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Ernest A. Jasmin on August 24th, 2012
Get ready to swig pints and "jump around," people!
Everyone's favorite hip-hop hooligan turned bluesy troubadour, Everlast, will headline Jazzbones Saturday night, the latest old-school M.C. to visit the venue that's brought Tacoma Tone Loc, Coolio and KRS-One in recent years.
But how rowdy and how old school will Everlast get this
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Ernest A. Jasmin on October 26th, 2011
As the cliché goes, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." And such is the case with Margaret Cho, who somehow parlayed the poignant failures of her early career - namely, the cancellation of '90s sitcom All American Girl, a gig that, literally, almost killed
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Ernest A. Jasmin on October 26th, 2011
As the cliché goes, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." And such is the case with Margaret Cho, who somehow parlayed the poignant failures of her early career - namely, the cancellation of '90s sitcom All American Girl, a gig that, literally, almost killed her - into
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Ernest A. Jasmin on August 24th, 2011
Let's start with a truism. Bacon and gettin' it on are two of the best things ever invented. There shall be no more debate on this matter. So thank Zeus one band had the vision to combine a passion for both all-American pastimes into one undeniably awesome concept:
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Ernest A. Jasmin on August 24th, 2011
Let's start with a truism. Bacon and gettin' it on are two of the best things ever invented. There shall be no more debate on this matter.
So thank Zeus one band had the vision to combine a passion for both all-American pastimes into one undeniably awesome concept: The Meat Sluts.
The
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Ernest A. Jasmin on July 14th, 2011
Revengers were on a roll before things nearly fell apart. In 2009, the band dropped Scraps on the Badlands, an ambitious and often downright lush sci-fi concept record that swept aside conventional notions of what rap-rock could be.
Thus armed, the Revengers crew went about rocking local music joints with the
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Ernest A. Jasmin on April 27th, 2011
Sadly, he'll wail no more.
Wailer No. 1, Kent Morrill, lead singer and keyboard player for seminal Tacoma garage-rock band the Fabulous Wailers, died on April 15 after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 70.
"We thought he was gonna pull out of it. We really did," says Buck Ormsby,
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Ernest A. Jasmin on April 27th, 2011
Sadly, he'll wail no more.
Wailer No. 1, Kent Morrill, lead singer and keyboard player for seminal Tacoma garage-rock band the Fabulous Wailers, died on April 15 after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 70.
"We thought he was gonna pull out of it. We really did," says Buck Ormsby,
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Ernest A. Jasmin on June 28th, 2012
Tacoma's loudest rock club will go silent after this weekend.
On Tuesday, Hell's Kitchen owners announced they are closing the downtown nightclub - a pillar of the local hard rock scene for a decade - after Saturday night's show.
June was the rock venue's best month all year, according to booking agent
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Ernest A. Jasmin on March 5th, 2012
TACOMA COMES OUT FOR VICCI, RALLIES FOR REED RILEY >>>
Tacoma's Vicci Martinez became a household name last year as she competed on NBC-TV's The Voice. She spent the next several months in Los Angeles prepping material for Vicci, her debut for Universal Republic (due in June). Along the way she
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Ernest A. Jasmin on December 20th, 2011
A NIGHT OF HITS >>>
His name is Prince, and he's still funky.
Sure, His Purpleness has a bionic hip these days. (Hey, you try doing splits in high heels for three decades.) But the spritely, 53-year-old rocker still looked svelte, suave and more like 35 Monday night as he
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 30th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE AT GEORGE >>>
The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse may have been the biggest deals on the main stage Sunday at Sasquatch. But over at the Yeti Stage it was all about the hipster-hop, starting with rowdy Seattle crew Mad Rad, whose backing band included Mt. St.
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 30th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE IN GEORGE >>>
Most bands wait until the end to go to the giant balloons and confetti. But not psych-punkers the Flaming Lips, who flipped the script and made a big entrance on the main stage Sunday night at the Sasquatch Music Festival. Wayne Coyne and Co.
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 30th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE AT GEORGE >>>
Old-school Texas rock n' soul outfit Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears took the party vibe at Sasquatch Festival's Yeti Stage to the next level on Sunday. Last time I caught the band, at Bumbershoot, one of the Honeybears rocked a Sonics t-shirt (as
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 30th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE AT GEORGE >>>
The New York Times blurb on the back of the Antlers' CD Burst Apart that I bought at the Easy Street Records booth at Sasquatch Festival yesterday calls the Brooklyn-based band's music "measured and majestic." That sounds about right. Their music is trippy and
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 30th, 2011
A GOOD ‘FRO AND THEN SOME >>>
Some of you will recognize Reggie Watts as the frontman for defunct Seattle rock n' soul outfit Maktub. And for having the most awesome fro in Northwest history. But these days Watts resides in Brooklyn, and he's tearing it up on the comedy circuit,
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 29th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE >>>
I headed over to the Banana Shack for Sleigh Bells, easily the band I was most looking forward to at this year's Sasquatch festival.
The Brooklyn duo - singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist/beat programmer Derek Miller - also went on late. Not that fans seemed to mind
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Ernest A. Jasmin on May 29th, 2011
LIVE FROM THE GORGE >>>
So enough about the Canadians at Sasquatch. There were some serious, non-Canuck-related decisions to make by the time day two of the Gorge Amphitheatre's four-day kickoff festival came to a close, like how to catch three must-see acts - Robyn, Sleigh Bells and Death Cab for
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