If Tacoma is known for one thing, it's that we're gritty. If we're known for two things, the second would be our awesomeness when it comes to throwing a benefit for one of our friends or neighbors who is down on their luck/has cancer/was hit by a car/had their band equipment stolen and so on. It seems you can't swing a dead cat in Tacoma without hitting such a benefit. Now, combine those two things and you have NWCZ Radio's Night of Gritness Presents - A Merry Gritness. OK, the title is a bit redundant. That said, maybe NWCZ needed twice the grit in the title considering the confirmed line-up: Big Wheel Stunt Show, Fred Speakman, Gavin Guss, Halcion Halo, Bandolier, Regan Lane, The Harolds, The Gimmer That Stole Christmas and The Reindeer Droppings. Best of all, the money collected will go to the Tacoma Rescue Mission. Donations of food will also be collected. Expect an evening of both holiday and original tunes. Bandolier even promises to play "some awesome Festivus songs." Maybe "O Festivus Pole, O Festivus Pole"?

NWCZ'S NIGHT OF GRITNESS PRESENTS - A MERRY GRITNESS, 8 p.m., The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, $3, nwczradio.com