Squeak and Squawk Music Festival Starts Tonight!
The second Squeak and Squawk Music Festival begins tonight. The festival is a five-night, multiple-venue indie music banquet featuring some of the best emerging and mid-level talent from Portland to Vancouver B.C. Each night of the festival features one all-ages show and one 21 and over show. The all-ages shows on this years bill will be held at a rental space called ‘The Squawk Box’. The shows will start at 6PM every night and run until about 8:30. All-ages Highlights include Tiny Vipers (sub pop), Typhoon (11 piece band), Pwrfl Power, Humble Cub, and a showcase of bands that attend Tacoma’s School of the Arts.
The 21 and over shows are all happening at The New Frontier Lounge. Those shows will start at 9PM each night, except Saturday’s dance party which will start at 10PM. 21 and over highlights include Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside (recently named the best band in Portland by the Willamette Weekly), The Pica Beats, Lake, Myths, Reporter, Strength, Grand Hallway, and Trevor Dickson. Should be a killer week of music in small, intimate venues. Full programs can be found in Thursday’s edition of The Weekly Volcano. Links to artists pages can be found in the top friends section of the Squeak and Squawk Myspace page. Please come out and treat yourself to some good music while supporting the growth of Tacoma’s art/music scene.
Tonight at The Squawk Box 6PM – $5
Humble Cub
Girls of Mars
The Last Slice of Butter
Emperor Moth
Tonight at The New Frontier 9PM – $8
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside (PDX)
The Pica Beats (Sea)
Basemint
Santee
Notes:
1. Bring cash for the door. Also, ID if necessary. Cost ranges from 5 to 8 dollars per show.
2. Come on time. Last time several shows sold out early.
3. No drinking in all-ages space.
4. Live music in small spaces is the best. Give it a try.
5. This is not some insular thing. Everyone is invited and encouraged to come.
6. We need you.
7. If you come on Saturday the 12th. Bring your finest dance moves and a Red Bull.
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14 comments
I inacomaintacoma June 11, 2010
whut?? jesy fortino in tacoma? real music in tacoma?
a butterfly must have farted on top of mount tittykaka in the south pacific.
quick, thorax, what is your speak & math that you macgrubered into spitting out obscure astrological codes saying to you about this???
can we still expect the fking eagles to play loud music somewhere and help the spread of genital herpes amongst the alkie-hipsters of thecoma these next few days??
E elked June 11, 2010
Great shows tonight. I assume inacoma went, although maybe not, as there was beer for sale, and it sounds like that may offend his or her delicate sensibilities. Squeak and Squawk is basically a smaller, grassroots version of inacoma’s NXNW indie rawk fantasy (a festival called NXNW actually took place in Portland a few years ago, but didn’t really go anywhere. Squeak and Squawk may actually have a better chance of taking root by starting small and not just trying to be colder, wetter version of SXSW).
I inacomaintacoma June 11, 2010
oh elked, did i hit a delicate nerve?
glad you’re enjoying the then still colder, wetter, but also then grassrootier, and most definitely corny as a turd version.
squeak and squawk. squikkity squack. stomp and romp. flim and flam. fart and barf. potholepalooza and stink jam 2010.
surely the absolute GED student level production design efforts of such events will make the rest of the country just want to fly to thecoma just to pat it’s head like tom waits.
if labels like subpop would have taken cues from such non-visionary drivel in the 90’s, then seattle’s power to attract international attention from the music industry would probably still mirror thecoma’s current lack there of.
but thecoma can always play the “we’re just trying to avoid success on purpose” card. though that card is looking a little played out.
hope something eventually takes root for you. but since you’re all too much into reading your magic speak & math’s and eightballs for what to do about sht, my best guess is you’re all going the way of the dodo for now when it comes to importing and exporting talent internationally.
but what assaults my sensibility the most is you’re all just fine with the musical incest. i maybe guilty of indie rawk fantasies, but at least i am not trying to fk my family all the time with the same sounding, but then just played really loud, bullcrap punk revival music. thecoma’s lack of bands that don’t all sound like the same punk tinged revival bull crap can only indicate one thing. musical incest. which in turn explains that when tasked to design a theme for a festival, the syndrome ridden tacomite is only able to muster the 4th grader reading level conceptualization: squeak and squawk.
well, what else can you do but just want to pat some freaking heads around here. tom, i think you are actually on to something.
C captiveyak June 11, 2010
inacoma—
You’re starting to remind me of Ivan Karamazov, minus his interest in rational objectivity. I doubt I need to expound, since I probably didn’t understand the book correctly.
R RR Anderson June 11, 2010
still not convinced that Captiveyak and Inacoma aren’t the same person. The equal and opposite plucky banter fits together so well it begs suspicion.
C captiveyak June 11, 2010
well, i will be attending a Squeak & Squawk show tonight, regardless of who exactly I am. A local music culture can’t evolve unless the audience commits to listening. And now that I’ve got my studio set up and guitars restrung, I need to know who my competition is (before I take them down with my mad chops).
@RR — i hope you know I have too much respect for e133 readers to pull a silly split-personality stunt.
R RR Anderson June 11, 2010
… which is exactly what somebody running an elaborate click-generating, splint-personality stunt covering their tacks would say. Now i am convinced.
A Altered Chords June 11, 2010
Any of these band have:
trumpet, saxophone, flute, violin, viola, cello, upright bass, piano, sysntesizer?
I inacomaintacoma June 13, 2010
@ yakkityyak
…and minus the cultural relativity because this isn’t freaking russia. rational objectivity is a delusion in a causal reality where the forces of chaos reign like a motherfkr. read some zizak and figure out what it is you don’t know that you know.
i think my rationale is (as a side note to the squikkity squack festivus), to point out the obvious which is the glorified garage rock bands of thecoma are doing nothing else but sharing attitude at very high decibels. like brodie’s character in summer of sam: “it’s all about the attitude” yep and that’s why rock has a very short life span because most in the scene here just try to make it off of that. garage rock and punk died quick in the beginning, and today any revival of it really only serves as a quick, fastfood ‘go to’ outlet/genre for people who aren’t capable of having any different angles on rock music. being local isn’t an excuse for playing the same boring loud music. sht just quickly becomes spinal tap in my experience.
goodluck at squikkity squack, yak. good that you are experiencing it as a competition of who has the mad chops. that’s great attitude and completely soulless.
if jesy fortino’s guitar only had one string on it, she could say more with it than all the garbage garage rock acts of thecoma.
because the truth is, the local music culture all sounds the same so it’s doesn’t matter how many blind to the spinal tap people are in the audience.
pat, pat, pat.
C captiveyak June 13, 2010
Oh come now. I avoid certain scenes and shows here because I know what I’ll hear. Local bands practice thrice a week in my neughbor’s basement, subjecting me to tired “passionate disenfranchisement” coopted from better bands and better causes. Always the same discontent, but now with the clever addition of social injustice lyrics, as if topical content disguises the crime of being a whiney little white kid.
I went to a Squeak and Squawk show precisely because the bands are Tacoma bands that don’t fit the stereotypical Tacoma mold. Granted, the ones I saw were derivative, but they were talented. And they approached difficult material with commitment and gusto, instead of applying for some kind of scruffy slacker status. Every genre is boring to somebody, So won’t bother defending the type of music. Suffice it to say that no one was trying to be the second coming of Henry Rollins.
There are admirable things going on here. And just because I’d heard something like it before didn’t make it unenjoyable. In fact, it was a great thing to see. And I made
millions and millions of dollars on it. Buy now.
T tressie June 14, 2010
booooring. inacomaintacoma simply sounds like a cranky 13 year old boy, and captiveyak sounds like his college freshman older brother….and RR, you may well be correct about him/her/them/it being 2 people in the same body while not actually being a transsexual…
C crenshaw sepulveda June 14, 2010
I think it is someone who recently moved to Portland.
I inacomaintacoma June 16, 2010
come on tressie, you can’t do better than cranky 13 year old? talk about boring. i think you can label your burns as being vintage too, as in old and moldy grandma garage sale burns. don’t think for a second it’s hard to see the aesthetics of something someone made decades ago.
@yak, you know i was thinking about what you said on another thread. the ‘oh are we still 17, and trying to stick it to the man’ and all that down play bullcrap.
then i thought: do problems suddenly go away when people grow older than 17? or does it get easier as you get older to bend over and then just spread your buttcheeks for problems? i think you are spreading those buttcheeks pretty wide there yak. it’s like you are putting the scene under your big buttcheek wings.
whatev. you can always tweet about who’s under your buttcheek wing and hope someone from here clicks on your attention whore hyperlink.
R Razorhoof June 16, 2010
“whut?? jesy fortino in tacoma? real music in tacoma?”
Tiny Vipers makes me want to hang out in a Portland coffeehouse and make fun of everyone who isn’t as forward thinking or ironically dirty as myself. A lot of people like a lot of different music. Deal with it. Tiny Vipers is almost as bad as Motopony.