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FRIDAY, SEPT. 18
Animal Collective members Avey Tare (Dave Portner) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) named their band Croz Boyce after the Dropbox folder through which they shared songs, titled “Croz Boys” in tribute to the late David Crosby. If the nod to that cantankerous hippie icon isn’t proof enough that AnCo has thoroughly entered the jam-band universe in the time since they became the first band ever to license a Grateful Dead sample in 2010, the acid-damaged and surprisingly bucolic instrumental jams on their self-titled record together certainly are. Local ambient artist Patricia Wolf opens. McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St. 8 pm. $31.10. All ages.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 19
If you can make grown men run in tears from your show, you’re probably a pretty good country singer. Joshua Ray Walker might’ve established himself as a latter-day, outside-the-box C&W freak with songs like “Sexy After Dark,” but it’s his frank examinations of Western masculinity and his struggles with his own physical and mental health that his fans worship. This year’s Ain’t Dead Yet is his most autobiographical album to date. It chronicles his recent bout with cancer with the mix of gallows humor and stubborn resilience that’s a hallmark of so much great country music. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. $26.20. 21+.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
Stoner-metal legends Sleep are back—or at least their tarantula-bearded frontman Al Cisneros is. Some fans see the idea of a Sleep lineup sans shirtless guitar god Matt Pike as anathema, but Cisneros was smart to go back to the roots of slowed-down metal and hardcore punk fusion to find new blood. New guitarist Bubba Dupree played in Void, the druggiest band in the intimidatingly clean Washington, D.C., hardcore punk scene of the ’80s. As for new drummer Dale Crover, he’s one of the all-time best, helping to bring the punk culture to Washington state as part of Melvins. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $48.50–$72.50. 21+.
