BAD ALBERT'S--Annieville Blues, free

CAFE VENUS--Country Joey Piss Drunk

CENTRAL SALOON--Infinite Kid, Left to Roam, the Janeways, $5

CONOR BYRNE'S--Cathie Ryan

* CROCODILE CAFE--31 Knots, Chris Lee, Christina Rosenvinge, $7

EL GAUCHO--Daniel Davidson

FIRESIDE ROOM--Overton Berry, free

FLOYD'S PLACE--Combo Craig

GALWAY ARMS--Owl 'n' Thistle Band

GRACELAND--Suicide Machines, Ensign, Big Wig (7 pm, all ages), $12

GREENLAKE BAR & GRILL--Bill Chism

HOPVINE--Kareem Kandi, Julian MacDonough, Will Blair, free

HURRICANE CAFE--Static Fugue, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band, $22.50/$26.50

KELLS--Pat Buckley

LARRY'S--The Mark Whitman Big Band w/ Sweet Talkin' Jones, $5

LIQUID LOUNGE AT EMP--Tracy Reynolds & Kellee Bradley, free

LOCK AND KEEL--Dave Conant & the D-Rangers, $2

MONA'S--The Blue Arc Trio

MOTION LOUNGE--Rockaraoke

MR. SPOT'S CHAI HOUSE--Open mic, free

NANA'S SOUP HOUSE--Marc Smason Trio

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--The Ham Carson Quintet, free

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Open mic

* ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Tribute to Don Lanphere, $13/$15

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Peep Show

* PARADOX THEATER--Styles of Beyond, Lexicon, 4-Zone, DJ Cheapshot, Evil One (8 pm, all ages), $12

PARAGON--HB Radke & the Jet City Swingers

PEACE CAFE--Open mic, free

PINK DOOR--Lonnie Williams, free

RAINBOW--Earshot Jazz Festival: Wayne Krantz Trio, Living Daylights, $12/$14

REDHOOK BREWERY--Java Trio, free

ROCK BOTTOM--San Pedro Circus (5 pm, all ages)

SCARLET TREE--Das Root w/ Reggie Watts, P.K., $6

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM--j.r. (5:30 pm, all ages), $7

SHARK CLUB (KIRKLAND)--The Retros, $6

* SIT & SPIN--Von Bondies, the Get Down Syndrome, $7

SLIDERS (RENTON)--Afrodisiacs, $6

ST. CLOUDS--The Electrodes

STILL LIFE COFFEEHOUSE--Liquid Voodoo, Jean Mann, free

* SUNSET TAVERN--The Bra Show w/ Bill Stanton, DJ Leslie $, the Yeah Oh Hell Yeahs, the Social Studies, $10

THOMPSON'S--Blue Gypsies, free

TRACTOR TAVERN--The Tannahill Weavers, $20

TRAVELERS--Open mic, free

* TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Aaron Parks Trio, $8/$10

WASABI BISTRO--Altered States, free

FRIDAY10/26

BACCANO--Brian Nova Trio, free

BALLARD EAGLES--Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Road Runners, $14

* BALTIC ROOM--Jumbalaya

BIT SALOON--Mike Lynch w/ the Tim Sherman Band

BITTERS--Mark Hansen (CD release), $5

BLACK LAB GALLERY--Open mic, free

BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE--Bushmen, Norris Man, Iley Dread, Chrisinti, $10

* BREAKROOM--The Black Halos, Post Stardom Depression, Supagroup (9 pm, all ages), $7

* BRECHEMIN AUDITORIUM--Earshot Jazz Festival: Aaron Parks, $12/$14

CAFE VENUS--Amy Denio, Mia Boyle, Sheryl Diane

CENTRAL SALOON--Low End, Surreal Sutra, Shifter, free/$10

COFFEE MESSIAH--Shallow Grave Party III w/ Little LuAnn, Aaron Mannino, Jesse Boggs

CONOR BYRNE'S--Conor Byrne

* CONTOUR--Mother's Milk

* CROCODILE CAFE--Pernice Brothers, Swords Project, the Long Winters, $10

* CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER--Earshot Jazz Festival: Don Lanphere Quartet, free

DEXTER & HAYES--Dr. Richard Kimball & the Fugitives

DOC MAYNARD'S--The Beatniks, $10

EL GAUCHO--Billy Wallace Quartet

* EMP--Juno, eXBeSTFRIeNDS, $6/$8

FIRESIDE ROOM--Overton Berry, free

FLOYD'S PLACE--K. W. Miller

Bastard Sons of Nuge, $6

GALWAY ARMS--Mayfly

* GRACELAND--Preston School of Industry, the Shins, the Standard, Holiday Flyer, $10

GRATEFUL BREAD--Lowry Olafson, $8/$10

HIGHLINER--Carolyn Cruso, free

HOPVINE--Barbie Anaka

HURRICANE CAFE--Sol Negro, Scorched Earth, Semesus, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band, $22.50/$26.50

KELLS--Grafton Street

LAKEPOINTE--Prodd, M.T.F., Room Zero

LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY CLUBHOUSE--Square Dance: Carthy & the Sisco Kids, $6

MOTION LOUNGE--Coolade

MULLEADY'S PUB--The Bare Knuckle Boxers, free

NEW HOLLY LIBRARY TEEN CENTER--Candidt, Boom Bap Project, Pale Soul, Vitamin D (7:45 pm, all ages), free

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--Junkyard Jane, $10

* OLD FIRE HOUSE (REDMOND)--Akimbo, Vermilion, Vonbondies, Ambitious Career Woman (8 pm, all ages), $5

OLD PEQULIAR--Moss Bay

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--The Combustion Collective, free

ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Don Byron's Music for Six Musicians, Odean Pope Trio, $16/$18

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Owl 'n' Thistle Band

PINK DOOR--Tony Yazzolino, free

PLANET HOT ROD--Trip Wire, Drown Mary, Fury 161, Suffer Gauge, A.O.D., $5

RAINBOW--Hillpeople, Relco, $6

REDHOOK BREWERY--Atomic Players, free

* RENDEZVOUS--Ghidra, Mothra, $5

RIVER ROCK ALEHOUSE--Dr. Kimball & the Fugitives

SCARLET TREE--Shades w/ Gloria, $7

SEATTLE CENTERHOUSE--Eduardo Mendonca, Show Brazil!, Michael Shrieve, YATMA (6 pm, all ages), free

SERAFINA--Milo Peterson, Val Illman

* SHOWBOX--Stereolab, Fugu, $15

* SIT & SPIN--Redneck Girlfriend, Graig Markel, Radio Nationals, Rick Miller, $7

* SONIC BOOM RECORDS (BALLARD)--The Shins (5 pm)

ST. CLOUDS--Zhaoui

TOMMY'S--Subdwellers, 94th St, $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--Dudley Manlove Quartet's Sixth Annual Spooktacular, $10/$12

TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Kenny Werner Trio, $12/$14

ZAK'S--Octabites, Orange Peeler, Blue Knights, Wadsworth, $5

SATURDAY 10/27

BAD ALBERT'S--Henry Cooper, $2

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--Halloween Costume Party: DJ Tripp, Liquor Box, Killing Faith, Flask

BIT SALOON--Billy Budd

BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE--Bushmen, Norris Man, Iley Dread, Chrisinti, $10

BREAKROOM--Dragons, RC5, Boss Martians, $6

CAFF: BRAZIL--Vilson Zattera & Nilza Lessa, free

CENTRAL SALOON--Sunday Morning Music, $8/$10

CENTURY BALLROOM--Karla Bonoff, $22.50/$24

CONOR BYRNE'S--PH Factor

* CROCODILE CAFE--The Breeders, Poseur, Catahoula Hounds, $15

CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER--Earshot Jazz Festival: Continued in the Underground, free

DOC MAYNARD'S--Coolade, $10

EL GAUCHO--Billy Wallace Quartet

ELYSIAN--Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band, $7

EMP--Broomstick Boogie, $10

FIRESIDE ROOM--Overton Berry, free

FORECASTERS (WOODINVILLE)--The High Rollers, free

GALWAY ARMS--K. W. Miller

GRACELAND--Nuf' Said, $8

GRATEFUL BREAD--Al & Emily Cantrell, $10

HANA'S--Open mic, free

HIGHLINER--Blues Pack, free

HOPVINE--Steve Ball Roadshow

HURRICANE CAFE--Artist to Icon, Mr. Yuck, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band, $22.50/$26.50

KELLS--Grafton Street

LAKEPOINTE--Sick Things, Tinn Lizzy

* LOCAL 46--Schoolyard Heroes, Slumber Party (8 pm, all ages), $1/$5

LULU'S--House Jazz Band, $5

MONA'S--Bosa Nova & Samba Fatale, Urban Oasis, $2

MULLEADY'S PUB--Ray Carney, free

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--Mark Dufresne, $10

O'SHEA'S--Last Call

OLD PEQULIAR--The Bradbury Press

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Bood Boy, Bren!, $5

ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Richard Bona Group, Amizade, $16/$18

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Bird of Passage

PARADOX THEATER--Jason Webley (8 pm, all ages), $8

PARAGON--Blues Orbiters

PINK DOOR--Tony Yazzolino, free

PLANET HOT ROD--Vitamin Fat, Drug Related, the Brain Dead, $5

RAINBOW--Garaj Mahal, Rockin Teenage Combo, $13

RED ONION TAVERN--Jerry Miller

REDHOOK BREWERY--Freestyle Candela, free

ROCKSPORT--The Beatniks Halloween Party, $8

SCARLET TREE--Society's Child, $7

SERAFINA--Andrea Dupree

SIT & SPIN--Cookie, Suggie, Seawolf, $7

SONIC BOOM RECORDS (BALLARD)--Lanterna (5 pm)

ST. CLOUDS--Yes Yes Boys

* SUNSET TAVERN--Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers, Ty North, $10

TOMMY'S--The Jodie Watts, Pataha, Optimus Rhyme, $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--Christopher Williams (7 pm), $10

* TRACTOR TAVERN--Dear John Letters, the Lawnmowers, Down Pilot (CD release) (10 pm), $7

TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Kenny Werner Trio, $12/$14

UW BRECHEMIN AUDITORIUM--Earshot Jazz Festival: Aaron Parks, $12/$14

ZAK'S--Northwest Breeders, Hog Molly, Schmidtaholics, Rumblefish, $5

SUNDAY 10/28

* BALTIC ROOM--Smack: Reggie Watts, Davis Martin, Thaddeus Turner, Kevin Goldman

BELLTOWN BILLIARDS--Martin Ross Band

CENTRAL SALOON--Gift, Ragamuffin, $5

CENTURY BALLROOM--Swing: Hot Town Jubilee (8:30 pm, all ages), $10

CHINA JADE--Dennis Shadduck, free

CROCODILE CAFE--The Big Wu, $10

* EMP--Earshot Jazz Festival: Bill Frisell & Boubacar Traore, $19/$22

FLOYD'S PLACE--Jennifer Savage

* GRACELAND--Halloween Costume Party w/ Pleaseeasaur, Plastiq Phantom's DJs on Strike, Thrones, $6/$8

* HABANA'S RESTAURANT--Quasi Nada

HOPVINE--Marc Olsen

* I-SPY--Wimbledon, Recidivist, Trucker of the Sea, $6

JAZZ ALLEY--Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band, $22.50/$26.50

KELLS--Liam Gallagher

LITTLE THEATRE--Mike Marlin (CD release), $5

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--Ochopies, $5

O'SHEA'S--Open mic

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Ain't No Heaven Seven, $6

ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Myra Melford's Crush Trio, Reuben Radding & Daniel Carter, $14/$16

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Danny Godinez

PARAGON--Phil Carrillo

PINK DOOR--The Itinerant Locals

RAINBOW--Joga, $5

RAINIER VALLEY CULTURAL CENTER--Earshot Jazz Festival: Floyd Standifer Quartet, $6/$8

* SIT & SPIN--Sureshot Sundays: AWOL One, Circus, Oraclez Creed, Onry, Pale, Sleep, Sensimilla, DJ Topspin (3 pm, all ages), $5

* SONIC BOOM RECORDS (BALLARD)--Dear John Letters (5 pm)

SPACE NEEDLE--Earshot Jazz Festival: Kenny Werner (3 pm), $11

ST. CLOUDS--Trevor Wheetman

SUNSET TAVERN--The Yes Yes Boys & Del Rey, Craig Flory, Matt Weiner, Mike Daugherty, the Mud Bay Jug Band, $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--Lanterna, $6

TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Kenny Werner Trio, $12/$14

WATERTOWN--Prescription

MONDAY 10/29

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--Hurricanes, the Swains, Forrest Lee Jr., $5

BELLTOWN BILLIARDS--Brian Nova & Funk 69

BLUWATER BISTRO--LaMovida, free

* BREAKROOM--Heroine Sheiks, Hogmolly, the Ruby Doe, $6

CONTOUR--Urban Tongue w/ Tiffany Wilson, Bill Yuns

EL GAUCHO--Daniel Davidson

* GRACELAND--Angel Drag, the Downers, Agent 86, Me Infecto, $5

HOPVINE--Jon Nelson, Andrew Kerr, Christina & Dan

* I-SPY--SIL2K: Takagi Masakatsu, the Nudge, Dave Gross & Jason Glover, Tucker Dulin & Michael Bullock, $8

JAZZ ALLEY--Vanessa Rubin

KELLS--Liam Gallagher

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--New Orleans Quintet, free

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Rhumba Abierta, free

* ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Maybe Monday, Stackpole, $13/$15

PARADOX THEATER--Grade, Zao, Fairweather, Sheilbound (8 pm, all ages), $8/$10

RAINBOW--The Berry Bros, $3

* RAINIER VALLEY CULTURAL CENTER--Earshot Jazz Festival: Fred Anderson w/ William Parker & Hamid Drake, $8/$10

* SHOWBOX GREEN ROOM--All Things to All People: Shawn Smith, Jon Auer, Chris Von Sneidern, Aaron Huffman, Sgt. Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes, hosted by Sean Nelson, $5

ST. CLOUDS--Tom Bennett & the Rolling Blackouts

SUNSET TAVERN--Knitting Factory: Joe Doria, Ryan Taylor, DJ AMS, $5

THERMO'S--Open mic

TRACTOR TAVERN--Bill Morrissey, $12

TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Continued in the Underground, $8/$10

ZIG ZAG CAFE--Living Spirit Trio

TUESDAY 10/30

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--J.J. Velmar Superforce, Jamie Love Band, the James and David Band, $5

CAFE VENUS--Weird Science

CENTURY BALLROOM--Tommy Castro, $15

COFFEE MESSIAH--Cognitive Dissidents: All Lotus' Nightmares, Dr. Precarious (8 pm, all ages), free

CONOR BYRNE'S--Open mic

CROCODILE CAFE--And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Attack Formation, Charming Snakes, $8

EL GAUCHO--Daniel Davidson

EL NI--O--Andre Feriante, free

GALWAY ARMS--Open Mic

GRACELAND--Dypak, Satovan, Not in the Face, $5

HURRICANE CAFE--Steel Band, free

I-SPY--Pop Spoiler & His Dead Beats, Sugarmama, Uncle Leuschner & the Chris Complex, $6

KELLS--Liam Gallagher

NATION--Spirit Tuck, $5

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--File Gumbo Zydeco Band, free

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--John Bishop, $3

* ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Fred Anderson w/ William Parker & Hamid Drake, $8/$10

OWL 'N' THISTLE--B-Bop & Destruction

PARAGON--Robert Stewart

PINK DOOR--Brendan Wires, free

RAINBOW--Oxygen Ensemble, $5

RENDEZVOUS--Don Glenn, Daddy Treetops, Failure to Disperse, Uranus Moses, SLS, the Mindless Thugs

SCARLET TREE--The Drift, $3

SHOWBOX--107.7 The End's Halloween Party w/ Nickleback, Default, $16.50/$18

* SUNSET TAVERN--Carrie Akre, Garth Reeves, Deanna Knudsen, Sean Bates, Andy Davenhall, $5

TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: David Mariott Ensemble, $6/$8

VOGUE--Legion Within, Deep Eynde, $5

WASABI BISTRO--Altered States, free

ZAK'S--Schmidaholics, Big Bubba, Amazombies, $4

WEDNESDAY 10/31

BOHEMIAN CAFE--Revolutionary Dream Band, $10

CAFE VENUS--Electrochakra

* CENTRAL SALOON--Bastard Sons of the Nuge, Mandonna, Tres Ambres, $5

COFFEE MESSIAH--Open mic (8 pm, all ages), free

DOC MAYNARD'S--The Retros

EL GAUCHO--Daniel Davidson

FADO--The Kennedy Brothers

GALLAGER'S (KENT)--Hatefist, Shunt, Axis, Section 34, Enkrya, $5

* GRACELAND--Halloween Tribute Spooktacular: Sick Things, the Undertaker & His Pals, Crictor, $8

HOPVINE--Open mic

HURRICANE CAFE--Expiration Date, Formula X, $5

IRISH EMIGRANT--Irish Session

KELLS--Liam Gallagher

LAST SUPPER CLUB--Freak Night Costume Contest w/ King of Clubs, $5

NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT--Ham Carson Quintent, free

* OLD FIRE HOUSE (REDMOND)--Heavy Metal Halloween: Damnaged, Count Grisnach, Graceful Chaos, free/$5

OLD TIMER'S CAFE--Dr. Sax

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Cathy Flood's Halloween Costume "Blues Bash"

* ON THE BOARDS--Earshot Jazz Festival: Bill Frisell & Jack DeJonette, $16/$18

OWL 'N' THISTLE--the Clintons

PARADOX THEATER--Paradox benefit w/ Champion, Breathe In, Acceptance, Contingent, All Wound Up (8 pm, all ages), $7

PARAGON--Halloween Howl

PINK DOOR--Julie Cascioppo, free

SCARLET TREE--206 Ribshack: Ernest Humphry, Thaddius Turner, Gerald Turner, Davy C, $3

SERAFINA--Alex Guilbert

* SHOWBOX--Murder City Devils (final show), Botch, American Steel (6 pm, all ages), $15

* SHOWBOX--Visqueen, the Ho-Ho's, DJs Cherry Canoe, French Fillup, $5

SIT & SPIN--Poetry Slam w/ Blue Glove Club, $4

SLIDERS (RENTON)--Right in the Face, $3

* SUNSET TAVERN--Halloween Rockaraoke w/ the Legendary Rod Lavers, $5

* TRACTOR TAVERN--Yonder Mountain String Band, $10

* TULA'S--Earshot Jazz Festival: Von Freeman, $12/$14

UGLY MUG CAFE--Open mic

WIT'S END--Open mic, $2

ZAK'S--Costume Party w/ Graveyard Shift, Hung Dice, the Deep One, $5