Unfortunately, the Spinal Tap tour that has been talked about in recent weeks isn’t exactly the full-blown extravaganza many were hoping for (myself included). Instead, it’s going to be an “Unwigged & Unplugged” tour, with the three actors performing songs from This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind on acoustic guitars. It’ll still be an entertaining evening, just not the mighty spectacle of Tap. Tickets for Seattle and Vancouver go on sale this Friday, 3/6.

The Wild Buffalo was the place to be on Saturday night - it was the 8th annual What’s Up Magazine Awards Show, featuring Lucky Brown, Sugar Sugar Sugar, Rooftops, Holy Tailfeathers, Candysound and Hot Roddin’ Romeos. The crowd was slow to build at first, but then again, it was only about 9pm when things kicked off. The Hot Roddin’ Romeos played a fired up set of psychobilly tunes, pleasing their friends and fans in front of the stage, and winning some new fans as well. The crowd built in time …

As if Cap Hansen’s isn’t busy enough (the last time I was there it took about 15 minutes to get a Maker’s on the rocks!), they have now added shows in addition to their offerings of cheap booze. I’m not sure exactly how they squeeze in a few amps and a drum kit, but I hope to check out a show there very soon. At the moment they’ve got Dandelion Junk Queens, a band that mixes gypsy with punk, coming on January 30th (hey, that’s tomorrow night!), followed by Gabe …

It seems to me that grunge might be ready for a comeback. Bellingham’s Posies were hardly a grunge band, but they were from WA state at the time that grunge hit the big time. Lazy journalists labelled them a grunge band, although it didn’t help that, perhaps in an effort to win a larger group of fans, the band’s sound became more grungy. “Definite Door” is one of their better songs, and kinda bridges the gap between their trademark power-pop sound, and the fresh new sounds of grunge. I especially …

The big annual What’s Up Magazine awards show is coming up January 31st at Wild Buffalo. Make sure you show up early - this show always sells out. It definitely will this year - just look at that lineup! If you haven’t seen Sugar Sugar Sugar yet that’s reason enough to go - mark my words, this band has the potential to become Bellingham’s next Death Cab For Cutie, Posies, Idiot Pilot or Trucks - they are that good!

Glasvegas are a new Scottish band that has received tons of accolades from NME, to the point where they are already getting some stick and they’ve only just released their debut CD. Still, they hit all the right buttons with me - they combine the buzzing guitars of Jesus & Mary Chain and the Raveonettes, the production of Phil Spector and the vocals of the Trash Can Sinatras and Big Country. Heck, there are even one or two songs that sound like Big Country, and who is out there ripping …