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 pop-sensible, hipster-spiritual Drew Grow and Pastors' Wives will be filling the Loft at Urban Grace this time around - more specifically, Friday. Since many of the same faces in charge of the Warehouse's final incarnation are helping get the Urban Grace Loft off the ground as a venue, Grow's return to their artist-first embrace only makes sense.  "All of you Tacomans (That can't be right - it looks like Taco-man) have been really kind to us," Grow wrote to me via email. "The Tacoma music world that we know is a stunning pocket of creative people." He's right about most of it.

Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives

With Big Sur, Valerie Warren
Friday, May 21, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $10
The Loft at Urban Grace, 902 Market St., Tacoma
thewarehousetacoma@gmail.com