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Everlast to rock Jazzbones

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Everlast to rock Jazzbones

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

Friday, Oct. 28: Margaret Cho

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Friday, Oct. 28: Margaret Cho

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

Straight Cho

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Straight Cho

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

Saturday, Aug. 27: The Meat Sluts

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Saturday, Aug. 27: The Meat Sluts

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:

Meet the Meat Sluts

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Meet the Meat Sluts

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

Yes meets Blackalicious

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Yes meets Blackalicious

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

Wednesday, May 4: The Fabulous Wailers Concert for Kent Morrill

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Wednesday, May 4: The Fabulous Wailers Concert for Kent Morrill

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,

Remembering Kent Morrill

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Remembering Kent Morrill

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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