JOSH HEGG

Thursday, April 30

Thursday night music at Doyle’s just feels right — despite the fact it may seem weird at first. Sure, upon hunkering down at Doyle’s you’ll be engulfed by the charm of an Irish sports bar, and you’ll be surrounded by soccer jerseys and Irish Whiskey — two of the surest signs that an establishment caters to a predominantly sports-loving, penis-having crowd; but that doesn’t mean Doyle’s doesn’t also have the mojo to make hosting live music look natural. Bartender/ promoter Jesse Turcotte makes sure of it. This Thursday, the jazzy, jammy Josh Hegg will awe onlookers with his mad acoustic guitar skill. The dude is so good he needs two MySpace profiles. And yes, he’s friends with himself. — Matt Driscoll

[Doyle’s Public House, 7-9 p.m., DJ Platelunch follows, no cover, 208 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.7468]

HORNET LEG

Friday, May 1

I first saw Chris Sutton play a Hornet Leg show in Olympia’s premier tiny venue, aptly named “The World’s Smallest Venue” — which was a crawlspace at “Funtabulon.” I decided to take a crash course in overcoming claustrophobia by lying on my stomach, shimmying sideways and cramming myself into the wedge between the floor and ceiling. Steeping in the penetrating dankness that is Olympia coupled with the utter disdain for deodorant that’s rampant in this town, I was about a Chuck Woolery two-and-two away from freaking out. It was Sutton’s dreamy vocals through an echo pedal running from a four track playing drum loops that calmed my near paranoia. I closed my eyes and let the dubbed-out soul of Olympia’s finest session player help me overcome a useless fear. This week, Le Voyeur invites you to do the same when Sutton returns to debut the new Hornet Leg sound with recent additions Bob Desaulniers and Robert Comitz. — Owen Taylor

[Le Voyeur, with Western Hymn, Mona Reels, 9 p.m., no cover, 404 Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.943.5710]

THE FUCKING EAGLES

Saturday, May 2

Warning: The Fucking Eagles are known by the state of California to cause drunken stupidity in listeners. Warning: Do not listen to the Fucking Eagles while operating a motor vehicle. Your neck will involuntarily do that weird goose thing and you’ll forget you’re driving a Corolla — not that Nova you had in high school. You’ll try to lay a patch at a stop sign, lurching away with a futile squeak to the total embarrassment of your girl. If you’re pregnant or nursing, ask your doctor before listening to the Fucking Eagles. If new hair growth appears, discontinue use immediately. If you experience an erection lasting more than four hours, induce vomiting. (Eight or so beers ought to do it.) — Mark Thomas Deming

[Doyle’s Public House, with Blanco Bronco, 9:30 p.m., no cover, 208 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.7468]

POINT DEFIANCE

Saturday, May 2

Has it really been seven years? Time flies when you’re drunk. Since 2002 Hell’s Kitchen has been like a rock in Tacoma’s music scene — always there for us, through thick and thin, offering up chances to pound PBRs and headbang around that crazy ass pole — not to mention go blissfully deaf to our area’s best rock. Saturday the Kitchen will celebrate seven years of existence with a show sure to send scene stalwarts tripping down memory lane. Point Defiance — who will have a new album out in June — will headline — making it a lot more like 2002 inside the Kitchen on Saturday right there. Reminds me of the time I saw Point D frontman Lamar Stilwell at an IHOP, but that’s probably not important. — MD

[Hell’s Kitchen, 7 Year Anniversary with Point Defiance, the Outfit, At:1, Before Crisis, 9 p.m., $7, 3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]

BORROWED TIME

Monday, May 4

God bless the blues. And god knows there’s nowhere quite as fit for the blues as Lakewood. So, when Bobble Tiki got a call from Neil Fallen the other day telling him that the Monday night blues jam at Maggie O’Toole’s featuring Borrowed Time (a band consisting of Fallen, Doug Skoog, Curtis Smith, Paul Buck and Billy Barner) was in danger of ceasing to be, Bobble Tiki decided to take action. What you are reading is that action. If you at all care about the blues in Lakewood, get off your duff this Monday and check out Borrowed Time doing its thing on the bluesiest day of the week. According to Fallen, if the jam doesn’t pack ’em in over the next two Mondays Maggie’s will move in another direction. — Bobble Tiki

[Maggie O’Toole’s, 8:30 p.m., no cover, 6006 100th St. S.W., Tacoma, 253.584.3278]