Terrible Buttons
SO YOU WANT TO SEE PAST AND PRESENT INLANDER BANDS TO WATCH? FRIDAY 6 pm, Irv’s: Silver Treason 7:30 pm, Mootsy’s: BLVCK CEILING 8 pm, Big Dipper: Normal Babies 8:10 pm, Club 412: Bloody Gloves 8:15 pm, Neato Burrito: Ian L. Miles 9 pm, Irv’s: Marshall McLean Band (formerly of Horse Thieves) 10:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Mirror Mirror 11:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Dead Serious Lovers (Henry Nordstrom) 11:50 pm, nYne: Terrible Buttons (final show)
SATURDAY 6 pm, Big Dipper: All Urban Outfield (feat. K. Clifton) 7 pm, Big Dipper: 66beat 7:30 pm, Club 412: Losing Skin 7:30 pm, Red Room Lounge: Bandit Train (formerly Please Draw In Me) 8 pm, nYne: Wax & Drums feat. Jaeda 9 pm, Big Dipper: Hooves 9:15 pm, Club 412: BBBBandits 9:20 pm, The Bartlett: Mama Doll 9:50 pm, Club 412: Blackwater Prophet 10:40 pm, Red Room Lounge: Psychic Rites
Bandit Train
SO YOU HAVE A FEW GRAY HAIRS, KIDS AND WANNA CUT LOOSE? FRIDAY 7 pm, The Barlett: Cloud Person 8 pm, The Barlett: Jason Webley 9 pm, Irv’s: Marshall McLean Band 10 pm, The Barlett: Cami Bradley 10:50 pm, Nyne: The Camaros 11:15 pm, Club 412: Lavoy 12:20 am, Red Room Lounge: The Grizzled Mighty SATURDAY 8:30 pm, Neato Burrito: The Bettys 9:20 pm, The Bartlett: Mama Doll 9:30 pm, Nyne: Puff Puff Beer 10 pm, Irv’s: Folkinception 10:30 pm, Nyne: Down North 11:30 pm, Nyne: The Hoot Hoots 11:50 pm, Red Room Lounge: The Flavr Blue
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Dust Moth
SATURDAY, MAY 31, CONTINUED THE HOOT HOOTS | Indie dance party | 11:30 pm Do you like being happy? Dancing around with a smile on your face in a crowd of other smiling people? Do you like rainbows? If you said “yes” to these questions, you’d be remiss to skip the Hoot Hoots’ set at Volume. The Seattle band — which often plays its happy go-lucky rock songs in rainbow monk’s cloaks onstage — actually campaigned to come back and play Volume for a second year in a row. Which is hilarious, because they’re one of our favorite Northwest bands.
RED ROOM LOUNGE
521 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ CLOAK&DAGGER | Dark dance party | 6:30 pm and between sets Before he was making some of the creepiest music around, Dan Ocean was making some of the finest beats behind local hip-hop artists. Ocean hops on the turntables at Red Room to keep the house rocking all night. BANDIT TRAIN | Videogame rock | 7:30 pm The Brothers Malsam love videogames, and it’s something they say is alive and well as ever in their music. The pair was one of the Inlander’s earliest Bands to Watch (they were called Please Draw In Me back then), and has since added guitar to their drums-and-keys setup. It’s awesome to watch even the most strait-laced guy in the audience totally dig what Bandit Train does with kooky Zelda-esque sounds and blasting drums.
Down North
Kithkin
M. AKERS | Electronic | 8:30 pm M. Akers is a self-taught electronic music outsider originally from Detroit, now located in the PNW. His all-hardware synth songs range from the dark, brooding atmosphere of John Carpenter and Fabio Frizzi’s ’70s and ’80s film scores to the unrelenting, sequenced madness of Tangerine Dream. BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE | Electric wizardry | 9:30 pm Jon Ragel is his own show. On stage he’ll switch from saxophone to drum set to DJ station and back again, keeping all of his plates spinning at the same time. At it since 2001, the Portland performance artist has had plenty of time to perfect keeping his audience engaged with his electronic wizardry. PSYCHIC RITES | Neon doom disco | 10:40 pm If you think of the band that you would least expect to come out of the Palouse, it would be Psychic Rites. But novelty isn’t what makes them good, and isn’t what made them a 2013 Inlander Band to Watch: it’s their bizarro take on
electronic music. Led by Mike Siemens, the band has evolved over the years from a quirky twopiece to a forceful, dark electronic trio that can get just about any room shaking in their shoes. THE FLAVR BLUE | Dance party | 11:50 pm Y’all know that chorus in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “White Walls” — that catchy hook that goes “I got that off-black Cadillac, midnight drive/Got that gas pedal, lean back, taking my time… ” It’s sung by Seattle’s own Hollis WongWear — who’ll take a break from hanging out with Macklemore and performing on the Tonight Show to play Spokane with her electronic dance-pop band The Flavr Blue. Prepare to have your mind blown.
THE BARTLETT
228 W. Sprague: all shows are all-ages BRISTOL | Rock | 8:30 pm Formed last spring by brothers Curran and Riley Long, Sean Tyson and Kris Mayhew, the Spokane foursome has built a sound on country sentiment and Christian values. Technically a rock band, the group offers a sweet sound for those looking for something a little more wholesome. MAMA DOLL | Indie rock | 9:20 pm An all-female band isn’t just some sort of ploy, especially when they’re as interesting to listen to as Mama Doll is. After getting together last July, Austen Case, Sarah Berentson (of Terrible Buttons) and Jen Landis (of Cedar & Boyer) have added a new member, Claire Fieberg, and are ready to take their achingly primal, spiritual songs into the studio. Finally. They’re one of the 2014 Bands to Watch.
just-out-of-reach, dreamy nostalgia behind Bitwvlf’s songs, evoking a dark, childlike eeriness in many of his tracks. ALL URBAN OUTFIELD | Psychedelic hip-hop | 6 pm Kay Clifton (aka Quiz) has long been a local hiphop fixture, with a vocal timbre and philosophical approach matched by few others, anywhere. The 2011 Inlander Band to Watch may have finally found his match in the hyper-literate, stream-of-consciousness rapping of p.WRECKS. As All Urban Outfield, the pair collaborate with MCs and producers from the Northwest and beyond to make dark, multidimensional, psychotropic hip-hop. 66BEAT | Garage punk | 7 pm “Shut your mouth, shut it up. Forget your stupid questions.” Those are the kind of no-nonsense lyrics you can expect to hear from up-and-coming punk-rock locals 66beat at the band’s tape release show this weekend. When singer Aaron Bocook sings them, they come out in this great Iggy Pop sneer, backed by rolling drums from Paul Forster. It’s totally contagious, irresistible punk — the kind of stuff you can picture teenage girls sneaking out of the house to go dance to. X SUNS | Heavy rock | 8 pm Heavy music fans with an Isis album in their collection, or even the casual connoisseur of instrumental rock, should be front and center for Seattle’s X Suns (you say the X like “Ten”) set at Volume. The band makes sweeping soundtracks that are both beautiful and brutal, and has become revered on the westside for its technicality and ridiculous musical chops.
KITHKIN | Indie rock | 10:10 pm When Kithkin takes to the Volume stage, prepare for a bunch of musical sorcery about to hit you square in the face, prepare for primal beats that just rip through your ear holes. Hear one song and there’s no way you won’t be hungry for more of this Seattle-based indie-rock act. Kithkin’s debut album, Rituals, Trances & Ecstasies For Humans in Face of The Collapse, came out on May 20.
HOOVES | Psychedelic space rock | 9 pm Hooves is a band. No, it’s more than that: it’s an art project, a collision of noise and harmony, a conduit for exploration, a spaceship careening into the black. A 2013 Inlander Band to Watch, the Spokane experimental psych outfit comes at listeners from every angle with a sound that is spacey and gothic, filled with rage and doom. The band’s first full release, a cassette entitled Valley of the Craftsmen, came out in March.
THE BIG DIPPER
DUST MOTH | Heavy gaze | 10 pm Dust Moth has a ridiculous pedigree. The Seattle “heavy gaze” band features ex-members of Minus the Bear, These Arms Are Snakes, Undertow and Shift, and the singer from XVIII Eyes (formerly Eighteen Individual Eyes). Dust Moth creates gauzy, angular soundscapes fraught with distortion, fuzz and all the things that make heavy music awesome, but dips a toe into pop music with Irene Barber’s lilting vocals.
171 S. Washington: all shows are all-ages BITWVLF | Electronic | 5 pm From the tiniest of noises — chirping birds and subtle gasps — Spokane electronic artist Bitwvlf (aka Eric Kerzman) creates atmospheres and dreams, and more than a few dance-floor-ready bangers. When he layers his music with samples from films like The Dark Crystal, there’s a sort of