Haim, Lizzo
The sisters Haim are the undisputed masters of anthemic synth-pop, middle parts, synchronized dance moves, and Shania Twain covers. With their latest album, 2017’s excellent Something to Tell You, the Los Angeles trio draws inspiration from Motown-era R&B, the layered harmonies of Fleetwood Mac, and the new wave pop of the Go-Go’s. Queen Lizzo rounds out this magnificent bill—if you haven’t yet listened to her uplifting, empowering 2016 EP Coconut Oil, do so immediately. CIARA DOLAN
8 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $39.95-69.95, all ages

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Acid Mothers Temple, Yoo Doo Right, Cambrian Explosion
Though the “soul collective” formed in Japan in 1995, Acid Mothers Temple’s mind-melting experimental psychedelia sounds like it was born in some distant galaxy and hurtled through outer space, only to crash-land on earth in the middle of the ’70s. It’s meditative, cosmic, and trance-inducing, with endlessly spiraling guitar riffs, gurgling electronics, unpredictable bursts of percussion, and bizarre, droning vocals. Acid Mothers Temple are legends, and you should absolutely experience their strange, hypnotic, extraterrestrial-sounding music live. CIARA DOLAN
9 pm, Dante's, $12

B-Movie Bingo: Revenge of the Ninja
Your monthly opportunity to literally check off a bingo card full of B-movie clichés! This month: Ninja master Sho Kosugi plays ninja master Cho Osaki, whose family is ruthlessly murdered by a band of ninja. After murdering the ninja band in return, he takes the surviving members of his mostly murdered family and flees to America, where he goes to work for a man named Braden—who is secretly drug trafficker and also an American ninja! But before the two ninja can face off to determine who will get the ultimate ninja revenge, they have to wipe out a mob of heroin dealers, who are not ninja at all, just plain-ol' shitty heroin dealers. Directed by Sam Firstenberg, the first name in '80s-era ninja revenge. BOBBY ROBERTS
7:30 pm, Hollywood Theatre, $6-9

WIlly Vlautin
Willy Vlautin made his mark with the superlative Portland band Richmond Fontaine, and their lonesome tales of hard luck and desolation in the American West. Vlautin’s brought his keen, humane eye for storytelling to a small shelf’s worth of just-as-wonderful novels—including Lean on Pete, which has been adapted into a devastating, marvelous film coming out this spring. Tonight Vlautin reads from his brand-new book Don’t Skip Out on Me, which also features a soundtrack by Richmond Fontaine. NED LANNAMANN
7:30 pm, Powell's City of Books, free

Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm has long been a brilliant artist, and now he has a place to focus on being brilliant full-time. The German composer and musician—whose work generally sits somewhere near the centerpoint between ambient, electronic, and modern classical music—spent the past few years building his dream studio inside an old Berlin art space called the Funkhaus. He named it Saal 3, and it’s as much a part of Frahm’s incredible new album as the man himself. Throughout All Melody, you can hear him exploring new territory by modifying sounds, adding voices, repurposing instruments, and not only capturing the atmosphere of the room, but incorporating it seamlessly into the whole. By pairing Saal 3’s possibilities with his own command of dynamics, Frahm takes his music to more humanly beautiful heights than ever before. All Melody is a breathtaking work, and if you want to see him perform parts of it, here’s hoping you already have a ticket to tonight’s show, because it’s sold out. BEN SALMON
8 pm, Revolution Hall, $25-30

The Garden, Tijuana Pathers, Cowgirl Clue
The Garden used to be my favorite band. Twins Fletcher and Wyatt Shears make weird, aggressive new wave punk with just drums, bass, and sometimes an 8-bit video game synth beat. Songs like “We Be Grindin’” are repetitive, but with catchy hooks dramatically contorted as if to see whether dancers can still keep up with the spikes in energy, like a hardcore game of musical chairs. I was obsessed, but after the Garden signed to major punk label Epitaph Records for their sophomore LP, 2015’s Haha, the Shears twins did something unforgivable: They started dressing like French clowns. The Orange County band’s alliance with one of the most objectively creepy things in the world made me feel a little betrayed, but I’ll just listen at home, because their new single “Stallion” (from their brand-new album Mirror Might Steal Your Charm) is still so good. CAMERON CROWELL
6 pm, The Analog Cafe & Little Theater, $13-16, all ages

Acid Tongue, Cat Hoch, Robin Bacior
The Seattle-hailing garage rock trio bring their soulful, fuzzed-out psych music back down the I-5 corridor for a show supporting their recent full-length, Babies. Portland's Cat Hoch and Robin Bacior round out the proceedings with their own psych and folk sounds.
9 pm, Doug Fir, $7-10

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