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. ...

If Bobble Tiki's roll at the Weekly Volcano was likened to baseball (which it never has been), Bobble Tiki would like to say he's the "cleanup hitter." And he'd have a certain point. Kind of. You see, every week the rest of the Volcano's venerable staff of dung-flinging monkeys goes before Bobble Tiki in the batting order, choosing shows to cover based on whatever toxin is still free-floating in their system from the previous night's drug use. Then Bobble Tiki comes along and cleans it all up. The clean up hitter. You get it. ...

The only problem is, in baseball, the cleanup hitter is usually the team's star, the mass of balled up talent and human growth hormone most likely to belt one over the fence. In the comparison in question, the cleanup hitter is more of a middle-aged closet alcoholic with low testosterone and even lower motivation.

But whatever.

This week, amazingly, Bobble Tiki comes up with the bases loaded - with a couple worthy shows on deck and screaming for ink to choose from. Let's quit the jibber-jabber, choke up, and get to it.

Friday at The New Frontier Lounge (on the eve of Saturday's Sonic Shakedown garage rock themed benefit for the American Diabetes Association), one of the best things since those ubiquitous shopping cart stickers to come out of Tacoma will plug in and get down for what should be one hell of a show. T-Town's Shayne Weeks and Isaac Solverson, both with Tacoma School of the Arts ties (shocking development!) - collective co-creators of Makeup Monsters - have felt the highs only the age of instantaneous internet hype can create, and undoubtedly have the talent to justify it. Though it might be tempting to lump these kids in with the flavor-of-the-month-past chillwave genre, Makeup Monsters have more going for them than momentary excitement. As the Volcano's Jason Baxter has pointed out in the past, despite a visual component and youthful complexion, Weeks and Solverson aren't simply "backward-gazing, development-arrested spazzes." They're way more. Though the band started as a two-piece, Bobble Tiki understands that earlier this year a full-time drummer was added to the mix - raising the band tally to three and allowing for even more creation.

Two piece. Three piece. Probably doesn't matter. Bottom line is Makeup Monsters is a really fucking talented band. Though some of the sheen and newness has worn off, a Makeup Monsters show is still one worth catching. Word on the street is Tall Girl, Humble Cub and Slashed Tires are also on the bill Friday. Bonus.

BOBBLE TIKI'S UNDER THE RADAR SHOW OF THE WEEK:

The Spittin' Cobras at Hell's Kitchen - Thursday, Nov. 11

When you Google "spitting cobras" what you come up with is a definition similar to this one, taken from Wikipedia:

"A spitting cobra is one of several species of cobras that have the ability to eject venom from their fangs when defending themselves against predators. The sprayed venom is harmless to intact skin. However, it can cause permanent blindness if introduced to the eye and left untreated (causing chemosis and corneal swelling)."

However, drop the "g", and search Spittin' Cobras, and what you stumble upon is something exponentially more rocking, and perhaps equally as deadly (in a good way).

Next Thursday at Hell's Kitchen Seattle's the Spittin' Cobras will take the stage with Flexx Bronco, Atomic Outlaws and Basic Radio opening. Made up of members from iconic punk bands like KMFDM, The Dwarves and Murdock, this is a show Tacoma should snort up like free coke, or at the very least come out in force for.

See you next week.