Weekly Volcano music columnist who swills forbidden cocktails while injecting dangerous, sweaty, catchy, alcohol- drenched, cigarette- smoke-smelling, hard-volume rock 'n' roll plasma into his veins.
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Bodies colliding at high speeds. Bruises, bumps, and (occasionally) broken bones. While the above description may evoke thoughts of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Bobble Tiki is actually waxing roller derby - and specifically Dockyard Derby Dames' season 7, bout 2 Saturday at the Pierce College Health Ed
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Aloha, Bobble Tiki is experiencing one of those weeks in which the only thing he can do is sigh heavily, throw up his wooden hands, and exclaim, "Thelma Houston, Bobble Tiki has a problem!" At the start of the workweek, Bobble Tiki arrived at his desk all bright-eyed and bushy-browed, only
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Derde Verde continues the grand journey set forth by bands such as Radiohead and Hawkwind. The LA-based band's new EP, Let Me Be A Light, glows with the organic warmth of the band's indie-electronica, while possessing the mechanical propulsion of Krautrock bands like Neu!. If those names don't pique your
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Aloha, No day is more linked to a color than St. Patrick's Day is with green. Green shamrocks, green beer, green urine, green vomit, you name it. Bobble Tiki's not sure if St. Patrick was green, but he was an Irish saint credited with driving snakes off the Emerald Isle, most
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Drum 'n' bass currently enjoys not nearly as much of the fawning media attention lavished on it in the mid-'90s, when magazines anointed Roni Size and Goldie the kings of rapid-fire jungle. It's been a while since Bobble Tiki heard the treadmill churn of jackknifing beats and bass riffs. Good news.
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British prog-rockers Wishbone Ash's harmony-laden dual-guitar attack predated Thin Lizzy, the group often credited with inventing it. Of course, Wishbone Ash also perfected the slow beginning/fast ending rock anthem. Only guitarist Andy Powell remains from the group's '70s heyday, but despite an ungodly number of
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For those looking for blues in our area need look no further than Friday's show at Jazzbones, when Portland-based Curtis Salgado takes the stage. As far as Northwest blues legends go, they don't get much bigger than Salgado, who served as the inspiration for John Belushi's creation of the Blues
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In the helter-skelter of the modern world, sometimes Bobble Tiki needs nothing so much as the chance to retire inside, close the bamboo shutters and take a break. But Bobble Tiki is the nervous sort, cursed with the inability to just sit and daydream. For some reason, and in less than
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Aloha, Bobble Tiki is pleased to report that he now has email again. Let's all thank the Eastern European goat herders who handle his tech issues for getting right on this 36-hour-old problem. You'd think Bobble Tiki was trying to rebalance the Murray Morgan Bridge with the amount of fussing this
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Hell's Belles returns to Jazzbones Saturday, where last November they blasted Bobble Tiki's eardrums and raised the Jazzbones' temperature to hell-like heat with its all-female brand of chugging, riffing rock. The all-female AC/DC tribute band gets 'em in the door, but guitarist Adrian Connor (Angus incarnate with more energy!) and
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Kurt Lindsay blew away the crowd at the Jeff Buckley Tribute Night several weeks ago. The BODYBOX frontman's voice, like Buckley's, is simultaneously full of bravado and wounded timidity. BODYBOX - a three-piece rock band from T-town made up of singer and guitarist Lindsay, drummer Belal Anwar and bassist Nick
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Organized in large part by China Davis' Ben Fuller the 253Heart Music Festival, which includes multiple events and will benefit the Emergency Food Network, is yet another outgrowth of the Music Giving Back organization, a local enterprise that's been busting out the musician driven benefits since 2009, and which Fuller
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(THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO DAWN.) Wake up, little starlet! You can endure the four-hour show by exchanging snarky comments with your fellow film enthusiasts in a movie theater environment. The Grand Cinema hosts an Academy Awards Party Sunday, Feb. 26 at the Theatre on the Square in
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The ‘70s may always be remembered best for bands like Journey, Foghat and the Bee Gees, but the Spinners are one of the few bands that unfairly slipped through the cracks. Bobble Tiki, for one, is glad that more than 35 years later, as he dances before the Spinners Saturday
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Have you ever seen the look on someone's face the first time he rides a roller coaster? It's a mixture of abject fear, exhilaration and satisfaction. This same convoluted look might grace your mug standing in front of Devil On a Leash Friday night at Hell's Kitchen. Bobble
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While Bobble Tiki was bathing in early '90s Northwest flannel, four great Americana alt-country acts in Whiskeytown, BR5-49, Wilco, and the last stages of Uncle Tupelo were busy inventing a genre. While many of the pioneers are pushing alt-country/ Americana into vital new (usually ambient or experimental) territory, it's nice
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Warning: this week Bobble TIki is not writing about a musical "show," per se. In fact, he's not even really sure what "per se" means. Rather, he's writing about an event - a musical event, yes - but not your standard three bands on a bill and a couple (too
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Honestly, Bobble Tiki feels like he's been getting promotional messages about Tin Man's CD release show for Somewhere in the Middle since 1987. That can't be, of course. Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish created Tin Man after years spent in punk bands, not to mention years then spent away from
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Honestly, Bobble Tiki feels like he's been getting promotional messages about and Facebook invites for Tin Man's CD release show for Somewhere in the Middle since 1987. That can't be, of course. Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish created Tin Man after years spent in punk bands, not to mention years
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Bobble Tiki isn't above sloppy seconds. He never has been. While you take a moment to digest all the implications of that statement (and Bobble Tiki means ALL the implications, even the really icky ones from Bobble Tiki's frat days), Bobble Tiki would like to clear his throat, shift uncomfortably