SUZY STUMP: THE ART AND DJ PARTY CELEBRATES ONE YEAR AT JAZZBONES TONIGHT >>>

Warhol may have come and gone but the spirit of art parties is alive and kicking at Jazzbones tonight. The Seattle-based - with Tacoma ties - multi-genre art show organization Artifakt celebrates it's one-year relationship with the Sixth Avenue club with DJs SwerveWon (pictured), File Jerks, and Hanible spinning hip-hop, mashups and dance music - and a diverse display of visual art by the Saves crew, including Jack Saffle, Aaron Crane and Dominic Vaccaro.

"I'm excited for the art show featuring Saves," says Tacoman Matt Eklund, who will show his art at Artifakt tonight. "They have some really talented artists in their crew."

Saves is a Northwest-based clothing company offering skate and snowboard street wear for the masses.  

[Jazzbones, Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m., $5, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169]

MICHAEL SWAN: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 2009 >>>

Sleeve facing - the international trend in which a person covers a part of their body with a record sleeve and takes a photo - will be taught in the Olympic Room at the Tacoma Public Library Main Branch from 4-6 p.m.

2. The Tacoma Dome opens its doors at 10 a.m. so you can buy It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Christmas Tree fragrance at the Tacoma Holiday Food & Gift Festival.

3. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill in Spanaway hosts "Harmonica Dave" aka David Brian Erwin at 7 p.m.

4. Maia Santell & House Blend perform before dancers at Studio 6 Ballroom from 8-11 p.m.

5. It's Masa's College Night with "Your Girlfriend's Favorite DJ" spinning at 9 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

SUZY STUMP: BEAT THIS SATURDAY NIGHT >>>

Dubstep â€" U .K. garage and grime's more forlorn, less MC-oriented cousin â€" has been incubating since 2000, but despite greater awareness via blogs and Internet forums, it's unlikely to blow up; most people just don't want to experience cranium-clamping bass pressure, entropic beats, and austerely melancholy melodies.

Nevertheless, seekers of innovative low-end music should keep tabs on what Matt Eklund’s Pacific Fusion Productions has in store for two October nights. Eklund and partnering company Lotus Inc. will blaze their own path into the dubstep realm by adding drum ‘n’ bass and electro into the dub zombies’ world Saturday night, then will follow it up with Night of the Living Dub Oct. 30.

Saturday, DJs dAb, Habit, Suga Jones and D:FI will take the London-centric genre's stark, haunted mutations of dub and slap it with some fun. There will be a raffle for Night of the Living Dub tickets, too.

“It will be a mix of ragga jungle, drum and bass, dubstep and dirty electro,” explains Suga Jones, a resident drum ‘n’ bass DJ for more than 10 years. “It's gunna be deep."

[Tempest Lounge, Saturday, Oct. 10, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., no cover, 913 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.272.4904]

JOSE S. GUTIERREZ JR.: THIS IS A HUGE SHOW >>>

A night of partying and paying homage to some of the Northwest’s best hip-hop artists is in store at The Royal Lounge in downtown Olympia for tonight’s Body Rock 1.0 party.

The Body Rock 1.0 features the clever combo of Black Stax (made up of Seattle underground hip-hop icons The Silent Lambs Project and songstress Felicia Loud) and DJ TC Islam (son of Afrika Bambaataa) â€" who formed in 2008 following a series of successful collabos.  Also featured is Khingz formerly Khalil Crisis â€" one half of super duo, Abyssinian Creole (with Gabriel Teodros) and recipient of Seattle Magazine’s Hip-Hop album of the year 2009 for his futuristic masterpiece, From Slaveships to Spaceships. 

Olympia’s own SP aka Slo Poke and Source Unsigned Hype Alumnus will take the stage with upstart MC, Icky Spitz to shut the stage down and make way for 25360 DJ of The Year 2008, DJ Drastic and DJ Sweet Elite with yours truly being blessed to host the joint! 

I couldn’t not get down with this lineup.

Check out a dope show tonight.

[The Royal Lounge, Thursday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m., $5, 311 Capital way, Olympia, 360.705.0760]

SUZY STUMP: ADULT PROM THIS SATURDAY IN TACOMA >>>

Saturday at 7 p.m., Sanford and Son Antiques hosts an adult prom with the theme “Copacabana,” featuring music by The Toughtimes, Si Si Si and DJ Infinity. Which reminds me: What ever happened to Barry Manilow’s nose? I vaguely remember hearing terrible news reports that the man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing walked into a wall and maimed his precious proboscis. It was so bad that he was even talking about surgery. Oh Mandy, I can’t bear the thought.

Anyway, Sanford and Son’s adult proms are a serious blast â€" with prom photos, dancing, food and booze.

Everyone will dress fancy â€" on the Cuban side I imagine â€" because music and passion always require fashion … or something.

So while you salsa and merengue Saturday in a dress cut down to there, take a moment and think of Barry and his treasure of a nose. 

For ticket information, check out the Sanford and Son MySpace page.

[Sanford and Son Antiques, Saturday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. to midnight, 21 and older, $20 advance, $25 door, 744 Commerce, Tacoma, 253.272.0334]

MICHAEL SWAN: TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 2009 >>>

1. Author Michael J. Vaughn will read and discuss his book OUTRO, which uses Gig Harbor's karaoke scene as a backdrop, at 7 p.m. inside Tacoma's Wheelock Library.

2. The Tacoma Mountaineers 7th Annual Photographic Exhibition opens today at 9 a.m. at the Tahoma Center Gallery in Tacoma. It runs through Oct. 30.

3. Saxophonist and host Kareem Kandi is ramping up the jazz open mic every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Sax on 6th.

4. Comedians Jesse Case and Brett Hamil join host Ralph Porter at 8 p.m. for Jazzbones' Ha Ha Tuesdays.

5. Tempest Lounge presents iPod Tuesdays where you bring your MP3 player and become the DJ beginning at 9 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

MICHAEL SWAN: MONDAY, AUG. 31, 2009 >>>

1. Junkyard Jane brings its swampbilly to The Swiss at 7 p.m.

2. Angel Matamoros's abstract paintings are paired with surrealistic paintings by Blake Flynn in the current exhibition at Childhood's End Gallery in Olympia open today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

3. DJ Jason Diamond spins roots reggae during The New Frontier Lounge's Rebel Monday at 9 p.m.

4. The Tacoma Rainiers take on the Salt Lake Bees (seriously? Bees?) at 7 p.m. at Cheney Stadium.

5. Sing with a live band at Jazzbones' Rockaraoke night beginning at 9 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

PAUL SCHRAG: DASH OVER TO THIS ONE >>>

D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts will present the culmination of the Art of Hip-Hop summer camp, which teaches Tacoma youngsters the four elements of hip-hop; MCing, break dancing, DJing and graffiti. Hip Hop in the Park will showcase what these kids have learned, including how to rap with conscious intent and tight vocabulary, and will include performances by D.A.S.H’s own AOHH!, Reality Check, community-based rap group 2012, Alex Duncan, Shyan Selah and a whole slew of freshly-hatched talent.

Check it.

[People’s Park, Saturday, Aug. 29, 12-8 p.m., free, 900 S. K. St. / 9th St. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.306.6615]

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NEWS TEAM: GOOD MORNING SOUTH SOUND >>>

Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo' Money: Washington state is going after another $1 billion in federal stimulus money.

If You Make An Effort: You can get your $5 back from the state parks and make the children cry.

Not Saved By The Bell: Puyallup School District students can't ride bus is their home or day care falls inside a one-mile radius.

Sad: Disc jockey DJ AM dies.

Bank Fail: Regulators shutter three U.S. banks, bringing 2009 toll to 84.

Peace Isn't Easy: Two peacekeepers seized in Sudan.

Screw The Bottling Flipping Thing: 95-year-old bartender is retiring.

Ram Tough: British farmer pays $347,000 for sheep.

How Does It Feel? To Be Lost?: Bob Dylan to become the voice of your satnav?

SUZY STUMP: OSCILLATOR X HITS TACOMA TOMORROW NIGHT >>>

Just in time for the recession, decadence is back: at least musically in Tacoma tomorrow night at The Robert Daniel Galley.

Iâ��m talking late â��80s Euro-dance parties â�" the final days of the Me Decade. When Aqua and Real McCoy came onto the scene. The final days before the communally minded DJs of the â��90s, who slumped anonymously behind a gaggle of ravers, cranking whatever bassline would deliver the crowd into throbbing bliss while wearing nothing but fluorescent tape on their nipples or sporting an expensive haircuts that made them look like stylish mental patients.

I�m talking about the days when the audience actually watched the artists while sampled Soft Cell.

Tomorrow night Robert Stoker and Angela Jossy are throwing a party that will transport me back to the late â��80s, bringing out my Eurotrash Girl. Their Electro-Pop Art Party will combine the Pop Art movement â�" a la Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein â�" albeit interpreted through the minds of local talent, with the energetic, poppy electronica of Portlandâ��s Oscillator X, who come fresh from their concert in Europe at the Arcade Dance International Championships in Amsterdam with their customized light show and air-powered confetti launchers in tow.

I caught up with Jossy for the scoop on tomorrow night�s happening.

SUZY STUMP: Why an Electro-Pop Art Party?

ANGELA JOSSY: I think pop music and pop art make nice bedfellows; plus electro-pop music is all the rage these days. The party will be electro-decadent with electro-drinks, electro-dancing and lots of electro-love. Be prepared for a very intense light show coming from two different stages while being bombarded (in a good way) by electro-beats.

STUMP: Sounds electro-fying.

JOSSY: Plus Deborah Page. She�s a last minute addition.

STUMP: Electro-alternative-atmospheric-folk!

JOSSY: She�s a local treasure. And it�s not very often you get to see a national act like Oscillator X in such an intimate environment for such a low price. Their song �Dynamo� is a recognized hit across the globe. These guys are total pros when it comes to entertainment. They have a computer synchronized light show, costumes, block-rockin' beats and even air powered confetti launchers. The last time I saw a show this well orchestrated was when I saw Polyphonic Spree at the Showbox. I am so excited to see this show.

STUMP: Tell me about the art.

JOSSY: The art in this show will be modern but have pop art influences. Local artists Cara Jennings, Desiree "DTA" Flerchinger, Brett Carlson and Juliette Ricci and others will show. I also heard that Thorax O'Tool might be showing as well.

STUMP: Can I expect to get my Warhol on tomorrow night?

JOSSY: Anything goes at these art parties. I'd suggest clothes that you feel comfortable dancing in because even if you aren't normally a person who dances, you might not be able to resist this music. I'd like to see people decked out in full Studio 54, Andy Warhol funkified garb with sequins, feathers and faux fur but I don't want anyone to feel they can't come because they don't have an outfit. Basically the best rule of thumb for parties like this is wear something that expresses your individuality and makes you feel like your best, most shimmery, glamorous and beautiful self â�" or jeans and a T-shirt. Itâ��s all good.

[The Robert Daniel Gallery, Electro-Pop Art Party, Saturday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m., $10 at Brown Paper Tickets, $12 door, 2501 Fawcett Ave., Tacoma]