TECH & ART—One of the best events on Portland’s calendar, the perpetually sold-out XOXO Festival is a melding of technology, art, media, booze, and everything else that’s great. This year’s guests include Community‘s Dan Harmon, feminist videogame scholar Anita Sarkeesian, Bandcamp’s Ethan Diamond, and Welcome to Night Vale‘s Joseph Fink. Get excited, and try to figure out a way to get in. EH
The Redd, 831 SE Salmon, Thurs Sept 11-Sun Sept 14, $150-500, 2014.xoxofest.com
MUSIC—Minneapolis hiphop duo
Atmosphere have become an institution, having evolved and matured into intelligent, conscious musicmakers. Their latest, Southsiders, explores their roots, and the duo’s MO couldn’t be better summed up than in this line from their new track “Kanye West”: “Put your hands in the air like you really do care.” NL
w/Prof, Dem Atlas, DJ Fundo; Roseland, 8 NW 6th, 8 pm, $25 (sold out), all ages