Music

Tuesdays at the Stage Door Cafe featuring Josh Carter and Michael Muir Stage Door Cafe presents local musicians

on Tuesday nights this summer

Stage Door Cafe invites you to enjoy local music every second and fourth Tuesday night in June, July and August. Order a bite to eat from the cafe’s select menu of sweet and savory items, sip on a beer from Naked City or a glass of wine, and listen to talented musicians.

June 24 from 7-9pm: Josh Carter and Michael Muir Josh & Michael are both working professionals in Seattle’s theatre and music industries. Josh was recently on tour with Once the musical and is currently featured at ACT in Little Shop of Horrors.

Michael and his country rock band, The Papillion Saints, can frequently be heard playing in Seattle and Tacoma. In addition, Michael is a solo guitar and bass player presenting eclectic new works in the city Stage Door Cafe, 208 N 85th St

Seattle WA, 98103 free Ongoing through Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 9pm

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Veruca Salt Back during the golden age of alternative music-the ‘90s-Veruca Salt was a glorious kick in the ‘nads: “Seether” roared across the airwaves, and singers/ax women Louise Post and Nina Gordon acted like a couple of snarling sirens aiming musical missile-launchers at your ears. Their 1994 debut, American Thighs, rocked big-time, and 1996’s Blow It Out Your Ass It’s Veruca Salt EP offered a similar, beautifully aggressive aesthetic. But things went south after 1997’s Eight Arms to Hold You; Gordon left to launch a solo project while drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack pursued other opportunities. Post kept the band name alive over the years, but without her crackling energy and interplay with Gordon, it just wasn’t the same. But then last year word came that the original lineup was reuniting, and when they recently played on Conan-their first performance together in well over a decade-it was as if nothing had changed. The group released a 10-inch vinyl on Record Store Day featuring two new songs, “It’s Holy” and “The Museum of Broken Relationships,” and the latter shows the four haven’t lost their talent for making crunchy alternative tracks about relationship angst. If this song is an indication of what they have up their sleeve, then sign me up! With The Echo Friendly. 21 and over. BRIAN PALMER Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., Seattle, WA 98107 $25 Monday, June 23, 2014, 8pm

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Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Hitchcock is a songwriter’s songwriter, an alt-rock icon before there was such a thing. He founded the Soft Boys in 1976 in Cambridge, England, then, nearly a decade later, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, but neither found much commercial success-which is also true of his four decades of myriad solo releases. Critics, however, have long heaped praise on his work, comparing him to Dylan and Lennon for his often surreal lyrics and melancholy melodies. Rolling Stone called his 2013 Love From London “delightful” and “an album Syd Barrett might have made if he’d stayed cogent and seen the end of days.” 21 and over. DL Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 $20 Monday, June 23, 2014, 8:30pm

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Uh Huh Her Leisha Hailey and Camila Grey are Uh Huh Her, an emo synth-pop duo from Los Angeles. You may know Hailey as bisexual journalist Alice Pieszecki on The L Word, while Boy Meets World fans will recognize her as the cute and overly peppy struggling musician Corinna from the “Shallow Boy” episode. Uh-huh, her. The ultimate synth-pop duo fantasy, Hailey and Grey are not only bandmates, but also partners in life and love. The pair released their third studio album, Future Souls, earlier this year, independent of label backing. Its first single, “Innocence,” is five minutes of moody shoegaze that brings to mind Twin Peaks’ Audrey Horne’s sexy-dancing-by-herself type of swaying. The second single, “It’s Chemical,” features a beautifully haunted, distorted voice singing “We’re chemical dancing/Colors colliding/We’re chemical dancing/Halfway to the beat.” Like the 2004 PJ Harvey album after which the band is named, Souls was self-recorded (in Hailey and Grey’s home studio); and, like Harvey herself, still going strong, Uh Huh Her are proving they’re the babes with the power. 21 and over. DIANA M. LE Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $18 adv. Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 8pm

Dusty Strings Music School presents Down the Road

Crossroads Mall, 15600 N.E. 8th St., Bellevue, WA 98008 N/A Thursday, June 26, 2014

Larry Murante Trio

Crossroads Mall, 15600 N.E. 8th St., Bellevue, WA 98008 N/A Friday, June 27, 2014

Po’okela Street Band

Crossroads Mall, 15600 N.E. 8th St., Bellevue, WA 98008 N/A Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Alchemy Project New works, written for themselves, by a group of experimental-jazz composer/performers from across the country. The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave. S. Donation Sunday, June 29, 2014, 8pm

Heart Carter was president. The Kingdome opened for our new football team. The Weekly was launched. The Wilson sisters had recently returned from Vancouver, B.C.-where their draft-dodger boyfriends had fled-to their Seattle home. With them they brought the album Dreamboat Annie, which produced Heart’s first two hits: “Crazy on You” and “Magic Man,” instant FM-radio staples that emphatically cut against the grain of the nascent disco era. Ann and Nancy could really sing; it was their voices and harmonies that sliced through the swirling currents of ‘70s rock; and for that reason Heart eventually became their band as the other members dropped away. They’ve made a brilliant career out of unapologetic anthem rock, plus the occasional ballad, crafting sing-along choruses that showcase their own voices while inviting you to join them (in the shower, car, etc.). The Wilsons’ fortunes have ebbed and surged since the ‘80s; Ann was long based in L.A. with her then-husband, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, yet Heart is still very much a viable touring enterprise. (The group released its most recent album, Fanatic, two years ago.) Tonight they’ll play boomer favorites including “Barracuda,” “What About Love,” and their 1986 chart-topper “These Dreams.” <2005>Truly, the Wilsons have nothing left to prove, having recently been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And yes, they are still huge in&nbsp; Canada. (All ages; Michael Grimm opens.Gates open at 6 p.m. Concert at 7:30 p.m.) T. BOND Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway N.E., Redmond, WA 98052 $50-$75 Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 6 – 7pm