Things to Do Sunday!

Soft Kill, Choir Boy, Vowws, Vacant Stares
Soft Kill’s new record Savior was inspired by a nightmarish experience on the road: While the Portland band was driving through the middle of nowhere, frontman Tobias Grave’s pregnant wife began to bleed out in their tour van. Thankfully they were able to get her to a hospital in time, so she and their newborn survived. The songs on Savior tiptoe around the perimeter of this narrowly avoided tragedy, mirroring the simultaneous anguish and gratitude with combustive post-punk. Tonight Soft Kill will celebrate its release with Salt Lake City’s Choir Boy, whose 2016 debut Passive with Desire sounds like the Cure playing Dracula’s castle. Anchored by the angelic and androgynous voice of Adam Klopp (who also fronts the equally excellent SLC band Human Leather), it’s gothic synth-pop that’s periodically filled out with strings and drum machine beats. CIARA DOLAN
8 pm, Tonic Lounge, $10

Nasalrod, Marriage + Cancer, Bobby Peru
Beloved Portland art-punk outfit Nasalrod bring their unrelenting live show down to the Liquor Store basement for a tour homecoming show, with like-minded locals Marriage + Cancer and Bobby Peru lending their own punk and noise rock sounds to the proceedings.
9 pm, The Liquor Store, $7

Ice Queens, Skinny the Kid, PennyMart
Portland indie rock shredders Ice Queens headline the latest installment of Sunday Sessions at Rontoms, with Moscow, Idaho’s Skinny the Kid and local psych-punk act PennyMart rounding out the bill.
8 pm, Rontoms, free

Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe
Maurice Ravel may have been the greatest orchestrator in history. The French composer transformed Modest Mussorgsky’s piano piece Pictures at an Exhibition into the full-blown orchestral suite we all know and love today, with its famous trumpet fanfare, and for his own Bolero, Ravel arranged a single rhythmic motif and a short, simple melody into a steadily crescendoing edifice of musical suspense. Daphnis et Chloé, commissioned as a ballet by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes and premiered in 1912, is a near hour of Ravel’s orchestral splendor, with all members of the orchestra showing off their aural colors like a synchronized flock of exotic birds. The story of Daphnis et Chloé follows the love of a goatherd boy and a shepherd girl amid the company of nymphs and pirates and satyrs, but its pagan revelry is merely a clothesline for Ravel to weave his musical ideas together, each sweep and swoop more decadent than the last. Tonight the full music is performed start to finish, instead of the two excerpted suites most audiences hear today. NED LANNAMANN
7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $24-120, all ages

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Almost everything you could, should, and do love about Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Avatar (both the blue-kitty-people version and the kid-with-the-arrow-on-his-head version) was already present in this 1984 anime classic, but made more visually interesting and emotionally engaging (if you can believe that, and you should), thanks to the beautiful mind of legendary storyteller Hayao Miyazaki. Part of the Hollywood Theatre’s Hayao Miyazaki Celebration series. BOBBY ROBERTS
7 pm, Hollywood Theatre

Bitch’n, No Kind of Rider, Merō
Portland’s Bitch’n bring their driving punk-rock jams down to the Doug Fir Lounge for a hometown headlining show with support from No Kind of Rider and Merō.
9 pm, Doug Fir, $10

Daniel H. Pink
The bestselling Author of Drive returns with When, exploring how the presumed art of perfect timing is actually based in data and science.
7:30 pm, Powell’s City of Books

Nightwish
The long-running symphonic metal act out of Kitee, Finland return to the Roseland for the Portland stop on a world tour supporting Decades, a new career-spanning double disc compilation album
8 pm, Roseland, $50-109, all ages

God Bless the Queens (and Fund their Tour)
Democracy is officially in the hands of four local drag queens, thanks to the new nonprofit, The Liberty Belles. Help fund the first nationwide tour of its kind as the queens embark on an adventure across the United States full of comedy, performance, and plenty of opportunities for voter registration and political engagement! Enjoy stellar performances, bomb raffle prizes, and more at this fundraiser. EMILLY PRADO
5 pm, Darcelle XV Showplace, $20

Nina Diaz, Wild Moccasins
The frontwoman for the long-running San Antonio-based punk trio Girl in a Coma brings her acclaimed solo project back to Portland for a headlining performance.
9 pm, Mississippi Studios, $12-14

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