MUSIC—Are you having a terrible week? Enter Caribou’s (AKA Dan Snaith) easy-to-love electro-pop. He has built entire albums around learning how to swim, and his latest, Our Love, continues Swim‘s reliably ecstatic drum machines, jaunty synths that bob along like light reflected in a swimming pool, and some discordantly melancholy lyrics. He gets you! MEGAN BURBANK
w/Koreless; Roseland, 8 NW 6th, 9 pm, $18-20, all ages
BOOKS—From crashing at Cindy Sherman’s apartment, to carrying around a human infant ON TOUR, to getting her first guitar at a party hosted by Jenny Holzer, even the most ordinary territory covered in Kim Gordon’s new memoir Girl in a Band (which goes way beyond Sonic Youth) is thrilling. It seems almost unfair to all other rock memoirs. Almost. MEGAN BURBANK
In conversation with Jon Raymond, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills, Beaverton, 7 pm, FREE