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This is going to be one hell of a party. First, the stars of the night, we have buttrockers Hellbelly (think a more melodic Helmet) with their much-awaited CD release. After just one year together, local rock veterans Eric Breding, Brian Sparhawk, Tommy Byrnes and Ryan Mungia have pulled a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Morso Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Americana Music Series, featuring Antje Duvekot. 8 pm. $15. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia
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So you've stood atop the mountain and screamed your naked desires to the universe and you've had your share of peyote-fueled hallucinations of images of the pagan goddesses in the sweat lodge and you have fever dreamed your way to what someone said might be nirvana but was more likely
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Thankgsgiving Benefit Show featuring Stephanie Anne Johnson, Kye Alfred Hillig, Andrew Cook, David Hannon, Heidi Stoermer and Toby Hanson. All Ages. 7 pm. Cash and canned food donations. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Nick Moss Band. 8 pm. $10. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma
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If you enjoy claustrophobic crowds, sweaty people and hard rock, don't miss this show. Swelter, a Tacoma band formed around 1990, will reunite to rock The New Frontier Lounge Friday. The quartet began as Swelter Cacklebush, a heavy pop band formed by singer Micah Hembree, bassist Chad Baker, drummer Stuart
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown. An Acoustic Evening With Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $54-$99. Guitarist Jeffry Hamilton Steele and keyboardist Monica Steele. All Ages. 4 pm. Free will offering. BLUES B Sharp Coffee House - Tacoma. Rod Cook. All Ages. 7 pm. NC.
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Doing its part to keep Tacoma's Thanksgiving celebrants from choking on family-friendly pabulum, the Tacoma Mob Riders will own the street again Saturday, this month disguising its bicycle booze cruise as a giant turkey. You might have seen one of the Mob's past rides through the streets of Tacoma, dressed
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(This event has been postponed) There's theater and then there's theater. There are the high school productions and then there's the theater. Sort of like the difference between movies and films. It either isn't or it is. Everything Everything Everything by Wesley K. Andrews and ilvs strauss probably falls into the
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A good day for reflection, Sunday is. A good day for introspection. A good day for looking at a different way of seeing things. Maybe the way dark artists see things (Bet you didn't see that one comin'!) See if you can find your way up to The New Frontier
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The history books will record the Nov. 24 event as Woodstick 2013 and will list among its participants such drumming greats as Kenny Aronoff of The Rolling Stones, Michael Derosier of Heart, Jeff Kathan of The Paul Rogers Band, Todd Sucherman of STYX, Rick Redmond of Jason Aldean's band, John
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Antje Duvekot silky voice wraps around her songs like a nice hemp sandal. One song breaks out and tackles grittier social matters with razor sharp insights. The next song, her pitch perfect, sweet, delicate and poignant soprano voice waxes personal. Then, she'll sing a dark-eyed ballad about what becomes of
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Hundreds of soupniks with big hearts will make the trek to Charles Wright Academy Saturday for one of the year's most heartwarming events: Empty Bowls, a Emergency Food Network fundraising event combining art, community, giving and tasty soups. Local and regional artisans will donate more than 1,200 one-of-a-kind bowls made
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Genna & Jesse. All Ages. 6 pm. $5-$8. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Out Of The Woods Benefit, with Jennifer Kelly. All Ages. 7 pm. $23. BLUES 2 Mile
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Remember that time in high school when your parents went away? You know, plot line of every teenage movie ever made - except this time, you blew up the house. Standing in the ashes as your parents roll up, what do you do? Say it with us now - iiiiiimprovise.