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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 Eric Grandy said about the show in...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... act, as Longstreth's confounding arrangements coalesce again and again into irresistible melodies. ERIC GRANDY 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...
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... again and again into irresistible melodies. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15, 21+.) Eric Grandy Writes Josh: I can't imagine that more than ten people will notice or remember, but the whale described in the "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making" section of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius wasn't a killer whale, but a larger unspecified variety of gray whale...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Replacements"—with typical good humor and flair. They're a right wild rumpus live. ERIC GRANDY Mickey Avalon, Beardo, Ke$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...
