UPDATE: The Shaky Hands are NOT playing tonight's Rock Out to Walk Out after all. But General Strike, Nate Ashley, !Ay, Claudia!, Michael Ford, the Middle Ages, Over Creston, and DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid will all be performing.
ROCK OUT TO WALK OUT:THE SHAKY HANDS, DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID, THE BOP OUT TO WALK OUT JAZZ QUARTET, & MORE(The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, 403 SW 10th) Powell's workers celebrate 10 years of union book slinging with Rock Out to Walk Out, a concert raising some cash for their strike fund (don't worry, they're not quitting the bookstore anytime soon!). T
he Shaky Hands headline, but the real show is Powell's employee bands performing folksy union songs. Also, there will be dancing. Book nerd dancing. SARAH MIRK
THE GROWLERS, SHANNON AND THE CLAMS, LITTLE TEETH, AND AND AND(Berbati's Pan, 10 SW 3rd) Read our article on the Growlers.
KEEP YOUR FORK THERE'S PIE,
THE LOWER 48(The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie) Portland folk-poppers Keep Your Fork There's Pie very nearly caused a skirmish here at the Mercury office. Along with a copy of their brand new album Homespun, the band dropped off a delicious apple pie—presumably in order to ply the greedy bellies of the notoriously pie-loving Mercury music writing staff. However, said pie appeared on the day when all the males in the office were out on a date with one lucky winner of our annual charity auction. So when Mercury Music Editor Ezra Ace Caraeff and I returned to the office that afternoon, our female co-workers gloatingly informed us that all of the delicious pie had been gobbled down. But the joke's on them: Keep Your Fork There's Pie also left Homespun, an album as sweet and filling as any pie you could ever eat. It's a giddily infectious bit of Americana soul, like Sly and the Family Stone playing on the back porch. What's more, we found a generous wedge of pie hidden away by the thieving girls, and quickly made short work of it. NED LANNAMANN
Angry Samoans and Doobie Brothers coming up after the jump!