FRIDAY, OCT. 18 2013 >>>
1. Oh Kylesa, how you reek of sludge and doom, yet co-mingle with the heaven of drums, riffs and vocals hammering down a mighty force of pleasure. How your psychedelia and metal create a blistering twist of emotion on the soul. This is why tens of thousands of people flock to your shows, sporting Kylesa insignia and banging heads. Kylesa is touring in support of their newest release on Season of Mist Records, Ultraviolet, which Pitchfork magazine claims to be darker lyrically and sonically than previous works, containing more vocals from singer/guitarist Laura Pleasants. Ultralviolet is Kylesa's sixth studio album. Taking their name from "kilesa mara," a Buddhist term denoting delusory mental states, Kylesa will rumble Olympia's Capitol Theater with their Black Sabbath meets Tool meets Mastodon sound at 9 p.m. with Pinkish Black, Sierra and Witchburn.
2. BJ Shea celebrates his 14th year on the air with a listener party from 7-9 p.m. at the Great American Casino in Lakewood. Hang with all of the BJ Shea Morning Experience crew, and possible win tickets to the sold out Pearl Jam Dec. 9 show at KeyArena.
3. They danced before mammoth floating neon dragons and grand desert sculptures and hissing Mad Max-ish art cars shooting flames 396 feet into the air, and every single thing around them smelled like some combination of body odor and sand and bud and urine and fire and rum and glue. And when they weren't tailing the all-female all-topless bike procession, they were snapping photos. They were Steve LaBerge, Lisa Fruichantie and a mystery guest and they'll each present a slideshow of their Burning Man experiences at Lynn Di Nino's TRIPOD Slide Show at 7 p.m. in the Madera Furniture Company showroom.
4. When's the last time someone read you a story? If it's been a while, check out the Broadway Center's Free For All featuring the play reading of Southbridge, written by playwright Reginald Edmund at 7:30 p.m. its Rehearsal Studio II. Actors will transport you to Southbridge where a young woman has been brutally killed and an angry mob is at the jailhouse door demanding the sheriff lynch the accused murderer. The only way to untangle the truth is for the accused, a young man called "Stranger" to relive the events that led him to the hangman's tree in Athens, Ohio, in the year 1881. Afterward, the director of Southbridge, C. Rosalind Bell, and Bryan Willis, playwright in residence at Northwest Playwrights Alliance, will host a Q & A.
5. Vive la révolution! Meet me at the barricade, comrades, and we'll overthrow the nasty French aristocracy! But first, let's sing about it for three hours. Tacoma Musical Playhouse stages Les Miserables, the story about this guy named Jean Valjean, who was jailed for stealing a loaf of bread and 17 years later is still being chased by Inspector Javert. (That Atkins Diet really screws you up.) Along the way Valjean adopts a little girl, dedicates his life to God and ends up fighting in a French Revolution that's not the one you're thinking of.
LINK: Friday, Oct. 18 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area
