MUSIC—If you judge the quality of your music by how likely it would play in the smoky dungeon of a vampire disco, A Place to Bury Strangers is probably among your go-to bands. They persevered through the early ’00s crowd of similarly influenced indie bands, who simply couldn’t do it—or add their own stamp to it—quite as well. MARJORIE SKINNER
w/VEXX, Daydream Machine; Star Theater, 13 NW 6th, 9 pm, $12
BOOKS—When Elmore Leonard passed, the throne of the King of Crime Fiction was vacated. Of all the potential claims, Dennis Lehane‘s might be the most valid. World Gone By, his latest novel, joins an airtight, complex, and straight-up mean bibliography that includes bona fide crime classics like Gone Baby Gone and Live By Night. BOBBY ROBERTS
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills, Beaverton, 7 pm, FREE, all ages