It's the night before New Year's Eve, and conventional thinking has it that you're going to sit home tonight and go out tomorrow to trip the night fantastic, pop open the Tattinger's, and sing "Auld Lang Syne" in some festive environment as this dreary, war-torn year winds down. But maybe you're not. Maybe you subscribe to the New-Year's-Eve-as-amateur-night theory, or maybe you're (prudently) agoraphobic and wary of the estimated 1.7 million people (many of them suburbanites!) likely to flood Tacoma for "First Night" festivities. Maybe you're the type who is thinking "Hey, let's do something Tuesday" and stay in and cuddle New Year's Eve away from the madding crowds. Tuesday would in fact be a good time to take in Portland blood-jug holler band Sassparilla, complete with washtub bass, cigar-box guitar, washboard and a dude with about 50 different harmonicas in his vest.

SASSPARILLA, 7:30 p.m., all ages, Olympic Club Theater, 112 N. Tower Ave., Centralia, no cover, 360.736.5164