Got A Hankering For Some Local Sounds? Hunker Down At Home
In our continuing quest to please everybody all the time (they said it couldn’t be done!), we bring you a brief guide to enjoying Spokane’s music scene without ever leaving your chair.
You say you’re too pooped to go to a club? Too cheap to buy a local CD without checking out the band first?
Here are several Web sites to come to your rescue.
First up is audiocandy.com. The site, founded almost five years ago by a couple of Spokane guys, allows you to sample local and national music.
And on June 17 at noon, the site will host its first “Candy Jam,” a live audio broadcast featuring local musicians Ben Staley, Don Thomsen, Don Larson, Bobby Patterson, Rick Lillemon, Steve Nelson, Ron Sinnott and Bill Atkins.
If you miss the live broadcast, it’ll be archived so you can check it out at the site later.
Then there’s smusic.net, the most comprehensive listing of Eastern Washington and North Idaho bands on the Web. Craig Baker founded the site early last year. Some of the information is a bit out of date, but he tries to keep the listings and contest pages current.
If you want to listen to some local music, check out mp3.com. Type in Spokane or Idaho on the regional search page and you’ll be able to hear tracks from bands like Too Slim and the Taildraggers, Celtic Nots and the Laffin’ Bones Blues Band.
But don’t stay cooped up inside forever. You’ll get pale and bug-eyed. Nobody likes that.
Better than getting hit by a tree
Logger-turned-musician Allen James Teague performs tonight at Sandpoint’s Panida Theatre and Saturday at the Cutter Theater in Metaline Falls.
Teague was a logger for eight years before taking his piano playing professional a couple of years ago.
“Logging paid well at times, but it’s a very dangerous job and it’s difficult to stay happy,” says Teague, who once had two trees hit him at the same time. (Most of the trees’ blow was absorbed by a pile of logs, but the accident left Teague “winded and out of it for a little while,” he says.)
His second and most recent CD is called “Prelude to the Wake,” and features a lengthy rhapsody and other original neo-classical tunes.
The Panida show starts at 7:30 p.m. and costs $10. The Cutter show starts at 7:30 p.m. and costs $6.
Catch him now. He’ll be heading to Prague this summer.
To Sin City and back
As you read this, members of Spokane blues band The Bone Daddies are likely on their way back from Las Vegas after trying to hit it big.
The band was one of 172 from around the world playing at the third annual Emerging Artists & Talent in Music Conference, which wraps up Saturday. The event is kind of like an orphanage for unsigned bands, who play their best hoping some loving record label will take them in.
Since the conference started, more than a dozen bands have found good homes, including Slipknot, Mytown and Mikaila.
We’ll keep you posted on how The Bone Daddies fared.
Club-hopping
* Mojo brings the blues to Fast Eddie’s, 1 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., tonight and Saturday from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Cover is $2, free if you’re at the club before 8:30 p.m.
* Spokane funk band Tongue in Groove plays tonight at the Fort Spokane Brewery, 401 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. On Saturday, it’s Sweet Fancy Moses. Both shows start at 9:30 p.m. and cost $5.
* Blues guitarist Paul Brasch plays at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd.
* Comic Bengt Washburn performs at 8 tonight and Saturday at Laughs at The Ram, 908 N. Howard. Admission is $6. Call (509) 475-5233 for reservations. On Thursday, comedian Bryan Kellen will kick off a three-day stint at Laughs. Ladies get in free for Thursday’s show.
* Spokane bands Delbert and Civilized Animal and comic Chris Warren perform at 7:30 tonight at the Tubs Cafe Blues Garden, 313 Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive in Coeur d’Alene.