Guest Blogger Lauren Wayne is local music fan, a marketer for Live Nation, on the Board of Directors of the Portland Music Foundation, is a Civil War buff, likes adobe bricks and is a hard-hitting journalist on the blog, Karma Beat Down.

We're going to kick the weekend off a little early since, um, well, I always kick my weekend off on a Wednesday.

Wednesday

• Spencer Albee and the School Spirit Mafia perform The Beatles' 'White Album' in its entirety at The Asylum tonight. This is a 21+ show and you get $2 off the door cover if you wear white, which is awesome because everyone knows you shouldn't wear white after Labor Day.

• An Evening With is a band. They are playing with The McCarthys at Empire Dine and Dance. An evening with An Evening With with The McCarthys. Whatever. All you need to know is that you should only go to this show if you like good, honest music.

• Milled Pavement hosts its monthly at The White Heart with Jonecat and Moshe dropping some dubstep and down-tempo.

• You know what impresses me? Yes, being able to eat an industrial-sized container of cheese balls in one sitting. Do you know what else? A band who knows how to market themselves online and who tours regionally. Lady Lamb The Beekeeper do both well. Go hear them at Flask Lounge. Their music is even better than their new media skills.

Thursday

After you cram your gut full of Tofurkey and tempeh stuffing, but right before you hit your brother over the head with a PBR empty, you should get out of the house to dance:

• Styxx is open from 9pm # 1am with DJ Rob.

• A Band Beyond Description plays all your Grateful Dead favorites at The Big Easy.

• Or, just put this band on your ipod at home and drink some whiskey in your underwear: The Pine Hill Haints

Friday

• The The Mystix kick it roots-style down at One Longfellow Square. This band has an impressive history of performing and recording with some of the country's top artists including Taj Mahal, John Hammond and, um, Mary J. Blige, of course.

• You know what you need more of in your life? Music of the Southern Appalachians and the deep South played on the fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin. Well, what a coincidence # OLD RED is playing at the Blue tonight.

SATURDAY

• Tree by Leaf plays the Dogfish Bar and Grill tonight.

• Three local bands + one alternative arts gallery + 67 cases of PBR for the crowd = Metal Feathers CD release show at SPACE Gallery with Gully and Brenda.

• It's a down and out Tarpigh music festival at the Meg Perry Center for Peace tonight with Crank Sturgeon, Big Blood, Micah Blue Smaldone, Chriss Sutherland, Michael Gallant, Amos Libby, Longfellow Kucz, Vince Nez, Karl Greenwood and George and Mary.

SUNDAY

• And my finally, Huak, Cougars Kill Cobras and Cinema Cinema end the weekend right at Geno's Rock Club.

MONDAY

• The return of Justin Ellis! Parades and speeches will ensue.

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