Subject: John Spalding

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  October 27, 2008

• Spalding Benefit Concert Announced

  I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented friends came together quickly to build a very strong, all-ages bill.Showbox at the Market will host an all-ages concert in memory of Spalding on Friday, January 9. The event will feature local favori

  December 5, 2008

• Tonight's Many Show Suggestions

  Helms Alee at the Eastside Tavern in OlympiaHelms Alee, Born Anchors, Patrol at Sunset Tavern, 9 p.m., $8This is one of several John Spalding benefit concerts coming up in the next few weeks to help release the local musician's album, Loveland; you can read a little about Helms Alee in Rocket Queen here, and more about John Spalding here. Caro, Talkdemonic, The Sight Below at Nectar, 8 p.m., $8Talkdemonic pulls off something that many bands fail at: Creating beautiful-yet-technical instrumental

  January 8, 2009

• Tonight's Show Suggestions

  Past Lives, "Reverse the Curse"I wish I could make two or three clones of myself so I could go to all the shows I would love to see tonight.  Then my clones and I could reconvene and compare notes.  Alas, the technology isn't quite sophisticated enough to accommodate my music journalism-cloning plans yet.  Also, there is a chance some of the shows I wanted to attend tonight, like the Rock N Roll Adventure Kids show at the Funhouse, may not be, you know, happening because of the I-

  January 9, 2009

• Tonight's Show Suggestions

  Paramount Styles, "Come To New York"David Bazan, Damien Jurado, See Me River at Chop Suey, 8 p.m., $15There's probably no better songwriter than David Bazan to play a benefit for John Spalding, the 33-year-old Seattle musician who died in November after a long battle with lung cancer. In his decade-long musical career, Spalding played with 90 Lb. Wuss and Raft of Dead Monkeys, and built friendships within the music community. Bazan's lyrics -- especially the songs he wrote while fronting Pedro t

  January 21, 2009

• Reminder: Love Land Listening Party Is Tonight

  John Spalding with Andrea Zollo It's at Gainsbourg (which is in Greenwood), starts at 8 p.m. and is free, though 10% of food/drink sales will be donated to the John Spalding Memorial Fund in memory of John, who made music under the name Love Land. For most of us, tonight will be the first time it'll be possible to hear the album in its entirety. And now, a few words from Gainsbourg proprietor, KEXP DJ and Rocket Queen columnist Hannah Levin on why she's hosting the event and what John meant to

  February 16, 2009

• Saying Goodbye to John Spalding

  And asking the survivors: Where are your Moogs?

  January 14, 2009

• Born Anchors Drop Into the Indie-Rock Abyss

  And check their egos at the door.

  March 25, 2009

• Love Land listening party

  Monday, February 16

  February 11, 2009

• Damien Jurado, David Bazan, See Me River

  Wednesday, January 21

  January 21, 2009

• A Year That Was, and One That Will Be

  December 24, 2008

• How Terminal Illness Helped One Local Musician Find His Voice

  The Beautiful Truth Behind Loveland.

  November 12, 2008