Sometimes you’ve just got to go with your gut — whether faced with a decision at the bar, buffet or at work. There’s usually a good reason that little voice inside your head is telling you things — especially things like “burn that house down.” Little whispers like that mean you’re crazy.



This week the tiny voice in my head directed me toward The New Frontier Lounge and a band by the name of Midnight Salvage Co. So I went out on a limb and checked out the 4-month-old dusty, wandering and — even though Mark Thomas Deming is going to think significantly less of me for using this term, dare I say — rocking alt-country posse that’s staking a claim in this town.



Saturday, Midnight Salvage Co., along with A Room Called Remember and Lucky Suns, will plug in at The New Frontier in Tacoma, and the unassuming band’s slow climb toward T-town notoriety will trudge forward, one familiar and lonely, open-road guitar solo at a time.



Guided by the musical stewardship of vocalist and guitarist Brason Alexander and guitarist Bryan Kiehl — longtime friends and co-creative forces responsible for the still-developing picture that is Midnight Salvage Co. — the fledgling act is picking up speed and new ears with gigs like the one at The New Frontier on Saturday. The band also plans to release its first, self-produced and self-released EP May 12.



“Bryan and I have been friends for a long time,” explains Alexander, during a conference call that also included his friend and bandmate. “Like anything, we started playing cover songs, it picked up pace, and we started hashing it out a little.



“Then it was, like, let’s see how far we can take this.”



“We’ve always kind of had that same love for music,” adds Kiehl. “And our differences compliment each other.”



Despite the band’s relative anonymity in these early stages, Kiehl and Alexander both consider Tacoma to be fertile grounds for Midnight Salvage Co.’s eventual roots.



“Everywhere we’ve played the response has been really positive,” says Alexander. “It’s a cool time to be a smaller band in Tacoma.”



[The New Frontier Lounge, Midnight Salvage Co. with, A Room Called Remember, Lucky Suns, Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m., $5, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]