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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Music

KEXP YuleBenefit at Showbox at the Market

It's always nice when the benevolent indie-radio overlords at KEXP throw a fundraising party. You get to help out the station, and a rock show is a lot more fun than sitting through a pledge drive. This year's Yule Benefit features buzzing Brooklyn band Yeasayer, whose spaced-out ritual rock rises from folky roots to atmospheric prog. Openers Feral Children combine drunk, tribal drumming with depressed rural lament, and the Valley reverently resurrect '70s garage fuzz and protogrunge. (Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave, 628-0301. 8 pm, $20–$25, 21+.)

ERIC GRANDY

Kike Rock

The Eight at Crocodile

Hanukkah is the Cinco de Mayo of the Hebrew calendar: a historical footnote fluffed up into an excuse for debauchery. Halfway through the eight-day holiday, JDub Records (discoverers of Yid sensation Matisyahu) and some weird Zionist youth organization present Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, a mom-and-pop-and-daughter indie-rock outfit that plays viciously clever songs set to slides salvaged from thrift stores and yard sales. You'll feel nostalgic for vacations you never took and embarrassed for relatives that aren't yours. With nü-klezmer punks Golem. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, 441-5611. 8:30 pm, $10 adv/$15 DOS, 21+.)

JONATHAN ZWICKEL
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