VOTES FOR MONEY!—Big-time technology and media guru Lawrence Lessig (a co-founder of Creative Commons!) tells us why renewing Portlandís voter-owned elections system this November is crucial. Donít miss Lessig at tonightís Voter Owned Elections-themed Brewhaha, co-sponsored by the Bus Project and the Mercury. SM
West Cafe, 1201 SW Jefferson, 8 pm, FREE
DANCE OR DIE—Of Montreal’s live shows are exuberant, horrifying, delightful things, with their catchy, weird-ass pop serving as the soundtrack for a production that looks like a school play on acid. Even better? Janelle Monae is opening, turning the Roseland into a sci-fi wonderland with her spacey, bass-y epics. EH
Rosewayland, 8 NW 6th, 8 pm, $20
Or! If you’ve already put yourself on suicide watch, as I have (hide the sharp objects and Elliott Smith records), I gotta recommend the irresistibly cheery Allo Darlin’, playing tonight at Backspace. They’ll power-up the ol’ will to live.
Of Montreal is playing at the Roseland, not at the Roseway. I’d be FUCKING STOKED!!! If they were playing at the Roseway.
Saw ’em last year at the Roseland and despite it being the Roseland it was a good show. But I’m going to the Holocene tonight.
I AM GOING TO PRETEND THIS IS GMN AND ALL-CAPS YELL AT EVERYONE TO GO TO ALLO DARLIN’. SERIOUSLY. DO IT.
“Repurpose”? They took Belle and Sebastian’s everything and ran away with it!