In this week's Up & Coming, Megan Seling suggests tonight's show with Brothers of the Sonic Cloth and guests at the Funhouse:

Heiress, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Requin

(Funhouse) With the Melvins and Big Business both playing shows in town, Seattle's not lacking for heavy shit this weekend, but should you need yet one more eardrum crushing option, tonight's Funhouse lineup has it. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth are Tad Doyle's latest musical endeavor (which also features Stranger designer Aaron Edge on drums). And Heiress's new vocalist is none other than John Pettibone of Himsa and Undertow fame. Also worth noting: It's Line Out commenter bunnypuncher's birthday. He's butted heads with folks a number of times on the blog (including me), but it must be said that the dude has fine taste in music. MEGAN SELING

Melvins, Green River

The Melvins' first major-label album, 1993's Houdini, came out at a time when corporate record labels were seemingly courting every band even tangentially associated with the Northwest grunge scene. The Melvins, though, were not tangential to grunge so much as foundational, laying much of the sound's groundwork with their combination of sludge, metal, and punk rock. Formed 10 years prior in Montesano, Washington, the band—then consisting of founder Buzz Osborne, drummer Dale Crover, and bassist Lorax—relocated to San Francisco to record Houdini (the band now lives in L.A. and performs with members of former Seattle duo Big Business). To celebrate the band's 25th anniversary, their current tour features the Melvins performing Houdini live in its entirety with Crover on drums and Trevor Dunn on bass, as well as material from the band's first year together featuring founding members Mike Dillard on drums and Matt Lukin on bass.

Rain Fest: Ceremony, Cold World, Comadre, Comeback Kid and more

(Viaduct, Tacoma) For those of you needing an alternative to Sasquatch!, consider Tacoma's Rain Fest, the Viaduct's annual hardcore (and more!) music festival. Going Friday to Sunday, Rain Fest is three days of metal, hardcore, pop punk, and rock, with tons of local bands, and a few touring acts as well, including Comeback Kid and the Warriors (who co-headline Saturday night). With nearly 50 bands in three days, it's hard to know where to start, but Friday night don't miss Deathwish Records' Killing the Dream for a dose of pissed-off and heavy breakdowns. On Sunday, be sure to check out Make Do and Mend for a Hot Water Music—inspired blast of turbulent rock. MEGAN SELING

Windy & Carl, White Rainbow, This Blinding Light

(Sunset) Fifteen years into their career, Dearborn, Michigan's Windy & Carl aren't about to surprise their loyal fans. The guitar/keyboards/bells duo have gone relatively far with their cirrus-cloud-like ambient rock, a music consisting of sighs, murmurs, gentle oscillations, and seashell roars, with Windy occasionally whispering morosely over it (she's the anti—Janis Joplin). Their latest album, Songs for the Broken Hearted, offers yet more forlorn drones to which to get horizontal and contemplative. White Rainbow (Portland's Adam Forkner) keeps improving as a provider of what he probably only half-jokingly calls "full spectrum vibrational healing audio." His 2007 album Prism of Eternal Now is a sort of "what if Terry Riley recorded for VHF Records?" kosmische klassik. Kills me that I'll be out of town for this bliss-OD show. DAVE SEGAL

Hurricane Lanterns, the Sugar High Mustangs, the Right Typewriters

(Blue Moon) Local outfit Hurricane Lanterns make gentle music. "I don't ask much/From you or anyone else/I don't ask much/Of myself," Patrick Dodd croons on "I Don't Ask Much." It's introspective and soft and calm. It sounds like someone spending a morning trying to get his shit in order and figure out whether he's a fuckup. But everyone knows it's the quiet ones you've got to look out for: "Hymn for the Misguided" is a kind of frightful waltz that sneaks up on you, starting out quietly (there are even crickets!) but eventually becoming a mammoth, staggering, beautiful meditation on love and death and the way that religion falls in between both of those things. PAUL CONSTANT

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