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Contributing to the essential opening night of the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival will be Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. The Portland band is fronted by Sallie Ford, a native of Asheville, N.C. Her music comes from a veneration of old-time blues, ragtime and roots music.
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Tacoma is a city that exists in an almost constant state of flux. It's a choose-your-own-adventure that unfortunately requires the participation of a bunch of people who can be, at times, too prideful. Because we are in that gray area of being not quite a big city, but much bigger
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Vacancy David and Amy (Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale), a couple awaiting their final divorce papers, check into a deserted roadside motel against their better judgment. Creepy manager Mason (Frank Whaley) sets them up in the “honeymoon suite,” complete with a TV set that plays snuff films featuring masked men torturing
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on sale now Groundation Olympia. April 27 7 pm (all ages) and 11 pm (21+). $10, $15 booth (The Vault, www.buyolympia.com). The Presidents of the United States of America Parkland/Tacoma. May 4 8 pm. $20-$25 (Olson Gym, Pacific Lutheran University, TW). Hiromi Seattle. May 8-9 7:30 pm. $20.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). Lifesavas, Strange Fruit
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Have I ever met someone of the goth persuasion? Sure. Could I pick a goth kid out of a lineup? Probably. Do I know what a goth actually is? No fucking clue. Goth is one of these frustratingly murky terms that worms its way into the zeitgeist, but after years of existing
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Engine House No. 9 Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Billy Farmer. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Makedonians. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Phil Hansen. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. The Brass Menazeri, Mark Growden, Seth Augustus. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill
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Though they never claim to be a goth band, C'est La Mort have been featured in a book about the subject, Music to Die For. Rather, C'est La Mort make a kind of music that is beholden to the ‘80s and ‘90s underground - incorporating elements of the dark pop and
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Have you ever seen Beach Blanket Bingo? It's this crazy early '60s beach party movie that features, among other ridiculous things, three actors who should have logically never shared a screen together: Buster Keaton, Don Rickles and Paul Lynde. Keaton is the biggest surprise, given he actually speaks in the
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Listen up, Tacoma. The death of electronica in the South Sound has been greatly exaggerated. Come get smacked upside the head with evidence of its vibrancy on Friday, April 20, when Ocean Grooves celebrates its Eighth Anniversary at the Swiss. Headlining will be native DJ-gone-global Donald Glaude, DJ dAb and
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AU is a band shrinking in the aftermath - having recently been hotly engorged. Ballooning from a solo bedroom pop act to a remarkable 20 members, the band became an experimental chamber pop collection that utilized every hand and voice in creating thickly orchestrated arrangements. As of their 2008 recording,
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Remember all those times you've taken cross-country road trips, discovered hidden truths about yourself, and - ultimately - come of age? Sure you do. You laid down in the back seat, feet hanging out the window, millions of miles of road ahead and behind you. Do you remember what was
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AU is a band shrinking in the aftermath of having recently been hotly engorged. Ballooning from a solo bedroom pop act to a remarkable 20 members, it became an experimental chamber pop collection that utilized every hand and voice in creating thickly orchestrated arrangements. These days, due mostly to the complications
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Does it make me kind of a prig if I need lyrics in my songs? I mean, I can understand, intellectually, that a song usually has no more or less meaning as a result of the words it contains, but come on. Give me the illusion of a story. Maybe
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Holy Komodo and the Feelings pull off the impressive trick of feeling intrinsically Northwest while at the same time appealingly worldly. Their embrace of some of garage rock's tropes is cozy, while their subtle incorporation of things like Latin rhythms or zydeco flavor expands the music into something far more
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Is it possible to create party music that doesn't inspire the urge to dance? How about party music that makes you long to stand in a stairwell, clutching a red keg cup and making awkward passes at that girl you see around sometimes? Or what about music to be hastily
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To intentionally misspell a word makes me very uncomfortable. For a band to utilize a misspelled word is, to me, almost as bad as creating an unpronounceable name (!!!, for example). So, it's with a slight cringe that I write to you regarding Makeing Tents. And just now, Microsoft Word
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As popular music moves into the future and becomes drenched in drones, break beats, intrusive synthesizers and various other ephemera, there will always be a contingent of musicians who will push to bring it back to its roots - or closer to them, at any rate. The Marrying Type, Canon
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Borders Books, Music & Cafe Puyallup. Tweens’ Manga Book Club, the third Saturday of each month 2 pm. Children’s story time, every Wed and Sat 11 am (3829 S. Meridian, 253.845.8751). Children's Museum of Tacoma Downtown Tacoma. Wee One’s Weekly 1-2:30 Mon, 9:30-11 am Tues-Wed. Soar Into Story: The Adventures of
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DANCE Dance Theatre Northwest University Place. Celebrate Summer Art Series, May 30 6 pm, free (Bridgeport Place, 5250 Bridgeport Way W, 253.565.5149). THEATER Capital Playhouse Olympia. Sondheim's A Little Night Music featuring Jeff Kingsbury and Jenny May Donnell, through May 30 7:30 pm Wed-Sat, 2
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The I's are Portland glam-garage by way of Austin punk, and when they land in Olympia they'll be playing bluesy folk-rock, informed though it may be by a good chunk of musical history. Read the full story here. <h3>The I's</h3> Friday, may 14, 10 p.m., no coverLe Voyeur, 404 Fourth Ave. E.,
