THUNDER GREY PILGRIM, SORRY,
FORREST FRIENDS, MEGABATS
How’s this for community spirit: one all-ages underground spot stepping up to help another? If you’re a patron of the Black Lodge and would like to keep our city’s Twin Peaks–referencing venue hale and happy, scope this four-band bill and don’t space on donating at the door. Nintendo DS–jammers Megabats employ a different, amazing set every time I’ve seen them, and Thunder Grey Pilgrim are kick-ass drone-heads from Debacle Records, the imprint run by Megabats’ Sam Melancon. Get your Geldof on. Healthy Times Fun Club, 9 pm, $5.
L.A.B. BENEFIT SHOW
Not to be outdone, steadfast North Seattle underage hangout “the L.A.B.” is hosting its own benefit show tonight. I can’t offer an opinion on any of the performers—Prodigal Flame, Only Human, Getting Up Guilty, Halcyon Daze—but the L.A.B. is there for you when you need it, and if you’re the type who needs, do the right thing and hit ’em back. Seattle Drum School, 7 pm.
PIKACHU-MAKOTO, MUGU GUYMEN, MOUNTAINSS, ARE YOU A CAT?
I like to think of the Josephine as the no-brainer local stop for fringe artists. This lineup is a prime example of the Ballard venue’s offbeat, sinisterly inclined tastes. Pikachu is ex-Z and ex-Afrirampo, and her collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto should be a team-up for the ages. Mugu Guymen are experimental Atlanta rockers, Mountainss are Seattle’s most unhinged spaz-core noise trio, and Are you a cat? are not cats. Are you? Josephine, 9:30 pm.
