Live & CD Reviews
There's nothing easy about the Sasquatch! Music Festival. They make you work for it. First and foremost - don't believe anyone that tells you different; the Gorge is in The Middle of Fucking Nowhere. The view is spectacular, of course - and there's really nothing in the world like
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Mothers and fathers of America - these are your children. They come from comfortable suburban cul-de-sacs, liberal arts schools and YouTube - Day-Glo hippies with short attention spans and a thing for Miike Snow. They wear fake neon Raybans, side ponytails and face paint - like the entire
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Say you're in Oly Sunday and you don't feel like getting your head bashed in by Isis. Fair enough. Fortunately for you, San Francisco's Citay will also be in town, taking every de-tuned guitar bludgeoning that may be offered up a few blocks away at the Capitol Theater, and returning
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You probably know the drill. You may even be sharing in the contemporary-indie ritual with me Saturday morning; packing up functional, concert-tested clothing, saying a little prayer that your piece-of-crap car will make it over the pass one more time, and figuring out which nook of your backpack or crotch
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As we've mentioned ad nauseam, May is Bike Month - also hyped insufferably by Pierce Transit, Pierce County and the city of Tacoma. More specifically, May 17-21 (or this week) has been the Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge where teams and individuals have competed to see who can ride
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Yeah, more Bike Month stuff. Saturday The Grand Cinema will host a free screening of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, described in promotional materials as "a fun family film about bikes!" The - once again FREE - event starts at 10:30 a.m. and, well, will be a "fun family film about
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Talk about a friend of Tacoma - Drew Grow, and even his Pastors' Wives, feel like long-lost soul mates of Grit City. Originally won over by the warmth of the arts-slash-music scene emanating from The Warehouse (R.I.P.), and intrigued enough to come back even after the DIY venue's demise, the
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Like most great things in this town, I was led to Basemint by the tongue of another. A friend, or perhaps a regular barista, or maybe just that guy that always mumbles to himself on the bus, told me Basemint was a band to see: kind of a Warhol-y,
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Get this: To Basemint, or at this point half of Basemint, Tacoma is the green grass on the other side of the fence. That's right. Originally, all four members of the "garage rockin' surfy thang" known as Basemint came from ... wait for it ... wait for it ... wait for
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Nashvile Pussy is a band built on only a handful of elements, the most predominant ones being whiskey, sweat, sex and fire. The band, by design, is your oily, stoned, horny, high school brother's favorite rock band. Believe it or not, it's a brilliant premise. Read the full story here. <h3>Nashville Pussy</h3> Parental Advisory
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Brandon Laws of Hosannas is "totally sick of the name change questions" - in the friendliest possible way - so let's not really go there. Sure, Portland's Hosannas was known as Church until some dick-ass Australian band from the '80s, The Church, threatened to sue. Then the band became Ape
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The annual Safe Streets Tacoma graffiti cover-up will be the place to be Saturday. Known as "Operation Graffiti Cover-Up" - because, let's be honest, things sound badass when "operation" gets thrown in front - the festivities will start with a 9 a.m. community rally at the South End Neighborhood Center,
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May is "Bike Month," in case you hadn't heard. This means the City of Tacoma, Pierce Transit and Pierce County are pushing two-wheeled, pedal-powered transportation throughout May. Specifically, Monday, May 17 through Friday, May 21 is Bike to Work Week, wherein teams and individuals throughout Pierce County will be competing
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I want to be clear. I would never endorse judging a person by their ringtone or answer tone. For those who've never had the pleasure, an answer tone is just like a ringtone, only the person calling hears it instead of the customary dialing noise. I've seen a lot of
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72 hours is not a long time. The teams competing in this year's Grand Cinema 72 Hour Film Festival - a yearly Tacoma institution - know this all too well. Last weekend, frenzied packs of Tacoma filmmakers dashed around T-town, hurriedly capturing on film all the entries that will
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It's sometime around the second magic trick, as the small, 60-year-old man with the mustache and belt buckle makes one of his own ragged business cards disappear, when any lingering anxiety I'm harboring subsides. This is not going to be a fight, of any sort, even if The Evergreen
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If Tyler Fortier is one thing, it's an up-and-coming, present-tense folk rocker - in a complimentary sense of the notion - based out of lush (read: stony) Eugene, Ore. If Fortier is two things, it's all of the above and a damn entertaining blogger. I know, I know - blogging
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If Tyler Fortier is one thing, it's an up-and-coming, present-tense folk rocker - in a complimentary sense of the notion - based out of lush (read: stony) Eugene, Ore. If Fortier is two things, it's all of the above and a damn entertaining blogger. I know, I
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Do you wanna be rich? Do you wanna be a superstar? Yeah, we'll so did fucking Sweet Water - and they seem to have grown up. The least you could do is move out of your mom's godforsaken basement. It really chaps her hide to have you down there playing
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Noise and effects. Noise and effects. Phil Elverum - as The Microphones, or Mount Eerie, or just about any other name in the book, I'd presume - is all about noise and effects. It's lo-fi, and repetitive, and uber-artistic, and the kind of thing that's about as far from the
