RON SWARNER: IT’S RECORD RELEASE DAY >>>

The Mars Volta, Octahedron

Bob Marley, B is for Bob

Pete Yorn, Back and Forth

Birds of Avalon, Uncanney Valley

Cheap Trick, The Latest

Dinosaur Jr., Farm

Tortoise, Beacons of Ancestorship

Regina Spektor, Far

WEEKLY VOLCANO: SONIC VIBRATIONS, TUESDAY STYLE>>>

THE REUNIONS KEEP COMING: Sunny Day Real Estate set to get the band back together.

CALLING IT QUITS: Sub Pop's Oxford Collapse will play two last shows, then fade into history...until the reunion.

TURN THE VOLUME TO 11: Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White featured in new guitar movie.

STILL BEATING: Heart plans a new album, and a children's book.

FAIR SHAKE?: Reaction the Chris Brown's plea deal.

TV TIME: Here's a look at which bands and artists will be featured on the tube tonight.

MICHAEL SWAN: ANOTHER ELEMENT THEMED ART AND MUSIC PARTY >>>>

Synapse overload.

Many visions and ethereal moments and luminous images, experiences and connections and fragile sensory remnants went down during South Sound Collective’s first two Tacoma element themed art and music parties â€" Playing With Fire and Fresh Air.

Drop of Water, the third in a series, will flow into the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum Saturday, July 18 with two stages of sound, several visual performances, drinks, dancing, aquatic art show, throwback swimwear fashion show and more.

Dig Dug, Kassette, Jimmy Hoffa, Big Chuck, Mr. Clean are just a few of the DJs that will be spinning that night. 

Tickets are $15 at the door. You can save $5 if you buy them before the show through Brown Paper Tickets.

SUZY STUMP: MEET LYNDA MAPES >>>

Sometimes you just want to kick humanity. Collectively. All of ’em. Stupid humans. Sometimes you just want to travel back in time and collectively kick your ancestors, too.

Lest you think this is nothing more than a whole lot of misdirected rage, attend Lynda Mapes’ lecture on her book, Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village Thursday night at Orca Books. Listen to the incredible tale of the discovery of the largest and oldest Indian village site during construction of a Port Angeles waterfront project.

Guess what the state workers working on the project did after discovering the village?

They kept backhoeing.

Now guess what the Native Americans did?

They forced the project to stop!

Discover how Thursday night.

[Orca Books, 6 p.m., free, 509 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.352.0123]

MICHAEL SWAN: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009 >>>

1. The 100th Monkey art community party invades Old City Hall from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

2. ACCTFest community theater festival offers four plays today â€" two at 1:30 and two at 7:30 p.m. inside the Pantages Theater.

3. Max Power (awesome name), former senior policy advisor in the Nuclear Waste Program of the Washington State Department of Ecology, will drop by Orca Books to discuss his book, America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Power, Accountability and Clean-up at 6 p.m.

4. The VZ Valley Boys will lay down some bluegrass at 7 p.m. A Rhapsody In Bloom’s indoor porch.

5. Matt Coughlin, James Coates and The Black Sails play The Swiss at 8 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

LINK: Wine and beer events

JAKE DE PAUL: WEDNESDAY FOOD LINKS >>>

Wine Deals: Lots of half-price wine deals tonight.

What’s Pouring: 99 Bottles offers $1 tastes of Old Speckled Hen and Meantime London Porter from 4-8 p.m. today.

Perk Up: Coffee adds surprising kick to rubs, marinades

Today’s South Sound Special

Steilacoom Farmers Market opens today from 3-7 p.m. at the intersection of Lafayette and Wilkes. It runs every Wednesday through Aug. 19.

Minoela is now open serving $10 pizzas, $8-$9 sandwiches including a ham & brie on ciabatta, salads and four appetizers at 604 Fawcett Ave. next to The Grand Cinema.

"We had a packed house from the time we cracked the door at 4 p.m. till about 11," explained owner Danielle Kartes. "This week we are open from 4-9 p.m. to get our feet wet then our regular biz hours will commence on the 30th."
 

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

PAUL SCHRAG: TONIGHT AT JAZZBONES >>>

Oh Jazzbones: the place to be, again and again. Tonight Jazzbones will welcome some of Tacoma's finest emcees, poets and people to kick off what we can all hope will be a regular night for hip-hop. Starting things off right will be locals Block Repp, who all deserve mad respect, Josh Rizeberg, One Famm click Raz P and the Vigilantes and Blach, who's coming all the way from Yakima to rock a set. Put together by Rizeberg, this show is going to be a little different than a lot of the hip-hop seen on main stages in the city. This is local hip-hop, for real. Check it Wednesday. No cover, and drink specials galore.

[Jazzbones, with Block Repp, Raz P and the Vigilantes, Blach, 8:30 p.m., no cover, 2803 Sixth Ave, Tacoma, 253.396.9169]

NEWS TEAM: GOOD MORNING SOUTH SOUND >>>

Knock It Off!: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is trying to be Russell Investments BFF.

All Hecht Is Breaking Loose: Pierce County prosecutors filed two felony charges against witness in case against Superior Court Judge Michael Hecht.

Hey!: Obama condemned the Iranian regime’s response to street protests.

Air Strikes-R-U.S.: U.S. strikes kill dozens in tribal Pakistan.

Rep. Ron Paul’s In The House: His bill to audit the Federal Reserve is piling up co-sponsors in the House.

Those Wacky Germans: A toy nuclear power plant built by two 6 year-olds sparked a public alert in Germany.

Fries And Wieners: Police search for naked french fry thief.

This Could Happen In Tacoma

SUZY STUMP: THE JEWELRY OF NANCY WORDEN >>>

Here at the Weekly Volcano we have a humble mission. We only want to be your conscience; we only want to influence everything you do. To entertain yourself, that is.

A while ago, we listed an exhibit of jewelry in Orting. We watched you that whole week, and you didn’t go. Shame on you. The bad karma builds. Saturday, we have decided to give you a second chance with a much cooler event. El chance-o numero dos, if you will.

Jewelry artist Nancy Worden incorporates non-traditional materials such as seed pods and plastic hair curlers into her jewelry to tell a story. That’s right, she explores social and political issues in her exhibit, Loud Bones, which opens Saturday at the Tacoma Art Museum. We suggest you attend.

[Tacoma Art Museum, June 27-Sept. 20, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, $8-$9, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.4258]

Photo: The Leash, 2003. Silver, nickel, brass, fur, pearls, glass eye, and found objects, 42 (H) x 4 (W) x 4 (D) inches. Collection of the Boardman Family. Photo credit: Rex Rystedt.

JAKE DE PAUL: BACARDI COMEDY CLUB THIS WEEKEND >>>

Oh, to find the perfect wedding of the balmy outdoors and the convenience of food and booze; the conjugal bliss of a wild, starry night and cocktails within easy reach; the joyful joining of a cool breeze straight from nature and Brad Upton dissing politicians?

Welcome to the beautiful world of Taste of Tacoma.

Though billed as the “Ultimate Family Picnic,” we here at the Weekly Volcano prefer our Taste to be filled with booze â€" or at least, the ones with the hottest people â€" and funny people.  The Bacardi Comedy Club will give comedians such as Debbie Wooten, Joe Vespaziani, Rod Long and others a pulpit to swear beneath the sun as drunken people in tank tops feed them crap.  Let the games begin. 

Oh yes, there also will be 50 food vendors and 30 food product companies offering their grub for sale, as well as tons of music.

[Point Defiance Park, June 26-27 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., June 28 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., free admission, $10 parking, $3 tastes, beers and wine are extra, 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma]