AVA LUNA, SAMA DAMS, CORRINA REPP
(Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water) For all the personal pain that engendered it, Corrina Repp's The Pattern of Electricity is a breathtaking achievement, a raw nerve of an album that explores blunt truths about the nature of relationships. Repp expresses her own frailty, surveys the wreckage, shoulders her share of the blame, and locates an inner resolve that gives the music a remarkable strength. Her voice is multi-tracked over shifting musical landscapes that contain mystery and beauty and unexpected twists of doubt and hope. The album was largely recorded with Peter Broderick at his small setup on the Oregon Coast; they recorded everything with just two microphones—one for Repp's voice, and one for everything else. NED LANNAMANN Read our full article on Corrina Repp.


FATHER JOHN MISTY
(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) I Love You, Honeybear, Josh Tillman's second album under the name Father John Misty, is about marriage. It wasn't the album he'd intended to make following the success of the first Father John Misty full-length. If Fear Fun was written in part under the influence of psychedelics, I Love You, Honeybear was written under the influence of love and intimacy. Tillman and his wife, Emma, met in 2011, a chance meeting in the parking lot of a Laurel Canyon country store, and they married not long after, in 2013. The songs on Honeybear were written over the course of their early courtship and eventual marriage. But, far from being a collection of love songs, Honeybear is Tillman at his most open and vulnerable, giving voice not only to the excitement of falling in love, but the uncertainty and anxiety that comes with committing the rest of your life to someone. SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY Read our full article on Father John Misty.


EX HEX, DIARRHEA PLANET, SUMMER CANNIBALS
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) This bill is almost too good. Any one of these bands alone would be more than worthwhile, but putting all three of them together is just plain reckless. The night hits full speed right away with Portland's Summer Cannibals, still riding high after the March release of their excellent second album, Show Us Your Mind, followed by Nashville's punk-rock hellraisers Diarrhea Planet, whose performances verge on that thin line between order and chaos. And if you have an ounce of energy remaining, or if Mississippi Studios hasn't yet detonated from unbridled frenzy, Mary Timony and her power-pop trio Ex Hex ought to finish the job, once and for all. Don't say you weren't warned. SEH Also see My, What a Busy Week!


LANA DEL REY, COURTNEY LOVE
(Amphitheater Northwest, 17200 NE Delfel, Ridgefield, WA) See My, What a Busy Week!


THE MAVERICKS, BRENT AMAKER AND THE RODEO
(Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark #110) The Mavericks stood out among the many solid country acts in the '90s, mainly on the strength of frontman Raul Malo's silky tenor, but also because the band dabbled in rockabilly, '50s pop, and Tex-Mex. Essentially the Mavericks did whatever the hell they wanted—and did it well. Almost 25 years removed from their debut, the band released Mono earlier this year, which might be the furthest thing from Nashville the Mavericks have ever made (it actually was recorded in mono). It's a gritty and romantic country-rock record that not only upholds the band's legacy, but pushes them even closer toward being one of the best country acts of the past three decades. MARK LORE


RASHEED JAMAL, LANG, MAZE KOROMA, SLAPZ
(Kelly's Olympian, 426 SW Washington) As part of Portland hip-hop collective the Renaissance Coalition, Maze Koroma has somewhat quietly emerged as one of the tightest emcees in the Rose City underground. Championing the kind of old-school flow that toes the lyrical line of grimy street poetry and posi-empowerment, Maze's solo work and collaborations with his Renaissance cohorts (as heard on the track "Time Traveler") point to a burgeoning career that you'll want to keep an eye on. Rasheed Jamal, in turn, was just voted one of Portland's best new artists by Willamette Week, and is finally basking in some of the spotlight he's helped in throwing on Portland's hip-hop scene. This show is a slam-dunk banger, and you better be there. RYAN J. PRADO


BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, ATRIARCH, RABBITS, MANE OF THE CUR
(Dante's, 350 W Burnside) There's heavy, and then there's Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. The newish project from legendary Seattle rocker Tad Doyle is a hulking beast of sludge-punk and doom metal that moves at a glacial pace, scraping sickening filth off the walls as it lumbers along. The band's new self-titled album is Doyle's first recording in 15 years, who spent the time working a day job, falling in love, moving to San Diego and then back to Seattle, and generally staying away from playing music after the dissolution of his seminal grunge band Tad. But then, according to a recent interview with Decibel, he discovered Oregon doom giants Yob and got inspired to start writing again. The result is one of the slowest, most suffocatingly heavy records of 2015 so far. Tonight, local volume dealers Atriarch and Rabbits join Brothers of the Sonic Cloth on a devastating bill. BEN SALMON