Live
THURSDAY 5/4
700 CLUB — Horns & Vinyl
AUBURN’S BEST ANNEX — Benefit for Keri, Everything Went Black, Contingent, Life Long War, $5
BAD ALBERT’S — Annieville Blues, free
BAIT-HOUSE — Mason Darnall Trio, free
BALLARD FIREHOUSE — Theolo, $5
BOHEMIAN CAFE — Breadren, $5
BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE — Kanda Bongo Man, $10
CENTRAL SALOON — Tim Casey, $5
CENTURY BALLROOM — Battlefield Band, $16.50
COFFEE MESSIAH — Charlotte Vanderwolf & Folk Friends, free
CONTOUR — The Furious Skills, $4
*CROCODILE — The Makers, the Gimmicks, the Vultures, $6
FLYING LEMON LOUNGE — Open mic/jam session, free
*FOXES LOUNGE & CABARET — Phó Bang: Hostess Ursula Android, $5
GALWAY ARMS — Owl ‘n’ Thistle Band
GIBSON’S — Gonk Rilla, My Crazy Life
GORDON BIERSCH — The Unrelentless (Sean Nelson and Mike Squires), free
*GRACELAND — Bugs in Amber, Drive, Dora Flood, $6
J&M CAFE — Rockin’ Blues with J. R. Boogie, free
JAZZ ALLEY — Joyce with Dori Caymmi
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — The Little Kings, $5
LEO MELINA — Classical piano with Violetta
LITTLE RED HEN — Boxcar Tramps
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — Ham Carson Quintet, free
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Seattle Slim, $5
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Dan Heck Trio
PARAGON — H. B. Radke & the Jet City Swingers
PINK DOOR — Lonnie Williams Jazz Trio, free
PLANET HOT ROD — Giant Harley Gathering (early); the Bullet Boys, Drunk as Usual, PH70, Saqqara, $12.50
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL — Emmanuel Louis
SERAFINA — Alex Guilbert
*SHOWBOX — Sleater-Kinney, Gene Defcon, the Need (6 pm, all ages), $8
SORRENTO HOTEL FIRESIDE ROOM — Overton Berry Jazz Piano, free
TRACTOR TAVERN — Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, the Musemeant, $6
TROLLEYMAN PUB — One Two Three, free
FRIDAY 5/5
700 CLUB — Jumbalaya
AUBURN’S BEST ANNEX — Fly Molo, Subminute: Radio, Peter Parker, $5
BAIT-HOUSE — Mason Darnall Trio, free
BALLARD FIREHOUSE — Bullet Boys, Cow-Hammer, Last Call Romeos, Sea Jayne Trip, $15
BALTIC ROOM — Monty Banks, $5
*BEDAZZLED DISCS — The Makers (6 pm), free
BIGFOOT INN TAVERN — The Heaters, $5
BITTERS CO. — Zhaoui, free
BLUE MOON TAVERN — The Shmoes, free
BOHEMIAN CAFE — Dreamband with Alex D & JB, $10
BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE — Yoka Enzenze, $10
BREAKROOM — Local 808, Blyss, Gravity Check, $5
CARINA BAR & GRILL — Sabrosura 2000, $10
CENTRAL SALOON — Nine Volt Mile, $10
CENTURY BALLROOM — Keola Beamer, $17.50
CHEF WANG — Brian Nova Trio, free
CONTOUR — Cojunto de la Gente featuring Hadley Caliman
CROCODILE — Seattle Poetry Festival: Grand Slam with Marc Smith, DJ Vitamin D, Josh Wilson, Erik Bergoff, $8
DOC MAYNARD’S — Dr. Funkenstein, $8
FENIX UNDERGROUND — The Retros, $10
GALWAY ARMS — Isla Ross
GIBSON’S — Ward A, Crash Virus, Flame Thrower
*GRACELAND — House of Large Sizes, Ruston Mire, the Fongs, $7
HIGHLINER — Owl, free
HI*SCORE — The Orientals, The Backstabbers, free
HOKUM HALL — Musica Curiosa 2, $12
I-SPY — Hotbox
JAZZ ALLEY — Joyce with Dori Caymmi
*KING CAT THEATER — Jonathan Richman, $14.50
LAKEPOINTE BAR & GRILL — Harry Canyon, Tyler Tullock, Big Hippy Love Buckle, $5
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Roger Rogers with the Divas of Rhythm & Blues, $10
LATONA PUB — Henry Cooper, $2
LEO MELINA — Classical piano with Povilas Stravinsky
LITTLE RED HEN — Led Stetson
MADISON’S CAFE — Jill Cohn, $6
MELTING POT RESTAURANT — The Glynn Brothers Quartet
MOORE THEATER — Violent Femmes, El Destroyo, $19.50
MR. SPOT’S CHAI HOUSE — Noxious Weed Inspector
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — Studebaker John, $10
NIKO’S PLACE — Bead, free
*OK HOTEL — Sex Mob, $8
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Marlinramazzini, $10
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Owl ‘n’ Thistle Band
*PARADOX THEATER — Carissa’s Weird, Nod and Smile, Straudhaughton Echo, $6
PINK DOOR — Tony Yazzolino on accordion, free
PLANET HOT ROD — Attacko, Sitiva, Idefy, Abadox, $5
RAIN DANCER — Herbivores, the Sister Guitar Band, $6
RC’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL — Lift & Dhammapada
RENDEZVOUS — Day by Day, $3
SCARLET TREE — Elite, $6
SEATTLE CATCH — Edmonia Jarrett
SERAFINA — Milo Petersen and Valerie Illman
SHARK CLUB — Afrodisiacs
*SHOWBOX — Sleater-Kinney, Gene Defcon, No. 2, $8
SIT & SPIN — Willis, Sweet Tea, $6
SORRENTO HOTEL FIRESIDE ROOM — Overton Berry Jazz Piano, free
THIRD PLACE BOOKS — Dobra Zuby
TRACTOR TAVERN — Richmond Fontaine, the Band That Made Milwaukee Famous, the Ex-Husbands, $6
TROLLEYMAN PUB — Furious Skills, free
SATURDAY 5/6
700 CLUB — Digable
AUBURN’S BEST ANNEX — The Roulettes, Soilent Green, Don’t Panic, All in All, $5
BAD ALBERT’S — Bill Rhoades and Allan Hager, $2
BALLARD FIREHOUSE — Slim Pickens, Nude Guitars, Subtle, Swift Albro, Vel Valux, Jacob Jess, Frogwater, Lord Barfly, $7
BALTIC ROOM — Hana, $7
BIG FOOT INN TAVERN — The Slackers
BLUE MOON TAVERN — Mind over Water, free
BOHEMIAN CAFE — Boom Shaka, $10
BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE — Shaggy, $20
BREAKROOM — Valentine Killers, Hellbenders, the Spits, $5
CARINA BAR & GRILL — Sabrosura 2000, $10
CELLOPHANE SQUARE, U-DISTRICT — Radio Nationals (2 pm), free
CENTRAL SALOON — Issac Scott, $10
COLUMBIA CITY THEATER — Boogie Brown Band, $10
CONTOUR — Casbah: Foxglove
CROCODILE — Seattle Poetry Festival: The Last Poets, Source of Labor, Slip of the Tongue, Charles Potts, Marty Campbell, Sea Vixen Fire, $10
DOC MAYNARD’S — The Beatniks, $8
EASY STREET PUB — Three Martini Lunch
ELLIOTT BAY BREWING — Heather Banker, free
ELYSIAN — Soloplexus: An evening of small acts, $5
EMERALD QUEEN CASINO — Eric Burdon, $20
GALWAY ARMS — Rod Cook and Max Schwennsen
GIBSON’S — Eternal 13, Tot Finder, Alta May
GLOBE ALE HOUSE — The Long Faces, Late Night Stories, the Klondike Five, free
GRACELAND — The Vogue, Vue, Selby Tigers, Cougar, $7
HOKUM HALL — Musica Curiosa 2, $12
ICON GRILL — Scot Ranney
JAZZ ALLEY — Joyce with Dori Caymmi
LAKEPOINTE BAR & GRILL — Men From Mars, Man in a Boat, Porchdog, $5
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Roger Rogers with the Divas of Rhythm & Blues, $10
LATONA PUB — Reggie Miles, $2
LEO MELINA — Classical piano with Povilas Stravinsky
LITTLE RED HEN — Led Stetson
MADISON’S CAFE — Kevin Jones, $7
MONKEY PUB — Going South, Soul Miners Daughter, $3
MOORE THEATER — Violent Femmes, El Destroyo, $19.50
MR. SPOT’S CHAI HOUSE — Terran Spiral
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — Studebaker John, $10
NIKO’S PLACE — Live Bouzuki “Grecian Sounds” and bellydancing by Zaphara, free
OK HOTEL — The American Girls, Shinola, the Alan Charing Controversy, $6
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Marlinramazzini, $10
OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE — Les Femmes d’Enfer, $5
OUR HOUSE — Steve Korn Quartet
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Owl ‘n’ Thistle Band
PARADOX THEATER — Automaton Adventure Series, Ten in the Swear Jar, Polecat, Only Connect, Grand Rapids, $6
PINK DOOR — Tony Yazzolino on accordion, free
PLANET HOT ROD — Moderately Desperate, Painted Widow, Surreal, Sutra, Knucklehead, $5
RAIN DANCER — The Fighting Machinists, the Jones, Gray Daisy, $8
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL — Third World County
RC’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL — Tim Turner Band
ROCKSPORT — The Heats, $8
SCARLET TREE — Elite, $6
SEATTLE CATCH — Miles Corbin
SERAFINA — Bonnie Birch and Nick Heiting
SHARK CLUB — 2000 Degrees
SHOWBOX — Wire, Hovercraft, $15
SIT & SPIN — Dub Narcotic Sound System, Maktub, the Subdebs (3 pm, all ages, $7); Floater, Blyss (9:30 pm, 21+, $6)
SORRENTO HOTEL FIRESIDE ROOM — Overton Berry Jazz Piano, free
THIRD PLACE BOOKS — Kings of Swing, free
TRACTOR TAVERN — Greg Brown, Garnet Rogers (2 shows: 7:30, 10), $6
TROLLEYMAN PUB — Mark Dufresne, free
TWO BELLS TAVERN — Tiger Zane, free
ZOKA’S COFFEE HOUSE — Antolin/Smason Quintet
SUNDAY 5/7
700 CLUB — Suite 7
BELLTOWN BILLIARDS — The Martin Ross Band
BIGFOOT INN TAVERN — The Lazy J’s
CENTRAL SALOON — Bambaji, $5
CONOR BYRNE’S — Irish Session
CROCODILE — Cat Power, Sue Garner and Rick Brown (5:30 pm, all ages; 9 pm, 21+), $12
EASY STREET PUB — Open Mic with Ricky
HABITAT CAFE — Adrienne Alexander and James Davis, free
ICON GRILL — Scot Ranney
JAZZ ALLEY — Jessica Williams
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Roger Rogers’ Invitational Jam, $5
LEO MELINA — Classical piano with Violetta
LITTLE RED HEN — Jam Night with Big Daddy Fred
MADISON’S CAFE — Open mic
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Early Evening Blues, $5
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Four Out of Five Doctors
PROCTOR BAR & GRILL — T-Town Blues Band
SHOWBOX — Carrie Akre, Braden Blake, Jen Wood, Sam Knutson, $5
SIT & SPIN — Sureshot Sunday (3 pm, all ages, $5); Darkside Hiphop (9:30 pm, 21+, $6)
SPEAKEASY — Poppy Moody, free
THE VILLAGE INN PUB — Open mic, free
TINI BIGS LOUNGE — Soul Finger, free
TRACTOR TAVERN — Sinforosa, Coal, Auburn, $5
WILD SPIRITS BAR — Open Jam
MONDAY 5/8
700 CLUB — 1-2-3 Jazz
AGUA VERDE CAFE — Zhaoui: Flamenco & Gypsy Swing, free
ART BAR — Bare Knuckle Boxers
BALLARD FIREHOUSE — Project Mayhem, Dark Lighter, Sunday Fix
BALTIC ROOM — Jazz Jam with John Wicks, Geoff Harper, and Ryan Burns, $3
BELLTOWN BILLIARDS — Brian Nova & Funk 69
BOHEMIAN CAFE — Reggae Jam with Straight Ahead, $5
CENTRAL SALOON — Jamie Sheets & the Sheetrockers, $5
FIDDLER’S INN — Open mic
GRACELAND — Grasshopper Takeover, Sick Girl, $6
ICON GRILL — Scot Ranney
J&M CAFE — Henry Cooper All-Star Blues Jam, free
JAZZ ALLEY — Washington Middle School Senior Jazz Band
KELLS — Liam Gallagher, free
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Tim Turner, free
LIZZARD LOUNGE — The Jim Basnight Thing
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — The New Orleans Quintet, free
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Dr. Sax, free
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Dave Conant & the D-Rangers
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL — Oxygen Ensemble
SHOWBOX — Rollins Band, $16
SIT & SPIN — El Guzano, $6
TUESDAY 5/9
700 CLUB — Jive Turkey
AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT — Woody Woodhouse, free
BALLARD FIREHOUSE — Shit Bastard, Traz, Jeff & the Orfs, $5
BIG FOOT INN TAVERN — The Lazy J’s Jam
CROCODILE — Fairgrove, Wolf Colonel, $6
GALWAY ARMS — Mike Cameron
GORDON BIERSCH — Greg Collinsworth, free
*GRACELAND — Vice Squad, Mad Parade, Poxy (7 pm, all ages), $7
*I-SPY — Ex-Girl, Raft of Dead Monkeys, $7
ICON GRILL — Scot Ranney
J&M CAFE — Doug Lynn Band, free
JAZZ ALLEY — Joey DeFrancesco with Jack McDuff
KELLS — Liam Gallagher, free
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Scott Harris Band
LOCK AND KEEL — Bushwhack Tuesday: Open mic with Evan Duke
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — File Gumbo Zydeco Band, free
OLD TIMER’S CAFE — Barfly, $5
OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE — John Bishop Combo, $2
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Bebop & Destruction
PARAGON — Phil Carrillo
PARAMOUNT — Third Eye Blind, $25
PINK DOOR — The Julie Cascioppo Experience, free
PROCTOR BAR & GRILL — Nicole Fournier
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL — Rumba Abierta, $5
SCARLET TREE — Anneville Blues Jam, free
SHOWBOX — The Diablotones, Discohesive, $5
SIT & SPIN — Elemental: Electronic & subsonic grooves, $5
TRACTOR TAVERN — Lunasa, $13
TRAVELER’S PUB — Open mic, with Phil Parsons, free
WEDNESDAY 5/10
6TH & PROCTOR BAR & GRILL — Karaoke
700 CLUB — King of Clubs
ART BAR — Dan Heck Trio, Joe Doria
BLUE MOON TAVERN — Open mic, free
CENTRAL SALOON — Credo’s Hat, Haley, Odessa, $5
CROCODILE — Mighty Mighty Bosstones, free
EL NINO — Andre Feriante, free
GALWAY ARMS — David Rhea
GORDON BIERSCH — Marc Olsen, free
GRACELAND — Flamethrower, $5
HOPVINE — Open mic
*I-SPY — Sil2K Showcase: The Herb Levies, Seattle Guitar Circle, Carl Farrow’s “Concord,” $5
ICON GRILL — Scott Ranney
JAZZ ALLEY — Joey DeFrancesco with Jack McDuff
KELLS — Oliver Mulholland, free
LARRY’S GREENFRONT — Charles White All-Star Blues Jam, $5
LEO MELINA — Woody Woodhouse
LIZZARD LOUNGE — Smooth Jazz
NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT — Floyd Standifer, $8
OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE — Oggmung, $2
OWL ‘N’ THISTLE — Danny Barnes
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL — Zion’s Gate
SCARLET TREE — Emmanuel Louis, $5
SIX DEGREES — The Rainy City Jazz, free
SLIDERS — Alien Crime Syndicate, Modern All-Star, $5
SWINGSIDE CAFE — Mike Bristow, free
TRACTOR TAVERN — Casey Neill Trio, $8
ZEITGEIST — Resonant/Circuit: Bhob Rainey, Jack Wright, free