OK, look: Here's what happened. As I do every week, I sought out the biggest and most exciting show happening between Thursdays. When I saw the flyer for a Hell's Kitchen show featuring a rare appearance by veteran Tacoma band Post Stardom Depression, I knew immediately that was my show. Also on the bill would be Glimpse, taking part in their last performance. Yahtzee.

Glimpse, it turns out, are a tough band to track down. The week wore on, my deadline inching perilously close, and I said, "Hey, if an interview with Jeff Angell of Post Stardom Depression is all I get, that's fine by me."

Not fine, as it turns out. When talking on the phone with Angell, the conversation quickly turned to his new band, the Missionary Position, which I was happy to talk with him about. Satisfied with my interview, I was readying to write this here column when Angell gave me a panicked call back.

Turns out, he said, that he thought we were talking about the Missionary Position's Nov. 4 show at Hell's Kitchen. In fact, he had no idea Post Stardom Depression was supposed to be playing at Hell's Kitchen on Saturday. He had not agreed to play.

Oops.

Well, as it happens, I am now in the possession of an interview with Jeff Angell about the Missionary Position. That is what this article will be about. I would still urge fans of Glimpse to not miss their show on Saturday. Though I don't know the details of the band's last show, it goes without saying you should catch them before they're gone.

As was chronicled here in the Volcano, Post Stardom Depression had a particularly tumultuous brush with fame, and in 2008 sort of unofficially called it quits.

"We've just been coming back to play some shows here and there," says Angell. "I don't know if we ever really broke up or we ever really reformed. There was never a ‘we're done' kind of conversation. It just kind of slowed down to a halt."

Angell's concentration lately has been on his new band.

"We're making up some new ground with the Missionary Position," says Angell. "We got a couple offers from a couple labels. I'm not sure if that's what we want to do. The Independent Film Channel licensed some of our songs to use for their promos. We did 154 shows last year and sold out of our first pressing of our record and now we're on our second pressing. ... We're staying pretty busy."

With the Missionary Position getting some early recognition, Angell says that he needs to be wary of how to proceed with dealing with the music business.

"This band is the first time I've been without a label," says Angell. "It's up to us to make the strides ourselves, and some of that's by choice. ... It used to be that the record companies had distribution and radio, and now I don't know if anyone even listens to the radio, and distribution - everyone can have it. So, is the label even necessary?

"I'm making the call myself, you know, booking the tours ourselves. We don't have an agent, we don't have management, and we're having the most success I've ever had touring and getting on the radio, and that has all been from hitting the pavement myself, so I know it's getting done. I wish I could share that information with my younger self."

As for the music, the Missionary Position is similarly based in the classic alternative rock sound that Post Stardom Depression had. The exception, this time, says Angell, is that the Missionary Position "has a little more versatility."

"In Post Stardom Depression," says Angell, "you got two dudes downpicking the rock chords with a kickass drummer, and in this band you got guitar, piano and horns, so the palette's a little bit bigger."

Here we have the blossoming of a new band, and the burning out of an old band. Make it out on Saturday for Glimpse's farewell, and mark your calendars for the Missionary Position on Nov. 4th and cover all your alternative bases. The Missionary Position will also play Doyle's Public House Saturday, Oct. 30.

The Missionary Position

Saturday, Oct. 30, 9:30 p.m., no cover
Doyle's Public House, 208 St. Helens, Tacoma, 253.272.7468

With Revolt Revolt and Big Wheel Stunt Show
Thursday, Nov. 4, 9 p.m., $3
Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, 253.759.6003

Glimpse

With Witchburn, Klover Jane, From the Sea and Jobe Himself
Saturday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m., no cover
Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, 253.759.6003