Weekly Volcano music columnist who swills forbidden cocktails while injecting dangerous, sweaty, catchy, alcohol- drenched, cigarette- smoke-smelling, hard-volume rock 'n' roll plasma into his veins.
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Wake up, little starlet! You can endure the four-hour show by exchanging snarky comments with your fellow film enthusiasts in a movie theater environment. The Grand Cinema hosts an Academy Awards Party Sunday, Feb. 26 at the Theatre on the Square in downtown Tacoma. The doors open at
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The ‘70s may always be remembered best for bands like Journey, Foghat and the Bee Gees, but the Spinners are one of the few bands that unfairly slipped through the cracks. Bobble Tiki, for one, is glad that more than 35 years later, as he dances before the Spinners Saturday
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Have you ever seen the look on someone's face the first time he rides a roller coaster? It's a mixture of abject fear, exhilaration and satisfaction. This same convoluted look might grace your mug standing in front of Devil On a Leash Friday night at Hell's Kitchen. Bobble
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While Bobble Tiki was bathing in early '90s Northwest flannel, four great Americana alt-country acts in Whiskeytown, BR5-49, Wilco, and the last stages of Uncle Tupelo were busy inventing a genre. While many of the pioneers are pushing alt-country/ Americana into vital new (usually ambient or experimental) territory, it's nice
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Warning: this week Bobble TIki is not writing about a musical "show," per se. In fact, he's not even really sure what "per se" means. Rather, he's writing about an event - a musical event, yes - but not your standard three bands on a bill and a couple (too
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Honestly, Bobble Tiki feels like he's been getting promotional messages about Tin Man's CD release show for Somewhere in the Middle since 1987. That can't be, of course. Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish created Tin Man after years spent in punk bands, not to mention years then spent away from
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Honestly, Bobble Tiki feels like he's been getting promotional messages about and Facebook invites for Tin Man's CD release show for Somewhere in the Middle since 1987. That can't be, of course. Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish created Tin Man after years spent in punk bands, not to mention years
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Bobble Tiki isn't above sloppy seconds. He never has been. While you take a moment to digest all the implications of that statement (and Bobble Tiki means ALL the implications, even the really icky ones from Bobble Tiki's frat days), Bobble Tiki would like to clear his throat, shift uncomfortably
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Bobble Tiki isn't above sloppy seconds. He never has been. While you take a moment to digest all the implications of that statement (and Bobble Tiki means ALL the implications, even the really icky ones from Bobble Tiki's frat days), Bobble Tiki would like to clear his throat, shift uncomfortably in
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This week, Bobble Tiki's going to cut straight to the chase. Bobble Tiki went to his high school prom, but it was not the magical evening it's often made out to be in the movies. There was dinner in Bobble Tiki's braces, hesitation in his date, and island themed souvenirs simply
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The reports are in. Backstage Bar & Grill, despite its almost-end-of-Sixth-Ave, strip mall locale, is pretty freakin' bad-ass. From what Bobble Tiki hears, the stage is epic, the drinks are strong, and it's the kind of place that hires chicks like these to sling drinks. How can you really go
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My, how time flies. It's true what they say. Life seems to be zipping past all of us faster than ever. It's white-knuckle stuff. Now, imagine you were an island themed souvenir working for the Weekly Volcano with a questionable visa and a not-so-secret dependency on mid-afternoon boxed wine. Imagine every
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Honestly, one interview is usually about all Bobble Tiki can handle in any given week. Working any more than that, he contends, would just be silly. He's paid for one column - containing three questions - and doing anything more than that would be like giving his services away for
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Bobble Tiki is no fan of new technology. Let's be straight about that right from the start. Whether we're talking about newfangled cell phones or newfangled toilet bowl plungers (What's up with all these new shapes?), Bobble Tiki usually has the same reaction - he liked things the way they
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Well hot shit. The regular art-meets-music-meets-socializing-meets-(usually) booze phenomenon that is Artifakt has finally made it to Hell's Kitchen - throwing some flames on the show flyer for good measure. Those who know art in this town know about Artifakt and the cats behind it, so it should come as
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Believe it or not, Bobble Tiki even shares a few things in common with Tacoma band Bodybox, who will perform at The New Frontier Lounge Saturday. What does Bobble Tiki have in common with Bodybox, you may ask? Let's start with the things Bodybox and Bobble Tiki DON'T have in
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Here at the Weekly Volcano we have many friends - friends in high places; friends in low places; friends with no name; and friends of the devil. We get around ... when it comes to making friends, that is. One of our bestest friends in the whole, wide world has always
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Last week, Bobble Tiki intended to publish an interview with The Artichoke Project prior to the band's show at Stonegate Pizza Saturday night. Long story short: that didn't happen. This tragedy may or may not have had something to do with food poisoning, and wild, projectile anguish spurting from both ends of
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Don't look now, but this marks two columns in two weeks for Bobble Tiki. For Bobble Tiki's "Faithful Seven" (that's what the five people who read this column like to call themselves, for some reason), they know - as of late - this has been something of a rarity. Between
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Typically, awards shows are the worst. Bobble Tiki would rather endure a root canal without anesthetic than tune in for the Grammys, Golden Globes or even Oscars. It's like watching paint dry ... only more boring and predictable. Saturday, however, an awards frenzy to end all awards frenzies will enrapture
