URAL THOMAS AND THE PAIN, NICK WATERHOUSE, ORQUESTRA PACIFICO TROPICAL, REV SHINES
(Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark #110) See My, What a Busy Week!

WILD ONES, PEARLES
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Since forming in the beginning of 2011, Wild Ones' batting average has been basically perfect: Debut EP You're a Winner evoked the ethereal innocence of the group's much-beloved spiritual antecedent Eskimo and Sons, while keeping one eye affixed firmly on the future (the future being synthesizers). Follow-up LP Keep It Safe delivered on all of You're a Winner's promises and then some, effortlessly marrying superb songwriting with a club-hopping, glowstick-wagging predication (see: this year's KPSU Kruise). In short—they should appeal to anyone who likes music even a little bit. Tonight, Wild Ones celebrate the release of new EP, Heatwave, and it's a predictably great collection of songs that manages to reaffirm their collective strengths without merely being an echo of past triumphs—in particular "Dim The Lights," a confessional, gritty slab of electropop par excellence that ranks among their very best (so far). MORGAN TROPER

CONSUMER, SAD HORSE, TIG BITTY, TYRANTS, DJ TURVEY
(Twilight Café and Bar, 1420 SE Powell) Matt Palenske is making up for lost time. His loop station got completely fried, and, financially unable to repair or replace it, he spent a long stretch of time unable to get out his twitchy, hip-hop-inspired art-pop improvisations. Back in action, the artist known as Consumer is gushing with new material, including Arc, a freshly dubbed cassette split with Brooklyn's Casas, and the Consumer side finds Palenske indulging in more ambient expressions alongside head-nodding beats and jagged shards of noise and incident. Joining Palenske to celebrate the release of the new tape is underground girl hip-hop group Tig Bitty and sultry guitar rockers Sad Horse. ROBERT HAM

JOHN VALUE, POST MOVES, FASHION CLUB
(Mother Foucault's, 523 SE Morrison) John Value describes his Ritual as having come together over the course of three different cities in the past three years. The album is a Big Star-indebted chronicle of his years before and after going to rehab for alcoholism, incisive yet exuberant in its self-examination. Like so many drinkers, Value found a ritual in opening a bottle and watching it slowly grow clear, but the ritual he lets listeners in on is a commune with himself, deconstructing his anxieties as he constructs the song. Mother Foucault's Bookshop is hosting the album release for Value, with the chorused Neil Young-isms of Post Moves and the nü-pop punk of Fashion Club rounding out the bill. MAC POGUE Also see All-Ages Action!

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, BATTLEME, MIRACLE FALLS
(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Out of the two notable Middle American lo-fi rock 'n' roll duos that have regularly been releasing music for the past decade, one has stayed true to being a duo and the other is an ego-driven four-piece in disguise. While The Black Keys have drifted in the direction of anthemic "serious" rock absurdity, brothers Jake and Jamin Orral of Jeff the Brotherhood have kept close to their lighthearted, fuzzy garage-punk roots. The Orral brothers take pride in not taking themselves too seriously and recognize rock 'n' roll as catchy riff, high-energy fun rather than an assertion of fame and dominance. Essentially, Jeff the Brotherhood are the first The Decline of Western Civilization, while the Black Keys are the sad, attention-grabbing Part II: The Metal Years. CAMERON CROWELL