It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling...

Bobble Tiki's not certain, but he suspects Hell has officially frozen over. Or, at the very least, there's frost at Glen Frey's house. You see, this week Bobble Tiki's employer, the Weekly Volcano, has finally given into the absurdist jock ranting and raving of one Matt Driscoll. The paper is launching a sports column, or so Bobble Tiki received word through office memo, and any good Michael Phelps joke or illicit text message believed to have come from any one of the Huard brothers is to immediately be forwarded to the shiny, new Weekly Volcano sports desk. Naturally, Driscoll will be in charge of the operation.

What does this mean for your average Volcano reader? Probably not much, other than - when the column inevitably grows too big for its britches and starts showing up in the actual paper - you'll have one more filler page to thumb through on your way to Amy Alkon's elitist advice column (Bobble Tiki's just upset because Amy will never answer Bobble Tiki's letter about the strange feelings he gets while showering at the YMCA).

Anyway, now the Volcano has a sports column dedicated to lowbrow humor and melding the words of athletics and alt. We'll see how it goes. Bobble Tiki will just keep on keeping on, which means sneaking cocktails at lunch, and offering up tasty news and notes from the world of South Sound local music.

Speaking of tasty, few things were as tasty (and by "tasty" Bobble Tiki means outrageously cocksure and cookie-cutter hair metal rock star stance prone) as former Atomic Outlaws frontman Zak Eastyn. Eastyn, as Bobble Tiki fondly recalls, was kind of the king of innuendo ridden between song banter with the crowd. This worked, because chicks at Atomic Outlaw shows are really into that sort of thing. Lots of the time it even inspired them to flash their boobs. Plus, Atomic Outlaws' musical sound - paced by super charged guitar riffs and unbridled who-gives-a-fuck-let's-party vibrato - supports such penis-led swagger.

As old school (or, at least moderately old school) Tacoma local music fans will recall, Eastyn wasn't the first pretty face to front the Atomic Outlaws. Rather, that fine distinction is awarded to Timmy Vegas, quite possibly the most bad-ass looking dude Bobble Tiki has ever seen don eye shadow, a voice and presence plenty of even older Tacoma local music fans will recognize from the mid-‘90s band Fantastic Four, and the current force behind Bone Flower. 

Indeed, Atomic Outlaws is a band that's seen many frontmen. We haven't even mentioned the brief Rod Black era, sandwiched between Eastyn and Vegas (that's hot).

This Friday at Hell's Kitchen Atomic Outlaws once again welcome a new voice to the fold, in the form of Calvin Muma.

Who is Calvin Muma, one might be tempted to ask?

Well, Bobble Tiki's not going to sit here and pretend like he knew this based on name alone, but after a few calls to Bobble Tiki's sources (read: a coffee cup full of boxed wine and a Google search) Bobble Tiki has learned Muma is likely the PERFECT fit for the gig. He's also known for his role as singer of the Seattle band Temperedcast (or at the very least shares a name, likeness and fondness for wife beater style T-shirts with said singer of Temperedcast).

If you asked who is Calvin Muma, chances are you're also interested to know why Bobble Tiki considers him perfect for the job.

The reasons are twofold.

Number one: If Bobble Tiki was a big-hair metal, butt-rock type of chick, he'd totally fantasize about a guy with the looks of Muma doin' him all hardcore on the hood of a Trans-Am.

Number two: Dude can wail. If god specifically builds guys to front metal bands that pay heavy homage to the ‘80s and all the musical and entertainment excesses that came with them, Calvin Muma is an example.

Also, judging by Bobble Tiki's aforementioned half-ass internet research, he's pumped to have the job.

"I use to day dream about being in this band. It's a little bit surreal," writes Muma on the Atomic Outlaws' Facebook page. "I can't wait to play this shit live. I've got a lot of aggression to let out a life time of pent up anger and emotion. Putting me with these guys it's like throwing fuel on fire."

Tacoma, Friday is your chance to see the new and improved Atomic Outlaws, now with 100 percent more Muma. If you loved this band in the past, chances are they'll still blow your skirt up.

See you next week.