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The Pink Socks, College Radio, City of Ember, Fine Line The Spokane pop punk scene isn’t exactly robust, but that also makes it easy to take in some of the best offerings in a single night. Such is the case when the Pink Sox, College Radio, City of Ember, and Fine Line converge for an all-ages gig at the Big Dipper. As the headliners, the Pink Sox offer up plenty of high-energy power chords and catchy melodic tunes, as can be heard on the band’s 2022 EP Still Waiting…. To up the fun quotient, the band is theming the show as “Heroes & Villains” and asking conc...

Cursive performing 'Domestica' I’ve always recoiled a bit when Cursive gets labeled an emo band. While frontman Tim Kasher certainly spills his emotions all over the musical page in his songwriting, he does it with wry, grounded, biting bile and wrath, rather than the sort of whiny melodrama most folks associate with emo. The band’s 2001 “emo” classic Domestica illustrates this. The concept album about a married couple who learns to loathe one another — and perhaps most depressingly, stays together anyway — relies on huge, heavy alt-rock riffs and un...

Canary and the Vamp Westhaven Center for the Arts presents

The Beaches, Haley Blais If you happened to show up early for the Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World show’s opening act a couple years ago at Spokane Pavilion, you know that The Beaches are a blast. The female Canadian quartet delivers a brand of catchy, melodic pop rock that pulsates with bright grooves (and the slightest hint of riot grrrl edge) that glimmer like a summer party on the water. The group’s latest LP, Sisters Not Twins (a fusion of the group’s prior two EPs), took home the 2022 Juno Award (think: Canadian Grammy) for Best Rock Album. If you want a bouncy ro...

Hagfest Northwest 2023 With 38 No. 1 hits on the country charts to his name, there’s little debate that Merle Haggard was one of the most lauded songwriters the genre has ever seen. The Inland Northwest Country Music Association loves to keep the Hag’s musical memory alive each year with its annual Hagfest Northwest. The stacked concert at the Fox features 20 singers and eight bands from the region doing renditions of 30 Haggard classics. So whether you’re an Okie from Muskogee or just like a little misery and gin, there’ll probably be something for you at Hagfest.