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, DEC. 3

Jazz Cartier, G4shi, Dior Worthy

[JACUZZI LA FLEUR] Described by Pitchfork as "Toronto's first post-Drake rapper," Jazz Cartier owes significantly more to Auto-Tuned croon rappers Future and Travis Scott for his style of darkly cosmopolitan rap than he does to his fellow Canadian. That isn't to say he doesn't channel some of the "6 God" singer's newfound rich-guy badassery. This year'sMarauding in Paradise has its fair share of Drake-isms among its debts to Atlanta. Cartier needs a few years to develop a voice of his own—he still sounds like an amalgam of his influences—but this show is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of someone who clearly has his eyes on the stars. WALKER MACMURDO. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

SiR, Andre Power, Neijah Lanae, The Last Artful Dodgr

[FUTURE HIP-HOP AND R&B] See our profile of the Last Artful Dodgr here. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4

Pass, Rod, Sabonis, Alien Boy

[THE NEW NOSTALGIA] On its new EP, Ways Out, Portland's Pass bullies '90s revivalism back into the noisy epoch ruled by the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. The band is definitely up to the task of matching its ancient masters, with bleary and tangled anthems that demonstrate a wicked knack for lacing waves of distortion with fetching and affecting melodies. Like Pass, Rod evokes the fruitful period that peaked in 1991, but on its recently released debut EP, Where I Had Gone, the Portland quartet imagines a slightly sweeter alternate history, one in which Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque dug as deep into the popular consciousness as Nevermind. Here's to nostalgia trips with sneaky detours. CHRIS STAMM. Anarres Infoshop & Community Space, 7101 N Lombard St. 7 pm. $5. All ages.

Mike Krol, Rupert Angeleyes, Landlines

[POWER-POP] See our profile of Mike Krol here. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 9:30 pm. $10. 21+.

The Mousai

[THEATRICAL CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Portland's Mousai ensemble violates most of the antiquated "rules" that exclude so many music lovers from classical chamber music. The quartet plays music by living Americans, not long-dead Europeans. The music is usually accessible to a wide range of music lovers, including those raised on pop. They actually engage with audiences rather than expect them to worship at the temple of classical music. And they don't charge a fortune for the privilege, only admission by donation. In this concert of music all written in the past five years—including commissions by PSU student Thomas DeNicola and last year's Chamber Music Northwest composer Daniel Schlosberg, plus compositions by Bill Douglas, Californians George Giannopoulos and Antonio Celaya and Washington's Scott Pender—they'll up the entertainment quotient by adding brief theatrical touches related to the music, and some comedy. BRETT CAMPBELL. Lincoln Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 7:30 pm. Donations accepted.

Pause

[IMAGISTIC CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Edward Steichen's 1955 The Family of Man is one of the most famous photography exhibitions ever mounted. Dedicated to showing the commonalities among people around the world, it opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art, toured the world, produced a popular book and is now permanently archived in Luxembourg. The message about the need for universal brotherhood is, alas, just as relevant amid today's deadly international conflicts as during the Cold War, which is why Pause—a subset of New York's renowned new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound—commissioned five rising composers from around the world (including new Portlander Texu Kim, who is composer in residence with the Korean Symphony Orchestra) to write new music inspired by it and relevant to today. Kim's piece, which reflects on this summer's Supreme Court ruling legalizing marriage equality, will be performed with new works by John Orfe, Charlie Piper, Ian Dicke and Robert Pound, on flute, trombone, percussion, piano and violin. BRETT CAMPBELL. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. 7 pm. $20- $50. All ages.

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