Winda Benedetti

Peter Noone

The Drags headline the Halloween show at Ichabod's North tonight.

Suicidal Tendencies performs at Outback Jack's Tuesday night.

Bishop

1. Steel Wool is scraping around for cash to finish their third album. 2. Andre Floyd plays upbeat blues.

Avalon Dance Club teacher Charlene Emch shows a swing stop to students Cap and Wanda Haggerty, middle, Erin Hansen and Rob Krassowski, left. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review

When you listen to Geoff Moore's music there is no doubt about his faith. He is a Christian singer with a Christian message. There is no hidden agenda; there is no subtle innuendo about the Spirit.

1. The Refreshments have fun without sacrificing musicianship. 2. Garrison Starr opens for The Refreshments.

BeeCraft headlines Tuesday's three-band Peace Gig '97 at The Met.

Christian sensation Jars of Clay performs tonight at the Spokane Opera House. Martyn Gallina-Jones photo

Silly Rabbit headlines Outback Jack's tonight.

1. The Twistin' Tarantulas feature mostly rock, and a little billy. 2. (Album cover)

Reggae artist Raggs Gustaffe spreads his message everywhere

The Artist (formerly known as Prince) Saturday, Sept. 27, The Gorge This is what it sounds like when Prince performs live. Oh, oh, oooh my God! I want to seeeee hiiim! Oooooooooh MY GOD! As The Artist gyrates his hips against the top of his grand piano, repeat and increase volume: Oh my God!

"We weren't a grunge band when grunge was popular," says Dickie Barrett, lead singer for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It's clear he's proud of his band's 12-year history, 12 years of sticking to its own sound and paving the way for a new era of ska music - music that combines the jumpin' Jamaican rhythm with giant chunks of punk. There have been many followers in the Bosstones' wake, but none with this eight-piece band's pizazz - heavy with Barrett's cement voice and frisky with a three-piece horn section.

1. Carlos Cavazo of Quiet Riot. 2. Swamp Mama Johnson has just released its third album, "Peachfish Stew."

22 Jacks have played Eastern Washington threee times. Friday's show is the band's first headline gig here.

1. SanCyre Hruby, a sufferer of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, practices with her new band in Spokane recently. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review 2. Hruby (foreground) with members of her band: Heather Sanstorm (left0 and Char Getchell. 3. SanCyre Hruby practices with fellow members of the band Fur Burger. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review

The fall concert season brings several Christian bands to Spokane and North Idaho for concerts. Christafari, a Christian reggae band, kicks off a string of five shows when the band performs at Pines Baptist Church Saturday. Spokane band Upside joins them on stage. Christafari played at the 1996 summer Olympics and has toured with big-name Christian acts such as dcTalk, Geoff Moore and The Distance.

The Mayfield Four, from left: Marty Meisner, Myles Kennedy, Craig Johnson and Zia Uddin. The Spokane band is getting ready to start cutting a new CD. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review

No matter what the naysayers tell you, Canned Heat is not now, and never has been, broken up. So says the band's drummer, Aldolfo "Fito" de la Parra.

"Macho Man" Randy Savage meets Diamond Dallas Page in a Death Match, not to be confused with a match to the death.

Live Saturday, Sept. 13, the Gorge When Live took the stage at the Gorge Saturday night, they did so with about half the crowd, half the security guards and half the volume of Rage Against the Machine the night before. But what Live lacked in punch it nearly made up for in intimacy. Singer and lead soul-searcher Ed Kowalczyk led the rock quartet through a set laden with mystical and metaphysical probing.

1. Sweaty Nipples is splitting up and wants to leave a good last impression. 2. Jackie on Acid recently released their album "Moink!"