MUSIC: Kill Rock Stars' Thao With The Get Down Stay Down will rock the Independent tonight at the Treasure Island night show, along with Bare Wires and The She's. (8:30 p.m., The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street)

FILM: SF DocFest presents Adventures in Plymptoons!, a new documentary about perennial SF IndieFest favorite Bill Plympton, following his Portland childhood spent drawing indoors to a self-made independent animator and cartoonist. (9:30 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street)

FILM: The Arab Film Festival presents The Birds of the Nile, in which "[a] country guy discovers the ugly face of Cairo as the city turns him into one of its many victims," a "gripping illustration of how the structure of the Egyptian society has changed with the slow disappearance of the middle class." (8:45 p.m., Embarcadero Cinema, One Embarcadero Center)