MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, FOOTWORK, WAMĂś
WaMü are one of a handful of Seattle bands using saxophones as weapons of mass distortion. (MOUNTAINSS also belong to this hardcore sax scene). While I'll always have a soft spot for the tack and sheen of a well-plied adult-contemporary sax solo (don't hate), I can get down with some apocalyptic noise-rock/punk clatter just as readily. This emerging "Cascadian Mü-Nettle" quintet—featuring Kaz Nomura (aka PWRFL Power), three local DJs, and Eric Ostrowski of Noggin—has been described by Tit Pig's "Sean the Prawn" thusly: "Like they threw a cat in the bathtub." Headliners Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa also wield a sax, and they spit out some of the most joyously abnormal Indonesian love songs you'll ever hear. BTW, they're usually performed shirtless. Cairo, 8 pm, $5.
A NIGHT WITH AESOP ROCK AND KIMYA DAWSON
These two collaborators, twitter BFFs, and DIY-crowd faves crash Neumos, where Dawson was last seen requesting (and receiving) a hug from the ladies of THEESatisfaction. Neumos, 8 pm, $18.
GRAND HALLWAY
Given our slow-starting summer, maybe it's ideal that Grand Hallway's new record, Winter Creatures, drops at a time when we should collectively be wearing cutoff shorts, like, every day. Creatures' dark inspirations include principal songwriter Tomo Nakayama's reactions to the closing of his longtime workplace, the Neptune Theatre, which reopens next week as a spacious all-ages venue. Maybe Grand Hallway can perform some of their affecting, rhythmically muscular folk there sometime. Sonic Boom Capitol Hill, 4 pm, free.
