Bri Pruett
Bri Pruett’s one-woman show Stellar was touching, funny, and wise so when she took it and herself to LA, we all kicked the dirt and knew she deserved more. But now Pruett’s back for the holidays with a one-night, catch-up headliner evening. Pruett says she’s not doing Stellar material, but I’m hella game to hear what this smart, musing comic has to say about her recent adventures in LA. (7:30 pm, Siren Theater, $15) SUZETTE SMITH

YOB, Khorâda, Thrones
It’s been a wild year for Yob: Almost two decades into their career, the heavy rock trio faced their own mortality and reached their highest level of critical success. Guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt wrote a good portion of Yob’s latest record, Our Raw Heart, as he stared down death in the hospital with diverticulitis. In the process, what was almost the end became a rebirth. The album, and the members of Yob themselves, continue to demolish the tidy doom label that was cast upon them so many years ago—this is a band that may well be creating their own genre. (9 pm, Star Theater, $20) MARK LORE

Alela Diane
Acclaimed Portland-based singer/songwriter Alela Diane brings her orchestral folk sounds back to the Old Church for a special performance highlighting songs off early albums The Pirates Gospel and To Be Still, along with some more recent material. (8 pm, The Old Church, $15, all ages)

Advance Base, Lisa/Liza
Advance Base's third full-length, Animal Companionship, is about naming a dog after a dead boyfriend. It's about actualizing long-distance internet love affairs, and going to the park just to watch dogs run around. Backed by only electric piano and drum machine beats, these stripped-down songs capture both the pervasive loneliness of life and the will to alleviate it—the desire we all have to show care and be cared for. At times, the album inches songwriter Owen Ashworth closer to being bedroom-pop's Springsteen, with its working-class tales of finding beauty in refinery lights, kissing a partner's smoky hair after an apartment fire, and falling in love at the Aquatarium. (8 pm, Turn! Turn! Turn!) JOSHUA JAMES AMBERSON

Gremlins
What is the best Christmas movie? Traditionalists swear by standards like It’s a Wonderful Life, the more irreverent might cite Scrooged, and many love to say it's Die Hard before indulging in their really bad Alan Rickman impersonations. But there's a case to be made for Joe Dante's 1984 blast of suburban mayhem, Gremlins: It's a film about family, about responsibility, about having empathy for others, and loving people despite their flaws—but it's also about rocketing angry old rich people through walls, finding new and disgusting uses for a microwave oven, and the pure joy to be found in fucking shit up with cackling glee (for example, if you're still lying to your children about Santa Claus, this movie is going to expose your ass in a very rude way), thus capturing the well-intentioned chaos that, for many, defines the holiday season. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU. IN JAIL. (9:50 pm, Academy Theater, $3-4, all ages) BOBBY ROBERTS

Chris Pureka
An evening of heart-on-sleeve indie folk tunes from the Portland-based singer/songwriter who has been self-releasing her records through her own Sad Rabbit Records label for the better part of two decades. (5 pm & 8 pm, Mississippi Studios, $20-23)

Times Infinity, Moon Shy
Led by the Builders and the Butchers' Paul Seely, Portland's Times Infinity cribs trippy rock ’n’ roll excess, garage-rock swagger, and deft songwriting in equal measure. (8 pm, Rontoms, free) RYAN J. PRADO

Valley Maker, Lorain
Fresh off a tour supporting Canadian singer/songwriter Chad VanGaalen, Seattle's Austin Crane brings his Valley Maker project back to the Doug Fir for a night of folk-tinged indie rock supporting his new Frenchkiss Records-issued full-length, Rhododendron. (8 pm, Doug Fir, $10-12)

Don't forget to check out our Things To Do calendar for even more things to do!