DRINK ‘N VOTE—Did you get a ballot recently and scratch your head wondering what election is even going on? Well bring that ballot to Backspace tonight for $1 off beer and some loving help from the Mercury and youth political group the Bus Project. Ninaski, nachos, and nitpicking politics: Come support drunkocracy! SM
Backspace, 115 NW 5th, 7 pm, FREE, all agesF’D UP—Bid adieu to your cozy preconceived notions of what punk rock should be and welcome Toronto’s Fucked Up into your heart. On the grand The Chemistry of Common Life LP the band expands the ranges of hardcore and creates their masterwork—and possibly the most exciting punk recording in quite some time. EAC
w/Burning Leather, Abandon, Dr. Loomis; Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th, 8 pm, $12, all ages
Blogtown is more of a drunktatorship, I’d say. More shoehorning the word “drunk” where it doesn’t belong at My, What a Busy Week!