TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT: Thursday night at R Place = Amateur Strip Show. Head out, show us what you've got, and maybe you'll walk away $200 richer. Second and third place prizes are $100 and $50, respectively. Then, once you've won, buy everyone in the room a round of drinks, and then stick around for a dance party courtesy of DJ Flo'w. After all, no work tomorrow, right?

9 p.m. // R Place // Free

BADASS MUSIC: Imagine turning folk music instruments into heavy metal instruments, through the cunning use of distortion and other sound effects. Add a little funk and rock. That kind of almost, sort of, not really sums up Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. They'll be joined tonight at Neumos by local wackadoo Jason Webley—a master of audience participation antics and weird accordion jams.

8 p.m. // Neumos // $13

AFTER TWO BUT BEFORE FIVE: Hillstomp is in town, along with the Legendary Shack*Shakers. The hot roots music throwdown will be preceded by a documentary screening about rural America, and how it has, according to the listing, "been distorted or pushed aside by the homogenizing and sensationalistic impulses of mass marketers, TV and movie producers and the media."

8 p.m. // Tractor Tavern // $12

KID ROCK: Bands like The Globes give us great hope that the best in Seattle music is yet to come. This not-yet-legal foursome will be playing their earnest brand of lush moody indie rock at the Skylark Cafe tonight.

8 p.m. // Skylark Cafe // Free
photo of Jason Webley in action, courtesy of SlightlyNorth