CALVIN JOHNSON, BURNING YELLOWS, THE SANDWITCHES, ORCA TEAM, KELLY SLUSHER(Templeton Building, 5 SE 3rd) There will be no more music in the Templeton Building. Or maybe there will be. In what is being billed as kinda, sorta, maybe-ish the final night for music in the woefully underused Eastside warehouse that snuggles up with the Burnside Bridge, former tenants Disjecta are hosting a mighty "farewell." You don't need a shield around a K tattooed to your wrist to adore the enigmatic Calvin Johnson, nor do you need to hang 10 to appreciate the shimmy and shake of the revisionist surf rockers in Orca Team. But above all, don't miss a moment of San Francisco's the Sandwitches, a trio best described by someone with a greater gift for words than myself as "a holy communion of Roky Erickson and Stevie Nicks." EZRA ACE CARAEFF
REDCOAT TURNCOAT, HELLO CONSTABLE, BUZZYSHYFACE, TIGER HOUSE(Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th) I don't know if Redcoat Turncoat's debut CD How Do You Feel About Long Goodbyes? is actually a concept album about a bunny rabbit and its hunter, but I like to think that it is. The gently strummy "The Ballad of Baby Bunny"—with its muttered, Kurt Wagner-ish vocals—obviously fits the plot, and the ominous "The Collector," with its slashing chorus of "I'm gonna hunt you down" (voiced by Kusikia's Nsayi Matingo), sounds like it's sung with rifle in hand. Elsewhere, there's Kinks-y pop tunes, meandering guitar ballads, and a 12-minute epic in the form of the shoegazey "OK." It's a weird and charming record, with all the different pieces fitting together like a hodgepodge, and its best moments are the simplest ones that fit into the overall theme. It's almost like a sloppier, homegrown version of the Magnetic Fields' highbrow tunesmithing, and it leads directly to the very important question: Well, what do these guys sound like live? Tonight's the perfect opportunity to find out. NED LANNAMANN
FIRST AID KIT, FERRABY LIONHEART, THE SEA OF CORTEZ(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Just stop it already, Sweden. You won. American music has cried uncle—we can't possibly compete with your Robyn, Jens Lekman, Sally Shapiro, Lykke Li, the Knife, the Tallest Man on Earth, etc. You win and we lose. First Aid Kit are the latest Nordic exports to plant the blue and yellow flag in our defeated soil with a tender folk sound created by doe-eyed sisters Klara and Johanna SÖderberg. The teenage siblings pick up where early Azure Ray left off, creating vocal-heavy song structures that swell throughout their debut, The Big Black and the Blue—an album title that best describes our battered domestic pop scene. EZRA ACE CARAEFF
Love Loungers, Dungen, Glass Candy, and info regarding the Clinton Street Record grand opening, as well as a link to the complete show listings, after the jump.