Thursday's "Team Natalie" benefit concert at the Loft on Cherry - featuring Kill Rock Stars alumni Bangs and The Need, with C Average and doom metal solo project Thrones - is bookended by two more shows boasting the same stellar line-up (The Team hits up Portland on July 23, and plays Seattle's Crocodile Café on July 21). Back in April, Bangs' Maggie Vail and friends deejayed a night at Portland hotspot Valentine's, with an eye towards raising more charitable donations. Why all the benevolent gigging? The focus of Vail and Co.'s altruism is former Kill Rock Stars employee Natalie Cox, a prominent figure in the Oly music scene who was diagnosed with angiosarcoma in July of last year. Angiosarcoma is a particularly aggressive and rare form of cancer (approximately 0.1% of all cancer cases in the world are angiosarcomas), which usually starts in the blood vessels and then spreads elsewhere.

Friends, family and musicians have rallied around Cox. Read the full story here.

Team Natalie Benefit Show

With The Need, Bangs, C Average, Thrones,
Thursday, July 22, 5 p.m., all ages, The Loft on Cherry, 508 Legion Way, Olympia, theloftoncherry.com