LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>>
Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Downtown. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm.
Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. The Blacklight Connection, Outnumbered, My Mom Dumped Me, 5 Beats Till Sunrise. All Ages. 7 pm. $5.
The Den at urbanXchange Tacoma - Downtown. Learning Team, The Royal Sea. All Ages. 8 pm.
- You can hardly blame contemporary indie bands from wanting to venture to a happy, more peaceful, less wholly-craptacular place through music. With the world around us disintegrating into bickering, hopelessness, tireless marketing campaigns, rampant stupidity and way more hapless finger-pointing than answers, a break from it all would be nice for anyone. If that means white kids with scruffy beards and liberal arts degrees need to go all folk and campfire and hand claps on us, so be it I guess. Bellingham's Learning Team, in Tacoma tonight for a show at the Den with the Royal Sea, is a band capable of delivering such a respite, at least sonically - which is about all we can hope for these days. A indie folk mélange that ends up somewhere similar to bands like Cave Singers and the ilk (albeit taking a more circuitous route), Learning Team is a band well suited for a nap on the grass or an afternoon of no responsibility. Billed as a "summer rock" band, The Royal Sea (also from Bellingham) should only sweeten the deal. - Matt Driscoll
Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Sok & The Faggots CD Release Show, with South 11th, The Assassinators, Dead Peasants, Savage Henerys. 9 pm. $5.
- Naming a band Sok and the Faggots is kind of the musical equivalent of setting a height requirement. If you're able to accept the name, you've passed the first of the many, deliberately offensive tests set by Sok and the Faggots. The Faggots are followers of a style set by G.G. Allin, the shock-punk weirdo famous for his unending envelope pushing and all-around gross-out live performances. He threatened, every year, to bring a gun to his Halloween show, with the intention of shooting as many audience members as he could before turning the gun on himself. People showed up every year. Sok and the Faggots may not take it to that extreme, but the band certainly does its part in upholding the wild and base Allin tradition. – Rev. Adam McKinney
Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Hairmageddon. 8 pm. $5.
Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Tin Man. All Ages. 8 pm.
The New Frontier Lounge Tacoma - Dome District. Archibald Leach Reunion Show, with Argonaut, Tallest Tree. 9 pm.
- "There had been a band called Swelter for a number of years before that," says Jason Locking, former bassist for Archibald Leach. "That kind of split off into Argonaut and what became the Fucking Eagles. A couple of us got together and started doing the Archibald Leach thing." Locking and I speak of a band that hasn't existed for more than 10 years: Archibald Leach. The year in question: roughly 1998 or 1999. How long the band lasted: about two years. Tonight, Archibald Leach will reunite for one show, and one show only. To read Rev. Adam Mckinney's full story, click here. — Rev. AM
The Red Room Tacoma. Vacate, Life's Ill, Heretic, Kevin & Mat's Acoustic Cover Band. All Ages. 7 pm. $5.
The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Swing Dance, with Lizzy Boyer, Joe Baque, Steve Luceno, Richard Lopez. 7 pm. $5.
Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Myles Crew. 8 pm.
The Spar Olympia. Jabi Shriki. 8 pm. NC.
Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Jerry Miller Jam. 9 pm. NC.
Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Benefit For Padre, featuring The Michael Crane Band. 9 pm.
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