Kore Ionz, Part One Tribe, Ethan Tucker, Zions Gate Sound

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Don't Talk to the Cops!, Purple & Green

(Baltic Room) See Data Breaker.

Los Campesinos!

(Neptune) This extravagantly brash Welsh collective (think a much younger, much gayer Mekons, featuring glockenspiel) have made a bunch of good-to-great records, from their stellar 2008 debut, Hold on Now Youngster..., to last year's sturdy Hello Sadness. But live is where Los Campesinos! tear shit up, putting all the band's greatest strengths—passion, youth, songwriting—on full display. Tonight, the band tears up the Neptune, apparently without an opening act, which seems weird, but whatever. DAVID SCHMADER See also Underage.

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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Blood Red Dancers, Local Dudes, Broken Nobles

(Comet) Brian Tristan, aka Kid Congo Powers, came up in the LA punk scene during the late '70s and '80s. Though he started small, running a fan club for the Ramones and a zine for the Screamers, he ended up playing in seminal bands like the Gun Club, the Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Now with his own band, the Pink Monkey Birds, Kid Congo Powers blends his West Coast punk roots with doses of grooving '60s Chicano rock and garage psychedelia to superb effect. Both 2009's Dracula Boots and last year's Gorilla Rose show that the Kid has aged gracefully, still capable of kicking out the kind of jams that should have plenty of feet moving tonight. MIKE RAMOS

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Dyme Def, Hypatia Lake, Derek Kelley and the Speedwobbles

(Sunset) Most residents from Ballard and the surrounding areas may be going to this Audioasis show to check out Hypatia Lake's heavy, spaced-out psych rock, but leaving this one early would be a total sucker move. Stick around for local hiphop heroes Dyme Def, who quietly released Yuk the World—a triumphant return to form for the 3BadBrothaaas responsible for the most-crucial 2007 local release, Space Music—late in 2011. Drink a bunch of alcohol before their set (it's Saturday, after all) and get down with your uninhibited self. Dyme Def's appropriately hype, party-friendly cuts are not conducive to that arms-crossed, standing-still crap. Be careful, though, you might actually enjoy yourself. MIKE RAMOS

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Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival

(Benaroya) The Beethoven, Paganini, and Franck pieces on the program will be fun, but what you're out on a cold night for is "The Devil's Trill," a sonata for violin by Giuseppe Tartini, to be performed this particular cold night by Seattle's James Ehnes. One night in 1713, the devil came to Tartini in a dream, picked up Tartini's violin, and played a solo so incredible that Tartini woke up and tried to take it down—only to find himself tortured by the inadequacy of his memory. "The Devil's Trill" is as close as Tartini could come, and it's fuller than full of trills and devilishly difficult runs and turns. Just imagine the piece the devil had in mind. JEN GRAVES