SLOTHS, U SCO, TOIM
(The Know, 2026 NE Alberta) See My, What a Busy Week!

SKULL FIST, SPELLCASTER, MANIAK
(Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy) You know that feeling you get when you watch the training montages in the Rocky movies? That rush of endorphins that makes you feel like you can accomplish or achieve anything as long as you harness a positive attitude? Skull Fist's elated metal gives you that feeling. Their most recent effort, Chasing the Dream, is on the posi-vibes end of the ideological heavy-metal spectrum. That's not to say the record isn't chockfull of hard-charging, fist-pumping, bang-able riffs and breakneck tempos. ARIS HUNTER WALES Read the full article on Skull Fist.

WILLIE WATSON, MIKAELA DAVIS
(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) As a founding member of stringband rabble-rousers Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson and his Nashville-by-way-of-Ithaca buddies have decidedly earned their title as some of the best practitioners of modern old-timey music. Watson left the group in 2011, but he's been staying busy as a solo performer, supporting John Prine and Shovels and Rope, performing at the Newport Folk Festival, and stopping by Pendarvis Farm for last year's Pickathon. His current tour of the West Coast is his first as a headliner, in support of his debut solo album, Folk Singer Vol. 1. Produced by Dave Rawlings, Folk Singer is a 10-song collection of folk classics and other tales of the old, weird America. Expect plenty of high lonesome hollers and bad-man ballads at tonight's show, accompanied by Watson's mean banjo picking. SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY