On the List: March 31-April 6

(Last-minute Tuesday)

• Early this month, Animal Collective and Danny Perez displayed ODDSAC, a "new synthesis of music and film" at the Guggenheim museum in New York--watch the visual album @ the Egyptian tonight. On Wednesday, Deakin (Josh from Animal Collective) plays a solo set with Jabon & Peppermint Majesty @ Neumo's

Wednesday

• The Low Anthem can go from haunted to hootenanny several times within a tracklisting. Armed with classic (bellows organ), creative (cymbals played with a violin bow), and innovative (spoiler alert: group cell phone experimentation) instrumentation the transitions from the heartbreakingly effective weepers to the upbeat foot stompers provide jarring relief. With the delightfully creepy goth-folk and blues of Timber Timbre @ the Crocodile

Thursday

• Opening: Seattle Opera's Young Artists take on Ariadne auf Naxos (through April 11) @ the Meydenbauer Center
• Gerard Schwarz conducts the Seattle Symphony, a little Janacek and Prokofiev, plus Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (through April 3) @ Benaroya Hall
• The League of Women Voters sorts out how to make democracy work with a panel including Nancy Amidei, director of the Civic Engagement Project; Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large; and author Paul Loeb (Soul of a Citizen) @ Town Hall
• Owl City goes from his parents' basement to playing @ the Paramount
• Citizen Cope and his nappy dreads play his first of three dates @ the Showbox
• FREE: Daniel Atkinson, a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at the UW, talks about slavery and the musical legacy of the Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary @ the Northwest African American Museum

Friday

• FREE: noir novelist Walter Mosley returns with a Leonard McGill story Known to Evil @ Seattle Public Central Library
• Juno may have introduced you to the Moldy Peaches; half-Peach Adam Green plays from his album Minor Love @ Chop Suey
• The Morning Benders have really come into their own on new album Big Echo.  Tonight, first they play a free all-ages set @ Sonic Boom Capitol Hill, then a 21+ show @ the Croc

Saturday

• Michael Buble seems unable to escape appearing in public without being stalked by a velociraptor or two. The possibility of ferocious dinosaurs at the performance might add extra incentive to the "Crazy Love" arena tour @ Key Arena

Sunday

• FREE: Frances McCue and photographer Mary Randlett give a talk--part travelogue, part memoir, part literary scholarship--called "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo" @ Seattle Public Central Library
• California-sounding Florida band Surfer Blood gets the kids riled up @ the Vera Project
• Hugh Cornwell of seminal UK punk band The Stranglers plays a solo show @ the Tractor

Monday

• FREE: David Laskin reads from The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War @ Seattle Public Central Library

Tuesday

• Opening: The musical Dreamgirls runs sassily through April 11 @ the Paramount
• SOLD OUT: Brandi Carlile does her singer/songwriter thing @ the Crocodile
• FREE: PNB education manager and Tudor Choir founder and director Doug Fullington talks with choreographer Mark Morris @ Town Hall