On the List: April 7-13

Ricochet at the Moisture Festival last week. Photo by John Cornicello

Tonight

• For one night only, SF-based aerial performance duo Ricochet bring STITCH @ Emerald City Trapeze

Wednesday

• Tom DeLonge's Angels and Airwaves is back and even hookier @ Showbox SoDo
  
• It's happy hour all night (and a mariachi band) for the bar's second birthday @ The Saint

Thursday

• Sam Shepherd's True West opens @ the Balagan Theatre
• If it's first Thursday, that means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Arts Walk
• Lots of bands and restaurants represent at the third annual Seattle Soundbite @ Showbox SoDo
• Oh yes! Make it Purple Rain with this star-studded Prince tribute night @ Havana
• Get Lucky with Mark Knopfler @ the Moore Theatre
• Hugh Raffles, anthropologist and author of Insectopedia, tells you all about insects @ Town Hall

Friday

• My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, the unholy product of the minds of David Lynch and Werner Herzog, screens @ Northwest Film Forum
• Pour a little out for Capitol Hill mainstay Slats at his benefit/memorial @ Merchants Cafe
• Robopop! opens @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
• Singer-songwriter Holly Miranda brings her lovely, dreamy vocals @ High Dive
• SPOON! (also Saturday) @ the Moore Theatre
• A host of your favorite local burlesque artists brings Smells Like Tease Spirit: A Tribute to the 90's @ Theatre off Jackson

Saturday

• Head to the Eastside for two days of festivities, including book signings, free hors d'oeuvres, and raffles during the annual Spring Fling @ Artisanal Brasserie
• Jonsi (also Friday), Sigur Ros' enchanting warbler in chief, strikes out on a solo effort, occasionally singing songs with English lyrics @ Showbox SoDo
• Perennial indie rock favorites Rogue Wave are back @ Neumos
• Studies in Monk, Mompou, and Melancholy is an event featuring the work of eighteen separate artists exploring melancholy @ The Fremont Abbey

Sunday

• Mayda del Valle and Staceyann Chin, both poets and original cast members of the Tony-winning Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, liven up @ Town Hall
• It's the last 12 Minutes Max of the 09-10 season, featuring a variety of Northwest artists including ticktock, the aerial/dance crew who are pushing the limits @ On the Boards
• Philly's favorite shape-shifting knob-twister RJD2 has been touring up a storm of late, stopping by Seattle @ Neumo's

Monday

• Corinne Bailey Rae (also Tuesday) sings about the sad, sad The Sea at the first of the 2010 (RED)NIGHTS concerts--a portion of the proceeds from each show goes directly to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa--@ the Moore Theatre
• The xx youngsters and their lovers' whispers in the dark take over @ Showbox SoDo
• Roger Lowenstein arrives late to the "Where'd that bubble go?" party @ Town Hall
• Everyone (including Aziz Ansari) loves Beach House's organic Brian Wilson meets Mazzy Star sound. That's why they're sold out @ Neumo's
• Author and charity founder Lisa Shannon will be raising awareness and support for the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo @ the Intiman Theatre

Tuesday

• The Biava Quartet and their fabulous hair play Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major with cellist Joshua Roman @ Town Hall
• Train headlines The Mountain's Earth Day concert @ the Moore Theatre
• Take me out to the book reading! Robert Elias reads from his baseball-and-America book The Empire Strikes Out @ Town Hall
• Go buckwild and get sweaty with the psychedelic soul of King Khan and the Shrines @ Neumo's