Thur, Oct 29
Heartless Bastards
Powerhouse frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom leads Heartless Bastard back to town in support of the group's fifth album Restless Ones. The new record takes the band's garage rock sound in a slightly new direction thanks to its more polished production, but the music's twangy core with melancholy tones remain the same. Neumos, $18

Fri, Oct 30
Natalie Prass
Bittersweet beauty permeates Natalie Prass's 2015 self-titled debut LP. The singer-songwriter brilliantly balances light, tender timbres with darker  emotions. Expect plenty of these tunes when Prass stops at Neumos, and don't be surprised if she busts out a few from her upcoming EP Side by Side which includes covers of Anita Baker, Simon and Garfunkel, and Grimes. Neumos, $15

Sat, Oct 31
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle: Original Music Inspired by Stephen King's Carrie
Get in the scary spirit of Steven King's classic horror novel Carrie as Buchwick's Book Club Seattle brings the book to life with a Halloween costume party prom. Local songwriters will perform tunes inspired by Carrie with the backing of the band Richie Aldente. Please avoid dumping buckets of blood on your fellow partying patrons. Hale’s Palladium, $15–$20

Sat, Oct 31
Short Run Comix and Arts Festival 2015
Before any Halloween night festivities, spend the day with more than 200 frightfully talented self-published/small press authors and comics creators (many Northwest based) at this year's Short Run Comix and Arts Festival. It's a wonderful spot to discover books that you're not going to find on Amazon or even at most local bookstores. After getting your literary art fix during the day, head over to Hillard's Beer for Short Run's Halloween after-party ($5) that includes silent auctions, food trucks, and live music from Your Heart Breaks and Mommy Long Legs. Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion, Free

Thru Dec 13
Rebel, Rebel
Seattle artist Matthew Offenbacher and his wife Jennifer Nemhauser weren’t the first ones to notice Seattle Art Museum’s collection is severely deficient when it comes to female and queer artist, but they actually did something more than vocally critique it. When Offenbacher won Cornish’s Neddy Art Award in 2013, he and Nemhauser used the accompanying $25,000 in prize to purchase works by local female and queer artists and donate it to SAM’s permanent collection. It became their own conceptual project entitled Deed of Gift, which brings light to the museum’s lack of diversity from the inside. A portion of that donated collection makes up the small exhibit Rebel, Rebel, which pushes against stereotypes and gender norms (rebels, if you will) with its array of feminist works that range in period and medium from 1970s drawings to modern paintings. Seattle Art Museum, $20