Prom Queen is cinematic. The soundtracks and scores of movies are valuable, and can be great, but when we use the word "cinematic" to describe a band, what we're really talking about is the idea of a soundtrack - the music accompanying an impossible film, one that features a dizzying array of romantic overtures, bitter double-crosses, scenic panoramas, carefree comedic set pieces, scenes of deep horror, and the tacit acknowledgement of those grainy shadows and pieces of hair that cling to the projected film.

Prom Queen is that kind of cinematic.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on Prom Queen in the Music & Culture section.

PROM QUEEN, w/ the Dee Dee's, the Plastards, Bullets and Balloons, 8 p.m., Saturday, May 10, Bob's Java Jive, 2102 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, $5, 253.475.9843