Live! Tonight! Not Sold-Out!

Want to see some live music tonight? Here are your best options, curated by the Willamette Week music staff.

THURSDAY, OCT. 22

Dave Rawlings Machine

[NU-GRASS] Guitarist, songwriter and producer Dave Rawlings has worked with acts like Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and Old Crow Medicine Show over the course of his nearly two-decade career. But when he released his first album as the Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend, with songwriting partner Gillian Welch, in 2009, the entire Americana scene took notice. Returning with last month's Nashville Obsolete, Rawlings and Welch worked with contemporaries like the Punch Brothers' Paul Kowert and former Old Crow Medicine Show vocalist Willie Watson to modernize bluegrass in all of its flat-picking, harmony-laden glory. HILARY SAUNDERS. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. $32. All ages.

Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies, Beartooth

[PEOPLE = SHIT] Although the Des Moines nine-piece has since moved toward a more radio-friendly hard-rock sound, Slipknot's death metal- and drum-'n'-bass-influenced self-titled and Iowa albums are seen as something like the Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of nu metal and generally considered to represent the creative zenith of the oft-maligned subgenre. Supported by long-running crossover legends Suicidal Tendencies, this is sure to be one of the least appreciated—and heaviest—major tours of the year. WALKER MACMURDO. Memorial Coliseum, 1401 N Wheeler Ave. 7 pm. $35-$45. All ages.

The Zombies

[BRITISH INVASION VETS] Colin Blunstone's supple, smoky tenor still hits the dizzying melodic heights of the Zombies' great '60s hits, as he's proven on the band's few Portland visits since he and keyboard whiz Rod Argent reconvened in the mid-'00s. And hearing live songs from belatedly lauded masterworkOdessey and Oracle—released in obscurity following the band split, it's now regarded as a psych classic—has been a near-religious experience for some. On this tour, for the first time, the band's other two surviving founders, bassist Chris White, who wrote more than half of Oracle, and drummer Hugh Grundy return to help perform the album in its entirety. The band will also showcase tunes from its brand-new release, Still Got That Hunger. JEFF ROSENBERG. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110. 8 pm. $45. 21+.

FIDLAR, Dune Rats

[PUNK] The boys of FIDLAR don't take themselves too seriously. Their band name is an acronym for "Fuck It, Dog, Life's a Risk," and though the group's latest release is more concerned with the process of cleaning up than getting coked up, frontman Zac Carper can still sing about substance abuse and repeated burnouts like nobody's business. The band's blend of precision remains intact throughout new album Too, helping paint portraits of L.A. junkiedom against a backdrop of snarling guitars and harmonies marketed to go along with a fresh pair of Vans. The intensity is still there as well—see "Bad Medicine," for example—it's just buried beneath more pop sensibility than ever before. BRANDON WIDDER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 8 pm. $17. All ages.

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