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Recently, and very suddenly, Dave Graham was diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma, and has since undergone painful and costly treatment to battle this vicious cancer. Sunday's benefit show will hopefully provide a little financial relief for Graham. But the biggest aspect of the event is to show Graham how much
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Although little known to most, the naming of the city of Lacey remains mysterious. What is known is that in the 1850s, settlers populated the area. Two of those were Isaac and Catherine Wood. Like many, they worked hard and prospered, but due to the Wood's good reputation as upright citizens, people
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RVIVR kicks fucking ass. There's something so nourishing about pop punk that's hard to explain - especially when it's done with as much precision and flair as RVIVR. There's just something about this unabashed enthusiasm, the giant hooks, and even the more enormous choruses. Everything is
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The members of the Cave Singers began their notable music careers on full tilt, in prog-rock and art-punk outfits like Pretty Girls Make Graves, Murder City Devils and Cobra High. Their transition to the indie folk rock of the Cave Singers is somewhat akin to someone taking a lung-bursting sprint
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Bands that take on influences from Modest Mouse tend to sound more lost to me than bands drawing from, say, Vampire Weekend or Death Cab for Cutie. If you are talented and you really want to sound like Vampire Weekend or Death Cab, well, you can. But no one can
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The influence of Modest Mouse is far-reaching and, as more time passes, it becomes increasingly recognizable - the restlessly chopping guitars, rhythmically adding dissonant nuance to compliment the blown-out drums. Modest Mouse has a way of cherishing the guitar, of using every inch of it, even the parts that others
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Sometimes a band can shoot up like a blossoming flower in front of a time-lapse camera. Quickly emerging, very quickly fully formed, the band finds itself in real time, right in front of our eyes. Bellingham's Learning Team is such a band. Though Learning Team has only existed for a
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Shrouded Strangers is a garage-pop band that stays true to the tropes and sounds of a band labeled garage-pop, while also incorporating deliriously psychedelic elements. Nominally, the band draws influences from the more experimental side of the Beatles, among other British invasion acts. When they get weird, there's always an
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The Stumblebum Brass Band is an entity that banks on novelty, but does its best to surpass it. The band succeeds in spades. Theirs is a collective of brass-band punk dudes, to put it bluntly. To incorporate marching/school assembly band elements into a punk outfit is not unheard of, but
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One of the purest expressions of self comes with the stripping down of sound to just one man and one guitar. The singer-songwriter is left with nowhere to hide. Think of Nick Drake's heartbreaking swan song, Pink Moon. After two lush, gorgeous records of folk pop went unnoticed, Drake appeared
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All right, so here's a thing that's happening: Saturday, an assemblage of Tacoma's most stylish bands will convene in one place, play music and have photographs taken of themselves in starkly fashionable rock 'n roll clothing, and you will be there to bask in all the ridiculous, trendsetting-ness of it
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Destruction Island makes big sounds and big hooks with their guitars, but the band persists in being betrayed by small sound. As much as Destruction Island puffs out its chests with these arena sounds, the band always cheat a look of uncertain modesty - like a plunky piano line or
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Saturday at Tahoma Tea and Co. (formerly the Den @ urbanXchange) brings about a showcase of three singer-songwriters, each of whom are accustomed to performing with a full band. The evening will strip these performers down, creating a tableau of three unique voices: Humble Cub's Allan Boothe, Oh Dear!'s Brandon
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Upon first being confronted with Crypts, the most immediate impression is a blast of non-directional aggression. Crypts is a band that seems intent on creating a vibe of barely contained chaos and vicious noise. Crypts wants the audience to be conflicted, to be challenged. If you make it past those first
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Once again, I'm effortlessly won over by female vocals sweetly sung over gently acerbic instrumentation. Age and proximity to alternative rock in the early '90s cemented this association for me. Coasting very nicely fills up the Swiss cheese holes in my brain that lay dormant, wanting, waiting for a sound
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"Now I have to try to drink my hangover away," hazily croons the lead singer of the Dead Giveaways. This is yet another band that melds the booziest aspects of country with and the rowdier edge of punk rock. Unlike some other bands in a genre that boasts this "fuck
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Recently, at a show, local rock 'n' roll person Spencer Kelley and I aided in fulfilling a young gentleman's wish to crowd surf. We watched for a while, waiting for the right opportunity to achieve his goal (it is very important to not force the crowd surf), and when the
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I think I had the same introduction to Todd Sykes and EvergreenOne as a lot of people. One day, I stumbled across the video for a song called "90's Shit," which features two normal-looking guys wandering through the streets of Tacoma, taking turns calling out familiar touchstones for people who
