Tonight Party starts… NOW!
posted by on May 31 at 13:13 PM
Yeah, I know Memorial Day weekend is the official “unofficial start of summer,” but all your Sasquatches and Folklifes were just a warmup for the real kick-off of the summer freak-out, fuck-up, party season. That’s tonight. The Columbia City Theater is kicking out the jams with an all-ages, ass-shaking blow-out featuring No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Coconut Coolouts, Partman Parthorse and Natalie Portman’s Shaved mother-fucking Head! I know—take a moment to catch your breath.
I first saw Partman Parthorse (pictured above) at the (Very Reverend) Blue Moon Tavern a couple months back and I instantly fell in love. Sexy girls and boys; tweaky, angular spuzz-rock; and an idiot-savant love-commander on mic and moves exhorting the crowd to get it on and on and on. I had a “new favorite local band.”
Then a few weeks later I saw Coconut Coolouts destroy the house at Pho Bang. A six-(wo)man party in a box, the Coolouts bring the bounce with garage-built rhythm-n-booze party jams, two stand-up drummers, and a fucking bass-playing banana! I don’t remember much of their set (this was Pho Bang, remember), but I do recall it was some of the biggest fun I ever had. I had a new “new favorite local band.”
And though I’ve never seen Bellingham’s hottest couple No-Fi Soul Rebellion, from the reports I’ve heard (and pictures I’ve seen of their sweat-soaked revival shows) they may usurp Parthorse and the Coolouts to become my even newer “new favorite local band.” I think my heart just might explode.
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head kicks it all off with ABBA-meets-Kraftwerk electro jams.
The Columbia City Theater has been home to recent all-ages shows put on by the local promotions duo Emerald City Outlaws. Located—where else—in the heart of groovy Columbia City (I hear Phil Ek calls the neighborhood home… HOT!) the building is Seattle’s oldest vaudeville theater still in existence. Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Bruce Lee and Blake Lewis have all performed there. Let’s hope it’s still standing after tonight.
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Ave S
Show at 8
all ages
Columbia City Theater is a great venue. Cool show here!
If you do go down make sure you give Commander some respect if he's spinning tunes in the bar. If he doesn't qualify as a legend, he should.
yeah, those girls are not sexy.
i also had the displeasure of seeing partman parthorse on st patrick's day last year and they sucked ballsack. absolutely terrible. the unattractive girl playing the bass could barely hold the strings down and the lead "singer" did little more than scream unintelligible obscenities and then take his clothes off and drape himself in a blanket. i don't know if there was a point to that or not.
admittedly, that was over a year ago so they could have improved.
Right on Willis, see you at Citizen Cope!
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