NOT DEAD MOON, BUT CLOSE >>>

If you haven't heard of Pierced Arrows, you're in the dark. Born out of the ashes of seminal garage rock band Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows boasts Fred and Toody Cole - both of Dead Moon fame. Rounded out by drummer Kelly Halliburton, Pierced Arrows have been receiving positive comparisons to the famous band they succeeded, and winning smiles and applause from those who cursed the day Dead Moon broke up.

Tomorrow at the Brotherhood in Olympia, Pierced Arrows will lay it down. Missing out would be foolish.

"Because the band is two thirds Dead Moon and it's the same creative forces that powered Dead Moon, that's what we'll always be measured against," said Halliburton in an interview with the Weekly Volcano late last year.

"I was afraid of the Dead Moon stigma flowing us at first, but if seems like people have been comparing us to them very favorably. No one has come up to us and said 'you suck.' I think (Fred and Toody) wanted to try some stuff they didn't fell comfortable doing with Dead Moon. It's hard to tell as a musician, but it feels different."

It's a little different, and a lot good. Check out Pierced Arrows at the Brotherhood in Olympia Sunday night.