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4th Ave Ale House Olympia - Downtown. Black Market Revue. 9 pm.
Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. PoP-Rock-A-Rama! Gavin Guss and the Fun Boys, The Webelos, The Spins, plus Special Guests! 8pm-1am. $5.
Cassidy's Pub & Mini Golf Tacoma - Eastside. Loose Gravel & The Quarry. 8 pm.
Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. T-Town Aces. 9 pm. NC.
Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Prom Night 1980 Tacoma, with Stay Tuned, DJ Melodica. 9 pm. $5 couples / $6 stag.
Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Five Alarm Funk. 8:30 pm. $10.
Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Blues Redemption. All Ages. 8 pm. $5.
Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Heaven Generation, Hopeless Jack & The Handsome Devils. 9 pm.
Mary Baker Russell Music Center Tacoma - Parkland. University Jazz Ensemble. All Ages. 8 pm.
Metronome Coffee Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. The Flight of Phanuel, Levi Baxter. All Ages. 7 pm doors. $3.
Morso Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Tommy Tutone. 8 pm. $25.
The New Frontier Lounge Tacoma - Dome District. Pioneers West, Mal De Mar, Musuji. 9 pm.
- Mal De Mar make absurdly catchy indie pop confections which, on Saturday, will be served along with the considerably more caustic Pioneers West and the experimental hard rock of Musuji. It'll be a strange grouping, to be sure, but a bill so intriguing in its strangeness that one should hardly be blamed for failing to resist it. Mal De Mar, alone, shouldn't be missed. Their "Bubble Bobble," for example, is packed tight to bursting with neat hooks and goodwill, complete with an energetically falsetto chorus. This is the kind of music to send your head floating up into the cloudless sky of these increasingly warm Washington days. Pioneers West and Musuji will be there to usher you back into the sure-to-return rain and gloom to which we've grown far too accustomed. - Rev. AM
Northern Olympia - Downtown. Princest, Hot Rush, Ketamine Fight Club. 9 pm. $5.
- The songs on Princest's EP are foreboding, lo-fi post-hardcore rock that hint at fearsome live performances just out of range of the recording equipment's ability to capture them. Slinking bass lines provide a wobbly platform upon which all of the songs shakily stand. Front man Ben Farr's vocals are pitched halfway between terrifying and terrified - even when he swallows the mic and starts screaming, there's something in his voice that sounds as wounded as it is defiant. The riffs, when they come, are heavy and plodding, a trudging march to inspire dangerous headbanging. I've seen sinkholes of mosh pits open in the floor at Northern, which this show (also featuring Hot Rush and Ketamine Fight Club) definitely seems determined to inspire. Try your best to stay on your feet. - Rev. AM
Old General Store Steakhouse & Saloon Roy. Robbie Walden. 9 pm.
O'Malley's Irish Pub Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. The Warehouse Presents Elk & Boar, Hurtbird, Brothers Young. 8:30 pm.
- When the Volcano's resident Dungeons and Dragons expert, Joe Izenman, says something, I tend to listen. (Especially when he's talking about beards or mustaches, but that's beside the point.) So, when Izenman said on SPEW a few months back, "I first saw Travis Barker leading blues outfit the Black Sails, but he's really found his niche partnered with the siren voice of Kirsten Wenlock," I knew he meant business. The group Izenman was referring to was Elk & Boar; at the time the duo had just performed in Tacoma at the Peabody Waldorf. Saturday, Elk & Boar are back, playing a Warehouse-produced free show at O'Malley's with Hurtbird and Brothers Young. There's no doubt this will be one of the best, hippest shows of the weekend. Brush your beard and come on out. - Matt Driscoll
Rock The Dock Pub & Grill Tacoma - Downtown (waterfront). Two year Anniversary Party featuring Tim Hall and Zero Down, beer garden, balloon drop with prizes, free buffet and more. 6 pm.
The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. The Hip Replacements. 8 pm. NC.
Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Tacoma Jazz & Blues Festival Stonegate Stage, with All Star Youth Blues Jam, Rich Wetzel's Groovin' Higher Orchestra. All Ages. 8 pm. For more information, click here.
Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Bevy. All Ages. 8 pm. $8-$12.
Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Daze of Never, with KZOK & KISW DJ Rockfish & Friends. 7 pm.
Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. An Evening With Curtis Salgado. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $20-$35.
- Curtis Salgado, who spent time early in his career fronting Robert Cray's band-including holding down the main vocal duties on Cray's debut album, is a NW blues legend. He's got a blues swagger, the vocal chops and the harmonica magic to put him on a level few musicians reach. Born in Everett, currently a resident of Portland, and birthed on blues-worn stages up and down the West Coast, Salgado is the type of musician you don't get a chance to see every weekend. – Weekly Volcano
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