Chrissy Piper Tomorrow night, the Mountain Goats are playing the Showbox at the Market with Final Fantasy—tickets are still for sale here , but if you're feeling lucky, you can enter to win a pair and pay NOTHING! Just send your first and last name in an e-mail to freetickets@thestranger.com with Mountain Goats in the subject line. Here's what EricGrandy said about the show in...
... act, as Longstreth's confounding arrangements coalesce again and again into irresistible melodies. ERICGRANDY From Up & Coming : Mark Matos & Os Beaches, the Beautiful Confusion, Yuni in Taxco (Comet) According his band's bio, Mark Matos was raised in a large Portuguese immigrant community in the SF Bay Area, where his father and grandfather founded a marching band. After...
... again and again into irresistible melodies. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15, 21+.) EricGrandy Writes Josh: I can't imagine that more than ten people will notice or remember, but the whale described in the "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making" section of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius wasn't a killer whale, but a larger unspecified variety of gray whale...
... Replacements"—with typical good humor and flair. They're a right wild rumpus live. ERICGRANDYMickey Avalon, Beardo, Ke$ha (Showbox at the Market) Dear Mickey Avalon: I've always loved your skanky, sleazeball party raps; your ridiculously oversexualized, druggy-scuzzy lyrics; and your lazy, nasally delivery. I love how you always sound like you have a nose full of cocaine...