August 1st, 2006. Spelling errors and confusing grammar are always free...

[Shed Boy]

August 1st, 2006. Spelling errors and confusing grammar are always free. Mid-summer always seems to bring a lull in the action, well the lull is about to get shattered in a big way with new shows, and the approaching back to school show that is bound to please. But first, as always...the news. The band we want to hear... We have always said that a lot of local musicians, while kick ass now, are REALLY going to be interesting when they are in their 20’s, then many of them are now at 17. Enter a crop of PT veterans that are getting together in an informal way that, if it turns into a gigging band, will turn heads right away. Jesse, Parker and Ben from The Nihilist, Chris Z former of Lunatic Fringe, along with Neil, a former member of the Sadie Hawkins Rejects are planing on cranking out what has been described as “kind-of phsyobilly”. No doubt Jesse will be playing his new 6 foot white (at least for now) upright. If it happens, this band will destroy. Holla Hoddar... The aforementioned unnamed bands first chance to play in PT might be a return after 3 years of a revamped Kane Hoddar in a November date at the Hall. The Kane just returned from a trip to Japan and is sharing the stage with The Hollowpoints at Bumbershoot in September. Road Trip!....Speaking of The Nihilists, hopefully you caught what was probably an excellent road trip show on Sunday at the Seattle Drum School with The Inkreats, Delusional Label, and PT’s Capital Incognito. Another good one? catch a double bill of The HollowPoints and The Nihilists Aug 12th in Marysville. You can see um too... The Hollowpoints have a cool video posted at www.youtube.com and are playing some dates in Cali before the 26th show. After that, they giddy back out there on the road, as it seems there are a lot of new points fans and radio stations around the country that are just now discovering the band, so recording a new CD has been delayed for now. We might get the first tastes of some new stuff on the 26th. Thou shalt create more shows when the sun goes down earlier... A cool September show has been announced at the Hall on the 23rd with DEK, The Mechanical Dolls and Ryder Strong, with another band to be added. A little cool fact about that show is that the Dolls have acquired the services of former Common Hero bassist and winner of our 2005 Sheddie for best stage dive, Kyle. A cool 21+ show coming right up features Portland’s very cool Young Immortals are playing Sirens on the 19th of August at 10pm. We also here that several people are getting it together to provide what would be the 6th annual Halloween shows with some cool bands being lined up. The Legion Hall Lawn will not get rain on September 2nd, but if it does, you should head on down anyhow for an outdoor show with Captain Incognito and wave band The Jetsons B-Ham. Frankly my dear, I don’t give a Dan... Seems like now that the Drive Inn is open, they have gotten a little hipper and started playing some local rock, or it just might be that thing called the Evening load on 89.7 that has featured a ton of local noise and guests including the Warrior and Len Enders, along with new intern A-dog/Nurse Ang (who is looking for a better name), and in her ever formidable way is keeping those boys in line with their dribble. 2 beer cans up around here. Check it out. Speaking of AngieeeeeeIwantmyBinkie!.... Congratulations to Angie Hart (who helps with some of the Legion shows working the door) and Kipp Miller who had a healthy baby boy, Aidenn. Yes he is named after the band, showing that the little scene around here and the bands that play it can even inspire people not in their teens. You can meet him on the 26th. Less than a month old and his first show will be a Briefs one so you know he will be a badass, and is the future administrator of this web site weather he knows it or not. Nice Arrangement. They get rock, We get to rock... Kudos to Jennifer Taylor and The Inkreats who are working on getting together a cleaning/improvment crew for the Legion Hall. The management of the Hall has been very open to the idea of more rock/punk shows at the venue, as witnessed by the full slate of at least once a month shows through the end of the year. Rewind back to this time last year and you will find that the 05 school year brought us a scant sprinkling of shows while the hall underwent a management change from another planet, and the Boiler Room didn’t really host, let alone pursue hard music shows at the newly opened location. Fast forward to now and we can see that the 06-07 season looks to be the best ever with the energy of new bands, new promoters, a new manager at the hall (his name is John. Thank him when you see him), and blood at the BR that brought in some great events for summer which is usually pretty slow when it comes to shows. Our thanks once more go to Be-B (Zero, Becky and a host of others) for helping to make better BR shows go down, and we look forward to seeing what Josh from the BR does while Be-B plays in Portland. The point of this dribble is that there are some great bands, people, and places in town for young people. Be prepared to have fun, because between now and January, the action around town for young people and fans of hard music is picking up. A reminder.... Make sure if you want to be covered in this little infrequent online rag (where’s my Blue Dog Black!) to send us your info. We usually find out what is up, but if you don’t tell us, sometimes we won’t know. Good help is hard to find... As we once again push a band that hasn’t even been a band for a while that we always liked (so there) the Tri-county’s Shotgun Kisses think that they have found a new electric throat,.,.,mabye. The MySpace sites of the month had to be Parkers when I saw the picture to the right, which proves that you always need to watch your back in the big city. The other one is this girl, who’s bulletins just crack me up. Also Lit and Cujo. Saturdays movie will be? The MySpace Band site of the month is from Sequim’s Justin Forshaw. Whatever it is with the land where John Wayne parked his boat and “Metal” in a very broad term, it seems that See-quiem is turning into a little haven for it. Pretty much spans the spectrum from Justin’s blazing old-school Vai-type thang to DWR, who just seems to be chugging right along, and winning over fans every time they play. We think its because they have a Taco Bell. Also check out The River City Rebels who put on a great set at the hall last month. Time for Hero’s and Zeros. Their is only one Hero for the month of August and that is Katie. Happy birthday, and thank you for being the best person I know, and my best friend. Zeros for this installment includes every damm member of the bush administration. Dammit, get Bill back! Do we really have 2 more years of this guy and his buds? I know I said I would keep the politics down, but it goes so well with music. Get ready to vote if you can in the October congressional elections. Till later...