(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, 9 pm, $20, all ages) CIARA DOLAN If you’re not hooked after the haunting opening track, “Processions,” we really must be living in different galaxies. Bonet’s latest album, 2018’s Childqueen, expands into strange new horizons and finds something extraordinary.

The singer’s stunning 2016 debut, The Visitor, should definitely be revisited for the beauty of songs like “Honeycomb,” in which her sweet repetitions of the phrase “all the stars burning in the sky” warp and fade like a vinyl record melting right off the turntable. After spending an extraordinarily long time in her mother’s plasma, she discovered the joys and gratifications of making noise with her hands and face while traveling at maximum velocity through intergalactic jungle quadrants.” A little fantastical, but that’s just how Bonet rolls her psychedelic soul music transcends space and time, simultaneously channeling the iconic vocalists who came before her-specifically Minnie Riperton-and some undiscovered galaxy that’s currently just a twinkle in humanity’s third eye. (Wed April 17, 9 pm, Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, $5) CHIPP TERWILLIGER (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $5)Īccording to her bio, Kadhja Bonet “was born in 1784 in the backseat of a seafoam-green space Pinto.

Portland’s leading tribute to the Boston alternative rock pioneers, the Prixies, will preside over the festivities, and they’ll be joined by fellow Pixies disciples Surfer Rosie and Melt to tear through the classic LP along with an array of other hits and rarities. It’s been three decades since the Pixies dropped their landmark sophomore album Doolittle, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than with a full-night tribute at Mississippi Studios. The Pixies Doolittle Tribute: The Prixies, Surfer Rosie, Melt

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