This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances.
Motley Crue occupies a peculiar space in the media landscape: Despite selling over fifty million albums, at least three members of the band are more famous on their own than all of the songs they’ve recorded as a group. It’s hard to imagine another band who could publish three bestselling books about themselves without really mentioning their music at all.
Some things you might want to pick up.
Beer & Hot Dogs
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Some things you might want to pick up.
Beer & Hot Dogs
Threadless has nifty goods to cover your skin on the top part mostly
another tacoma blog
rock solid webhosting
Exit 133 – “about 90% Tacoma”
tacoma, aggregated
Kevin Freitas – Tacoma
Online Backup/Storage
Bulldog?
The Weekly Volcano
thrice all american – Tacoma
A series of black and white photos from the Western State Hospital grounds in Lakewood.
Initially, I thought of posting all the photos here, but I’ve decided against wheel reinventing. So, here’s the . I made these last weekend on an outing with the .
“The 112-page, approx. 9″x11″ hardcover book presents the best of Friedman’s unparalleled photographic documentation of Fugazi’s members in almost 200 color and black & white images captured by Friedman onstage and off between 1986 and Fugazi’s last U.S. concert in 2002.
Friday night, (yes, that’s tonight) are playing at the grand opening downtown Tacoma, 100 S. 9th Street. You could get lucky. From what I gather, Miller Beer is giving away a Jeep… though I’m fuzzy on those details.
Photo by, well, me.
Rather than try to come up with some fancy to say while I’m supposed to be working, I’m just going to quote here:
Evan, a UPS alum, has been a pal for a long time, and is no doubt the most entertaining fool on stage. These guys are an amazing power-pop band. No openers, and they go on around 10.
I’ll try to be the most entertaining fool with a camera. These guys always put on a good show. If you’re in Tacoma, you should come down and have a can of beer.