Sugar Town: Payback
Named “Payback” after the Etta James classic, this week’s installment of Sugar Town—a recurring dance party for the LGBTQ community and its allies—will spotlight soul music’s greatest female contributors in celebration of Women’s History Month. Sound providers will focus on all the best (and most underappreciated) soul and R&B from the ’60s and ’70s. A portion of the door proceeds will go toward Higher Heights of America, an organization that seeks to support and expand the “Black women’s leadership pipeline,” and strengthen civic engagement. JENNI MOORE
8 pm, The Spare Room, $7

Portland Trail Blazers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
Having already taken a pair of games against their Northwest Division rivals, the Blazers will be eager to lock up the season series against Oklahoma City tonight when Russell Westbrook, Paul George, and the rest of the Thunder make their way back to the Moda Center. With standings as tight as they are, it’s never too early to start looking into tie-breaker scenarios, so don’t sleep on this opportunity to witness a statement win on home court. CHIPP TERWILLIGER
7 pm, Moda Center, $56-330, all ages

Back Fence PDX: Mainstage
Live storytelling mainstay Back Fence PDX returns this month to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a new season. Up first: Lauren Weedman of HBO’s Looking (RIP), Portland’s Funniest Person Caitlin Weierhauser, Unlikely Hikers blog creator Jenny Bruso, and more, all ready to regale you with their variations on a potentially polarizing theme—all manner of “TRANSPLANTS,” from relocations to organ transfers. MEGAN BURBANK
8 pm, Aladdin Theater, $16-30

Lee Ann Womack, Eddie Berman
The chance to see Lee Ann Womack in a venue as cozy as the Doug Fir is some kind of rare treat, because in a just world, this country music veteran from Texas would be headlining stadiums. But these humble shows are a result of the defiance the 51-year-old has shown throughout her stormy career. After a string of huge albums in the ’90s and ’00s that played within the pop confines, she reverted to a ’70s-style sound that incorporated soul and gospel influences. Her labels at the time didn’t care for the shift, and quickly showed her the door. Rather than nurse her wounds quietly, Womack has stormed out as an independent artist and released some of her best-ever work, including her most recent album The Lonely, the Lonesome, and the Gone, a soundtrack for a late-night bar crawl marked by flouncing satisfaction and rueful musings. ROBERT HAM
9 pm, Doug Fir, $33-50

Summer Cannibals, Months, The Permians
Summer Cannibals is one of the best bands in Portland; a perfect storm of talent, DIY ethos, and community mindedness. (Frontwoman Jessica Boudreaux has contributed time and expertise to Portland’s School of Rock, while also supporting the city’s omnipresent need for all-ages shows and music venues.) Summer Cannibals’ rock ’n’ roll is driven to excellence by Boudreaux’s roaring vocals, often delivered with a take-no-crap attitude. The band released their first two albums on their very own independent label, New Moss Records, before signing with Kill Rock Stars to release their most recent LP, 2016’s Full of It. DELANEY MOTTER
7 pm, Black Water Bar, $6

11th Annual Firkin Fest
The 11th annual celebration of unfiltered, naturally carbonated cask-brewed beers from 30 of Oregon's top breweries. Admission includes a souvenir glass and six taster tickets, with additional tickets for $1 each, and food options including oysters (shucked and cooked by the Rogue Nation President himself) and bratwurst.
11 am, Rogue Eastside Pub & Pilot Brewery, $10-25

Santana
“Smooth,” Carlos Santana’s 1999 collaborative single with Rob Thomas, will always be there, gyrating gently on the periphery of our shared cultural consciousness. This is unfortunate, as “Smooth” is an indisputably shitty song that speaks to the insufferable self-importance of turn-of-the-millennium guitar music, when rock radio was the aural equivalent of a hamper filled with dirty khaki shorts and white Gold Toe socks. Santana’s post-Smooth career has been rocky, too: His oft-forgotten collaborations with Chad Kroeger, Steven Tyler, and Scott Stapp—the last of which is a hilariously awkward cover of CCR’s “Fortunate Son”—are just as bad. Is the batshit, wildly inventive Carlos Santana who played guitar on Abraxas and Santana III in the early ’70s—two albums that make Eric Clapton look like Tiny Tim—the same Carlos Santana who eagerly collaborated with the lead singer of Creed in 2010 and a few years later went on record to say Beyoncé “isn’t a singer”? Either we have a “Paul is dead”-level conspiracy on our hands, or Santana desperately needs a new manager. MORGAN TROPER
8 pm, Rose Quarter Memorial Coliseum, $50-125.50, all ages

Lonesome Traveler, RILLA, Woodge
Portland trio Lonesome Traveler bring their experimental blend of desert-surf and post-rock up to St. Johns for a headlining show at the Fixin' To. Local dance-punk and pop quartet Rilla and indie-rockers Woodge round out the proceedings.
8 pm, The Fixin' To, $5

21st Annual Barleywine Festival
If this festival were a person, it could finally attend itself: witness the return of Lucky Lab's annual celebration of one of the biggest, maltiest, knock-you-on-your-ass-style beers in brewing history, the barleywine, featuring over 70 varieties rotating through 20 taps Friday and Saturday. Admission includes a festival glass and four tokens, with additional four ounce pours for $2.
noon, Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, $15

Gran Ritmos
For Gran Ritmos’ first-ever performance with a live vocalist, the local dance party is hosting global bass powerhouse Zuzuka Poderosa. Born to a Brazilian mother and an Indonesian father and raised in Rio de Janeiro and the Cayman Islands, she began DJing and performing in New York City, where she studied jazz vocal improvisation. Poderosa’s unique sound—which she describes as “interracial music babies”—has come to be known as Carioca Bass: a potent blend of Brazilian baile funk and Miami booty bass with a favela grit and elements of party sounds from around the world. Her music is full of sweaty beats and tongue-in-cheek innuendo, from 2009’s “Ai Voce Gosta,” a slamming bass-heavy baile funk rap set to the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams,” to 2017’s “Pussy Control,” an old-school electro-influenced international collaboration released after the Women’s March. DANIELA SERNA
9:30 pm, Holocene, $7-10

Portland Cider Company 5th Anniversary
A very big, very public party for Portland Cider Company's fifth birthday, featuring two limited releases (Throwback Scrumpy and Fever Bark Tonic), and cider tours every half hour, plus special bottles pulled up out of the cellar and served at the three cider bars on site.
4 pm, Portland Cider Company, free, all ages

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