MUSIC—This month, the Mercury-sponsored Ear Candy catches you slipping. You had no idea Portland had country—good, honest, a little drunken country—tucked in between the punk bands and the indie bands it shows off on a weekly basis. You’re slipping! Tonight’s three-band showcase, headlined by local softies
Mission Spotlight, will make that clear. DIRK VANDERHART
w/Roselit Bone, Ghost to Falco; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, FREE
FILM—You can mark the exact second at which a cinematic legend is born in Videodrome, just after a giant hole appears in James Woods’ tummy, and director David Cronenberg has him shove a videotape into it. This sweaty, paranoid nightmare cemented the term “Cronenbergian” in the lexicon, and with good reason. BOBBY ROBERTS
Academy Theater, 7818 SE Stark, 9pm, $4