Can't Miss It: Weekend Edition, Dec. 26-28

MORE POWER TO YOUNG AMERICA: The Nite Owls are performing at the ever-excellent Corner tonight, boosting a strongly-recommended show's status up to "can't miss." The Nite Owls' mash-up of punk, rock n' roll, and hiphop will have you dancing and whooping it up, and at the Rendezvous, that means you'll be warm and in good, funny company while you do it. The group is comprised of members from The Saturday Knights, Cancer Rising, and Grayskul. Hear that? Also rockin' the stage: Orbitron, Ripynt, and Johnnie Storm. Shake off the cabin fever with us in Belltown tonight!

9 p.m., Friday // The Rendezvous // $5 // 21+

HIS PRAYING HANDS IS A BAND: Nothing like some alt.country to pick you up after the holidays! Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands are playing the Triple Door on Sunday, with the Jon Rauhaus Quartet opening. Says the Weekly, "There's a reason Gothic country's popular with the indie rock crowd--it invokes the angst of '80s punk, with all the upbeat instrumental twang that's made country music so darn endearing to all the young urbanites who cut their teeth on bands like Nirvana and L7." Nice.

7:30 p.m., Sunday // Triple Door // $10

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