Can't Miss It: Thursday

RISING GLOBES: Spokane natives The Globes may be young but they’ve been playing together for nearly eight years, and their experience shows. Playing a sort of indie rock not easily identifiable (but we’ll try), The Globes are have their roots in the basic sounds of Northwest mainstays Death Cab for Cutie and Built to Spill but easily expand into territory occupied by more mercurial alternative groups like The Eels. It’s rock and roll, that’s for sure, but it’s textured and dynamic, with a magnified glum attitude accented by flares of distortion, moody and refreshingly mature even beyond the group’s years. With Little Pieces and Oh Captain My Captain.

9:00 p.m. // Sunset Tavern // $6

ROCKING RELIEF: Seattle’s been doing its share of sending relief to victims of the earthquake in Haiti, but there’s always room for more help. The Red Cross and Seattle Theatre Group have organized Seattle Helping Haiti , a one night auction/concert with 100% of the proceeds being sent to Haiti via The Red Cross. Bands include Vince Mira, The Maldives, Mike Herrera of MXPX, Memphis Radio Kings, Sweetwater, and Classic Crime. Items up for silent auction range from sports and music memorabilia and concert tickets to various swag items and gift cards. Not a bad way to spend a comfortable evening and do a little more for our neighbors in Haiti.

7:00 p.m. // Moore Theatre // $15

DRINKING HUGONOTS: From the center for the literary arts that brought you “Cheap Wine and Poetry” comes the freshest free event of the night, “Cheap Beer and Prose,” where the $1 PBRs flow like wine and writers entertain the joyous crowd by reading their works to them. Featuring novelists Maria Semple and Matthew Simmons, short story writer Midge Raymond, and McSweeney's writer Rory Douglas, the night may very well get a bit rambunctious - or everyone will be on their best behavior. You never know with these literary types.

7:00 p.m. // Richard Hugo House // Free