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Wild Orchid Children, Champagne Champagne at El Corazón
DJ Gajamagic (Mark Gajadhar from the Blood Brothers) and Pearl Dragon are Champagne Champagne, a new hiphop duo delivering intriguing beats and boastful rhymes about bagging a Molly Ringwald look-alike—"They say I got a sweet 16/She's a killer like Christine/So pristine, just 19/The kind you find in wet dreams." Wild Orchid Children attack you with their raging party rock like a gang of acid-dropping Lost Boys. This show is the future of the Seattle music scene. (El Corazón, 109 Eastlake Ave E, 381-3094. 8 pm, $8 adv/$10 DOS, all ages.)
MEGAN SELINGMusic
'Ball of Wax' Party at Sunset Tavern
Ball of Wax is a quarterly music anthology that combines local and international talent on one overloaded CD. The paltry entry fee for tonight's release party buys you one copy of Ball of Wax, volume 12, and gets you into a show featuring BoW contributors Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, a band that evokes the shimmery vocals and guitar pop of '90s bands like Belly and Mazzy Star, and the grimy reinvention of big-band country by up-and-comers the Crying Shame. (Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, 784-4880. 9 pm, $6, 21+.)
PAUL CONSTANT
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