THURSDAY 4/18

BAD ALBERT'S--Kim Field, free

CAFE VITA--Fluffy Kittens (8 pm, all ages), free

CENTRAL SALOON--Reason for Ruin, Loom, Liquid Mesiah, $5

CONOR BYRNE'S--Raybone Experience, free

* CROCODILE CAFE--Glen Tilbrook, guests, $16

GALWAY ARMS--Charlie Post

GRACELAND--Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral, Pissing Razors, Incantation (6 pm, all ages), $16

HOPVINE--Kareem Kandi w/ Will Blair & Jacques Willis

* I-SPY--Biography of Ferns, the Divorce, the Downsound, Kurt Rambis, $6

JAZZ ALLEY--Gato Barbieri, $20.50/$24.50

LARRY'S--Liquorbox, Los Chingolas, IDFY, the Sickness, $5

* LIQUID LOUNGE AT EMP--The Boss Martians, the Repeat Offenders, free

LITTLE RED HEN--The Penningtones, free

LOCK AND KEEL--Jeanlizabeth & Lowgrounders

MONA'S--Fred Hoadley Trio

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Sweet Juice

PEARL COFFEEHOUSE--Floss (9 pm, all ages)

PINK DOOR--Lonnie Williams Trio, free

RAINBOW--Ediadio, Tongue and Groove, $5

* RE-BAR--Pho Bang! w/ the Popular Shapes, $5

ROX BROILER (KENMORE)--Charles White, $5

* SIT & SPIN--Phat Sidy Smokehouse, Discohesive, $6

SUNSET TAVERN--Breast cancer benefit Bra Show w/ the Legendary George Jefferson Starship, $10

TRACTOR TAVERN--Christopher Williams, $12

WAZOBIA--Downpipe, Lazy Comet, Ed Wang, Epigene, $5

ZAK'S--Cool Jerks, Intent, $3


FRIDAY 4/19

BAIT-HOUSE--Dan Sales

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--Battle of the Bands w/ special guests (7 pm), $7/$12

BALTIC ROOM--Jumbalaya

BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE--Katt, $10

CAFE VENUS--Eric Apoe, Zazou

CAFF: BRAZIL--Eduardo Mendonça & Jovino Santos Neto, free

* CAPITOL THEATER (OLYMPIA)--United Noise Toys w/ Anne La Berge, Gert Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, free

CATWALK--Middle Man Bob, $5

CENTRAL SALOON--Guardian Alien, Repeater, $8/$10

CENTURY BALLROOM--Tony Levin Band, $20/$22

* CHOP SUEY--Ming+FS, Suspence, KO, $10/$12

COFFEE MESSIAH--Adam Brodski (8 pm, all ages), $2

CONOR BYRNE'S--Hudson Brother's Blues Band, $4

CORNER INN--JR Boogie, free

* CROCODILE CAFE--Young Fresh Fellows, the Model Rockets, Roy Loney & the Longshots, $8

DOWNTOWN YMCA--Turnabout, the Scene, Deception Pass, Josh Ottum (8 pm, all ages), $5

FADO--Monotone Pictures

FIDDLER'S INN--Acoustic Bigfoot Zoo, $2

FREMONT UNCONVENTIONAL CENTER--Elements: Digital Space Monkey, Pyrosutra, DJ Vital, Mopho, BRONZE FM, Hip Hop Ziker, $8/$10

GALWAY ARMS--Trictor Beam

* GRACELAND--The Business, Strife, Pistol Grip, Left With Nothing (6:30 pm, all ages), $12

* GRACELAND--Aveo, Magic Magicians, S (10:30 pm), $7

HIGHLINER--Heather Banker, free

HOPVINE--Little Big Man

* HUB BALLROOM--Ken Stringfellow, Sanford Arms, Beautiful Soup (8 pm, all ages), $4

* I-SPY--Radar Brothers, Rosie Thomas, Jen Wood, $8

* INDUSTRIAL COFFEE--Jodie Watts, Mulligan Men, Crash Avenue, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Gato Barbieri, $20.50/$24.50

KISMET--Paula B. N. Maya, free

LAKEPOINTE--Relic, Peepshow, Dope Factor, $5

LARRY'S BLUES CAFE--No Quarter, Orange, $10

LATONA PUB--Bobcat Bob and Frisko Charlie

LIQUID LOUNGE AT EMP--Nick Vigarino's Meantown Blues, free

LITTLE RED HEN--Latigo Lace, free

LOCK & KEEL--Slip Kids & the Burbanks

MARINA CANTINA--Rim Rockers

MOLLY McGUIRE'S--The Raybone Experience, free

* MR. SPOT'S CHAI HOUSE--Leah Davidson & Friends w/ Corbin Keep (8 pm, all ages)

MULLEADY'S PUB--The Liquid Quartet, free

* OLD FIRE HOUSE (REDMOND)--Left With Nothing, Embrace the End, Spaceboy, Playing Enemy, 240 (7 pm, all ages), $7

OLD TIMER'S CAFE--Liquid Voodoo, Skyler Blake, free

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Dark Mollys

PARADOX THEATER--Nuffsed, Clinton Fearon (8 pm, all ages), $8

RAINBOW--Porterhouse, Freestyle Candela, $6

SCARLET TREE--3D, $7

* SECOND AVENUE PIZZA--Dave Keppel, Gravity & Henry, Utah Anvil (8 pm, all ages), free

* SHOWBOX--Maktub (CD release), Orbiter, the Helio Sequence, $10/$12

* SIT & SPIN--The Drop (CD release), Voyager One, Woke Up Falling, $6

* SONIC BOOM RECORDS (BALLARD)--Jesse Sykes (6 pm, all ages), free

STEEL SKY--Jaycob Van Auken, Erika Luckett, Skyler Blake (7 pm, all ages), $5

* SUNSET TAVERN--Six String Eric, Roy Kay Trio, DJs James and Kevin, $5

THEATER OFF JACKSON--Battle Reflex Crew vs. Fraggle Rock, Central Intelligence, Prospect Champions, Clockwork, DJ Ecko (8 pm, all ages), $6

TOMMY'S--Room Zero, Stella 7, Batter Dean

* TRACTOR TAVERN--Marc Olsen, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (CD release), Larry Barrett, $6

WAZOBIA--Half-Track, Lumburg, Richard Avalos, Brett & Michael, $7

ZAK'S--Liquor Box, O-1, Reactors, Midriffs, $5


SATURDAY 4/20

BAD ALBERT'S--Miles from Chicago, $2

BAIT-HOUSE--Victor Noriega

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--World/Inferno Friendship Society, Midnight Choir, Whiskey & the Devil, $8

BLACKTHORNE VILLAGE PUB--Fairly Honest Jazz Band, $3

BLUE MOON TAVERN--Zombie IV, free

BOHEMIAN BACKSTAGE--Beres Hammond, $10

CAFE VENUS--J.R., Banjovi

* CENTRAL SALOON--Pyro Class Flow, Ethyl (CD release), Cober, $8/$10

* CHOP SUEY--Fireballs of Freedom, Lost Goat, guests, $12.50

COFFEE MESSIAH--Little LuAnn, J. Hiran Boggs & the Satisfaction Crew (8 pm, all ages), $2

CONOR BYRNE'S--Suffering Gaels, $4

CORNER INN--Nick Vigarino, free

* CROCODILE CAFE--Fridge, Kinski, Explosions in the Sky, $10

* DOWNTOWN YMCA--The Drop, the Drama, the Lashes, 6fg (8 pm, all ages), $5

DUBLINER--The Combustion Collective, free

* EMP--Rory Block, Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers (8 pm, all ages), $15/$17

FADO--Kennedy Brothers

FIDDLER'S INN--Zazou, $2

FLAME--Roosevelt, Shot, $5

GALWAY ARMS--Mummery

* GRACELAND--Les Savy Fav, Pleasure Forever, the Apes, $10

HOPVINE--Green Tea

INDUSTRIAL COFFEE--Hoovercain, Abigail Grush, Elysian, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Gato Barbieri, $20.50/$24.50

LAKEPOINTE--Skeptic, Shaftgasket, Grind Ring, $5

LARRY'S--Dr. Funk, $10

LATONA PUB--Chris Stevens

* LIQUID LOUNGE AT EMP--Janie Cribbs Band, free

LITTLE RED HEN--Latigo Lace, free

LOBO INN--Nigel Memorial Quartet, Los Kakadots

LOCK & KEEL--Granite Point & Downpipe

MOLLY McGUIRE'S--Eight Hands, free

MONA'S--The Circadian Rhythms Quartet

MONKEY PUB--Latter Day Sinner, guests, $3

MR. SPOT'S CHAI HOUSE--Resin (6 pm, all ages)

MR. SPOT'S CHAI HOUSE--Lazer Cow (8 pm, all ages)

MULLEADY'S PUB--Silk Root, free

O'SHEA'S--Karl Haug

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--The Springs, $5

OWL 'N' THISTLE--Higher Ground

* PARADOX THEATER--Laymens Terms, Crystal Radio, the Pale (8 pm, all ages), $7

PARAGON--Lady A & the Baby Blues Band

PINK DOOR--Miles and Karina, free

RAINBOW--Rai, Souljonz, $6

REDHOOK BREWERY--Freestyle Candela, free

SCARLET TREE--3D, $7

* SECLUDED ALLEY WORKS--Transmissions From the Forest of Make Believe: Calvin Johnson, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, C.O.C.O., Price Pearlman and the Friendly Fire (6 pm, all ages), $5

SHOWBOX--Robben Ford and Derek Trucks (6 pm), $19.50/$12

SIT & SPIN--Suitcase, Neo, Tart, Saeta, $7

ST. CLOUDS--BluMeadows

STEEL SKY--Sarah Severson (CD release), Lis Harvey, Rural Pictures, $5

* SUNSET TAVERN--The Radio Reelers, Midnight Thunder Express, Right On, $6

TOMMY'S--Subdwellers, Ragamuffin, Bauju

TRACTOR TAVERN--Los Straitjackets Rock & Roll Party, the B-Hives, $10

ZAK'S--Not in the Face, Pathos, Rutha, Skarp, $5


SUNDAY 4/21

ACORN--Andrea Dupree, David Pascal, Greg Fulton

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--Type Cast, Cellflight, Severed Head, Switch, Decypher, Eminence, Section 34, Himsa (4 pm, all ages), $7

BALTIC ROOM--Smack

BELLTOWN BILLIARDS--Martin Ross Band

CENTRAL SALOON--Instant Guru, Mayday, Evil Little Men, $5

* CENTURY BALLROOM--The Jayhawks, the Cash Brothers, $20

* CROCODILE CAFE--Robyn Hitchcock, Mike Viola, $14/$16

FIDDLER'S INN--Val D'Alessio & Jim Nasons, $1

FLOYD'S PLACE--Jennifer Savage, free

* GRACELAND--Les Savy Fav, Pleasure Forever, the Apes (3:30 pm, all-ages), $10

* GRACELAND--Pinetop Seven, the Mines, No. 226 (9:30 pm), $7

HOPVINE--Elizabeth Carpenter Quartet

INDUSTRIAL COFFEE--Jaycob VanAuken, Lucky Penny, $5

LARRY'S BLUES CAFE--Rogers Roger's Invitational Jam, $5

LITTLE RED HEN--Jerry & the Philbillys, free

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Evergreen Classic, Dixieland Band (6 pm), $6

PARAGON--Park Olson

RAINBOW--Orange, Angela LeCompte, $5

* SHOWBOX--Saves the Day, Audio Learning Center (6 pm, all ages), $15

SUNSET TAVERN--This, $5

* ZAK'S--Blöödhag, Nigel Pepcock, guests, $4


MONDAY 4/22

BALLARD FIREHOUSE--Broken Butter, $5

BELLTOWN BILLIARDS--Brian Nova & Funk 69

* CENTURY BALLROOM--The Jayhawks, the Cash Brothers, $20

CONOR BYRNE'S--Russ McRee, free

CONTOUR--Urban Tongue, DJ Rockaphella

* CROCODILE CAFE--Daniel Ash, Suffering and the Hideous Thieves, $20/$22

* Easy Street (Queen Anne)--Paul Westerberg, free

* GRACELAND--Monday-Funday!: Poseur, On Alaska (CD release), DJ WP2K, $3

HOPVINE--Lorna Hunt, Carlos Lantz, Daren Gallagher, $2

I-SPY--Erik Truffaz Ladyland Quartet, Siamese, $10/$12

LARRY'S BLUES CAFE--The Enders Brothers Band, free

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Brazilian Jazz Collective, $3

PARAMOUNT--Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

RAINBOW--Oxygen Lounge: Acoustic Reign, Rod Johnson, $5

* SHOWBOX--Saves the Day, Audio Learning Center (6 pm, all-ages), $15

ST. CLOUDS--Tom Bennett & the Rolling Blackouts

SUNSET TAVERN--78 Nova: John Wicks, Steve Scalfati, Joe Doria, DJs Ams, Mug Frosty (d&b), $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey, the Watercarvers Guild, $13/$15


TUESDAY 4/23

CHINA HARBOR--Radio Rhythm Orchestra, DJ Nosey Joe, $5

* CHOP SUEY--Light Heavyweight, Suffering & the Hideous Thieves (gospel set), On Alaska

COFFEE MESSIAH--Cognitive Dissidents: Steve Barsotti, Jon Tulchin (8 pm, all ages), free

GRACELAND--Fleshies, New Luck Toy, Swearing at Motorists, Iowaska

I-SPY--Mother's Milk, Bandersnatch, Electrokitty, Colvilled Melody, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Roy Haynes Group, $15.50/$17.50

LARRY'S BLUES CAFE--The Tim Turner Band, free

LITTLE RED HEN--Tommy Westley & Don Kellogg, free

LULU'S--Tim Friedlander Quartet

NATION--Futomaru (live triphop), $5

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--John Bishop, $3

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

PARAGON--Robert Stewart & Cameron Williams

PINK DOOR--Tony Yazzolino & Steve Kemke, free

RAINBOW--Hair of the Dog, $5

SCARLET TREE--Jam on White Bread, $3

SHOWBOX--Five for Fighting, Shannon McNally (6 pm, all ages), $17.50/$20

STEEL SKY--Reptet, $5

SUNSET TAVERN--Jean Mann Trio, Charlie Spring, Holly Figuero, Kym Tuvim, $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--M. Ward, Chan Marshall, $7

VOGUE--The Viscious Dolls

ZAK'S--Laundry Room Squelchers, Xela Said, Plutonium Pie, $4


WEDNESDAY 4/24

AGUA VERDE CAFE--Zhaoui

BAD ALBERT'S--Sue Orefield, free

BIT SALOON--Rambling Roberts

BOHEMIAN CAFE--15 Minutes of Fame Talent Search

CENTRAL SALOON--Static Bloom, Relic, Alkai Diggins, $5

CONOR BYRNE'S--Failure to Disperse, free

* CROCODILE--The Lashes, Bitesize, guests, $6

* EMP--Billy Bragg and the Blokes, Black 47, $24/$27

I-SPY--The Fakes, Whores of Babylon, Beat Senseles, Chief, $6

INDUSTRIAL COFFEE--Colonel & Doubleshot w/ Pauli O'Keary, $5

JAZZ ALLEY--Roy Haynes Group, $15.50/$17.50

LARRY'S BLUES CAFE--Charles White All Star Jam, $5

MARINA CANTINA--Butterbean

* NATION--AM/FM: Roman w/ DJ Colin, Jeremiah Green

OLD TOWN ALEHOUSE--Eric Verindi Jazz Trio, $3

PARAGON--The Imaginaires

PATTI SUMMERS'--Beck Henderer, $3

PINK DOOR--The Julie Cascioppo Experience, free

RAINBOW--Naranja, Global Heat, $5

SCARLET TREE--Expanse w/ P.K. Thaddeus Turner, Kevin Sawka, Dave Z, $5

SHOWBOX--Great Big Sea, Ashleigh Flynn (6 pm), $15/$18

SHOWBOX--Pete Tong, Liquid Todd, DJ Eva (10:30 pm), $10/$12

SUNSET TAVERN--Rockaraoke w/ the Legendary George Jefferson Starship, $5

TRACTOR TAVERN--Das Booty, $5

WAZOBIA--Fiva, Fiction Moon, $5