As you may or may not have noticed, we've got three lovely features in this week's music section. Yay! The bummer is, all three shows take place tonight. There's even a music Suggests for tonight.

Hear tracks and read the articles after the jump.

First, Trent Moorman, apparently under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic, interviews Ben Verellen of Helms Alee, a soon-to-be huge Seattle psychedilc metal trio that should please even the ears of people who think they don't like metal.

"Epic Adventure Through the Woods"

Sample question:

Do Helms Alee know that there are hidden people living inside a mountain who worship your music?

Yes, we know of them. They're called... alcoholics.

Read it here.

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Next up, there's the world-pop of Olympia's Angelo Spencer, who was raised in the French Alps and has just completed a dizzyingly fun record:

"Tanger, Tanger"

Raised in the French Alps, Angelo Spencer relocated to Seattle sometime in the last decade, settling in Olympia, where he lives with his family and chickens.

"I just built them a new pen!" he says over the phone. "We have three chickens. We used to have seven, but that was way too much, and then a bunch of them were eaten by raccoons." Such domestic concerns seem unexpected from a man so versed in multiple continents' worth of musical traditions.

Read about Spencer here.

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Thirdly, there's the fuck-you-take-drugs garage rock of the Night Beats:

In under 24 hours, the Night Beats went from smashing guitars and toppling the barriers separating the minors from the drinkers at Portland's Wonder Ballroom, to taking MDMA in their hotel room at 5:00 a.m., to eating breakfast at a notorious Portland strip club known as much for its steak as its dancers. Today they're going on a couple hours of sleep, with frizzy hair almost as wild as their eyes, sitting in their friend's tiny Capitol Hill studio drinking warm PBR and listening to Beggars Banquet. It's just another day for the Night Beats. Founded three years ago by the 22-year-old Blackwell, soon after he landed in Seattle from Dallas, the lineup now includes 23-year-old drummer James Traeger, whom Blackwell has known since high school, and 25-year-old bassist Tarek Wegner.

Read all that here.