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This Blinding Light

Bobble Tiki is a big magic buff. If there’s a top hat and a rabbit involved, chances are Bobble Tiki’s into it. So, this week, when Bobble Tiki heard that This Blinding Light — who will be at The New Frontier Lounge Friday, May 22 — were into magic too, well,

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Twenty years of â€"Today’s Rock”

Where were you the first time you tuned into 89.9 FM KGRG — either by accident or because the kids you were skipping third period with turned you onto it? Bobble Tiki, of course, doesn’t remember, because he’s older than most and has willfully forgotten all memories that don’t involve close

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Tarot and Tea

Nature being arduous enough, Bobble Tiki tends to avoid the supernatural. He has, however, had his brushes with the otherworldly. He called Miss Cleo once, just to find out if the accent was real. And Bobble Tiki swears that every time he has his tarot read the Nine of Swords

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Boy Eats Drum Machine

Boy Eats Drum Machine. Sounds like a nasty, if not danceable, accident, doesn’t it? Well, Bobble Tiki is here to tell you it’s not. Portland’s one-man, beat-based, performance-art inspired Boy Eats Drum Machine — also known as Jon Ragel — will inject the New Frontier Lounge in Tacoma on Saturday with

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Cody Foster’s Army

You can call it by its full name, Cody Foster’s Army, or simply by the letters CFA, but know one thing: this band crushes. In CFA’s relatively short lifespan as a metal entity, Bobble Tiki has come to know and — more importantly — much respect the thunderous licks of

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The jam goes on

Maybe it’s just Bobble Tiki, and that’s just fine — but does it seem to anyone else like Ian McFeron, despite his youthful looks and, in fact, youthful age, has been around for freakin’ ever? In Bobble Tiki’s head, at least, it feels like McFeron has been bringing his easy,

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Gray Sky Blues Music Festival

Has there ever been a more appropriately titled music festival than the one set to engulf downtown Tacoma this Saturday, April 4? The festival Bobble Tiki speaks of, of course, is the Gray Sky Blues Music Festival, which kicks off directly after this weekend’s Tacoma Daffodil Grand Floral Parade and will

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Voodoo Organist

Bobble Tiki feels like he really “gets” the Voodoo Organist, you know? He feels like they’re soul brothers, of some sort — not in an afro shag carpet sense, but like they were meant to hang together — to kick it. Bobble Tiki always feels the draw of sin when

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Mustache rock

There are too many genres. Emo, screamo, twee pop and crunk. Who really knows what any of these classifications mean anymore? Bobble Tiki certainly doesn’t. Awash in brands, genres these days mean next to nothing. Mustache rock, however, now there’s a musical classification Bobble Tiki can get behind — all prickly

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Tag team

Bobble Tiki has just one simple message for Girl Trouble (whose 25 year anniversary show you can read about on page 13 in this fine rag): Halfway there. Yes, Bobble Tiki isn’t the type to be standoffish or pick a fight — especially with four old school Tacoma punks that are cooler

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