Next to the question "Don't you ever shut up?" Bobble Tiki's mother, the saintly Mrs. Tiki, was most often heard to ask her precious Bobble when he was young "Aren't you ever happy?"

"Well, excuse Bobble Tiki for living!" was his usual snappy reply - even then charmingly referring to himself in the third person.

But Mrs. Tiki had a point. Is Bobble Tiki ever happy?  On rare occasions, such as today when local music promoter Flash send Bobble Tiki a heads up on his Guttermouth Show March 2 at the Backstage Bar & Grill.

Combining the best parts of the oral tradition and street-side drainage systems, Huntington Beach's Guttermouth serves its punk rock fast, loud and snottily enough to make Bobble Tiki don his "Don't Make Me Get Out My Flying Monkeys" T-shirt for the show. The band will provide a night full of songs about fecal matter, your mother, unhealthy relationships with farm animals and more four-letter words than you can shake a forest full of sticks at.

Opening for Guttermouth will be Boldtype, Neutralboy, The Uncivil and South 11th. 

[Backstage Bar & Grill, Friday, March 2, 8 p.m., $12 advance, $15 door, 6409 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.564.0149]

SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE A FAN >>>

The Weekly Volcano doesn't know if Tiger Woods will party with Nickelback June 23 when the band performs at the Tacoma Dome. We do know the concert is a go. Live Nation just sent us the sweet details on the show, which will include bands Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, Jan. 21.

Read up people:

Nickelback, one of the biggest rock bands of the past decade known for their extraordinary live performances, have announced their first North American arena tour in two years. The Live Nation-produced tour begins on April 10^th in Moline, Illinois at the i wireless Center, making a 39-date trek throughout North America, with dates confirmed through June 26^th at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada. Special guests Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days, join Nickelback on all tour dates. Tickets go on sale beginning January 20^th at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.  

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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>>

Live Nation just sent this to Weekly Volcano World Headquarters:

Seattle, WA - Live Nation welcomes RADIOHEAD to KeyArena on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.

Radiohead has confirmed as a headline slot on this year's two-weekend Coachella lineup as well as three additional dates on its 2012 U.S. tour.

The band will play Coachella April 14 and 21, prior to which it will headline the KeyArena in Seattle on April 9, the HP Pavillion in San Jose CA on April 11, and the Santa Barbara Bowl on April 12.

Radiohead's U.S. tour begins February 27 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL, with dates currently running through the second Coachella weekend of April 21. Other Lives will support on the headline dates.

Seattle and San Jose tickets go on sale 10 a.m. January 14. Santa Barbara tickets go on sale 11 a.m. January 21.

For further information, go to http://www.radiohead.com/tourdates/

LET HIS SPIRIT BE UNCHAINED >>>

UPDATE: Tickets for Van Halen and openers Kool & the Gang (natch!) go one sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 through Ticketmaster, LiveNation.com and or charge by phone 1.800.745.3000. Ticket prices haven't been released.

As KZOK FM and Tacoma KOMO reported yesterday, Van Halen will hit the road with a stop May 5 at the Tacoma Dome.

To be precise, it's Van Halen, not Van Hagar. The band is, once again, front by David Lee Roth back by the Van Halen brothers and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass.Credible rock fans agree: David Lee Roth is the only legit Halen frontman.

Any Van Halen track with the Red Rocker's eardrum-searing caterwaul and milksop lyrics might as well be struck from rock 'n' roll's permanent record. Everything else Van Halen did, from strutting rockers like Fair Warning's "Mean Streets" to chops-busting rave-ups like 1984's "Hot for Teacher," should be sent by unmanned spaceship to each corner of the galaxy, so emerging civilizations can get proper, early training in the rock 'n' roll arts.

We'll let you know when tickets go on sale.

Van Halen's website tour announcment is here.

SHE MIGHT AS WELL BUY A CONDO HERE (PLEASE!)>>> 

The Queen of Mean returns to Tacoma's Temple Theatre for a stand up show Saturday, Feb. 4. Lisa Lampanelli is becoming an annual fixture at Tacoma's Temple Theatre. The 50-year-old Lampanelli is by all accounts one of the funniest, dirtiest and most irreverent comedians working today.

Tickets are $39.50 at all Ticketmaster locations. They go on sale Friday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m.

LINK: Complete concert listing for Western Washington

BAM! >>>

Prince has baffled many minds over the past – can it be? – 37 years. He is, when he's on, one of the best showmen and musicians of our time. Dec. 19, as part of his Welcome 2 America tour, Prince will perform at the Tacoma Dome.

Yes, he's here in about a month.

Word is he's not going to be as obstinate about revisiting his past as he's been in the, er, past. Translation: He's playing his hits.

Tacoma is catching the tail end of Prince's Canadian tour.

Tickets for the Prince concert go on sale Saturday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and Live Nation outlets. Prices haven't been announced.

LINK: Review of his New York show

LINK: More concerts in Western Washington

DIG IT >>>

Odds are you were the guy who, while driving, mimicked Frampton's talk box on "Do You Feel Like We Do," pausing every few minutes to adjust the huge yellow comb in your back pocket. But maybe now you felt a little guilty for it? Perhaps loving it that much, the fact that it actually moved you to drop the hip mask and rock out mades you feel stupid?

Maybe it's time to just dig it for what it is.

Grammy Award winning rock guitarist and songwriter Peter Frampton is on tour behind the 35th anniversary of his Frampton Comes Alive! album - one of the best-selling live album of all time - hitting Tacoma's Pantages Theater this coming March. Tickets for the three-hour show, which includes a complete performance of said album, go on sale today for $59, $79, $89 and $119 through the Broadway Center ticket office.

Come alive again, dude.

[Pantages Theater, Frioday, March 23, 7:30 p.m., $59-$119, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.591.5894]

LOTS OF FIRE >>>

Rammstein's motto is, "Do your own thing, and overdo it." And that "thing" begins and ends with fire.

Weekly Volcano scribe Ernest A. Jasmin was 30 yards from the stage for most of the band's show at the Tacoma Dome this past May. Jasmin says. "it felt like being blasted in the face with a blow dryer as huge, flaming geysers erupted from the stage throughout." You may read his full review here.

"We're not talking some stock Motley Crue bullshit. We're talking best use of fire - ever," Jasmin wrote.

The Berlin-based band announced it has included a Tacoma Dome show on its 2012 North Americna Tour, bringing the fire to Tacoma May 14.

Tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster outlets Saturday, Dec. 3. Prices haven't been announced.

LINK: Rammstein's Tacoma Dome May 15 set list

MORE DELICIOUS CONCERT NEWS >>>

Breaking: The Weekly Volcano's afternoon office happy hour has been pushed back two hours due to the ridiculous amount of concert and music related press releases flooding the office today.

Apparently, Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil will rock Kent's ShoWare Center Tuesday, Feb. 21 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday? Really?

Tickets are $38-$48, and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4 through ShoWare's ticket office.

The Kent show is part of the Gigantour, a tour founded by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine in 2005.

You can't make us tell you about the Guns N' Roses show Dec. 16 at KeyArena, which goes on sale this Saturday morning.

LINK: More concerts

FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>>

Great news for those who loved Roger Waters's The Wall concert last December at the Tacoma Dome. It's just been announced that Waters will be bringing his live recreation back to the Puget Sound, this time Thursday, May 24, 2012 at KeyArena. The 2012 tour will begin May 1 in Houston, Texas.

Tickets for the show go on sale Monday, Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. 

Last year's reinvention of his iconic stage production of The Wall utilized modern day technological advances and special effects, which were embraced by audiences around the globe, including Weekly Volcano scribe Ernest Jasmin when he wrote for the Trib.