Today | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | 

Electric Avenue

A dance weekly survives its first year

By RACHEL SHIMP

Extra Info

Capitol Hill Arts Center free Every week Friday, 10:00pm

In the dance-music community, venues change and weeklies come and go, and the rare few—like the Saturday night drum and bass party Onset, in Pioneer Square—last a whole year, let alone Onset’s six. So kudos to the one-year anniversary of United House Front and CHAC’s Electric Avenue! Aping Green Velvet’s all-encompassing motto, “We like Electro. We like Retro. We like Ghetto. House. And Techno,” they’ve exemplified a musical open mind in their bookings. And also some street smarts: for every special booking—like Miami bass/breakbeat DJ and tonight’s headliner Deekline—that costs five or ten bucks, the other three bookings each month are both free and solid, with locals like Charlie B., Jizosh, Swank, and Sun Tzu Sound on the roster. CHAC’s Lower Level is also one of the more comfortable rooms to let loose in, and its walls aren’t being painted white (Hi, Baltic Room) anytime soon. Capitol Hill Arts Center, Lower Level, 1621 12th Ave., 388 - 0521. $10. 10 p.m. RACHEL SHIMP

Fridays with Riz from KEXP

Are you superstitious? Then stick with the usual M.O. for Friday the 13th, like being wary of ladders, black cats, shattered mirrors, kindly loan officers, etc. One thing you shouldn’t be afraid of, though, is dancing, and I can’t think of a better place to spend this particular Friday than at Re-Bar with DJ Riz (also of KEXP’s long-running show Expansions). Why? Not only has he commandeered the club’s Fridays since forever, and won Best DJ in SW’s readers’ poll numerous times, but the scene on this night is never dull. Riz plays deep, funky house but throws in whatever else he feels like, unconstrained by a ruling vibe. And Riz’s followers are passionate and varied. You’ll notice the same people doing their same weird dances week after week, each seemingly locked into their own groovy universe. That kind of reliable abandon is such an unusual clubland sight, every Friday there feels a little bit freaky.

Every week Friday, 10:00pm

80:20, In Lake Ch'

free. Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Amber Pacifc, Truce, the Real You, City in the Sea, the Forgotten Dream

all ages

$15. Fri., May 16, 7:00pm

Amelia (CD release), the Beautiful Confusion

$6. Fri., May 16, 6:00pm

Bobby Malvesuto

$5. Fri., May 16, 7:00pm

Bobby Malvesuto

$5. Fri., May 16, 7:00pm

Chuckanut Drive (CD release), North Twin, Drunken Prayer

$8. Fri., May 16, 9:30pm

Clinic, Shearwater

$13 adv. Fri., May 16, 8:00pm

Delta Moon, Diesel Trukkers

$12. Fri., May 16

Dirty Velvet! featuring he Glitch Mob, Novatron, Noisemaker

$12 adv. Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Doug Miller (CD release)

$10. Fri., May 16, 8:00pm

French Kicks, the Joggers, the Quiet Ones

all ages

$10 adv./$12. Fri., May 16, 8:00pm

Gary Reynolds, Spanish for 100, Little Pieces, Birdshow of North America

Fri., May 16, 8:00pm

Making Strangers Laugh with Cathy Sorbo

$6. Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Meklit Hadero (7 p.m.); Trio Concept (9 p.m., $5);Marlee Walker's Blues Jam (11 p.m., $7)

"Misfits of May" with the Midway Orchestra, guests

Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Nas, D. Black, Grynch, DJ Nphared

all ages

$37.40 adv./$40. Fri., May 16, 8:30pm

Roy Loney, the Tripwires, the Fucking Eagles

$8. Fri., May 16, 10:00pm

Satans Host, Rutah, Evangelist, guests

all ages

$10 adv./$12. Fri., May 16, 7:00pm

The Electric Land Ladies, Kristen Ward (CD release, the Kwabs

$6. Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

The Evaporators, the Voodoo Organist, TacocaT, Science & Junk

$7. Fri., May 16, 9:30pm

The Snow, Mexican UFO, the Sweet Dizzies

free. Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Williston, Skitterpup, The Forget-me-nots

Fri., May 16, 9:00pm

Andalibre Flamenco

free/$15 food minimum. Every week Friday, 7:00pm

Bobby Hutcherson Quartet with Nicholas Payton

$27.50. Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., May 18

Brian Nova Quartet with special guests

free. Every week Friday, Saturday

Buckaroo Blues

$5. Daily from Fri., May 16 until Sat., May 17, 9:00pm

DJ Billy the Kid

Every week Friday

DJ Dot

Every week Friday, 9:00pm

DJ Ms. Broadway

free. Every week Wednesday, Friday, 9:00pm

DJ Niros with rotating guests

Every week Friday, Saturday

Filthy Fridays with DJ Sabzi (Blue Scholars), Daps 1

Every week Friday

Flux: DJ Kyler

Every week Friday

Hollywood Nights: Urban soul night

Every week Friday

Jazz and Sushi Fridays

Every week Friday, 7:30pm

Juicy Fridays

Every week Friday

Paul Greene & Straight Shot

Daily from Fri., May 16 until Sat., May 17

Swagger

Every week Friday, 9:00pm

Top 40 dance party with DJ 507 and Sam I Am

$5. Every week Friday, 9:00pm

Wesley Chase, Joseph Rojo

free. Every week Friday, 7:00pm

Your Ass with rotating DJs

Every week Friday, 9:00pm

To Do List

Sunday, May 11

Cake
On a cold rainy day, nothing perks my mood like Cake. The Sacramento alt-ro... More>>
Paramount Theatre, Sun., May 11, 7:00pm

Seattle Trumpet Consort
Without getting into a lot of acoustic arcana about how and why, the natura... More>>
Trinity Parish Church, Sun., May 11, 2:00pm

Ron van der Ende: Motor Memory
Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home of the famous bl... More>>
OkOk Gallery, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 10 until Tue., June 10

97 more things to do today>>
Find a Restaurant

 
A work of love from charismatic man-about-town Waid Sainvil, Waid's is the only Haitian restaurant o...
Off the Delridge Way exit from the West Seattle Bridge, Skylark Cafe & Club is a genuine blue-collar...
The Northlake Tavern is proud to tell you that its small pie weighs more than two-and-a-half pounds ...
Entering Can Can is like walking into Moulin Rouge—not the Parisian tourist trap, the Baz Luhrmann m...
Find a Concert

Sunday, May 11
Our Top Picks
Check out our Digital Jukebox!
Find a Movie

Find a Theater

Find a Club

The groan-inducingly named Thai One On in Lake City dims its lights and switches on the speakers at ...
Seattle resident Gabe Morgan was once in a constant mental, physical, and psychological battle with ...
I haven't eaten much steak this summer because I'm usually broke. When I discovered Ozzie's Wednesda...
Pure, unadulterated joy is the look permanently affixed to the face of a man doing the mambo to the ...
It's Saturday night between 10th and 11th on Pike Street, Capitol Hill's bustling new epicenter. The...
Most 
Popular

I’m (Not) With Busey

News By Aimee Curl

Help Or I’ll Shoot

News By Laura Onstot

The Silver Bullet of Seattle Street Food

Food By Jesse Froehling

A Tea Two-fer

Food By Maggie Dutton

How Seattle Could Have Saved Jerry Garcia

Food By Mike Seely
now click this

Travel
Pacific Northwest Getaways

Seattle Home Search
1000's of Listings and Detailed Neighborhood Information

Seattle Weekly Online Career Fair!
Where People & Jobs Find Each Other.

Sound Living ®
Seattle Metro Real Estate