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Saturday, Jan. 31: Rogues Gallery

Bob's Java Jive

Rogues Gallery

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If you can say one thing about Rogues Gallery (formerly Jipsea Party), it's that they're clearly devoted to the mad energy of their spectacle. Their gypsy punk is a familiar enough style, but they infuse it with a fervency and a momentum that raises them above some of their other drunken Eastern European devotees. Everything written about them brings up the word "stomp," which is rather fitting - Rogues Gallery rarely stop moving, charging forward like a crazed mob devoted to wringing every ounce of sweat from the churning bodies of their audience. This is down and dirty stuff, every vaudevillian affectation grotesque and thrilling in equal measure. After everything is said and done, it becomes clear that Rogues Gallery are a very aptly named troupe of scoundrels, indeed.

ROGUES GALLERY, w/ the Wages of Sin, the Bog Hoppers, Micah Subar, 8 p.m., Bob's Java Jive, 2102 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, $5, 253.475.9843

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