INNUENDO—Oh, Europe. You so crazy! Look at you, all sexy playing keyboards. Doing sexy drugs and touching each other sexily on your bathing suit parts. We’re really looking forward to getting some transcontinental uh-oh feelings from dewy English trio the xx and those dreamy Swedes jj. JV
w/Nosaj Thing; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 9 pm, $16-18, all ages
CLOSET SMASHING—Insisting on fiction that is startling, brutally honest, and redemptive, Tom Spanbauer’s characters don’t come out of closets as much as destroy them. He’ll talk about coming out tonight at the Q Center as part of QLiterati. PAC
w/Rodger Larson, Kelly Jeske; Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi, 7 pm, FREE
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