There's a dance party tonight with Adam X, Bryan Zentz, Mathew Anderson, Brandon Plank, and Spirals, but it's at an undisclosed warehouse locations. Shhhh... it's a secret! Find out more details in this week's Data Breaker.

The New Kids on the Block are also in town tonight. I never thought I'd ever have to type those words in my adult life. They play the Tacoma Dome. Here is their video from their new album as proof that, no matter how much you loved them 20 years ago, you shouldn't really bother:

In this week's paper Sam McPheeters further ponders the reunion tour and the New Kids' shift from boy-band to "Middle-Aged Man Band": "Who's the Remorseful Guy? Which one is the Gum Disease Guy? Guy Struggling With an Addiction to Online Pornography? Guy Who Lost Money in a Bad Restaurant Investment?"

Read the whole piece here.

And lastly, Minus the Bear finally return to home turf. Welcome home, boys:

Minus the Bear, Annuals, Helms Alee
(Showbox at the Market) Seattle has such a fucking fantastic music scene. And I'm not just saying that through rose-colored hometown-pride glasses—the rest of the nation recognizes what talent exists here, too. Minus the Bear, for example, are finally coming home after being on the road since early October—with much of their 39-date tour being sold out, they're clearly no longer our little secret. Tonight's openers, Helms Alee, are newer to the scene, so they don't quite have the rest of the world hypnotized by their epic, guitar-heavy rock (yet), but their impressive debut, Night Terror (Hydra Head), has maintained a spot on my top-10 list for 2008, so it's only a mater of time before they're crossing the country on sold-out tours of their own. MEGAN SELING

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