Tonight at El Corazon, ten lousy bucks gets you forty kickass years of Northwest rock 'n' roll. That's, like, two bits per year.

Headliners Dead Moon are the rockingest
power trio ever to creep out of Clackamas, Oregon. Most know 'em as the elderly farts in the 1996 NW rockumentary Hype!, though their roots run much deeper. Long before singer/guitarist Fred Cole, his bassist wife Toody Cole and drummer Andrew Loomis joined forces in 1987, Cole's Lollipop Shoppe released the killer 1968 single "You Must Be a Witch." It went nowhere at the time, but received long-overdue recognition on 1998's Nuggets box set. These days, DM still play a great live show (pray for covers of AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top" and the Stones' "Play with Fire"), and though we haven't heard much of their recorded material, Hardwired in Ljubljana is said to be awesome.

The evening's penultimate act is Girl Trouble. Since 1983, KP Kendall (vox), the Big
Kahuna (guitar), Dale Phillips (bass) and Bon Von Wheelie (traps) have
channeled the garage sound of their Northwest forebears, the Sonics, the Ventures, and particularly the Wailers. Despite Tacoma's bad reputation, GT are conspicuously proud of their T-Town roots -- their tune "My Hometown" figures prominently on the Hype! soundtrack. Mixed in with their originals are covers from Elvis movies, Ann-Margaret, and fellow Northwesterners Paul Revere & the Raiders. And, on the non-musical tip, they published Seattlest's favorite zine ever of all-time ever. If that all sounds too crusty for jaded hipsters out there in Seattlestland, note that, way back in 1990, their "Neko Loves Rock 'n' Roll" paid tribute to their longtime pal, now a prominent New Pornographer.

We know nothing about the opening act, the Old Haunts.

Dead Moon, Girl Power, TheOld Haunts
El Corazon
Friday, doors at 9
$10