Red Heart Alarm
Published 7:00 am Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Last Saturday, the Dusty 45s headlined an impressive local lineup at the PBRBQ (i.e, a barbecue sponsored by Pabst) at Slims Last Chance. If Seattle had its own search engine, and you typed in reliably crowd-pleasing, highly competent, traditional rockabilly band, the Dustys would be the very first return. But to some, their refusal to deviate much from the rockabilly purists canon can be a bit boring. The same cannot be said of Red Heart Alarm, who play Slims this Friday, a gig that serves as a release party for the bands debut LP, White Elephants. They describe themselves as gruntrygrunge meets country, as if that wasnt instantly obvious. And as awful as that label sounds, their music is anything but. Creatively, theyre the type of band the Dusty 45s should aspire to be. With Scrubjays, The Boxcar Rebellion. MIKE SEELY
Fri., July 23, 9 p.m., 2010
