8 Days a Week: The Undead, The Timeless, and the Stone Aged

 

THURSDAY 19

HUMBLE BOWS | Some say the world has already been built, that its great artists have already sung their songs, its coliseums hosted their finest battles, and that we're just here to interpret and rearrange the existing cultural vocabulary into affinity groups. That's horseshit, of course. But the tradition of singing tributes to the world's favorite artists is unflappable, in Portland as it is anywhere, and tonight, several noteworthy Portland musicians and singers abandon their original works to sing in celebration of Florence and The Machine, the English indie-pop band led by the soaring vocals of Florence Welch. This evening re-ignites Empire's "Tribute To" series. In a couple weeks, Third Eye Blind gets the treatment. | 9 pm | Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland | $10 | www.portlandempire.comÂ