Oh shit. Yeah, we went and did it. We're previewing Daniel Blue's Valentine's Day show with Kurt Lindsay at Metronome Coffee on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue. That should make for an interesting week of comments online. But, as they say, "No pain, no gain." Blue, as you know, has had a pretty stellar year - watching his band, Motopony, achieve Seattle-darling status while receiving gushes from everywhere from KEXP to NPR in the process. It's been good times, one can only assume. Perhaps the best of times. According to the band's website, Motopony has recently been holed up writing and recording a second album in the mountains of north central Washington. Blue returns to Tacoma for a rare performance on Valentine's Day.

[Metronome Coffee, with Kurt Lindsay, 8 p.m., no cover, all ages, 3518 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.301.2375]