DEFIANCE OHIO, KIMYA DAWSON(Backspace, 115 NW 5th) One half of the lo-fi group the Moldy Peaches (who actually disbanded long before Juno), Olympia resident Kimya Dawson's quirky, intimate talk-singing will make you forget all about pregnant Ellen Page. VIRGINIA THAYER
OLD-TIME MUSIC GATHERING(Scottish Rite Center, 709 SW 15th) If you have even the slightest inclination toward old-time music—that revival of the acoustic-based bluegrass, blues, folk, country, and gospel that more or less became the groundwork for almost every kind of American song-based music to come since—then the Scottish Rite Center is where you're going to want to spend your weekend. Throughout the building's three floors and five different performance spaces, visiting and local pluckers, pickers, fiddlers, and grinners will perform, workshop, and jam. Since $15 ($10 in advance) gets you in the door each day, there's definite bang-for-your-buck factor, and if you're the kind of person who just can't get enough square dancing, you'll probably spend more minutes this weekend promenading than the rest of the winter combined. The Portland Old-Time Music Gathering stretches beyond the weekend to different venues around town; visit bubbaguitar.com for the full schedule. NED LANNAMANN
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SUPERFRESH: DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB, BREAKFAST MOUNTAIN, SERIOUS BUSINESS, & MORE(Branx, 320 SE 2nd) A semiannual culmination of the monthly Supernature dance party, this second installment of Superfresh is going to be an epic, all-ages affair, starting before the dinner hour and stretching until the wee hours. Most of the acts etch compulsively danceable beats out of digital sounds and squiggles, but the Dangerous Boys Club—whose debut album VRIL got a proper release this week on Fast Weapons, the label of Nathan Howdeshell (AKA Brace Paine of Gossip)—has fat, chomping synth lines and a bottom end that'll suck you in like quicksand. Led by the dramatic baritone of Aaron Montaigne and boasting talent from Mac Mann, Mark Burden, and Sam Ott, the music of Dangerous Boys Club offers a quick, lightning flash of extreme violence, slowed down and stretched to a graceful, glacial pace. NED LANNAMANN