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A cappella music may be easy to scoff at, but when it's performed with extreme expertise it's, well (crap!), still pretty easy to scoff at. Luckily, the Blanks brilliantly combine a cappella music with sketch comedy, and it totally works. Known on TV as "Ted's Band" from the show Scrubs,
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Friday the Pantages Theater hosts the Blind Boys of Alabama and Ralph Stanley, both legendary in their own right - and sure to be a jaw-dropping together. The Blind Boys of Alabama are have won five Grammies and are members of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Stanley has been
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The last time I saw Monotonix at The Brotherhood in Olympia it was off the hook. Hailing from Tel Aviv, Israel, this garage/jungle band puts on one hell of show. The band and their instruments first crowd surfed their way to the pool table, where singer Ami Shalev, in his
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German über-producer Ulrich Schnauss is one of those artists who makes a very deliberate effort to cross-pollinate between genres and - most especially - blur the boundary lines between them. Schnauss' utopic IDM prefigures a world where shoegaze (in the tradition of chord-bending greats like the Jesus and Mary Chain,
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I was talking to a man outside of The New Frontier recently, and he was telling me he likes alternative music and all, but can't really handle all the whining. "Like that annoying chick that sings about her feelings," he said. "Alanis Morissette?" I responded. "That's the one!" Well, drunken,
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What an eclectic bill has been gathered together for Olympia Live! - a benefit show for young breast cancer survivors. You've got a little bit of everything here, from the country-fried rock of Rodeo Kill, to the jazz swing of the Jessica Blinn Quartet, to the warped psychedelia of Glass
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Once, in college, a date took me swing dancing. Having never taken lessons, I spent the entire evening sipping punch and watching other guys wow my date with fancy footwork and practiced twirls. Alone at home after the failed excursion, I vowed to learn how to dance. Of course once the
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A minute into "Finger," the opening track on Melted, the fourth solo record by Ty Segall, an amplifier obliterates the song's initial mellowness with an ungodly squeal, and an enormous wall of distortion swallows everything whole. In headphones, it's a tinnitus-tempting tidal surge - both ears are flooded with riotous
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Here I was, all prepared to write up The Good Lovelies, when lo, it turns out our Agenda calendar editor already did the job. (I'm telling you - I do not say this lightly - their cover of "The Chipmunk Song" is a keeper. I know!) Luckily, there's an equally
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Kerby's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Puyallup Fair & Events Center Puyallup. Gaelic Storm. All Ages. 7 pm. $25-$35. O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 21+. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar
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COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. The Mix Tacoma - Downtown. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 21+. 9 pm. NC. Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Movie Night. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Latitude 84 Tacoma - South. DJ Jacob. Hip-hop, R&B, Top 40, and dance. 21+. 9 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Open Note Shape Singing Group. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Phil Hansen. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Maren Christensen. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. The Whateverly Brothers. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon. Tingstad & Rumbel. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $14-$17. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music Session. Leo MacNamara & guests. 21+. 7
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Charleston Bremerton. Acoustic Night, with Randall Kimball, Sunset Johnson, Blues Bellied Dante, Meliassa. All Ages. 7 pm. Cafe Luna Vashon. Boyd & Wain. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Glenn Johnston. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Tacoma Farmers Market - Broadway Tacoma - Downtown. James Coates. All Ages. 10:30 am. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mad Silence. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm.
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Most men find it difficult to shop for the important women in their lives; women can be picky and fickle. So why not get her something that both of you will really, really enjoy? No, silly, not a widescreen TV - lingerie. She's almost guaranteed to love something she's going
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Do you like drag kings and queens? They've got 'em, hanging low and taped up high. Do you like singing show tunes? Do you like disco? At least once a month there's a theme night so you can shake your groove thing. Do you like to shoot pool? There's a
