Posts Tagged ‘Comet Tavern’
And I Was Like, What?
And I Was Like, What? is a confusing name for such a wholesome band. In fact, everything about this band seems to disorient your perceptions. For a band with a slightly tough-guy aesthetic, they are real sweethearts. Their lyrics are mostly heartfelt and honest reflections on relationships. They even have a violin underpinning most of their songs, to lighten their indie rock abruptness. [...]
Tonight in Music: Little Black Bottles, Unmanned Drone, and more!
The Little Black Bottles @ High Dive | 5/24 | 8pm | $6 Little Black Bottles share some subject matter with Voltaire, but have very different styles. This quartet out of North Bend is a folk band with a bit of punk, and their songs are all influenced by horror staples such as zombies and sideshow acts. The song “Zombie Romance” tells the story of two lovers turning into zombies and if [...]
More On: Social Studies
Social Studies @ Comet Tavern | 5/18 | 8PM | $5 As mentioned this morning in Suzi Pratt's Tonight in Music, there is some great San Francisco indie-pop is in town, and that is reason to celebrate. Social Studies is not an exceptionally prolific band with only two EPs released in almost five years, but that is about to change. The band has been touring and getting ready to unleash their first [...]
Tonight in Music: Shooter Jennings, Social Studies, The Banyans
Shooter Jennings @ The Crocodile | 5/18 | 8PM | $20 | 21+ Shooter Jennings is a renowned singer-songwriter best known for his country-Southern rock music. With that being said, it comes as a surprise that his fourth album Black Ribbons is largely conceptual, complete with narration by horror author Stephen King interlaced with hard rock music. The album is frighteningly futuristic, as it [...]
Tonight in Music: Greenriver Thrillers & Gravity, and more
Greenriver Thrillers & Public Perverts @ Comet | 5/4 | 8PM | $5 | 21+ The Comet tonight has three local heavy metal bands. Formed one year after the capture of Gary Ridgway, The Greenriver Thrillers released their self-titled album in March 2009. They describe their sound as “Underground Shat Rock” and “A troll stumbling down an alley.” The four songs on their myspace [...]
Tonight in Music: Judgement Day, Brotherhood of the Drum
Judgement Day, Bronze Fawn, You May Die in the Desert, & Aerglo @ Comet Tavern | 4/21 | 8PM | $7 It's been nearly a month since returning from SXSW and in that time, I have anxiously been awaiting tonight's show at the Comet. One of the greatest joys is stumbling upon something so awesome yet unconventional that you can't wait to share it with everyone [...]
Tonight in Mysic: Dire Wolf, Vomitting Unicorns, Alice Hejna
Vomiting Unicorns, Ghost Lobby @ Sunset Tavern | 03/21 | 4pm | $5 If you plan on seeing several shows tonight, then The Sunset Tavern is the best place to start. Their early show has some very chill indie bands. With female vocalist Tara Ellis, fronting Ghost Lobby, is frequently compared to the band Spoon, and that is a very apt comparison. All four members come from very [...]
Tonight in Music: Led to Sea, The Drug Purse, Smile Brigade
Led to Sea @ Black Lodge | 03/19 | 9pm| $5 Led to Sea's elegantly titled full length, Into the Darkening Sky, was released this month and it'll likely be one of the records that local music critics will mention in their top lists at the end of the year. Alex Guy writes mostly viola-based songs are as unique as they are eerily lovely. Comparisons to Andrew Bird are bound to happen, but Led [...]
Tonight in Music: Big Blue Whale, Dapne Loves Derby, James McMurtry
Big Blue Whale, Kill Cupid, High Class Wreckage @ Comet Tavern | 9pm | $5 All the bands at the Comet tonight are just very solid rock. Seattle locals Kill Cupid formed a few years ago, as a return to a heavier rock. Their MySpace credits The Toadies, The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, and numerous other bands as influences, and that is very true. Big Blue Whale is touring [...]
Tonight in Music: The Quick & Easy Boys, The Jones Family Fortune, and more
The Quick & Easy Boys @ The Comet Tavern | 2/12 | 9pm | $7 A new sound has rolled into town, and so have The Quick and Easy Boys. Imagine Parliament and the Funkadelics meet Hank Williams and Willie Nelson with some Curtis Mayfield and Minute Men tossed in. They have been burning up the scene in Portland with their country funk, and now they are riding into town to do the same in [...]
