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>>> Friday, Feb. 15 BLACK MARBLE As a mission statement, you couldn't find one much clearer than "Cruel Summer," the lead-off track on the latest release by Black Marble. As if the title didn't do well enough to harken back to the early '80s, from the moment that stiff drum machine meets
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Survival Knife is Kris Cunningham on drums, Meg Cunningham on bass, Brandt Sandeno on guitar and Justin Trosper on guitar and vocals. Yes, Meg and Kris are married, and yes, Sandeno and Trosper are two of the original three members of Olympia's infamous '90s indie rock predecessors, Unwound. All right, now that
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Sleater-Kinney played its final two shows at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom. Those who’ve been there know, not only is the Crystal Ballroom owned by the McMenamins who redid the Spar in Olympia (and own about a gazillion other bars around Oregon and Washington), but the venue is known for it’s energy-transferring
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Friday, July 27 COUNTRY ronnie milsap Some artists, whether you love them or not, you just can’t find anything bad to say about them, and Ronnie Milsap definitely falls into this group. I first discovered the country crooner in the late ’80s at the height of the “Urban Cowboy” craze; yes I
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“Longview” is the title of a song by Green Day. It’s also the hometown of rock band Numbered Days. Like gritty Tacoma, timber town Longview, Wash., has buried ties to rock music. Longview’s latest export, Numbered Days, plays straight ahead original rock that has been compared to that of Nickelback,
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on sale now Mirah and Spectratone, Rocky Votolato Olympia. Aug. 10 (all ages) 9 pm. $8-$10 (Capitol Theater, www.buyolympia.com). Psychic TV Seattle. Aug. 22 9 pm. $18 (Neumo’s, TW). The Expendables, Authority Zero, The Supervillains Seattle. Aug. 23 (all ages) 9 pm. $12 (Crocodile Café, TW). The Mob Law, Doxology, Shim, Yeke Yeke Seattle.
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The cover of The Albert Square album, Scared of the Youth, Scared of What's Next!, depicts two robots: one happy, one angry. It's an evocatively nerdy image, and once those first power chords come bursting out of "Sensational Programming," it becomes clear that this will all be a very nerdy
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As a mission statement, you couldn't find one much clearer than "Cruel Summer," the lead-off track on the latest release by Black Marble. As if the title didn't do well enough to harken back to the early '80s, from the moment that stiff drum machine meets up with those pulsing,
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RESERVE WINE AND CHOCOLATES Stottle Winery (2641 Willamette Dr. NE, Lacey) is hosting a Reserve Wine and Chocolates event noon to 5 p.m. Feb. 16-17. Stottle will be popping the cork of limited supply bottles of 2008 varietals and reserves. Background tunes, candlelight and chocolate will be present to accompany them.
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Since 1994, Allstar Guitar in Gig Harbor has been proudly owned and operated by Dan and May Wilson. Allstar Guitar is a multi-faceted operation - it serves the community as a custom guitar shop, instrument repair and music academy. This month it's celebrating the grand opening of its new location
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If you flipped through the calendar from McCoy's Tavern around 10 years ago, when any given weekend promised a fucking rock show, Mico De Noche would be one of the bands listed, scrawled across dried beer, the letters slightly blurred. And on those show days, the buzz about the super
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The ever-popular Tacoma hip-hop group The Breaklites just recently released the video for the title track from its fourth, full-length In The Trunk, which dropped in the summer of 2012. The video is the culmination from being on the road capturing the group in grainy, minimalistic black and white footage
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Survival Knife is Kris Cunningham on drums, Meg Cunningham on bass, Brandt Sandeno on guitar and Justin Trosper on guitar and vocals. Yes, Meg and Kris are married, and yes, Sandeno and Trosper are two of the original three members of Olympia's infamous '90s indie rock predecessors, Unwound. All right, now that
