MUSIC—The triumphant return of beloved Olympians turned Portlanders Sleater-Kinney is super sold out, so here’s what you do: Post up across W Burnside from the Crystal, turn your face up to those massive ballroom windows, and just listen to the damn thing from the street. Sometimes the sound quality’s nearly as good from this perch, and it’s typically less bouncy. DIRK VANDERHART
w/THEEsatisfaction; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 8 pm, sold out, all ages
MUSIC—The lineup for the next installment of Red Bull Sound Select is, unsurprisingly, stellar: Deerhoof headline, with deliciously disorienting art-adventure rock, and they’re joined by Portland’s great, powerful Summer Cannibals, and easy-breezy garage-rock from Seattle’s Killer Ghost. NED LANNAMANN
Dante’s, 350 W Burnside, 9 pm, $12 ($3 w/RSVP at redbullsoundselect.com)