S, THE GHOST EASE
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) See My, What a Busy Week!

ARIEL PINK, JACK NAME, HOSANNAS
(Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez) Genre blender du jour Ariel Pink (which is at once the name of the dude and his band, e.g., Bon Jovi) notoriously made the transmogrification from bedroom-dwelling lo-fi dork to Pitchfork sensation with his 2010 record, Before Today, and deservedly so. His latest, the decade-defying Pom Pom, is his most ambitious since the leap, exceeding an hour in length and encompassing an unquantifiable amount of musical territory. Album opener "Plastic Raincoats in the Pig Parade" sounds like a parody of "Who Loves the Sun" (which is already disputably a parody of the Mamas and the Papas); "Lipstick" could have been a hit for Hall and Oates, and the surreally gorgeous "Put Your Number in My Phone" manages to sound both entirely provincial and 40 years old. MORGAN TROPER Also see My, What a Busy Week!

ALVARIUS B, MAZEN KERBAJ
(Turn! Turn! Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth) While much of the city clambers to see what Coachella and Sasquatch! acts will hit Portland around the time of those festivals later this spring, experimental music fans have been keeping an eye on the runoff we'll pick up from this weekend's Seattle Improvised Music Festival. A couple of artists stop by before and after the event, including this Monday's performance by Mazen Kerbaj. According to some, this 39-year-old musician/comic book artist is partially responsible for the creation of an experimental music scene in Beirut, led by his impactful trumpet studies, which emphasize watery blurts, reedy drones, and whispered breaths over the instrument's usual tones. He's joined this evening by Alvarius B, the musical alter ego of former Sun City Girl guitarist Alan Bishop, who adheres to a strict diet of raw, ribald blues and fractured-world, music-inspired visions. ROBERT HAM