ANALOG ART—Artist-writer-human Mark Searcy used to be the art director for the Mercury until he left last year to focus on "making art." All this month, his work appears in an exhibition at Reading Frenzy. Rejecting his (and everyone's) dependency on computers, Searcy's Small Things Can Make You Feel Smaller features multi-dimensional minimalist collages made with vintage magazines. AM
Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, Mon-Sat 11 am-7 pm, Sun noon-6 pm, through Aug 31, FREE, all ages
FULL BORE—The sludgerific metal of Japan's Boris is big, heavy, loud, and trippy as hell, but there's more than meets the eye: Embracing drone, noise, and psych, they make music that's arty and expansive, but isn't boring for a second—and it never forgets to rock. NL
w/Red Sparowes, Helms Alee; Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th, 8:30 pm, $15-17, all ages