MOON DUO, DEATH SONGS, BLESST CHEST
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) There are gazillions of bands who've copped the sonic repetition of Can and the Velvet Underground's druggy "Sister Ray" without bringing any mind-altering substance of their own to the table. Moon Duo—now a Portland duo—have managed to not only skirt their influences, but also avoid mimicking themselves on their new record, Shadow of the Sun. All the benchmarks are still there—droning guitars and synths, motorik beats that go on for daze—but Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada add a few interesting guitar and keyboard touches on songs like "Animal" and the Middle Eastern-influenced "Sleepwalker." Live, Moon Duo is one long trip, which can be experienced tonight at the band's record-release show. MARK LORE

JOE PUG, FIELD REPORT, VIKESH KAPOOR
(Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) Thankfully, the days when record executives zealously proclaimed every curly-headed young man with an acoustic guitar a "New Dylan" are over, but if we still need someone to fill that role, there might be no more deserving candidate than Joe Pug. After two full-length studio albums and two EPs, Pug had established himself as a first-rate—if not wholly original—songwriter, but the pressures of being constantly on the road took an emotional and physical toll. He wasn't writing new songs, he was drinking heavily, and he was no longer connecting with his music. After a soul-searching sabbatical near the end of 2013, he returned in 2014 to the studio and recorded Windfall, his third full-length and maybe his most grown-up album yet. Less folky than earlier albums, Windfall is Pug at his most honest and vulnerable, shedding the palpable Dylan influence and finally beginning to find his own voice. SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY

FATHER MURPHY, GABRIEL SALOMAN, SLEEPING WITH THE EARTH, B.S. WRIGHT
(Beacon Sound, 3636 N Mississippi) Some of the most satisfyingly bleak sounds of the past few years have been produced by an Italian band called Father Murphy. The outfit caters to the musical whims of leader Federico Zanatta, and bleed with pounding drum machines, overdriven vocal and guitar melodies, and, as heard on "Long May We Continue" (from the 2015 full-length Croce), a tapestry of cymbal sounds that range from rattling hi-hats to explosive gong blasts. Tonight's show also welcomes Gabriel Saloman back home. The former Yellow Swan has decamped to Canada where he is recording his own dark musics—including last year's stunning Movement Building Vol. 1, which moved from placid guitar drones into almost terrifying polyrhythms and jagged stabs of pure noise. ROBERT HAM

METALACHI, BURN THE STAGE
(Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) Need more cowbell? The "world's first and only" heavy-metal mariachi band Metalachi has your cowbell, your guitarrón, and your vihuela. The Mexican band got its start when "what began as an innocent night of snorting horse tranquilizers in a hotel room with seven members of the village jai alai team went on to produce the greatest metal band ever to live." SHELBY KING

G. GREEN, WIMPS, LANDLINES, BRICKS
(Turn! Turn! Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth) Log Out, Tune Up, Drop Dead, the most recent effort from Portland's Landlines, is an album that keeps you on your toes. Its seven songs nod to different eras of garage rock, power-pop, and post-punk without ever holding too tight to any of them. Each track brings to mind its own set of unlikely comparisons—Lou Reed meets Superchunk, Elvis Costello meets Silkworm, Tom Petty meets the Clean. They're smart and playful, and beg to be listened to again and again. Tonight Landlines shares a bill with Seattle party punkers Wimps and Sacramento's G. Green. Expect fun times. JOSHUA JAMES AMBERSON

QUANTIC, DJ VADIM
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Quantic, the dapper British DJ Will Holland, has been redefining what it means to be a DJ since 2001. His first two albums, The 5th Exotic and Apricot Morning, include samples of Holland and his sisters playing various instruments, as well as vocal parts from soul singer Alice Russell. In 2003, Quantic expanded into the Quantic Soul Orchestra, where shit got fancy. Holland took tailor-made samples from Latin jazz and Afrobeat funk bands, which he then spun and looped into a fusion of electronic and Afro-Cuban funk. This jived so well that he moved to Colombia in 2007, where he set up a studio called Sonido del Valle and produced his 2007 album, Tropidélico. Quantic crosses so many genres and implements so many modern ways to create music that he transcends electronic music and produces something far more dynamic. ROSE FINN