The end of this week is the end of January, and if you feel like you didn’t get to do as much as you’d like to have done in kicking off 2020, this very busy week is going to give you a ton of great opportunities to catch up, with live music raining down, amazing art blooming up, laughs bursting out all over the place, and much, much more: Hit the links below and plan your week accordingly.
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Monday, Jan 27
Xavier Omär, Parisalexa
The Pacific Northwest isn’t exactly known for being a hotbed for R&B, pop, or hip-hop, but that could change someday with the career trajectory of artists like Seattle singer/songwriter/producer Parisalexa. She first nabbed my attention (and my heart TBH) when she sang “Cashitis” in the semifinals of Sound Off! 2016, an annual music competition at the Museum of Pop Culture (formerly known as the Experience Music Project) in Seattle. She gave a pitch-perfect vocal, wielded it perfectly, and showed an obvious knack for creating organic, intuitive song structures. To this day, I still get chills. As if Parisalexa wasn’t enough of a draw, tonight’s headliner is R&B crooner Xavier Omär, whose recent album Moments Spent Loving You (a collaboration with producer Sango) is one of the best male-fronted R&B albums to come out last year. (Mon Jan 27, 8 pm, Hawthorne Theatre, $20-25, all ages) JENNI MOORE
Motion City Soundtrack, Mom Jeans., Lee Corey Oswald
Monsters of mall-core Motion City Soundtrack descend upon Portland for an amped-up night of soul-baring and pop purging, with the help of Mom Jeans and Lee Corey Oswald.(Mon Jan 27, 8 pm, Roseland, $25-30, all ages)