PERSONAL POWERFUL NIGHT >>>

You may find yourself ... staring at six televisions mesmerized by video feedback patterns. You may find yourself ... packed in a giant shower with a guitarist looping noises. You may find yourself ... hypnotized by one of the best live performances you've ever experienced. You may find yourself ... sitting on a couch surrounded by candles taking all of this in.

And you may ask yourself ... how did I get here? This is not the city next to the industrial hodge-podge that I have come to know and love.

Just when you thought that the latest round of new chill coffee houses was the coolest thing to migrate to the Gritty City, along comes Personal Power Company, an art space thankfully born out of the Spaceworks Tacoma project.

Friday night, Kate and I dropped in on Personal Power Company's first live music show since opening late last year. We mixed in with a young crowd of unfamiliar faces, and many creative type friends who we've hung out with for years. The Rev. Adam McKinney, who also attended the show, did justice to the space in this week's Volcano.

We caught the last three acts of the night. We walked in halfway through Margy Pepper's set. The young female trio, who met at The Evergreen State College, transported me back 10 years to several basement house parties I attended in Olympia. With the crowd on top of them, Margy Pepper mixed melody and chaotic jams to perfection. Battle Stations, a five-piece out of Seattle, including a sci-fi keyboardist and female stand-up drummer, elicited some sort of weird groovy dance in me, when I wasn't chuckling over the 6-foot-five singer thrashing next to the 4-foot-11 bassist. It was one of the best intimate live performances I've seen in a while, and they have a million dollar song in their pocket – catchy as hell. Last, guitarist Kenneth M. Piekarski, a tech multimedia wizard that goes by Slashed Tires, looped tunes and noises in a large shower down the hall, around the corner and through a small kitchen. Around 15 of us squeeze into the shower for his tensewave show, which while fascinating, went 12 minutes longer than I would have liked.

Keep an eye, and ear, on this Spaceworks Tacoma space.