May as well get this out of the way right now: TBASA is not an acronym. Rather, it's a sort of convenient mashup of one guy's name. Tim Basaraba is a restlessly inventive singer-songwriter, beginning his musical life in Idaho as a punk singer, and subtly merging into a genre-hopping weirdo.

TBASA releases an album once a year, and these albums vary wildly in style, from acoustic singalong to psychedelic excursion to noodling alt-rock. His most recent effort, Don't Say Sucks, is a dance album, for lack of a better word. Including at least one explicit dedication to Mile Cyrus, the album is a slippery dancefloor curiosity, full of full-bodied club-banger beats and offbeat ideas.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's interview with Tim Basaraba in the Music & Culture section.

TBASA, w/ Death By Stars, Elbow Coulee, French Letters, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 1, Bob's Java Jive, 2102 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, $5, 253.475.9843