It’s the spring, and from the frigid temperatures you’d never know it; all the better to pack into a local music venue this weekend.
Tonight (Friday, March 2):
Peter Case and Paul Collins, Summer Twins, Bang sha Bang @ The Funhouse. $20 day of show. Doors at 8pm.
Together as The Nerves and separately as members of The Plimsouls and the Paul Collins Beat, Case and Collins helped lay down the groundwork for the punchy/sweet dichotomy that is power pop. If you’re a fan of Weezer, Ted Leo, or OK Go, and you want to hear the roots of those sounds, this should be unmissable. Expect to hear plenty of gems from these guys’ deep back catalogs, and Case will surely belt out that classic of classics, “A Million Miles Away”.
Steel Tigers of Death. Partman Parthorse, Halcyon Daze @ The High Dive. $7 at the door. Show at 9pm.
Local punks Steel Tigers of Death bust out furious noise that still manages to be catchy (and funny) as all get out, and the band frequently sports the most inspired wardrobes of any punk band in town.
The George Tisdale Band, Kissing Potion, Down North @ The Skylark Cafe. $10 at the door. Show at 8pm.
West Seattle’s most fun hole-in-the-wall club brings the funk tonight. I’ll abstain from rattling on (again) about the snap and greatness of Down North, largely because The George Tisdale Band‘s swaggering brand of eighties-influenced funk and Kissing Potion’s jazzy variation on thick 1970’s soul will make this bill a stem-to-stern booty-shaker.
Saturday, March 3:
The Spittin’ Cobras, Witchburn, Zero Down, Ancient Warlocks, Piston Ready @ El Corazon. $6 advance, $10 day of show. Doors at 8pm.
It’s all local metal, wall to wall, at South Lake Union’s most metal of venues with this bill. The two headliners bring gloriously old-school headbanging to the table: The Spittin’ Cobras sound like Judas Priest beating the shit out of Kiss in a back alley, while Witchburn‘s call-and-response metal attack sports some serious firepower thanks to iron-lunged lead singer Jamie Nova’s hellstorm of a voice.
Sunday, March 4:
Andrew W.K, The Evaporators @ The Showbox at the Market. $25 advance, $28 day of show. Doors at 7pm.
It’s hard to believe Andrew W.K’s ripe and robust cheese-metal-pop masterwork, I Get Wet, is a decade old, but there you go. This tour’s an unashamed roll in the Elysian Fields of nostalgia, so you’ll likely hear all of I Get Wet, and heaps of the old hits. Party Hard, indeed.