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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
Green Apple Quick Step. What does the name bring to mind?
Some remember the band fondly. Green Apple Quick Step harkens back to a simpler time in local music - not pre-grunge simple, but still a time when it was easy to know what was cool and what was exciting, and
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
Whatever your viewpoint on Green Apple Quick Step, one fact is undeniable: The band struck a chord, and is still remembered. Aside from a handful of songs at a Caffé Vita employee party at the Showbox in December, Green Apple Quick Step - in any form - hasn't taken the
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
Ask any true-blue Tacoman what's likely to be birthed when Dave Takata, Shawn Lanksbury, Sean Horst, Chris Roxx and Michah Hammer get together and the answer will be blatant: fucking rock. And lots of it. Formed from members of the late Brian Redman's Dirty Knockers and members of low-fi punks
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
After pounding out more than 2600 words last week on Post Stardom Depression I'm not sure I've go much left to add. I think my two cents are already firmly on record. Do I think Post Stardom Depression is a rock band in the truest sense of the term? Yes
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
The word on the street is to watch the fuck out for Womberang - a surly troupe of SOTA-bred punk metal badasses. And I would never use the word "badasses" lightly. Trust me. A little like Scratch Acid with acne, Womberang has been kicking around many of the same haunts
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been doing it forever - dishing out folky rock as the Indigo Girls since 1985. Hell, they went to elementary school together in Georgia, so these two respected songwriters are certainly no strangers - even if their styles do differ. Saliers is the quieter,
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Matt Driscoll on March 17th, 2010
The future can be scary. Or exciting. Or whatever. It's unknown. Or is it? Sunday at Crescent Moon Gifts, a whole slew of Tarot card readers and other mystics will take part in the Monthly Intuitive Psychic Fair. Actually, I don't know if they'd appreciate me calling them "mystics" -
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Matt Driscoll on March 14th, 2010
"We've got nothing to hide. We've worked that all out," Jeff Angell tells me. Of course, old school Tacomans know him as Junior, and they probably wouldn't be surprised to see him sitting in the back of a bar discussing rock ‘n roll as high art with me.
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Matt Driscoll on March 14th, 2010
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The South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival held yearly in Austin, Texas is an absurd orgy. Every March a mind-boggling and ever-growing mob converges on SXSW: bands, managers, members of the press, record labels, PR people, booking agents, groupies, and even a
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Matt Driscoll on March 10th, 2010
Music is art; or, at the very least, important music is art. Art comes in all shapes and sizes - from straightforward, to abstract, to downright bizarre - just like music. A person could take a poop in an Easy Bake Oven and call it art - and the crazy
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Matt Driscoll on February 5th, 2010
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I know, I know. Enough already. On Monday I promised you an interview with Metal Sanaz in advance of her appearance at Hell's Kitchen tonight.
It didn't happen, all right. Things sometimes go awry. Like a number of occasions in my life, she had my number -
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Matt Driscoll on February 1st, 2010
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It's a new week - and a new month, even - and it's a Monday. Some things never change. Cyclical monotony. Here we go again. ...
Say, did you hear Rick Talbert is running for a seat on the Pierce County Council?
Here's a look at what's coming up,
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Matt Driscoll on January 30th, 2010
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INDIE POP: Like many others, and many of you, the devastation and suffering in Haiti has been too much for The Color of East to sit back and watch idly. The band wanted to do something - and since what they do is
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Matt Driscoll on January 29th, 2010
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You may have noticed I've changed paths this week. I decided to feature a cat getting tanked instead of my usual shot of a dog getting hammered.
Here at The Prefunk, we're nothing if not equal opportunity.
If you're looking for those pictures of Greg Oden's junk, this
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Matt Driscoll on January 18th, 2010
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Ah, Monday. So we meet again, my nemesis. Ripping me off the couch and out of my weekend "leisure attire," you rudely thrust me back out into the world, shouting things like, "Make something of your goddamn life!" and "Stop being so worthless!"
I hate you, Monday.
But you're unavoidable.
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Matt Driscoll on January 18th, 2010
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Through the magic of Twitter and the ever-presence of SOCIAL NETWORKING - I stumbled across some props for Tacoma, and specifically Todd Sykes and EvergeenOne, on The Stranger's LineOut music blog this morning. Snug, and much deserved. The post includes Sykes and EvergreenOne's new video for the
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Matt Driscoll on January 15th, 2010
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By my own admission, I'm not really one for currently popular television. Sure, I boob tube it upon occasion, but mainly I just watch ridiculous shit like Modern Marvels: Thumbs on the History Channel. Rarely do I have any idea what's going on in the mainstream
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Matt Driscoll on March 23rd, 2006
Spring is in the air, bitches. You know what that means.
Spring Break!
While it's been a long, long, long time since I've watched any real MTV, I can almost guarantee readers that I know exactly what the channel's programming is going to consist of for close to the next month. It'll
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