A band like the Paperboys must wait all year for St. Patrick's Day to roll around. The green-spirited Irish holiday is probably the touring band equivalent of what Christmas means for Macy's. Business booms. Thursday, Tom Landa and Co. will do their jig at Doyle's in Tacoma as part of T-Town's penultimate day of hard drinking and hard partying. After wrapping up, the Paperboys will head to Seattle and the Showbox for yet another St. Paddy's Day gig. See them in Tacoma first.

[Doyle's Public House, 6 p.m., no cover, 208 Saint Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.7468]