LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>>
4th Ave Tavern Olympia - Downtown. AKA and The Heart Hurt Goods, Elbow Coulee and Armed With Legs. 9 pm. $5.
- AKA and The Heart Hurt Goods is a hodge-podge of instrumental musicians honing everything from violin-play to drums, bass guitar and many more. With a funk/rock/hip-hop capability, The Heart Hurt Goods is led by frontman and former veteran of the Olympia MC-battle circuit, AKA. AKA's story is too lengthy for this short preview to respectfully explain, but what is not difficult is the act of participating and enjoying he and his band's music. They were selected at The Olympia Music Awards as Best Solo (AKA) and Best Hip-Hop Act of The Year and have received excellent reviews following performances up and down I-5 and the Puget Sound. Here's the fun part: AKA and The Heart Hurt Goods is rocking this Saturday night at Olympia's 4th Ave Tavern. Joining them are Elbow Coulee and Armed With Legs, which makes for a full night of live award-winning music right in your vicinity. - Jose Gutierrez Jr.
502 Downtown Tacoma - Downtown. Weekend Of Jazz, featuring Deems Tsutakawa, Pete Kirkland. 8 pm.
Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Kurt Lindsay. 8 pm.
Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Mighty High. 9:30 pm. NC.
Eagles Club Olympia - Downtown. The Evens. All Ages. 7 pm. $7.
- With The Evens, Amy Farina barrels on the drums, sometimes sounding as easy as morning fog rolling over settled water, other times sounding as sharp and heated as a first piercing. When she sings, she saturates with feminine power. Together with Ian MacKaye's sometimes plucking, often grinding guitar and hard-hitting vocals that evoke nostalgia for your first Fugazi or Minor Threat album but also wakes up little pieces of your heart that weren't there before, the duo makes a memorable sound. Read Nikki McCoy's interview with Ian MacKaye in the Music and Culture section.
Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Death By Stars, The West, Not From Brooklyn, Ever So Android. 9 pm.
Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Zepparella (Led Zeppelin tribute). 8 pm.
- "DUN DUN." You already know what's happening. "DUN DUN." A cavalcade of snares and cymbals rupture. A whale of a drummer pounds. Two fair-haired boys and a skinny guitar wizard feel the rush of thousands cheering as the quartet launches in "Good Times Bad Times." Sorry, Led Zeppelin fans, but the song does not remain the same. Say hello to Zepparella, an all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band that is eager to give a whole lotta love to Tacoma Saturday. These ladies take Zep's sweaty man-rock and give it a kick in the groin. Zepparella, which has been together since 2004, creates its own individuality by improvising within the framework of the original songs. Roberta Plant, Page Jimmy, Joan-Paula Jones and Johanna Bonham should be their stage names. The band is that good. - Weekly Volcano
La Gitana Olympia - Downtown. The Greta Jane Quartet. 6:30 pm.
Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Moose Portrait, A Volcano, Ah God. 9 pm.
- I guess we should've seen it coming, ever since lo-fi recording became its own modest movement, that some people would take that ethic to its natural ending point. And so, we must say, the genre dubiously dubbed "shitgaze" was an inevitability. Testing the limits of tolerable listening conditions, bands like Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit found their audience, meaning that a whole cavalcade of murky bands would lurch forward. Ah God, from Portland, is such a band. Sounding like they were recorded in an underwater tin can, Ah God's music is actually quite compelling and deftly assembled, once you wipe away all the grime and peer through the proverbial greasy windshield. Embracing washes of reverb and prickly distortion, Ah God make psychedelic pop that even sometimes appears to have catchy choruses and canny hooks. The digging through the muck proves a worthwhile endeavor. - Rev. Adam mcKinney
Red Wind Casino Yelm. Jonathan Harris. 8:30 pm. NC.
The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Billy Wilson & The Bayou Blast. 8 pm.
Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Vigilante Justice. 9 pm.
Urban Grace Church Tacoma - Downtown. The Warehouse Presents a Candle Lit Show with The Local Strangers, Spirits of the Red City, Bradford Loomis, You Are Plural. All Ages. 7 pm. $7 advance, $10 door.
- The trio of You Are Plural make music for the kind of people that need a little more propulsion in their chamber pop. Made up of cello, Wurlitzer organ and drums, You Are Plural construct perfectly lovely tunes that benefit greatly from the sort of nervous percussion provided by not only the drums, but by the Wurlitzer. The organ furiously pulses in tandem with the drums, lending movement to the otherwise humbly beautiful songs. In recent years, as evidenced by their entrancing new single, "Rabbit Rabbit," You Are Plural have moved in a gently anthemic direction. Highlighted by the affecting vocal harmonies of Jen Grady and Ephriam Nagler, "Rabbit Rabbit" steadily pushes toward a crescendo that, though it may not quite be of a fist-pumping variety, still gets your blood going better than your average cello and organ outfit might suggest. - Rev. AM
LINK: More live music Saturday, Sept. 28 in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
