My favorite record shop, Wall of Sound, is hosting a show tonight at The Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater in Belltown. Guardian Ear will be taking the stage with guitar, cello, oboe and percussion for an engagement of “Avant-garde-acoustic-thrashical-chamber-rock.” I love the mournful quirkiness of the oboe and have thought of taking it up several times. I’m curious to see what comes of this. They say their score is “simultaneously bitter-sweet, confusing, pretty and ridiculous.”

It’s an early show—8 PM, so it shouldn’t get in the way of your jet-set plans for the evening. The clown already has me confused.