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Saturday is going to be a big day for Seattle music institutions in Tacoma. At Hell's Kitchen will be recently reunited alt-rock favorites, Satchel. Just a few blocks away at The Space will be Rusty Willoughby and Rachel Flotard's new project, Cobirds Unite. Blocks away, sharing space in Pacific Northwest music
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Saturday is going to be a big day for Seattle music institutions in Tacoma. At Hell's Kitchen will be recently reunited alt-rock favorites, Satchel. Just a few blocks away at The Space will be Rusty Willoughby and Rachel Flotard's new project, Cobirds Unite. Blocks away, sharing space in Pacific Northwest music
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Slushy, featuring Shayne Weeks of the once-again-on-hiatus Makeup Monsters, shares similar sensibilities with the latter. But the light touch that both bands share is given a slightly harder edge with Slushy, as heavier riffs and distortion are layered over that bratty pop-punk. The sound feels somehow fuller - even though
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In a somewhat counter-intuitive way, collaborating with another artist is a bold act of confidence. One might think relinquishing some control to another person is a way of hedging bets, but it's quite the opposite. To collaborate is to say, "I am sure enough of my voice and my ability
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In a somewhat counter-intuitive way, collaborating with another artist is a bold act of confidence. One might think relinquishing some control to another person is a way of hedging bets, but it's quite the opposite. To collaborate is to say, "I am sure enough of my voice and my ability
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On Thursday, April 21, 30 teams assembled at The Grand Cinema to receive this year's 72-Hour Film Competition requirements - elements that need to be included in every film. In each submitted work, someone must say, "What are you going to do about it?"; somewhere, there must be an egg;
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Until last year, I had competed in every Tacoma 72-Hour Film Competition since the competition's meager beginnings with 11 teams in 2005. I watched it grow over the years, and become more and more of a "thing" - until my shameful outing in 2010 when I failed to complete my
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Tacoma has a problem developing bands like SEACATS. It seems like if you want power pop you have to leave Tacoma, and probably even pass by Seattle. You have to hit Kelso. Or Bellingham. Or one of many other Washington towns that's unselfconscious enough to nurture a Weezer-esque pop rock
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On the scale of two-wheeled assaults, Kyle Hill of the bands Goldie Wilson and Bandolier came out about as unscathed as one could hope for in a scooter accident. He broke his arm, trashed his scooter and skidded through one of the two layers of jeans he was wearing, But
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The Celestials are a moody bunch of post-punkers. They bounce back and forth between Billy Corgan-esque screeds, shoegaze blurriness and spacey ruminations - but that hang-dog moodiness is ever-present. When the sun peaks out from behind the clouds, as on "Sprout Up Branch Out," the reprieve it provides feels sunnier
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If you watch network television, no doubt you've been bombarded with advertisements for NBC's new singing competition, The Voice. Unlike other, more tired singing shows, The Voice puts a paramount on, appropriately enough, the voice. Four judges (or coaches, as The Voice calls them) sit in chairs facing away from
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"The road was uneven," says Kyle Hill. "It was eight in the morning and I was on my way to work. It was raining, and I was going southbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Seattle. There was a seam in the road that I tried to cross on
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Baby Gramps looks just like he sounds. His appearance is a more or less spot-on indication of the noises that soon follow when he picks up an old gee-tar and starts a-singing. A long, scraggly white beard, some spectacles, a low-brimmed hat, and when he opens his mouth, the strangest
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Being that Louie G's Pizzeria opened a mere four years ago, in 2007, it could be said that it's still finding itself as a restaurant. What seems abundantly clear, however, is that the space is certainly still finding itself as our newest all-ages music venue. Having recently moved up the
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Seeing as Louie G's Pizzeria opened a mere four years ago, in 2007, it could be said that it's still finding itself as a restaurant. What seems abundantly clear, however, is that the space is certainly still finding itself as our newest all-ages music venue. Having recently moved up the
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The cover photo of Seapony's Dreaming single depicts sunshine pouring through a line of evergreen trees - rays of sun so intensely radiant that the picture is overtaken by lens flares. It's a potent distillation of the Seapony ethos, and the ethos of bands like them, this idea of a
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The cover photo of Seapony's Dreaming single depicts sunshine pouring through a line of evergreen trees - rays of sun so intensely radiant the picture is overtaken by lens flares. It's a potent distillation of the Seapony ethos, and the ethos of bands like them, this idea of a never-ending
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Luzelena Mendoza, of Portland's Y La Bamba, seems to mostly split her time between evoking cracked and worn '30s lullabies and embracing the freak folk scene inhabited by the likes of Devendra Banhart. It's a fairly beguiling mix, and a bold one at that. If there were a chink anywhere
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One wouldn't need to know the names of some of Hightower's songs - like "Wizardhawk," "A Minute in the Hour of Man" and "The Party's at Lightning Rock, Bro!" - to get a whiff of that most distinct combo of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Mountain Dew and weed. Hightower's
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The indie music landscape has shifted quite a bit since Minus the Bear formed in 2001. "Indie rock," as a label, is murkier than ever with the dozens of subgenres and mashups that have sprung up from cracks in the cement like so many gangly dandelions. Chillwave, shit-fi, ghostly R&B,