Local clubs are beginning to make known their New Year's Eve lineups, and they're looking like winners across the board. The Showbox [0] offers you a chance to spend New Year's Eve with a few of the Northwest's hottest club acts. R&B stalwart Maktub [1] is the headliner, and the band's killer sound will no doubt get the crowd moving and keep them moving as the hour draws near. Brad front man Shawn Smith [2] has a singer-songwriter's gift that transcends genre. And both Daylight Basement [3] (featuring former Kuma vocalist Bre Laughlin) and pop-rockers Abbotfinney are soon to make their mark.
Across town at the Tractor [3], winter is in full force. The Long Winters [4] play a brand of pop-saturated Americana that has earned the band favorable comparisons to Wilco and REM, and the supporting act, the up-and-coming The Village Green [5], has a real root-rock fire burning under it. I haven't heard opening band Bill Patton & The Credentials, but judging from the company Patton and friends have on this bill, the group's likely to rock the joint.
And at the Crocodile Café [5], inch into 2006 with everyone's favorite fictional transsexual rock star. "Hedwig's New Year's Eve Glam Rock Circus" stars Nick Garrison [6], whom many critics say plays the best Hedwig aside from John Cameron Mitchell [7] himself. Garrison will be joined by his band Sissyfist, and you'd better believe they're going to rock the joint into oblivion. Guest appearances by star local actress Sarah Rudinoff [8] and The Buttrock Suites Dancers [9] are just a couple of the additional surprises planned to ensure that no reveler remains seated.
All told, no matter where you go, it's gonna be a night of maximum-strength mirth and mayhem. Get your tickets for these shows now, before it's too late.
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