MUSIC—The globetrotting Loch Lomond haven’t headlined a hometown show in forever, but the folk-pop ensemble returns, wielding their dynamic arrangements and songwriter Ritchie Young’s haunting confections. A new album, Pens from Spain, is due out next year, so they’ll no doubt charm us with some unheard material. NED LANNAMANN
w/Edna Vazquez; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $10
BOOKS—Nobody writes like Portland’s own Sara Jaffe. Tonight, the onetime guitarist for Erase Errata and co-founder of New Herring Press makes her novel debut with Dryland. The chronicle of a teenage girl in Portland circa 1992, it reads like My So-Called Life‘s Angela Chase cut with Annie Dillard, plus something all Jaffe’s own. MEGAN BURBANK
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE