MUSIC—Toro Y Moi is less and less the raw bunch of blips and beats that first wormed their way into your head a few years ago—these days, the kind of polished muse you might quietly drop on party guests who’ve had a bit of alcohol, but still aren’t quite ready to wreck your increasingly fancy furniture. It races. Then it slows. It’s not quite danceable. But it’s always nice to hear. DCT
w/Classixx Live; Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell, 8 pm, $20-23
BOOK—You already know American politics are shot through with billions of shadowy, malignant dollars, right? Well, know it better! With their new book, Dollarocracy, John Nichols and Robert McChesney detail how a pay-to-play system is imperiling American democracy, and how we might fix it. This is one of the great crises of our time, and well worth an hour of yours. DVH
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE