Dancing on the Valentine: John Roderick, Daniel G. Harmann, Fly Moon Royalty

(Crocodile) See Stranger Suggests.

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Omar S., Nordic Soul, Justin Timbreline

(Re-bar) See Data Breaker.

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Second Sight: Cold Cave

(Electric Tea Garden) See Data Breaker.

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Tower of Power

(Jazz Alley) See Thursday.

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JFK, Kublakai, Griff J, Apakoliptic

(White Rabbit) In 2010, JFK (aka Ninjaface) released a dynamite track produced by Jake One—the dubby and bubbly "High School Sweet Heart." In 2005, JFK joined Rob Castro and Onry Ozzborn to form Grayskul and dropped Deadlivers, one of the albums that brought local hiphop from the outskirts of Seattle's music scene to its center. In 2001, JFK contributed raps to several tracks on Oldominion's One, an album that should have placed Seattle on the national map and been registered as an important artistic achievement for hiphop culture in general. Indeed, one of my deep regrets of 2011 is that we did not celebrate the 10th anniversary of One. CHARLES MUDEDE

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Drew Grow & the Pastors' Wives, Ships, Bryan Free

(Columbia City Theater) Ships just made the announcement last week: Justin Cronk of Vendetta Red and With Friends Like These fame has joined the impressive band roster. That's great news for Ships, who released their debut full-length, Compulsory Listening, in 2010—it will be very interesting to see how Cronk's heavier musical experience plays into Ships' experimental-pop sound. Both Vendetta Red and With Friends Like These had a tendency to get loud and yell a bit, after all. I can't wait to see if that causes Ships to turn things up a notch. Tonight's show is also the first show of a two-night Amigo/Amiga Records event at the Columbia City Theater. When you buy tickets to the Drew Grow/Ships show and tomorrow's Kelli Schaefer/Hobosexual/Tope lineup, you get $4 off the total cost.MEGAN SELING

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Northwest Sinfonietta

(Benaroya) Candies and cards are for second graders and suckers; opera is old-school romantic. The underappreciated, medium-sized local professional orchestra Northwest Sinfonietta (plus a soprano, a tenor, and a baritone: love triangle) is presenting semistaged scenes, all from Puccini. Women will be birthing love children, starving in garrets, and flinging themselves from balconies because Cupid is supposed to hurt. JEN GRAVES

Gun Outfit, Cairo Pythian, M. Women

(Cairo) Olympia's Gun Outfit and Seattle's M. Women sharing this bill seems fitting. Though Gun Outfit's material leans more toward '90s indie territory while M. Women's takes a harder, noisier approach, both trios craft scrappy, punk-spiked rock with alternating male/female vocals. Olympia's Cairo Pythian, however, offer something completely different. The low-profile duo features Mary Russell on electric violin, Alex DeCecco on vocals, and a drum machine on beats coming together in a gothic, new-wave, performance-art fashion. Capitol Hill's Cairo gallery is an ideal place to see what the group is all about, and not just because of the two parties' apparent shared interest in Egypt's capital city. MIKE RAMOS

See also Underage.

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John Gorka

(Triple Door) John Gorka looks ridiculous, and his name sounds ridiculous, and he's just some beardo white guy playing a guitar, but damn if his wordplay isn't mighty fine and his voice pretty nice. His are the kind of songs that end up on your mix CDs because your (beardo white guy guitar-playing) dad listened to him in the '90s and somehow you got a hold of a couple of good songs and I mean who doesn't need a good antigentrification folk song for a mix every once in a while? "Buy low/Sell high/You get rich/And you still die." Right? And mad respect to anyone who writes smart songs about white privilege. ANNA MINARD

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