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Glam Metal: No, you're not just really high. You haven't just woken up after sleeping off some 96-hour meth bender and are now hallucinating that ‘80s glam metal band L.A. Guns is playing Jazzbones on a Wednesday night. It's real, dude. It's so real. With The pUrPs, High and Voxxy Vallejo, Wednesday, April 7, 9 p.m. $10, Jazzbones, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169.
Garage Pop/Rock: No room has had the effect on music that the garage has. Think about it. Have you ever heard of kitchen rock? Absolutely not. But garage rock is a term that instantly makes sense - and things only branch out from there. Like Tacoma's Wheelies. While Blanco Bronco - one of the better live bands in T-town - may serve up a more traditional, fuzzy, messed up brand of straight up garage rock, Wheelies delves into the realm of "garage pop" - which as the Volcano's Rev. Adam McKinney revealed a few months ago in these pages, involves recording on Windows '95. I guess that makes sense, too since you probably wouldn't want to put a nice computer in the garage. Anyway, garage rock, garage pop - it's all coming from the same place, and it's all usually better than anything emanating from the more proper rooms of the house. Blanco Bronco, Wheelies, Pioneers west, Tallest Tree, Wednesday, April 7, 9 p.m. $5, Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003