Free Cute Lepers Show Tonight

The Cute Lepers are playing a free, secret warm-up show tonight at Café Racer (next to Trading Musician on Roosevelt). They go on about 10:30 after a D.J. set by Nils Forever. They’ll be off touring the US for the next 5 weeks – Tacoma tomorrow, Missoula Saturday, then on to Salt Lake, Colorado Springs, Denver, Kansas City, Saint Louis, Chicago and on and on: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Los Angeles, and more…

Mr. Suave and the Wild Weekend

Mod Seattlite Mr. Suave has dedicated his latest “modcast” to highlighting some of the artists performing at the Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival in Austin next month including Avenue Rose, The Cute Lepers and The Boss Martians. Cheek it out at Mr. Suave’s Mod, Mod World.

The Cute Lepers – Terminal Boredom

If you enjoy bands that tread the thin line between punk and power pop (and why wouldn’t you?) then do yourself a favor and check out The Cute Lepers – they’ve got a fun, high-energy, hook heavy sound reminiscent of The Buzzcocks, The Undertones and The Rezillos.

Here’s their awesome new video “Terminal Boredom” produced by the video production team Guerrillamonster.



If you like the song, go download it for free over at www.fuzz.com.

Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival

Those of you who plan your wild weekends in advance should note that the first annual Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival takes place Friday, August 29th and Saturday, August 30th at Emo’s in Austin, Texas. Looks like a great bill with an excellent mix of legendary power pop bands like 20/20, The Boys, Paul Collins’ Beat, The Pointed Sticks and a bunch of fresh young bands that are keeping power pop alive and kicking.

The Pacific Northwest will be well represented by Pointed Sticks and The Tranzmitors from Vancouver, The Boss Martians, The Cute Lepers and The Greatest Hits from Seattle, Olympia’s Avenue Rose and Clorox Girls from Portland.

Check out this nice homage to Rock ‘n’ Roll High School and George A. Romero from Clorox Girls.



And here’s some live footage of The Tranzmitors performing "Plastic Genocide."

Recommended shows for the week of 5/4/08

Sunday the 4th:
The Cute Lepers w/ The Buzzcocks/Damned/Rezillos at Academy in the UK Festival (Birmingham)

Thursday the 8th:
Ms. Led at The Sunset Tavern

Marty Willson-Piper/The Moon Maidens/The Transmissionary Six at The Tractor Tavern

Friday the 9th:
Thee Sgt. Major III/The Pranks/The Doll Test at Jules Maes

Saturday the 10th:
Young Sportsmen/The Small Change/The Riffbrokers/The Lund Brothers/The Doll Test/The I Love Myselves/Rusty Willoughby at The Rendezvous Grotto

Recommended shows for the week of 4/20/08

Monday the 21st:
Mexican UFO at The ReBar

Wednesday the 23nd:
The Color Bars at The Tractor

Thursday the 24th:
The Greatest Hits at The Funhouse

Friday the 25th:
The Minus 5/The Dimes at The Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)

Saturday the 26th:
Danielli at The Skylark

The Heavy Hearts/The Cute Lepers at High Dive

Recommended shows for the week of 3/30/08

Sunday the 30th:
X/Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands at Showbox

Friday the 4th:
Cute Lepers/Napalm Beach/The F-Holes at Funhouse

Saturday the 5th:
The Dimes at High Dive

The Hands/Coconut Coolouts at Funhouse


Let me know if I’ve missed something.

Recommended shows for the week of 3/23/08

Sunday the 23rd:
Visqueen at the Sunset (7:00pm)

Ms. Led/Siren’s Sister/Speaker Speaker at High Dive

The Greatest Hits on “Loud and Local” KISW 99.9FM (10:00pm)

Thursday the 27th:
Wig Pre-Bash with Blackie at the Comet

Curtains For You at the Tractor

Friday the 28th:
Wig Bash with Shim at High Dive

Cute Lepers/The Greatest Hits at King Cobra

Saturday the 29th:
Young Sportsman/Andy Werth at High Dive

Jon Auer at Fremont Abbey Arts Center (8:00pm)

Steve E. Nix and the Cute Lepers

The Cute Lepers are playing at the House of Blues in New Orleans tonight and at SXSW in Austin tomorrow. They’ll be back in Seattle on the 28th for a show at King Cobra with the Greatest Hits, which should be excellent.

They’ve recently signed with Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records and have an album coming out in May.

Here’s Steve E. Nix and the Cute Lepers singing “Its Summertime Baby”.

The Cute Lepers performance video

Here's some video from The Cute Lepers performing their tune Terminal Boredom. Don't click play unless you have a high tolerance for distorted audio. If you'd rather hear it nice and "clean," just head over to their myspace page. Fun stuff, terrible band name. :)