The Avett Brothers are playing tonight at Neumo’s tonight. Click here to see yesterday’s preview.

And tonight’s show at the Comet is so good it got a nod in both Up & Coming and Suggests:

^{Shellshag photo by Dave Sanders/brooklyndiy.blogspot.com}

Shellshag, Helms Alee, Akimbo at Comet
Shellshag are known for four things: a relentless tour schedule; a stalwart DIY attitude; jumping on people, throwing their drums, crowdsurfing, and other mischief; and making more fuzzed-out, Breeders-like noise than two people should be able to. Akimbo are known for two things: grinding, fast, melodic metal and the best drummer in Seattle. Helms Alee are known for one thing: stoned freak-outs of the heavy, slow variety. (Comet, 922 E Pike St, 322-9272. 9 pm, $6, 21+.) by Ari Spool

Akimbo, King Brothers, Shellshag, Helms Alee
(Comet) Killer night of music, and perhaps the best place in town to see it—the Comet is a bar that’s meant to be destroyed. Not long ago, Monotonix tried to burn the place down. Bands have stripped there, poured beer all over themselves and the audience (thanks again for that, Ben Lashes), fallen to the floor in a rock-inspired seizure, blown fuses and vocal cords… there’s something about the Capitol Hill hole that makes performers go crazy. Akimbo don’t have the wacky stunts, but they have the sonic sledgehammer that could do some damage to the walls. And Helms Alee are seriously one of the best new bands in the city—the recent addition to Hydra Head’s roster are a fantastic dichotomy of unforgiving, heavy rock and shimmering optimism. MEGAN SELING

And here’s another option for Capitol Hill:

RJD2, Dälek, Happy Chichester
(Chop Suey) I’m not gonna lie; I have a hard time getting into a lot of live hiphop acts. But Dälek… holy shit. This is a band who blew the PA at Graceland years ago, a band who have played with Grandmaster Flash, Sonic Youth, and Tool. MC Dälek’s rhymes and brooding cadence are impressive in their own right, but when paired with producer Oktopus’s walls of dark distorted noise and punishing beats, the result is one of the most intense and innovative sounds in contemporary hiphop. While the departure of turntablist Chang threatened to subtract from the spectacle of Dälek’s live show, their most recent album, Abandoned Language, is easily their strongest work to date and will undoubtedly rule on the Chop Suey stage. BRIAN COOK

Staying off of Pike and/or Pine? Find all the listings in our online calendar.

For example: There’s a free show this afternoon in Ballard at 20/Twenty with Tiny Vipers, Amy Blaschke, and Husbands Love Your Wives. It’s for 20/Twenty’s three-year anniversary. It starts at 4 pm.

Or you could go see Old Haunts, Feral Children, and Coconut Coolouts at the Vera Project!

So many options… what ever will you do…