Making A Lot Of Noise For The Needy

Seattle’s annual Noise for the Needy music festival kicked off yesterday with two great local bills including Slender Means, Coulter, Skeletons With Flesh On Them, Fences and New Faces. The festival is made up of local and national acts and features shows at venues all over town including Neumos, The Comet, Chop Suey, The Sunset, The Tractor Tavern, The High Dive and more with all the proceeds benefiting Transitional Resources. Basically, you the people get to experience great music AND help those in need. Everyone wins!

Tonight offers do-gooders/concert goers three great shows to choose from and luckily all based in Ballard so you CAN double your karma points by hitting all three:

The Tractor: Throw Me The Statue, “Awesome,” and Velella Velella.
The Sunset: Adam Stephens and the Finite Plan (from Two Gallants), Widower, Jack Wilson & The Wife Stealers, and Shane Tutmarc
Conor Byrne: Half Light, Trentalage, Cataldo, and the Cosmic Panther Land Band

Friday’s action is centered in Belltown with two great shows at the Underground Events Center (The Whore Moans, Speaker Speaker, Wallpaper and more) and the powerhouse line up at The Croc with Grand Archives, See Me River, and The Curious Mystery.

Saturday, most of the action is on Capitol Hill but good shows to note are Furniture Girls, Hotels, Born Anchors and Anomie Belle at The High Dive and tons of great guest DJs for the Emerald City Soul Club at Victory Lounge. If you choose to hang out on the Hill on Saturday, be prepared for some tough choices.

Neumos: Art Brut, & Miike Snow
The Comet: Brent Amaker & the Rodeo,* The Valley, An Invitation to Love, The Beautiful Confusion, The Thoughts
Chop Suey: Point Juncture, WA, The Pica Beats, Black Whales, and Grant Olsen (Arthur & Yu)
Wild Rose: Black Eyes & Neckties, Telepathic Liberation Army, Loving Thunder, and The Beats, Man

*According to the Brent Amaker & the Rodeo myspace page the Rodeo is cooking up some extra hoopla down at The Comet including a costume and photo contest, a dancing girl, cheap whiskey, and more. If you’re planning on catching this show, get advance tickets and don’t forget your cowboy hat as we hear prizes are involved.

If you somehow make it through Saturday night (extra points if you survived the Rodeo) don’t forget to check out Neumos who will host a helluva closer with the Constantines, Crystal Antlers, Hey Marseilles, and I Was A King.

Good luck and thanks for doing your part!

Act Your Age: True Adolescents SIFF Party!

Act Your Age: True Adolescents SIFF Party featuring The Effort, The Fucking Eagles, Basemint, Black Daisy and Hunter Lea from Mono In VCF at The Comet June 6th 8pm, $7

Furnace Films will host a party open to the public at The Comet Tavern on June 6th to celebrate the screenings of the Seattle-made independent film True Adolescents, starring Mark Duplass and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, during the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). 

The party will feature live music from local bands The Effort (featuring members of The Blakes), The Fucking Eagles, Basemint (featuring members of Wallpaper), Black Daisy, and DJ sets by Hunter Lea (of Mono In VCF).  Doors are at 8pm and the cost is $7.

True Adolescents features Seattle music and locales (including The Comet Tavern). The film premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival and has been screened at major film festivals around the country before making its way home to Seattle for SIFF. 

Written and directed by Northwest native and UW alum Craig Johnson, True Adolescents tells the story of an aging Seattle rocker Sam Bryant (Duplass) with no job, no record deal, and no place to live who finds himself in charge of two teens on a camping trip that goes horribly wrong. 

The soundtrack, curated by musical supervisor Sandy Wilson (Light In The Attic Records), features pioneering 60’s garage rockers like The Sonics and 60’s/70’s baroque popsters, The Free Design, along with emerging artists like The Blakes (who play The Effort, Sam’s band in the film), Wallpaper, Mono In VCF, Hazelwood Motel, Black Daisy, Sunset Valley, and The Fucking Eagles — many of whom will play live sets during the party. 

True Adolescents will screen at The Egyptian Theater on Thursday June 4th at 9:30pm and again on Saturday June 6th at 1:30 pm. 

For more information about screenings, please visit SIFF’s website. For more information about True Adolescents please visit http://trueadolescents.com