PANDA BEAR, DEVONWHO(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) Kicking off a forthcoming crazy week of music, Animal Collective's Noah Lennox—you probably know him as Panda Bear—graces PDX tonight with his looping, effervescent tracks and hopefully some songs from his new record. NOAH DUNHAM
STLS, PALO VERDE, HOT VICTORY, ASSS, DJ JEN OLESEN, DJ NEW MOON PONCHO(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Kill Rock Stars is set to release Drumcore, the debut 7-inch from STLS, the all-drums duo of sts and former Explode into Colors drummer Lisa Schonberg. The pair plays standing, facing off on the venue floor, clattering their rolling drum patterns in perfect sync. But that's not the only 7-inch that's being released tonight, nor is it the only one with a surfeit of drums. The dueling drumkits of Hot Victory—Ben Stoller and Caitlin Love on the skins, plus Erik Hanson on the decks—is releasing a split single with Palo Verde, the sludge metal duo of Terrica Kleinknecht and Lauren K. Newman, both of whom are excellent drummers in their own right (although Kleinknecht tends to stick to equally thunderous guitar for the Palo Verde repertoire). Expect to get bashed and clobbered by all the drum action at tonight's show, and to come home with two new 7-inches (from three bands) under your battered arms. NED LANNAMANN
MARK KOZELEK, TINY VIPERS(Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) Mark Kozelek is a prick. But he's a loveable prick. While other soft-voiced troubadours flinch from the pain of it all, the motherfucking Koz just lives it, leaving countless torched bridges and fine recordings (under either his name, Red House Painters, or Sun Kil Moon) in his trembling wake. The template rarely changes—his records share a uniform look and rest on the same sedate level of volume—but on Sun Kil Moon's just-released Admiral Fell Promise Kozelek's love affair with classical guitar shows itself, along with his longstanding ability to floor you with just a single line from a song. But fair warning: You talk during his show, the man will fucking bury you. EZRA ACE CARAEFF
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