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 of which were slithering on the skin of DT-suffering residents. The St. Patrick's Day holiday is most intensely celebrated in the American northeast by marching cops, firefighters and Broadway understudies, but you'll find a few parties around the South Sound - check out the Weekly Volcano's St. Patrick's Day Command Center. Erin Go Bra(less)!

International Pop Overthrow, Trigger Happy Campers, Spyglass - Sean and Chris Lund have been rocking Tacoma for more than 200 years. Drummer Sean, along with big brother Chris (guitar) and their friend Don Allen (bass) began playing and recording under the Kingsfoil name, then released a CD in the mid-'90s as Loving Cup. Not really capturing their "hard, live edge," they changed their name to Loser, poking fun at their favorite band, the Kinks.

Then they didn't want to be a Loser anymore. 

Their next invention - International Pop Overthrow - burst onto the scene in 1999. The Lund's new band smiled of casual melancholy, Brit-rock hipness, a la alt-pop flavors such as The Pixies, Weezer and the Fab Four - especially on their song "In My Hands," off their self-titled album.

These days, Sean and Chris Lund go by the aptly named band, the Lund Bros. - a seemingly content, full circle, older and wiser Sean and Chris doing what they do best - lace harmony-rich rock and roll with the best aspects of pop.

The Lund Bros., which includes bassist Gwon Chang, will be a part of the Harmon Tap Room's St. Patrick Day weekend celebration, grabbing the 9 p.m. slot Saturday night. Blacstahl leads the night off at 8 p.m. with High Noon Horizon at 10 and Halcion Halo at 11. It's a 21 and older show with a $5 cover.

It's good to see the Lund Bros. back on stage.

Speaking of the '90s, Jason Harsin rocked Tacoma as a member of Swelter, Katie's Dimples and other bands. As the Weekly Volcano reported this past November, Harsin released his Hawaii-based hair and body care collection, Hearts and Stars, which included a Tacoma launch party Dec. 1 at Poison Apple. 

Rocking on the same bills at Harsin's bands was bassist Cody Foster in the band Poppa Wheelie, a band that deflated its tires in the late '90s, pumped them back up for a 2001 Music in the Park concert, deflated them again until a reunion show in April 2011 at Hell's Kitchen's 9th anniversary show.

Anyway, it's not a shocker Cody Foster bathes with Harsin's products. It is a shocker Facebook was forced to view the cleansing sessions.

Looks as if Foster will now be a part of the Hearts and Stars marketing campaign.

You can catch Cody Foster and his band C.F.A. March 27 at The Comet in Seattle.

It's looking more like May to saddle up to Puyallup's roots-rock quintet SweetKiss Momma's sophomore album. The band recorded in Nashville with accomplished producer Ken Coomer. Then, Grammy-winning engineer Richard Dodd agreed to master it. "We are extremely excited about that, and are really looking forward to showing the final product to everyone," says lead singer Jeff Hamel. And thanks again to SweetKiss Momma for playing the Weekly Volcano's electric Salchow Stage in January.

As always, Bobble Tiki doesn't care what you do this week because he doesn't even know you.  And unless you are loyal reader "Joe" who demands everyone order "fries" for now on, not "French fries," exercising that constitutional right to adorable unfettered, small-mindedness and appalling lack of perspective, Bobble Tiki doesn't want to meet you. Besides, it's time for him to blow this column and go watch some reruns of Family Affair and see if they've dubbed in the characters of Buffy and Jody saying, "But Mr. Freedom!" instead of Mr. French. Or just see what kind of left wing, liberal knee-jerk reaction I can have next. The season is ripe. Like Brie.