The show a lot of people around the office seem to be stoked about is Common Market’s EP release show at the Vera Project.

^{Common Market photo by Kyle Johnson}

From Stranger Suggests:

Common Market at Vera Project
Common Market’s new EP, Black Patch War, contains some of Sabzi’s richest productions. Each detail is lovingly made and expressed. (Listening to it puts me in mind of South London’s Burial, whose attention to detail is supernatural.) RA Scion, Common Market’s rapper, is much more reflective on this effort, his words and thoughts lost in a warm wash of music. Black Patch War stands to be one of the best works of art to come out of Seattle this year. (Vera Project, Seattle Center, 956-8372. 7:30 pm, $7/$8, all ages.) by Charles Mudede

Mudede gave the EP a four-star review in this week’s issue, which you can read here. Larry Mizell also gives the guys some love in My Philosophy:

Then there’s Black Patch War, the new seven-track EP from Common Market—the first new joint from RA Scion and Sabzi since their self-titled ‘05 LP. An appetizer before the full-length Tobacco Road LP drops later this year, BPW finds RA illustrating a link between the bloody history of the early-1900s tobacco farmers’ uprising of the EP’s title and himself, circa right now. On closing track “Bonanza,” Sabzi cuts in lyrics from the underrated ’90s Cali crew the B.U.M.S.—”A lot of suckers always front that we made it by luck”—as RA recounts his grind in the town, from nights performing at the Contour to putting up his own paycheck for prize money at the Sciontific Beatbox Battle (B-Shorty, I see you) a few years back. The entire effort is lyrically dense as hell, calling for repeat listens to decode Scion’s signifying. And Sabzi’s beats are way more boom-bap than his sweeping Bayani Blue Scholars sound.

This week’s Bug in the Bassbin throws you a few suggestions, should Common Market not be your scene. Mochipet and Lusine are playing Broken Disco and Chop Suey and Telephone Jim Jones plays Static Glide at the VIP Room. Read about ‘em here.

And here’s what U&Cs offer up:

^{Sioux City Pete and the Beggars photo by Ari Spool}

Sioux City Pete and the Beggars, Emeralds, the Greatest Hits, Stabbings, Batter Recharger
(Fusion Cafe) Last time I saw Sioux City Pete and the Beggars, they got two songs into their set before their guitarist took off her shirt to reveal the word “Sodomite” written on her lower back. Sioux City Pete himself, a ripped-up crusty dude with the friendly charm of a Midwestern grandma, growled out feral lyrics about shooting crank in a basement over dirty, noisy garage riffs. Eventually, everyone was nearly naked, spitting beer all over each other and rolling around in broken glass (visit The Stranger Flickr pool for pix!). Will this happen at the alcohol-free Fusion Cafe? Hard to say. But I bet the janitors find a bottle of three-star in the bathroom garbage. ARI SPOOL

The Moondoggies, Red Sea Sharks, PWRFL Power
(Funhouse) The Moondoggies set themselves up for a bumpy ride with a name that sounds more like a fictional band in a Cameron Crowe movie than a worthy ’60s-rock revival that’s mastered vintage harmonies and playful, folk-tinged choruses that spiral into blissed-out jam sessions. “The Moondoggies? What’s with this acid-dropping ’60s bullshit?” I thought. “What a stupid name.” While I’m still slightly embarrassed to admit to liking a band with such a moniker, their brighter-than-the-sun songs and animated live show are impressive enough to elevate them from potential guilty pleasure to just pure pleasure. MEGAN SELING

Listen to the Moondoggies:
“Night and Day”

“Keep Her on the Line”

Kate Nash - “Foundations”

Kate Nash
(Showbox at the Market) If I get a chance to talk to Kate at her show, I’m going to tell her about the time the song “Foundations” wedged itself in my subconscious for weeks and I became unbearable to be around. “You said I must eat so many le-mons, cause I am so bit-tah!” I sang to myself in a weird cockney accent on the bus and in the shower, and I’m pretty sure the song played a minor role in a dream subplot. Kate doesn’t just write catchy songs about failing relationships, though. “I use mouthwash/sometimes I floss/I have a family/And I drink cups of tea,” she sings on a song entitled “Mouthwash.” I forgive her. I have no idea what Kate will sound like in concert, but if she sounds even half as good as she does on her CD, it’ll be worth it to you to check her out. STEVEN BLUM

Lastly, Matt Garman wrote an U&C about Lonely Forest’s set at tonight’s Cloud Cult show but sadly, the Lonely Forest are no longer playing. Instead, Cloud Cult has added a second set. You can get tickets at Neumo’s box office.

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