Can't Miss It: Thursday
ROCK OF LOVE: Volunteer organization Seattle Works makes positive civic action as easy as it can possibly be. Volunteer, show up, do good. Kids, women at risk, food banks, education and conservation causes all benefit from Seattle Works volunteers. For nearly 21 years, the organization has given 20- and 30-somethings endless opportunities to help improve Seattle and themselves. They have 14 projects in August alone. There are a dozen in September. Tonight's opportunity is a little bit different. Team Up for Nonprofits presents Gigs4Good, a music event with proceeds benefiting Seattle Works. The night features musician Alex Mercier, Thick as Thieves, and local group Bekker. Olympic speed skating medalist J.R. Celski will be in attendance. It won't be manual labor, but it'll be fun anyway. Show up, do good.
7:00 p.m. // Hard Rock Cafe 116 Pike St // $20
ROLL OVER CAMPER: You love Camper Van Beethoven. Even if you've never heard Camper Van Beethoven, you love it. Trust us. How the band managed to be everything it ever was (and is) -- alt-country, punk rock, ska, folk, somehow altogether -- is still a beautiful feat. Sadly under-lauded, the group that laid the groundwork for some of today's best and brightest, CVB has always been loved in Seattle, always fitting right in here. They are wholly and affectionately welcomed back. The group isn't playing The Crocodile, though another one of these would be nice. Also on the bill is CVB spinoff, Cracker (which created one of the coolest and most appropriate songs of 1993, Low).
8:00 p.m. // Neumos // $20
SOUND OF MUSIC: The bluest skies we've ever seen are in Seattle, but tonight's los Sounders game takes place far away from home, like Central America far away when the team takes on Marathon of Honduras. What in the world are the Sounders doing in Honduras, you may ask. It's all part of the CONCACAF Champions League competition. CONCACAF, the North American continental football governing body, holds the annual club team tournament, the winner of which goes onto the FIFA Club World Cup, the competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations. Which means the Sounders could possibly (hey, it could happen) play Barcelona or Manchester United to win the title of best club team in the world. This might be akin to the 1976 Bad News Bears beating the 1927 New York Yankees, so for now we'll pull for a good and hard fought game against the storied Marathon. Let's go Sounders. Score a goal.
7:00 p.m. // Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano // Fox Soccer Channel
