Volume 05/22/2014

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5 poets.

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his whole thing is crazy. More than 80 bands are flooding downtown Spokane for two days of music and revelry.

This year, we’re again showcasing amazing local talent, but also bringing in big up-and-coming bands you’re not going to want to miss. (SEE P. 16.) We’ve added more venues, assembled a food truck rally, booked local poets, planned panel discussions on the state of music and organized a brunch in memory of Isamu Jordan.

(SEE SCHEDULE AND MAP ON P. 12.)

Oh yeah, we’re also partnering with downtown businesses to get you extra goodies with your Volume wristband.

Your biggest problem will be planning your weekend — that’s what this guide is for. Inside you’ll read about this year’s five local BANDS TO WATCH, five break-out groups contributing to the local music scene, selected by a panel of judges. We’ve also curated lineups for all musical tastes (indie, dance, rock, even stuff your dad would like). Volume really is the region’s music festival for all!

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V O LU M E G I V E S B AC K A portion of proceeds from Volume will benefit INK Art Space, a community endeavor that provides tutoring and mentoring for Spokane’s young writers and artists. Spearheaded by best-selling writer Jess Walter, INK plans to offer after-school classes and weekend and summer workshops where kids explore their creativity — learning how to be a slam poet, make urban street art, write their manifestos, you name it. On Saturday of Volume, at 2 pm, INK (224 W. Sprague) will host a “State of the Spokane Scene” panel discussion. To learn more about INK, visit inkspokane.org.

2014’S BANDS TO WATCH SAM PLATTS & THE KOOTENAI THREE ............... 4 MAMA DOLL............................. 6 NORMAL BABIES ...................... 8 BLACKWATER PROPHET ........... 10 >> SCHEDULE/MAP ......................... 12 BLOODY GLOVES...................... 14 >> VOLUME BAND GUIDE ...............16

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acked up against the hard spine of I-90, the Sundown Saloon in Coeur d’Alene welcomes the weary traveler with the promise of a few cold ones, an empty ashtray and dim lighting — maybe a game of pool or two. One can chart the evolution of beer advertising over the past three decades on the walls. It’s the kind of place where a rangy gentleman in full leather chaps can saunter up to the bar, place a saddle on a stool and order a round (no joke).

There’s also a fine jukebox, stocked with the greats. Ferlin Husky. Faron Young. Porter Wagoner. Willie, Waylon, and Merle are bound to be in there, too.

And in a ringing endorsement, so is the debut album by local honky-tonk heroes Sam Platts What that crazy, & the Kootenai Three. It’s a truck-driving uncle mature record by a young band, from Bakersfield stacked with original songs that who everyone talks nail the musicianship and clever about listened to wordplay of classic country. back in 1963.

Led by singer-guitaristsongwriter Sam Platts, the group had their first gig at the Sundown nearly three years ago, after kicking around the idea for a while. According to rhythm guitarist Eric Degenhardt, “We got drunk and talked about being in a band for about a year before it actually happened.”

Rounded out by bassist-vocalist J Kane and drummer Robbie Frazer, they’ve played steadily since, utilizing the Sundown as a home base and incubator for new material. “We started out here just winging it, but it actually sounded really good,” Platts says. “We did three or four [shows] and decided maybe we should put some time

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into this.”

That time has begun to pay off, with their brand of Bakersfield-meets-CdA country taking them across the West to gigs in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming — even the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Later this summer, they’re taking the twang overseas to France at the EquiBlues Country and Rodeo Festival. “It’s Europe’s largest rodeo and a helluva good time.

Last year, one guy had a T-shirt with an American flag, a Confederate flag and a Canadian flag,” Platts says with a chuckle.

Onstage, they’ve developed the easy confidence and witty banter of a great country band, with a seemingly limitless roster of originals and classic covers, which Platts dips into as he sees fit, depending on the venue and mood.

“If it’s a [longer] bar/dance night, we’ll play what people know — old honky-tonk — but if it’s a shorter, 90-minute set, we’ll do mostly originals,” he says.

Platts anchors the group with his smooth baritone delivery and effortless guitar playing, switching between lead and rhythm and playing call-and-response with his own vocals.

Both classic hot country playing and smoother, jazz-inflected Western swing licks are in steady supply.

It’s a repertoire Platts has developed over nearly 20 years on stage. Raised in Saratoga, Wyoming, he started sitting in with his dad’s band when he was 9, and worked throughout high school at the family’s custom guitar company, Stonetree Guitars. (Sam’s father, Scott Platts, is the guitarist with Texas Twister.) Later, upon hearing Texas legend Dale Watson at a Denver gig, he committed to music full time and promptly quit his 9-to-5.

With that pedigree, it’s hard to imagine him doing anything but play country music, but even he acknowledges the difference between the traditional style in which he plays and the glossier version that passes for country on TV and radio.

“I just don’t care anymore,” he says. “As far as I’m concerned, they’re two different genres, you know? They can do their thing and I’ll do mine.”  Sam Platts & the Kootenai Three play Volume on Sat, May 31, at 7 pm at Irv’s Outdoor Stage •415 W. Sprague • 21+

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They’re not about being an all-female act; they just want to make great music

By Laura Johnson

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here’s a lot of giggling; never-ending giggling. Outside the backstage entrance of the Bartlett, Mama Doll is getting their photos taken on a small concrete patio, the remains of the mid-April sunshine still overhead. The four women attempt different configurations, trying for smiling and straight-faced shots. Through it all, there’s laughter.

They have a show tonight, but right now they’re getting more photos of the whole group — it’s only been a month since they added a fourth member, guitarist Claire Fieberg, who moved up from California to join the band.

Through the jokes and the hugging and the sisterly love, there’s another side. They take the music incredibly seriously. This If Animal from the isn’t just some girl band. That’s not Muppets got together what it ever was meant to be. with Ariel (aka the “We didn’t mean to start Little Mermaid) and her it as anything; it just kind of sisters for a play date. happened,” says singer Sarah Berentson, standing outside after the quick snapshots. “The right people came along and it was just easy.”

The group started last spring when Berentson, of Terrible Buttons (which is playing its final show at Volume), reached out to Austen Case, formerly of Franklin, an acquaintance from her Whitworth University days.

“I randomly messaged her, asking, ‘Would you want to sing with me or something?,’” recalls Berentson. “She was like, ‘Yeah, can I play a drum?’”

The two would get together whenever they could to write songs — which mostly meant sitting on the floor, laughing.

“We had all been in bands that had mainly male members and had more people,” explains Case, who graduated from college this month. “For us to go out on a limb to play our own stuff, we had to be brave.”

Once the embarrassment subsided, the

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songs the two completed would define the band’s folky, haunted sound. At once, their music is ethereal and light, featuring loud, harmonious vocals accentuated with primal drums. The lyrics offer the realism of life; nothing overly dramatic, but sometimes cheerless.

Their first show took place when Jen Landis of Cedar & Boyer invited the girls to play a house show in Sandpoint. She also offered to play bass for them.

“I even mentioned it before I heard them play,” says Landis, the eldest of the group at 32. “Because you just know when it’s going to be good.”

For a long time, it was just those three women, playing around Spokane, Sandpoint, and later weekend tours to Seattle and Portland. But something was missing, prompting Berentson to call Fieberg with an offer.

With a complete lineup, Mama Doll is a priority for them all. The quartet is forging ahead, writing together and recording an album with the help of producer/musician Bart Budwig at his studio in Moscow. Their album is expected out sometime this summer.

When it comes to other all-female acts, even the members of Mama Doll are skeptical.

It can come off as a ploy. Regarding their own performances, they know there is a lot to prove.

“I don’t think people expect to say, ‘Hey, that’s good,’ when they see us play,” Fieberg says.

Later that evening, Mama Doll takes to the Bartlett stage. The smiles are less apparent, the giggling is completely gone. As the band rolls into the set, the packed-in crowd slowly shows less interest in talking to one another; instead, the eerie harmonies float through the room, captivating everyone.

Waiting until the first song break, one woman in the audience leans over to her neighbor and says, “Wow.” Her girlfriend nods in agreement.  Mama Doll plays Volume on Sat, May 31, at 9:20 pm at the Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • All-ages

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Screw your iPod, your smartphone, your iTunes account: Normal Babies evokes a time and place when music had a heart

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ormal Babies wants to find you.

You kids of the 1990s, or 1980s.

Who remember saving up your money to buy a new album at the record store the exact day it came out. Who remember where you were when you heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the first time, and the feeling you had when it made the hairs on Teenage you, laying the back of your neck stand at on your bedroom attention. floor, listening to You, who have felt the the Kinks’ Lola power of music at the very Versus Powerman center of your being. Where and the Moneygorare you? ound, Part One in Normal Babies is a band one headphone, of four men trying to evoke an and Pavement in era when bands put out albums the other. and fans listened to the whole thing — a time when pop music meant something entirely different than it does today. They know they can’t be the only ones in Spokane aching for that youthful feeling. When it felt like music could really save the world.

“I remember the exact moment that I wanted to start playing music: I was 12 and I heard ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana and it changed me on a cellular level,” says Matt Lakin, who plays guitar and sings in Normal Babies. “I decided at that point, all I want to do is make music and art, and that’s it.”

Right now, though, more than two years into their life as a band, they’re still finding their audience. The band recently played their first allages show in Spokane after previously playing only to bar crowds.

“A lot of times we feel like we’re a soundtrack to [people] getting drunk,” says drummer Jeff Glinski.

“We’re notoriously pretty good at clearing a

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room out after playing a song,” laughs Ben Jennings, the band’s other singer/guitarist.

That’s the most frustrating thing: Normal Babies is one of those bands that’s hard not to like — but you actually have to pay attention. On a surface level, it seems like they make sneering, sass-mouthed rock. But just below the skin is something a hell of a lot more interesting: a dirty, catchy, unapologetic pop sound that is as much Pavement as it is the Kinks.

Part of Normal Babies’ magic is the interplay between Lakin and Jennings. When the band started with just those two in February 2012, the pair would take turns singing and playing guitar, or playing drums. (The band has filled out with Glinski and bassist Travis Goldberg).

Jennings’ song “½ Golden Calf” kicks off their most recent recorded effort, an EP called Who Will? It’s a detached, slurry track that unexpectedly grows into a full-blown anthem, one that raises eyebrows in its complexity and weird angles. The next track, Lakin’s “Broken Arm,” is a poppy, full-speed-ahead toe-tapper.

The beauty of Normal Babies is right there in that back-and-forth. They’re like Dr. Jekyll on his meds: songs teem with detached optimism and sadness, disappointment and rage, but the band never boils over.

And they tackle concepts too big to be asked of barroom crowds looking to drink away their problems. On “Jacob,” Lakin sings about his brother-in-law, who went to the grocery store one night and was killed in a car accident. “The ones who deserve it always get away,” he sings.

Even though sometimes it seems like no one is listening, they’ll never stop searching for the people who are.

“It’s the hunt for the perfect song that will definitely change anybody,” Lakin says. “It doesn’t matter who.”  Normal Babies plays Volume on Fri, May 30, at 8 pm at the Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • All-ages

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here’s no one in the basement to impress, but Bryan Coats is preoccupied with getting just the right psychedelic images projected onto the wall behind his drum kit. He finds something that fits and retreats behind the skins as Blackwater Prophet launches into a soaring, spaced-out rocker called “God Damn God.” Garrett Zanol pounds dirty blues riffs on his guitar, a hat pulled low over his eyes as he gazes at the swirling figures on the wall. Perched on a stool, Beav Parker provides a bouncing bassline. Zanol’s vocals are all but drowning in reverb as the band makes its way through the seven-minute, completely scripted track.

You’re treading water Put it all together, and you in a pitch-black sea of can’t tell if it’s all the cheap reverb while awaiting a beer the trio keeps around, rescue ship piloted by those projected swirls or the Jimmy Page’s guitar. music itself that’s making the room feel like it’s slowly spinning.

An hour earlier, on a patio a story above the basement, Zanol, Coats and Parker smoke cigarettes and sip on beers while a rotating cast of friends lounge on a couch in the corner, not all that impressed by their rock-star buddies.

Since playing Volume last year — a roaring set to an ass-to-elbows crowd at Mootsy’s — things have changed for Blackwater Prophet.

“We’re starting to take it seriously. We’ve been playing and writing seriously for about a year,” says Coats.

“We started taking it seriously when other people started taking us seriously,” says Zanol, who at 23 is the band’s elder statesman. Coats and Parker are 22.

Blackwater Prophet is currently deep into the recording of their first album, which they’re laying down with help from a friend who Coats studied with at Spokane Falls Community

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$5 HUCKLEBERRY KAMIKAZES College’s recording arts program. The record is aimed at capturing their sludgy, dirty — but perfectly accessible — take on blues-influenced rock that makes perfect sense for three guys who worship at the Led Zeppelin altar. The album, of course, will feature their trademark reverb. “[The reverb] is a necessity, really. It fills it out. I feel like I can play with it more to achieve the sound I want to hear,” says Zanol.

“But it’s not a crutch,” says Parker.

“No, it’s not like Auto-Tune or something,” says Zanol.

On stage, Zanol doesn’t necessarily stand out as a frontman. His mannerisms are as subdued as the spooky drone of his echoing singing voice. His backstory is fascinating: Zanol says he started playing guitar after he was arrested for selling stolen prescription pills when he was just 13. When he got out of juvenile detention after little more than a day, he bought his first guitar and started making music with Coats. He’s heavily tatted and drops F-bombs with aplomb, but keeps the lawn at the Spokane Valley home he rents immaculate (“Mowing is like therapy,” he quips) and is in the process of restoring his third Volkswagen bus.

He says that with the band becoming more focused, others have focused on the band.

“A bit ago, there was a week straight when every day I was getting a call or a text trying to book us or talk to us about something,” he says. Recently, the trio has brought on a friend to help with booking and merchandise and ease the load.

The three still rely on their unglamorous day jobs — Coats and Parker are in fast food, while Zanol works for a screen printer — but have dedicated themselves toward making the band their full-time gig.

“None of us want to work full-time jobs and squeeze music in on the side. It’s all we want to f---ing do,” says Zanol. “I mean, what else are we supposed to do?”  Blackwater Prophet plays Volume on Sat, May 31, at 9:50 pm at Club 412 mainstage • 412 W. Sprague • 21+

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HEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU!” screams Aaron Bocook, bassist and backing vocalist for Spokane punk/metal trio Bloody Gloves, into a microphone at a garage full of worked-up fans.

Tension is building, people are bracing themselves, and now everyone with glasses is taking them off and placing them somewhere safe; Bocook is announcing the name of the next song on Bloody Gloves’ setlist, the fantastic “They Don’t Care About You.” Furious crossover The screaming feedthrash straight from back blaring from the heavy the ’80s. amplification is the sound of an impending, unavoidable onslaught. There are mere moments before making the plunge. “Ride of the Valkyries” might as well be playing from a helicopter loudspeaker. Surely the napalm will fall soon.

After six punishing seconds that feel like a godforsaken eternity, the bomb drops. The lukewarm concrete venue erupts into inexplicable madness, a sweltering mass of flying fists, stomping boots, and literal blood on the floor.

If you weren’t already covered in beer, you are now.

According to Bocook, Bloody Gloves is the brainchild of guitarist and lead singer Aaron Rock, but you might not catch his explosive band’s demeanor in his relatively mild-mannered approach.

When asked the reasoning behind starting a project like Bloody Gloves, Rock’s response is wonderfully honest: “I got sick of going to shows and seeing people just standing there. It kills me on the inside.”

“Too many people in this town are afraid to do anything edgy,” Bocook chimes in. “There’s nothing that I’ve ever seen here that scared me

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He makes a valid point — “safe” music has become a widespread epidemic across all corners of independent music, and not just here.

More and more bands are abandoning risk and bold moves in hopes of appealing to a wider audience.

“But deep down, people want to be spit on and screamed at,” Bocook says. “They just don’t know it.”

“And if they end up loving it, then it’s an accomplishment to me,” replies Rock. “We want to bring out the things in people that they can’t control. Music has done that to all of us.”

High energy is the dominating trait of Rock’s songwriting, but he won’t be pigeonholed. Behind the devilish guitar distortion and drummer Derek Watson’s furious rhythmic pacing, there are meaningful, calculated songs that stretch beyond typical modern thrash fodder.

The band is a willfully nostalgic group of people who, as Bocook puts it, are always “looking backwards” musically, and Rock’s lyrics about the world’s true evils — like corporate greed — come off as completely relatable in a genre that rarely is anymore.

“We’re not comfortable finding the pretty parts of the world and putting a little frame around them,” explains Bocook. “The world can be an ugly place.”

“Still, no one wants to talk about that all of the time,” Rock interjects. “It’s about finding a way to almost feel good about it, and come to an understanding.”

Ultimately, Bloody Gloves is at heart what any other great punk or metal group has been in the history of the genres: a mechanism for coping with the often terrible world around you.

And what a relief it is to have a band like Bloody Gloves in our midst — one that would rather wear its brain on its sleeve than its heart.

“I just want people to get excited,” Rock says. “Even if we’re up there singing about dying, I want people to feel good.”  Bloody Gloves plays Volume on Fri, May 30, at 8:10 pm at Club 412 • 412 W. Sprague • All-ages

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Volume features local talent, but also draws some of the hottest up-and-coming bands from the region; here is just a sampling

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ou’re probably already up on the sun-drenched hippie tunes of Rose Windows, the electronic compositions of The Flavr Blue and the passionate “treepunk” of Kithkin. These Seattle acts coming to Volume are awesome; you should know them. But there’s lots more.

Check them out, categorized by city and genre:

suming sound. They play the Dipper Saturday night at 10.

Grenades brings a boisterous party. The rockin’ four-piece likes to drink a lot of beer, and they like people to drink beer (only if you’re 21 and over) while watching them play.

Remember that when you show up at Club 412 Saturday at 6:20 pm. Meanwhile, Deadkill answers the question “How fast can people can play hard rock music without passing out?” The answer is damn fast. Their set is so wild (espeThis year, Volume’s Portland contingent is not to be missed. cially frontman Bryan Krieger’s searing eyeballs) it could ROCK: Start with rock trio Gaytheist, which rolled cause heart palpitations at 8:15 on Saturday at Club 412. through the Hop! last October with Red Fang, recently Finally, Monogamy Party has announced that one of played Treefort Music Festival and is schedits final shows will take place at Volume. Most uled for this year’s Capitol Hill Block Party. likely, you’ll never see them again if you don’t EXPERT ADVICE Yes, their name is striking, but what leaves jump at the chance to see this face-melting Visit Inlander.com this the lasting impression is the way they play punk-rock act at Mootsy’s, Saturday night the living crap out of their instruments every week to find customized at 9. lineups created by Karli show. They play Mootsy’s Saturday night at FOLK: At one time Cloud Person Ingersoll, Dan Ocean, Kent was just Pete Jordan, but he soon needed a 10.

Ueland and Aaron Bocook. lot more instruments (strings, drums, bass, ELECTRONIC: Portland also provides Volume with Boy Eats Drum Machine, keys) to fill out the sound. Last fall, the group Jon Ragel’s one-man show. He’s no Bert took over Mootsy’s tiny stage with six of its from Mary Poppins — his voice is smooth and simple, his members. Onstage, that sound hits you like a cloud, putting saxophone playing divine, his electronic beats entrancing. you in an airy trance. Experience that feeling Friday at 7 pm Check out his show Saturday at Red Room Lounge at 9:30 at the Bartlett. Secretary is the band you’ll want to see if pm and marvel at his ability to do it all. you’re in the mood to be transported to a beautiful, sorrowful, down-and-dirty planet where only folk music is allowed.

They play Friday night at 10:15 at Club 412.

The Emerald City again brings a mighty crew to this year’s SOUL: Down North could make a soul music lover Volume. out of anyone, thanks to frontman Anthony “RenaGade” ROCK: With the Pharmacy you get a retro-rock Briscoe’s balls-out performances. Dancing is key with this three-piece that still believes in the power of the piano. group, which played the University of Idaho in March. All What began as a high school band in the early 2000s has you’ll want to do is get funky, starting Saturday at 10:30 pm turned into a grown-up act worthy of serious classic rock at nYne. ’n’ roll lovers’ aural consumption. They play the Big Dipper PUNK: Anyone looking for a dance party with their Friday at 9 pm. punk rock should check out the punk three-piece Wimps.

In the alt-rock heavy-gaze category is Seattle super Their music talks about the real things in life, like sleeping in group Dust Moth, bringing together members of Undertow, late and taking naps. They’re damn fun to listen to. Show up These Arms Are Snakes and XVIII Eyes for a thick all-conFriday night at 10:30 at Mootsy’s to hear ’em. 

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The Volume Lineup

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827 W. First: all-ages until 9 pm JACOB JONES | Folk-punk | 6:15 pm When Jacob Jones isn’t chasing down leads for the pages of the Inlander news section, he’s serving his heart on a platter to audiences. Jones furiously strums a guitar and sings folk-punk ballads about hard drinking, hard work and hard living. It’s music that you’d expect to come out of an Irish pub town like Boston, but these are tunes forged right here in the Inland Northwest.

FERAL ANTHEM | Indie folk | 7:15 pm Formerly known as Citizen Arms, this Spokane duo left for the Midwest and recently came back to us with a new name.

On Wars & Meridians, the band’s most recent album, they sing aching, worldweary acoustic songs that don’t shy away from pointing out the misgivings in the world around them.

IAN L. MILES | Pirate folk | 8:15 pm For more than a decade, 2013 Inlander Band to Watch Ian L. Miles hasn’t just played Spokane stages. He’s commanded them with his epic, passion-fraught tales. And he hasn’t just found casual

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fans. It’s as if he’s recruited an army. This year, Miles tried his hand at rapping a little. Whatever he does, we’ll always be on board.

NAILBASTARD | Metal | 6:20 pm We’re always on board with what this ragtag group is up to. Drummer Ryan Beitz made ’90s pop punk in 2012 Inlander Band to Watch Tim Blood & the Gutpanthers, then created face-slamming d-beat with Dislich. Nailbastard, his newest project, guarantees to be loud: The band has recruited one of Spokane’s finest screamers, Alex Boston of Losing Skin (another 2012 Band to Watch), as its frontman.

MALLOWS | Rock | 9:15 pm New to the scene but featuring familiar faces, Mallows is the latest project from local singer-songwriter and My Pinky Has a Name member Hannah Reader and several members of now-defunct Spokane band Nude Pop, who drew attention to Spokane when they won EMP’s Sound Off! in 2012.

DJ CA$E | Dance party | 10 pm DJ Ca$e has been making a name for himself around town by being able to make just about any dance floor move.

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RAISEDBYWOLVES | Metal | 5:20 pm Raisedbywolves makes in-your-face thrash, packed with testosterone. If you’re looking to throw back some beers and wake up with one hell of a bangover, you’ll want to pay a visit to the foot of their stage at Volume.

HARD TIME | Hardcore | 7:20 pm Hardcore punk is making a comeback in Spokane, and Hard Time is making it happen. Though their sound is more like 1984 than 2014, this isn’t a bunch of old guys remembering how they used to do it. The members of Hard Time are young, pissed off and don’t care what you think.

BLOODY GLOVES | Heavy rock | 8:10 pm In the past year, Spokane band Bloody Gloves hasn’t just stood up on stages and played a little punk rock. No, Bloody Gloves makes sneering, face-punching, mosh-pit-starting, balls to the wall rock ‘n’ roll that takes cues from classic hardcore bands. Another one of the 2014 Bands to Watch.

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412 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ PINE LEAGUE | Garage folk | 9:15 pm A fairly new band to the local scene with a hell of a lot of experience. Here, popular singer/songwriter Tyler Aker joins forces with musicians from The Lion Oh My, the Rustics and Diamond Speedboat. With a lineup that promising, Pine League could be Spokane’s next big thing.

SECRETARY | Dream rock | 10:15 pm Beautiful and mysterious, Seattle indiefolk band Secretary makes the music of rainy day afternoons and quiet Sunday mornings. The band has been featured on KEXP’s “Song of the Day,” and praised up and down for its haunting, harmonious and lush arrangements. Its music can make anyone stop, space out and be transported to a dreamier, prettier place.

LAVOY | Indie pop | 11:15 pm Since moving to Spokane from Alaska last July, Lavoy has put down roots here, not only living in one big house together but playing as many venues as possible. The six-piece brings their arsenal of catchy pop tunes everywhere they go. Singer Tyrell Tompkins and his Buddy Holly look

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BEAUFLEXX | Dance Party | 11:59 pm When it’s late and Spokane wants to party and dance all night, one man is up in the DJ booth playing the for them: Beauflexx.

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SILVER TREASON | Old-school country | 6 pm Silver Treason made country cool again in Spokane. And the band — comprised of four punk rockers — did it by going way back to the genre’s roots, evoking the twangy sounds of pedal steel guitars and singing songs that ache for that justout-of-reach American dream. A 2011 Inlander Band to Watch, they’ve recruited a horde of cowboy-boot-tappin’ fans who love to whirl around to their music.

CEDAR & BOYER | Indie folk | 7 pm What started as a husband-and-wife duo has blossomed into a breezy folkrock group. Justin and Jen Landis hail from Sandpoint, and the earthy sound of mountains and water permeates all of their music. It’s lo-fi and easy to listen to. ...continued on next page

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SO YOU WANNA LOSE YOUR SHIRT IN A MOSH PIT? FRIDAY 5:20 pm, Club 412: Raisedbywolves 6:20 pm, Club 412: Nailbastard 7:20 pm, Club 412, Hard Time 8:10 pm, Club 412, Bloody Gloves SATURDAY 6:20 pm, Club 412: Grenades 7:30 pm, Club 412: Losing Skin 8:15 pm, Club 412: Deadkill 9 pm, Mootsy’s: Monogamy Party 10 pm, Mootsy’s: Gaytheist

SO YOU COULDN’T AFFORD SASQUATCH!/CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY TIX? FRIDAY 12:20 am, Red Room Lounge: The Grizzled Mighty SATURDAY 8:15 pm, Club 412: Deadkill 10 pm, Mootsy’s: Gaytheist 10 pm, Big Dipper: Dust Moth 10:10 pm, The Bartlett: Kithkin 11:50 pm, Red Room Lounge: The Flavr Blue

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FRIDAY, MAY 30, CONTINUED IRV’S LINEUP, continued STRANGLED DARLINGS | Americana doom pop | 8 pm When Portland’s Strangled Darlings take to the stage with a simple cello and mandolin, you think you know where this is going. Instead, the male/female duo plays something they describe as Americana doom pop. Translation: The arrangements get pretty weird, but still manage to be achingly beautiful.

MARSHALL McLEAN BAND | Northwest Americana | 9 pm Marshall McLean’s latest project pulls in local musicians from a variety of different acts. But it’s McLean’s surefire guitar playing and tenor vocals that cement the outfit into something worthy of contemplation. His sound creates a brand-new take on Americana.

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band takes garage rock on a long, strange, experimental car ride on their late 2013 release High Desert Ghost Music. We’re kind of sorry we can’t bring you a bag of shrooms and a cool forest scene to see ’em in.

WIMPS | Punk | 10:30 pm No need to fear: Seattle punk is still very much alive in the form of three-piece outfit Wimps.

Fronted by guitarist Rachel Ratner, the act nearly shatters eardrums and keeps audiences rocking with dingy punk hooks everywhere they go.

Their EP Party at the Wrong Time was released in January.

SUMMER IN SIBERIA | Dance party | 11:30 pm Every year at Volume, locals Summer in Siberia absolutely own the stage. They’re back again this year with their keyboard-heavy dance rock, and they’re ready to show you who’s boss.

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CLUSTERF---?!? | Electronic | 6:30 pm We’re stoked to see more musicians like Austin Mell (aka Clusterf---?!?) popping up around the Spokane scene — musical sound contortionists who aren’t afraid to treat sound like paint on a canvas. In this project, Mell makes music that is pretty, but also strange and haunting in a unique scary-movie way.

PAPER MACHE | Acoustic | 7 pm Before he gets onstage with his current Afroindie act The Digital Wild (also playing Volume this year), Spokane expat Chelsea Seth Woodward returns to play a solo acoustic set under the name Paper Mache.

BLVCK CEILING | Dark electronic | 7:30 pm It’s been a hell of a three years since the Inlander named BLVCK CEILING (aka Dan Ocean) one of our Bands to Watch. Since then, Ocean’s music career has exploded, earning him fans around the world and street cred with some of the dark electronic genre’s biggest artists. Ocean continues to make creepy, dark dance tracks on a nearly constant basis, putting the work ethic of most other artists to shame.

SHADES | Synth attack | 8:35 pm The 1980s called: It wants you to go ahead and listen to Boise band Shades. Syrup-thick synthesizers play alongside smart lyrics. As a side note, sometimes they’re with a drummer who wears a glowed-out beast mask. They’re basically irresistible.

SUN BLOOD STORIES | Psychedelic | 9:30 pm From the way they sound, you’d think Sun Blood Stories just stepped off the set of some kind of psychedelic spaghetti western, not Boise. The

WATER MONSTER | Electro-indie | 8 pm Max Harnishfeger (one quarter of Cathedral Pearls) started his murky electronic side project Water Monster late last year. It’s both haunting acoustic and off-kilter electronic music: the sort of stuff that slowly and steadily burns a hole in your mind, in the best possible way.

BIAS | Electro-indie | 9 pm Longtime Spokane musicians create something completely, utterly new with BIAS: an indie outfit with ambient electronic dance leanings.

Earlier this year, the band — which includes Mon Chéri singer Caroline Schibel — released a live album, titled Live at The Bartlett.

THE DIGITAL WILD | Afrodelic trip rock | 10 pm If you’ve felt jaded about modern music lately, then stop what you’re doing and listen to The Digital Wild song “I Love You.” The selfdescribed “Afrodelic trip-rock” band is doing something wholeheartedly unique: mixing rock riffs with hip-hop drums, laid-back rhymes and brassy R&B vocals. The Austin, Texas, band makes a hazy, heart-wrought kind of dance music that will have you tearing up just as it makes

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THE CAMAROS | Rock | 10:50 pm High school teachers really can be cool too.

That’s what the Camaros prove anyway, as half of the band, Mark Robbins and Eric Woodard, teach at Lewis and Clark. The band’s rock ‘n’ roll has been around for six awesome years and shows no signs of stopping.

TERRIBLE BUTTONS | Horror folk | 11:50 pm One of the most popular bands ever in Spokane, Terrible Buttons announced earlier this month that their set at Volume will be the very last. It comes after a big year: a massive tour, a nod as the Inlander’s best local band. We fully expect that this show will end with a lot of tears — and a lot of whiskey.

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521 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ DAETHSTAR | Electronic | 6 pm and between sets There aren’t a lot of guys like Kelton Allen — you know him as Daethstar — around Spokane: musicians who can keep a room rocking and dancing and jumping for hours and hours on end.

We’ve recruited him to do what he does best at Volume this year — making sure that even fewer of you go home un-sweaty. You’re totally welcome.

BOAT RACE WEEKEND | Rock | 7:15 pm Current Gonzaga University students, these three guys were part of the generation that was heavily influenced by Blink-182. Boat Race Weekend’s pop-punk sensibility can be traced back to that band but has a heavier sound. They just recently released the EP Chin Up. BULLETS OR BALLOONS | Rock | 8:15 pm Bullets or Balloons will throw you for a loop: The second you think they’re just a happy-go-lucky rock act, they’ll change a song into a rager. The local band makes rock songs with edges and unexpected angles, always with growling, Mike Watt-like vocals, clattering drums and guitars that bend and bulge and do things you wouldn’t expect them to.

THE STATIC TONES | Rock | 9:15 pm Coeur d’Alene three-piece The Static Tones make dingy, singable rock ‘n’ roll — the kind of music that gets into your head, and has you singing along and dancing in the aisles before you even know it.

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MIRROR MIRROR | Garage noir | 10:15 pm A 2012 Inlander Band to Watch, Mirror Mirror just released a new single, “I Won’t Breathe a Word,” putting its garage-y noir rock on full display — all to whet your palate for this month’s singles collection, Melodramatic Popular Music (2008-2014), a collection of its signature gloomy, romantic songs.

DEAD SERIOUS LOVERS | Rock | 11:15 pm Spokane act Dead Serious Lovers — a project that sprouted from Inlander Band to Watch Henry Nordstrom and Vaughn Wood — creates music that will have you letting go of all thoughts and inhibitions, and simply feeling. After releasing the album Les in April 2013, the three-piece is back, writing new moody, experimental rock music to make you feel even more.

THE GRIZZLED MIGHTY | Rock party | 12:20 am Every part of the good old U-S-of-A has got some brand of blues — and Seattle garage-rock duo the Grizzled Mighty make blues that is uniquely Northwest.

It’s got the crunch of grunge, the lyrics fraught with hopeless, rainy-day despair. The duo — spastic, hypnotic drummer Whitney Petty and Spokane native and guitar virtuoso Ryan Granger — has headlined festivals around the Northwest recently, as the demand for their wall of thick, beer-raising rock ‘n’ roll catches on.

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228 W. Sprague: all shows are all-ages THE HOLY BROKE | Indie folk | 6 pm Terrible Buttons frontman Kent Ueland is back again at Volume this year, showing off his solo capabilities with his side project the Holy Broke. If his way of strapping his guitar way high up on his body doesn’t catch your attention, his voice’s gravelly, throaty quality will.

MARK ANDERSON | Poetry | 6:45 pm CLOUD PERSON | Psych folk | 7 pm Pete Jordan started Cloud Person as

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a solo project, but soon added musician after musician until there were six making up his psychedelic rock group.

Jordan remains the heart of the group, serving as the band’s lead singer-songwriter and sound engineer. Just as the violin soars, layered harmonies abound in this music, elevating the listener a little more.

LAUREN GILMORE | Poetry | 7:35 pm JASON WEBLEY | Folk-rock superstar | 8 pm With his violent accordion playing and mad sing/yelling, Jason Webley’s music would fit comfortably in the Argentine tango scene of Moulin Rouge. His fusion of experimental gypsy punk helped get him noticed when he started out as a performer on the streets of Seattle.

Since then, he’s performed annually at Burning Man and makes music people can all but lose themselves in.

KURT OLSON | Poetry | 8:50 pm THE RUSTICS | Beachy folk | 9:10 pm Mackie Hockett and Ryan Bradley were making sweet music together for years before releasing their first EP Be Here Now in January. While the heart of their band will always be the duo, the addition of drums and other stringed instruments to their lineup has only enhanced their beachy folk-rock sound.

CAMI BRADLEY | Pop rock | 10 pm After coming in sixth on the most recent season of America’s Got Talent, Spokane’s own Cami Bradley (Ryan’s sister) is working on her next project, a new album. In the meantime, the singer-songwriter has released a slew of cover music videos to keep her fans satisfied. Blessed with an ability to seemingly effortlessly play piano and sing, it’s exciting to see where her new work will take her.

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mental rock outfit Jazz for years. Now Troxel, alongside Adam Price, makes up one half of Teen Blonde, which combines dreamy vocals and thick guitars to form the closest thing Spokane has to an honest-to-God shoegaze outfit.

HEAVY SEVENTEEN | Rock | 7 pm We were super-bummed when longtime rock outfit Myth Ship called it quits, but we feel better now that Heavy Seventeen is around. The band mashes up members of Mythship and the Camaros to make a sound that, from what we’ve heard, conjures all the best things about emotional 1990s college rock.

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NORMAL BABIES | Rock | 8 pm For some of us, Spokane band Normal Babies doesn’t just play quirky rock music; they conjure a bygone time and place — of untied shoes, scribbled-on binders, hand-me-down cars. The band makes a slacked-off lo-fi sound filled with sass and backtalk, drawing inspiration equally from bands like Pavement and the Kinks. It’s the kind of stuff you wish someone could have given you on a mixtape back when you were a kid.

They’re one of the 2014 Bands to Watch.

THE PHARMACY | Power punk | 9 pm The three-piece didn’t start out so poppy: the Pharmacy had a more garage-punk sound when they formed on Vashon Island while in high school back in 2002. What has always been consistent is their fuzzy, retro flavor, especially in the guitars and keys.

TWEAK BIRD | Rock | 10 pm No, you’d say, a tiny two-piece rock duo could never open for Tool on arena stages. Well, you’d be wrong, because Tweak Bird (brothers Ashton and Caleb Bird) has done that. They’ve opened for the Melvins, Black Mountain and Ted Leo, too. That’s because they make thick, thundering rock music so indisputably awesome — the soundtrack for sunnyday road trips and summer house parties — it’s nearly impossible not to love them. The previous time they played Spokane, the show sold out, so get there early. ...on next page: LINEUPS FOR SATURDAY

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SO YOU SAY YOU LIKE INDIE/INDIE ROCK/INDIE FOLK? FRIDAY 6 pm, The Bartlett: The Holy Broke 7 pm, Irv’s: Cedar & Boyer 8 pm, Irv’s: Strangled Darlings 9:10 pm, The Bartlett: The Rustics 10 pm, The Bartlett: Cami Bradley 10:15 pm, Club 412: Secretary 11:15 pm, Club 412: Lavoy SATURDAY 6 pm, nYne: Scott Ryan 8 pm, Irv’s: Lures 8:30 pm, The Bartlett: Bristol 9:20 pm, The Bartlett: Mama Doll 10 pm, Irv’s: Folkinception 10:50 pm, Club 412: Rose Windows

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VOLUME 2014 SOUL BRUNCH: A TRIBUTE TO ISAMU JORDAN | Soul and funk | 11 am-2 pm When the Spokane music scene lost Isamu Jordan last September, it lost one of its most charismatic performers and its biggest, most devout fan and friend. We pay tribute to the late, great Som by reviving his awesome soul brunch.

Come down to Boots on Volume’s second day, dust off your hangover with a cocktail and enjoy the soulful tunes of two of Spokane’s finest: DJs Supervillain and Breezy Brown.

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Club 412 and Neato Burrito host all-ages shows until 9 pm both nights of Volume.

The Bartlett and the Big Dipper host all-ages shows both nights until 11 pm.

STATE OF THE SPOKANE SCENE MUSIC SUMMIT | Panel discussion | 2 pm Join us for the first of what we hope will be a series of informal discussions of Spokane’s vibrant local music scene. Our panel will discuss a few corners of the local music scene, where we are going and what lies ahead. The panel consists of Shannon Halberstadt, Spokane Arts Commission; Patrick Kendrick, Platform Booking; Tina Morrison, Professional Musicians of the Inland NW, Local 105 AFM; Marshall Powell, Elkfest; Audrey Connor, house shows; and the Inlander’s Leah Sottile.

NEATO BURRITO

827 W. First: all-ages until 9 pm PUB SCIENCE: THEORIES ON THE FUTURE OF MUSIC | Discussion | 3:30 pm A collaborative group-think that explores theories and ideas on where music is headed.

The Hoot Hoots

SO YOU WANT TO DANCE? FRIDAY 6 pm, Red Room Lounge: Daethstar 8:35 pm, Mootsy’s: Shades 10 pm, nYne: The Digital Wild 11:30 pm, Mootsy’s: Summer in Siberia 11:59 pm, Club 412: Beauflexx SATURDAY 5 pm, Big Dipper: Bitwvlf 8 pm, Mootsy’s: Creepshow 9:30 pm, nYne: Puff Puff Beer 10:30 pm, nYne: Down North 10:40 pm, Red Room Lounge: Psychic Rites 11 pm: Mootsy’s, Flee the Century 11:30 pm, nYne: The Hoot Hoots 11:50 pm, Red Room Lounge: The Flavr Blue

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SEA GIANT | Indie rock | 5:30 pm This Spokane synth-and-drum-machine-driven band makes moody, 1980s-inspired pop music.

Lyrics are desperate, confused diary pages: “I don’t think that I could save your life/I don’t think I’ll even try,” they sing on “Close.” Behind their words are wailing, circus-like harmonies and dance-club beats. It’s happy music about being sad.

ISAAC GRAMBO | Poetry | 6:05 pm THE COLOURFLIES | College rock | 6:30 pm The Colourflies know that Post Falls, Idaho, might not be the best place to launch a music career, but from listening to them, it’s easy to see that’s not what this is about. This is about making awesome sounds. The young band makes 1990s-inspired rock — drawing from bands like Pixies and the Replacements — that is rock-out ready and danceable all at once.

Fun Ladies

DANNI OLIVER | Poetry | 7:05 pm OUIJA BORED | Punk | 7:30 pm Ouija Bored mashes up members from local punk outfits Normal Babies and (defunct band) the Catholic Guilt, and puts Mirror Mirror’s Jason Campbell on drums instead of the mic. That combination produces gloriously messy, scuzzy, drunken punk rock filled with adolescent angst and rage.

THE BETTYS | Rock revival | 8:30 pm Formed in the late 1980s, the Bettys slogged through the trenches of the Spokane music scene before disbanding in 1993. Jump ahead 20 years, and the band has reformed. They say their sound can best be described as “the Rolling Stones falling down a flight of stairs; an insult to not only the Stones, but a flight of stairs as well.”

FUN LADIES | Rock | 9:30 pm First of all, Fun Ladies are comprised of members of local acts like Duck Duck Suckerpunch, Whiskey Dick Mountain and Silver Treason. Second, they’re not afraid to be really weird. Third, we’ll go see just about any band these people are in, so we can almost guarantee this band will be amazing.

TWIN TOWERS | Dance party | 10:15 pm We like DJs like Erik Solberg and Paul Dillon, aka Twin Towers. They’re the types looking to have a good time, play rad tunes and make you dance so hard you sweat like crazy and mess up your makeup. How lame is being an adult if you can’t just get a little crazy every now and then?

CLUB 412, ALL-AGES STAGE 412 W. Sprague: all-ages until 9 pm

COLD BLOODED | Metal | 5:30 pm Cold Blooded might be fairly new to the local metal scene, but the band is made up of seasoned veterans. They’re quickly converting the scene with a set of carefully balanced songs that take pleasure in searing technicality but value the importance of simplicity.

GRENADES | Heavy rock | 6:20 pm We’ve learned that everyone comes to Volume for different reasons. Some want to discover new music, some want to dance and have fun.

And some people come to get very, very drunk.

This year, all of those people should go rock out to Seattle band Grenades, a bombastic rock quartet that will have you chugging beers, crowd surfing and high-fiving complete strangers. It’ll be beautiful.

Rose Windows

LOSING SKIN | Hardcore | 7:30 pm Comprised of longtime local hardcore devotees, 2012 Inlander Band to Watch Losing Skin constructs some of the most indisputably brutal, serious and unapologetic music on the scene today. That’s because the band isn’t married to one sound, blending speed-metal guitars with the signature howling of screamer Alex Boston to create a sound that people absolutely love to thrash around to.

DEADKILL | Rock | 8:15 pm If you like your music at an arm’s distance, we suggest you steer clear of Deadkill. The Seattle band, one of several Good to Die Records bands to play Volume 2014, is literally in your face when they play. At their Mootsy’s show last year, singer Bryan Krieger ripped off his shirt and sang with crazy, wide eyes. Behind him, the band played a tidal wave of fast, fist-pumping rock. It was awesome.

BBBBANDITS | Surf rock | 9:15 pm (this show is 21 and over) Pay no attention to the number of B’s in BBBBandits’ name (it’s four); it’s really not important. What is important is the fact the 2012 Inlander Band to Watch is returning to Volume to rock the hell out of you with their instrumental surf rock. The group plans a new album release party on Saturday, May 24, so be on the lookout.

CLUB 412, 21+ STAGE

412 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ BLACKWATER PROPHET | Psych rock | 9:50 pm In a relatively short period of time, this Spokane Valley trio has converted the masses with their thick, noisy blues rock. Taking cues from bands like the Black Angels, the band overlays its lazy, swampy grooves with ridiculous guitarwork and vocals that don’t sound so much like singing as they do begging for forgiveness. They’re one of the 2014 Bands to Watch.

ROSE WINDOWS | Psych rock | 10:50 pm Fresh off a series of sold-out shows with the Head and the Heart, Seattle’s Rose Windows travels eastward — for the third time — to convert the masses with their brand of psychedelic rock. The seven-piece Sub Pop Records outfit feels like the best old band you’ve never heard: making new rock sounds tinged with soaring vintage organs and Jethro Tull-esque flute solos.

BEAUFLEXX | Dance party | 11:59 pm When it’s late and Spokane wants to party and dance all night, one man is up in the DJ booth playing for them: Beauflexx.

Creepshow

Flee the Century

BUFFALO JONES | Rock | 6 pm Buffalo Jones plays catchy, lyrically driven rock music with a touch of pop and alt-country for good measure.

The band’s influences include the Refreshments, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, the Old 97’s and Wilco, just to name a few.

GAYTHEIST | Loud rock | 10 pm If you are ever super, super pissed off and want to yell things like “They tied a steak to his balls and fed it to the dogs!” it’s about time you heard Portland rockers Gaytheist. One of several Good to Die Records bands to play Volume this year, Gaytheist is a band that plays like every song is its last, like every lyric is the final one they will ever scream.

IRV’S OUTDOOR STAGE 415 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+

SAM PLATTS & THE KOOTENAI THREE | Country | 7 pm Jump at the chance to go back in time and hear the kind of country music your grandpa was probably into. That’s what Coeur d’Alene act Sam Platts & the Kootenai Three deliver — hard-won classic honky-tonk with a tinge of modern sensibility. They’re one of the 2014 Bands to Watch.

LURES | Surf rock | 8 pm At the beginning of March, Seattle-based trio Lures released a 10-minute single, “22nd,” all one track, long and laborious. While many of their songs don’t normally take that long to say what they need to, the surf-rock outfit’s meandering ways truly are a breath of salty sea air.

CURSIVE WIRES | Rock twang | 9 pm A country-tinged rock ‘n’ roll act made up of some of the most decorated members of the Spokane rock scene, Cursive Wires makes Americana that appeals to both the country set and the rockers. The band recently opened for the Celtic rockers Young Dubliners at Knitting Factory and Americana artist Pokey LaFarge at the Bing Crosby Theater.

FOLKINCEPTION | Folk rock | 10 pm Local jam-grass act Folkinception finally released an album this year. After raising $7,000 from last year’s Kickstarter campaign, Tower Mountain is a community effort worth the listen. But seeing this five-piece live is even more important than hearing their record. On stage, they bring the party — one you’ll want to grab a beer and invite yourself to.

MOOTSY’S

406 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ CREEPSHOW | Dark dance party | 8 pm For years, you could probably find Justin East front and center at most every show in Spokane’s scene. In the last couple of years, he’s gotten onstage, first with (now defunct) DJ project Brothers Ov Midnite, and now as Creepshow. East’s combination of dark, gloomy tones and thudding, dirty hip-hop make him one of the most interesting and sought-after local turntablists.

MONOGAMY PARTY | Loud rock | 9 pm Seattle’s Monogamy Party, another excellent band on Good to Die Records, are face-slayers who make noisy, angry, awkward, bizarro punk rock in the style of bands like Big Business and Lightning Bolt. If you’ve been waiting for them to come here, don’t sleep on this show — the band announced earlier this month that Volume will be one of their last shows ever.

FLEE THE CENTURY | Rock and dance | 11 pm There are a lot of beautiful things that make Spokane what it is, like the raging falls, the beautiful parks and the first day when it snows. But perhaps one of the most beautiful things you can see in Spokane is the way a crowd of people will practically kneel at the altar of Flee the Century, a five-years-defunct Spokane dancerock band. People will scream every lyric and dance like they’re about to die. You’ll become one of them.

NYNE

232 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ SCOTT RYAN | Acoustic | 6 pm After establishing himself as a solo artist in Los Angeles, Scott Ryan has moved back to the Inland Northwest, relocating to Spokane where his indie folk-rock tunes fit in well. Performing and recording for the past 10 years, Ryan also has composed scores for several short films.

The Camaros

SO YOU LIKE STRAIGHT-UP ROCK AND ROLL?

FRIDAY 7 pm, Big Dipper: Heavy Seventeen 7:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Boat Race Weekend 9:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: The Static Tones 10:50 pm, nYne: The Camaros 11:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Dead Serious Lovers SATURDAY 6 pm, Irv’s: Buffalo Jones 6:30 pm, Neato Burrito: The Colourflies 8:30 pm, Neato Burrito: The Bettys 9:50 pm, Club 412: Blackwater Prophet

MJ THE INHUMAN BEATBOX + NOBE | Hip-hop | 7 pm To the best of our knowledge, local artist Michael Janson (aka MJ the Inhuman Beatbox) is a human being. He’s also is a one-man act who beatboxes, sings, plays guitar and works a looping machine simultaneously. With fellow Flying Spider Nobe, the pair fuse lyrical acrobatics with MJ’s … everything else. Come listen, and have your mind justifiably blown.

WAX & DRUMS FEAT. JAEDA | Hip-hop | 8 pm It would be easy to say that Jaeda makes real hip-hop, but everyone’s definition of real is relative. The rapper, a 2010 Inlander Band to Watch, has been making Spokane hip-hop since the ’90s. When you listen to her flows, you can relate on almost every level of life’s trials and heartaches. Her stage presence is absolutely magical. Hip-hop doesn’t get more real than this.

PUFF PUFF BEER | College party rock | 9:30 pm Puff Puff Beer creates the kind of funky sound that just makes you feel cool, the way you feel after you’ve had that first drink of the night, warm and open. The funky, sing-speak music is more than enough to come together for — for audience and band alike.

DOWN NORTH | Soul | 10:30 pm Bringing what could be the most soulful set of the entire Volume weekend is Seattle-based Down North. Lead by singer Anthony “RenaGade” Briscoe, the band doesn’t let its audience go until they’re up and dancing in a sweaty mess, letting the group’s funky and groovy riffs flow into every orifice. ...continued on next page

The Digital Wild

SO YOU LIKE HIP-HOP? FRIDAY 10 pm, nYne: The Digital Wild SATURDAY 5 pm, Big Dipper: Bitwvlf 6 pm, Big Dipper: All Urban Outfield 7 pm, nYne: MJ the Inhuman Beatbox & Nobe 8 pm, nYne: Wax & Drums feat. Jaeda 10:30 pm, nYne: Down North

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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

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