The Score profiles tonight's performance of Eyvind Kang's Grass. The piece will be performed by a nine-piece ensemble also featuring Stuart Dempster and Julian Priester, trumpeter Cuong Vu, and pianist Cristina Valdés. Read all about it here.

Grampall Jookabox will perform at Vera tonight with PWRFL Power and the Terrordactyls, and his new record, Ropechain, received a three-and-a-half star review in this week's issue. Not too shabby. Read the full review here.

And finally, here are a few more suggestions from this week's Up & Comings:

The Dirtbombs, Little Claw, Thee Emergency
(Chop Suey) The Dirtbombs' dual-drum, dual-bass lineup guarantees you a quality American garage-rock encounter. The Mick Collins–fronted Detroit band have been doing it for 13 years, and their live show will slather you in punk and soul and fuzz. They're classic like a hand-tooled leather saddle. The 2008 release of We Have You Surrounded (In the Red) sees the Dirtbombs going deep and thematically basing the album on graphic novelist Alan Moore's comic-book story called "Leopard Man at C & A's." It's dark and deals with urban blight. Come to Chop Suey, straddle a barstool saddle, get deep, and ride the sounds of some musical legends. TRENT MOORMAN See also Stranger Suggests.

Large Professor of Main Source, J.Pinder, Wizdom, DJ Marc Sense
(Nectar) Large Professor is a rapper/producer who represents hiphop in the condition of courage, pleasure, and intelligence. The Harlem-born genius has produced three hiphop classics of the modern period with Main Source; three tracks on one of the greatest albums of the '90s, Illmatic; and the most famous of all shelved albums in the history of hiphop, The LP. However, Geffen, the company that refused to release the album, did drop the beautiful track "Ijuswannachill," which contains these wonderful lines: "Nevertheless, in 3-D's Large Profess/With what I would call a bullshit-proof vest/And yes, I make the beats you could feel in your chest/And write the rhymes that reflect a young man blessed/With the mind and motivation hitting your station/Coming back to attack over a ghetto vacation/For the hiphop nation." CHARLES MUDEDE See also My Philosophy, Album Review.

Young Sportsmen, Peter Parker, Guns & Rossetti
(Sunset) Damn you, Young Sportsmen. Good bands aren't supposed to call it quits. There should be some kind of executive committee that makes these kinds of decisions and ensures that bands making great, stick-in-your-head, toe-tapping pop songs are forced to soldier on while the legions of mediocre underachievers are forced into retirement. Tonight is the last chance to see one of Seattle's most underrated treasures, so resist the seasonal urge to hibernate and get your butt (and the rest of your body) down to the Sunset before the Young Sportsmen ride off to follow their own setting sun. Their perfectly crafted, melodic tunes will be sorely missed. BARBARA MITCHELL

If you need more, our online calendar has the complete list of tonight's shows.