RADIATION CITY, WILD ONES, PURE BATHING CULTURE, PEGASUS DREAM

(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) UPDATE: Due to bad weather, Youth Lagoon has cancelled and is no longer on the bill. Wild Ones and Pegasus Dream have been added.
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JAKE SHIMABUKURO

(Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) In March of 2006, Jake Shimabukuro was a respected ukulele player who toured around Hawaii and played the occasional Hawaiian music festival in California or Japan. In late April of that year, he video-recorded a shockingly virtuosic ukulele version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" while sitting in Central Park. The video hit YouTube and Shimabukuro became one of the first viral-video internet sensations. Phone calls started pouring in and, since then, Shimabukuro has played with Yo-Yo Ma, Ziggy Marley, Bela Fleck, Jimmy Buffett, Cyndi Lauper, and many others. Recently, he accompanied Bette Midler in a performance for Queen Elizabeth. Whether he's playing traditional Hawaiian music, covers of pop songs, or his own compositions, Shimabukuro almost single-handedly has taught the world to respect the ukulele. BRENDAN KILEY

GLITTER EXPRESS, JIZZ WISARD, NASALROD, A GENTLEMAN'S PICNIC

(Club 21, 2035 NE Glisan) Trapped between that fightin' urge to get out some pent-up aggression and that ever-lovin' need to just hump the universe and dance, dance, dance? With Glitter Express, you don't have to choose. The Portland party band has found a stimulating blend of disco and punk, and it sounds a hell of a lot better than whatever all that electroclash business was about a few years ago. Glitter Express' debut EP Casual Encounters has all the danger and excitement of a hookup with a stranger—right down to the possibility of ripped clothing, bite marks, and a wicked hangover—as it rides a wave of swishy hi-hat and fuzzy guitar groan over the course of songs with marvelous titles like "Gay Car Wash" and "Je M'en Bats les Steaks." Singer Noelle Magia's punk wail doesn't have a hint of diva preciousness, but what Glitter Express lacks in R&B smoove, they make up for in raw power. NED LANNAMANN

ADAM ARCURAGI, RUBY FEATHERS, JENN RAWLING

(Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Pl) I have a creeping suspicion that Adam Arcuragi has it all figured out. Like a lot of guys these days, he takes a mishmash of Americana—soul, country, bluegrass, gospel—and makes it his own. But unlike most, he never gives the impression that he sits up at night thinking about his feelings. This is partly because Arcuragi is so effortlessly masculine and charismatic, both as a singer and performer. But the lion's share of the responsibility lies with the songs: Infectious and beautiful, they tend to be centered on the vocals, like traditional gospel, but with sweeping melodies and complex instrumentation. His new album, Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It, is out January 31. REBECCA WILSON

MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, SCOUT NIBLETT, LARKIN GRIMM

(Project Grow, 2156 N Williams) Larkin Grimm's brand of folk music would rather snuff out the campfire and wander the forest alone than engage in contrived bonhomie. On 2008's Parplar, Grimm's vocal style is intimate, with hints of both vulnerability and sinister intent, and her lyrics delve into some blunt explorations of sexuality. Her new Tony Visconti-produced album, Soul Retrieval, bears more orchestral embellishment and more conventionally "pretty," refined songwriting. Arrington de Dionyso, performing as Malaikat Dan Singa, is a wild man who blends Indonesian garage rock, free-jazz sax, and throat singing into galvanizing sound art. DAVE SEGAL

THE QUAGS, THE SCHILLS, THE HONUS HUFFHINES

(Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick) I wonder if all those '50s bands had saxophones in them to make that jagged pill of rock 'n' roll sound just a little sweeter, giving a touch of class to that newfangled, scary, raw music. Indeed, the sultry-smooth tootling of the sax adds immeasurable glamour to the rough-and-tumble garage rock of the Schills, a local band that celebrates the release of its debut EP, Wrapped Up in Stars, at tonight's show. This group loves the proto-punk sounds of the 1960s' meanest bands, like the Stooges, the MC5, the Velvet Underground, but with the addition of Steve Johnson's baritone sax, the Schills boast a hepcat noir vibe that's snazzy, jazzy, and ready for some Enchantment Under the Sea. NL