LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>>
4th Ave Ale House Olympia - Downtown. Wide Eye Panic, Rishloo, The Willow Collective. 9 pm.
Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. Waves & Radiation Reunion Show, featuring the return of The Legend Of Bigfoot. 9 pm.
- It's been two years and one month since instrumental rock band Waves and Radiation played its farewell show at Bob's Java Jive. On Saturday, the band will reunite for a special one-off return performance at the same coffee-pot-shaped venue where they called it a day back in 2009. Fans of Waves and Radiation will be pleased to hear that as far as guitarist Tristan McNabb is concerned, it's as if they'd never stopped playing together at all. For Jason Baxter's feature story on the reunion, click here.
Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. OFS Presents An Evening With Gillian Welch. Dave Rawlings opens. All Ages. 9 pm. $20-$25.
- Listening to Gillian Welch - in particular her new album, The Harrow & The Harvest - there's a palpable yearning that lurks in and around her music. Welch's adherence to classicism in the areas of folk, bluegrass and country has about it the mournful pang of nostalgia for a time she never experienced. While some songs bend closer to '70s singer-songwriter sounds, the majority of the album centers on the rustic sounds of the 1920s through the 1950s. There's a hew toward a time when songs largely were about characters and their heartfelt stories - albums were tapestries of American lives and the hardships and triumphs that were constantly occurring concurrently. To read my full review of the album, click here. — Rev. Adam McKinney
Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Missionary Position. 9 pm. NC.
Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Psychonaut Deathtrip, American Wrecking Company, Unhailoed, 10 Speed Warlock, Castdown. 9 pm. $5.
Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Rich Wetzel's Groovin' Higher Jazz Orchestra. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $7.
Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mandolin Grand Reopening Party with Stephen Heinzman Trio, Beaucoup Chapeaux, Gwyneth & Monko, Luke Sayers. All Ages. 11 am to 10 pm. $5.
The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Renegade Train. 8 pm. NC.
Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Soul Stripper. 9 pm.
Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. The Informal Gentlemen, Hammerhead. 8 pm.
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