~Smokestack Vinyl Night Jan. 29 | Poster: MLS Jr~ So. . . The Smokestack is on Facebook now. You can link to it here in this purely self-serving Smokestack post. We’re also on Twitter… you Twitter-ites can follow us @kitsmokestack. But word has it “Twitter is so 2009.” Taking it back even further… more like 1979… The Smokestack is hosting a Vinyl Night Jan. 29 @ the Drift Inn in downtown Bremerton… setting up a live action vinyl jukebox w/ DJ FUKPHACE (Mike Moen from Neutralboy) and MC SIDESHOW (Pat Makins from Rewind) spinnin your old records in support of
Callow — a 6-year-old San Francisco indie rock band — comes to Bremerton’s Callow Avenue for a show @ The Chuck tonight (Jan. 8)…. which brings up a quick study of that word ‘callow’ — an adjective that means “lacking adult sophistication; immature” according to Webster’s. Anyhow… The Bay Area band is joined by Alligators, Chyeah! Chyeah!, Rishloo and Ambulance. Doors @ 7 p.m., all ages, bar w/ ID, $5 cover @ The Charleston Music Venue, 333 Callow Ave. in Bremerton. For more on Callow, see myspace.com/callowrocks. And here’s a few other out-of-towners coming to Kitsap that you might not
Billy Wayne Davis — “the thinking man’s hillbilly” — headlines a night of 21-and-over comedy tonight (Jan. 7) @ The Hot Iron nightclub/bar and grill on Callow Avenue. A nationally-traveling, southern-raised Seattle-based comedian, Billy Wayne has appeared on Comedy Central and The Tonight Show and he recently toured as a featured act w/ Ralphie May. He joins fellow Seattle funny man Owen Straw. Portland’s Colin Dillon hosts. All for a $5 cover. EB3 presents. Find more on the Hot Iron online @ myspace.com/hot_iron_bar_bremerton. And find more on the evening’s comedians at their respective sites: Colin Dillon — myspace.com/humandriftwood Owen Straw — myspace.com/owenstraw
~Steve ‘The Lipz’ of Cuntry Cuntroll | Photo: Teal~ Forget the Palooza’s here comes Punkapaloo-BLAH! Today (Jan. 2) marks Bremerton’s second annual, shag-red-carpet-worthy, dirty punk rock fest which brings together a monstrous evening full of the loud, fast, fun stuff on Callow Avenue @ the Charleston Music Venue. Btown punx YIA headline a dirty Puget punk mix of bands from Kitsap, Seattle, Tacoma and beyond. It all starts around 5 p.m., all ages, bar w/ ID, $8 cover, 333 Callow Ave. in Bremerton. Proceeds benefit the Artists for Freedom and Unity. In the meantime, here’s a few hundred words on
Dear 2010: I am going to kick your ass. As soon as you open that door to the new decade, I’m comin out swingin. No more dancin around all this madness. It’s fuckin go time. Much Respect, THE SMOKESTACK So… there’s a few words from this month’s ‘Few Words for Twenty-Ten.’ Check it out on page 3 in the latest print edition of Thee Kitsap Smokestack… out now, with three new distribution locations around town. And if you still not sure how to spend your last few hours of 2009… we’ve got you covered with a cache of some of
~’The Winterland Tour’ | Flyer @ myspace.com/jamesabilly~ Earlier this month — a few days before his 36th birthday — local old school sanger James Hunnicutt was flown out to the East Coast to play a few tunes w/ Jayke Orvis (of the .357 String Band/Goddamn Gallows fame), for Orvis’ “forthcoming solo album ‘It’s All Been Said.’ Afterwards, Orvis had some nice things to say about Hunnicutt on the alt country underground internet radio station Outlaw Radio Chicago — somethin’ to the effect: ‘we could all learn a lot from a guy like James Hunnicutt’ … ‘he’ll make you a better
~ Assasinator/Supporter: Parris Shepard | Photo: Dorothy Mack~ Many, many thanx to all those who came out to the Christmas Eve Eve Smokestack Benefit @ the Charleston last week. With the insanely badass support from our readers, supporters and sponsors — and of course the cats and the Chuck and the bands that played that night — we raised enough to money to cover the printing costs of our January edition. Which means — you’ll be ringing in the New Year with a new Smokestack. The next print edition is out Dec. 31 @ an expanded roster of locations. Check
~Smokestack Benefit, Dec. 23 | Smokestack~ ‘Tis the season for benefit shows. And here’s announcing a smashing Christmas Eve Eve line up for the first-ever Smokestack Soiree… A benefit for Thee Kitsap Smokestack which came into existence at the insistence of the cats at The Charleston Music Venue, who graciously — almost Santa Clausianly — approached us about hosting a benefit to support the ongoing costs of manufacturing and maintaining a free press in print and online. An incredible indelible line up of local musicians have stepped up to support the cause. You can do your part by jumping in
~Old School | Faust Photography~ Following a massive ‘All By My Lonesome’ tour — James Hunnicutt shows Bremerton the love with two shows tonight (Dec. 11) … Hunnicutt opens a night of psycho/rockabilly @ Winterland w/ Hard Money Saints and Eugene’s Sawyer Family and later @ the Chuck w/ Generation Decline, The Assasinators, Seattle’s Streetwalker and the return of The Flex — now Mouth @ the Bremerton Pyrate Punx’ One Year Bash. The Winterland show is $5, 21+, starts around 9:30… The The Chuck is All Ages, bar w/ ID, $6, doors @ 7 p.m. See myspace.com/jamesabilly for more on
~Reverend Leroy Eenk’s ‘Beer Belly Blues’ | Illustration: Bob Gnarly~ This month’s special guest — The Reverend Leroy Eenk — adds a little bit of literary sophistication to the second printed edition of the Kitsap Smokestack Smut Rag, with a couple thousand words on the dangers of growing old and selling your soul to the devil in ‘Beer Belly Blues’ . . . When Jack arrived home from the tavern, he discovered a small man in a blue suit had stowed away in his coat pocket. Jack asked the traveler his name. “Rutherford,” the tiny man replied. “But everybody calls