THEESatisfaction, Lisa Dank, Canary Sing, Queerbait, Katie Kate, Sap'N, DJ Colby B

(Neumos) Local hiphop duo THEESatisfaction (Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White) will be cutting a record with Erik Blood, a Seattle producer/musician who contributed to the best thing that happened in local music last year: Shabazz Palaces' two EPs. Well and good. But I secretly wanted THEESatisfaction to work with 10-4 Roger, the DJ who produced the duo's "Cabin Fever." (10-4 Roger also remixed/reprocessed Helladope's "Just So You Know" into an erotic haze of dub.) I had imagined that "Cabin Fever" would be to THEESatisfaction what "Shook Ones Pt. II" was to Mobb Deep—"Shook Ones" appeared near the end of The Infamous, but was then elaborated into a whole album, Hell on Earth. "Cabin Fever" has the potential to open up into a larger and richer work of art, and 10-4 Roger is a producer people need to hear. CHARLES MUDEDE

See also: My Philosophy

Van Dyke Parks, Clare and the Reasons

(Triple Door) For nearly four decades, Van Dyke Parks has been one of pop music's go-to geniuses, helping to create such landmark records as Brian Wilson's Smile and Joanna Newsom's Ys. On his own, he made 1968's legendary Song Cycle, wrote the score for the Sesame Street film Follow That Bird, played a supporting role on Twin Peaks, and collaborated with everyone you've ever heard of, from Grace Kelly to Silverchair. Tonight, the prodigiously hyphenated visionary will materialize onstage at the Triple Door, where he'll musically represent himself however the hell he feels like it. The majority of the audience will be thrilled just to be in the same room with him. DAVID SCHMADER

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