p.m. at the Speakeasy Arts Cooperative in downtown Tacoma.
 
The Missionary Position plays a free show at Doyle's Pubic House beginning at 8 p.m.

Afrok, Xperience and E-Phryme tell it how it is at 8 p.m. inside The Royal in Olympia.

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Batrider possesses that most appealing aspect of grunge - you can hear them fighting to find the perfect pop melody, each misstep inspiring fits of feedback over waves of crashing cymbals and lurching bass. They play Le Voyeur in Olympia at 10 p.m.

The Fun Police. Is this a band of officers that inspires fun, or is it fun they police? This question and more will be answered tonight at Stonegate Pizza on South Tacoma Way.

Brooklyn Pool (pictured) will be busting out a brand-spanking new record tonight at The Den with Colonies, Organ Donor, and Phantom Fireworks at 7 p.m.

Mad Rad - the rowdy Seattle hipster electro-hip-hop group that (at one point at least) was banned from seven venues on Capitol Hill - will join Nasty Left, DJ Darwin, DJ Hanibal and the Friday the 13th Bogeyman Art Show featuring artists James Hume, Jeremy Gregory, Brook Pawlicki, James Bender, GRYM, Ann Koi, AcidTest, Laura Eklund, Matthew Scott and Ryan Loiselle at 9 p.m.

Tonight in Tacoma, as part of Art at Work Month and the seventh incarnation of the Tacoma Round - the popular grassroots series in which artists, poets and musicians share a stage - a team of nine SOTA students led by Beautiful Angle gorilla-art conspirators Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn will build a wall of their own.  The show begins at 7:30 p.m. inside the Warehouse in downtown Tacoma.

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