No-Fi Soul Rebellion has a new CD on the way called Oh Please Please Please. You can pre-order it now, and receive NFSR buttons and a signed lyric sheet. They also have some release shows scheduled - April 17th at Boundary Bay, April 18th at the Old Foundry, and May 8th in Seattle at the Comet Tavern.

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.

Black Crabs - 13 Times (Ravenous Records)
by Brent Cole (What’s Up Magazine - January 2009)
With their latest release, 13 Times, Seattle’s Black Crabs (which features Bellingham’s Tom Forster of The Foot Stompin’ Trio/Sweetheart of the Rodeo on drums) continue with their old school rockabilly romp. Overall, the disc is your standard fare rockabilly, lots of reverb guitar, stand up bass and swing drums. Nothing too fancy, so fans of the genre will enjoy it, especially if heard on a loose summer day.
The highlight of the …

I put off writing my review of the Glasvegas/Carl Barat show because my computer crapped out and I wanted to include some photos in my review. Well, I still don’t have a computer that I can use to upload photos from my camera, so I’ll just have to add them later (the photo shown here is from a different show). I drove down to Seattle last Saturday, braving rock slides on Chuckanut and flooding in the Skagit Valley, not to mention the steady buckets of rain dropping from the sky …

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 …