The Stranger rounds up the strangest things to do in Seattle this week, and chooses Morbid Curiositease‘s Mardi Gras Mayhem at Columbia City Theater tonight, featuring burlesque and big-band style music from The Peculiar Pretzelmen.
Morbid Curiositease’s Mardi Gras Mayhem (Columbia City Theater, Seattle)
Morbid Curiositease’s Mardi Gras Mayhem:
The Peculiar Pretzelmen Big Band return to bring the most authentic swamp jazz, voodoo mayhem available in Seattle.
The Peculiar Pretzelmen have been keeping the New Orleans style big band tradition alive in L.A. for years. Take a peak:
Experience a night of live music peppered with burlesque and variety, with performances by:
Angela Petite Mort – Conjuration
Violet Ten Dencies – Burlesque
Sage Viniconis – Magic
The Lady B – Burlesque & Bounce
Karmen Sutra-Lee – Burlesque
Jesus La Pinga – Boylesque
Tout d’Lou – Mime
Mara Quarantine – Handbalancing
and from New Orleans: Kali von Wunderkammer doing sideshow!
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 / (206) 722-3009
Tuesday, February 9th
8pm // 21+
$15adv/$18 at the door // Tickets
Seating is limited
The Peculiar Pretzelmen’s new single “Big Mary” on New Music Michael
New Music Michael has the new single from The Peculiar Pretzelmen, “Big Mary,” about the true story of Mary the elephant, who was publicly executed by hanging in 1916 after trampling one of her handlers. The song explores the mishandling of circus animals and the evolving morals and cruel standards of entertainment.
Catch them on tour now:
Jun 03 – Taos NM at Burger Stand
Jun 04 – Colorado Springs CO at Flux Capacitor
Jun 05 – Denver CO at Lions Lair
Jun 06 – Lake Hedke NE at Pondstock
Jun 07 – Wichita KS at Elbow Room
Jun 08 – Kearney NE at Gillies
Jun 10 – Spearfish SD at Killians
Jun 11 – Buffalo WY at Up In Smoke
Jun 12 – Casper WY at Wonder Bar
Jun 13 – Salt Lake City UT at Granary Row Concert Series
Jun 14 – Las Vegas NV at Huntridge
KKFI & KC Live Music Blog review and photograph The Peculiar Pretzelmen show
KKFI & KC Live Music Blog review and photograph The Peculiar Pretzelmen show on their recent tour.
Salem Weekly previews The Peculiar Pretzelmen show
Salem Weekly previews The Peculiar Pretzelmen show tonight at The Fifty:
Salem’s adopted local phenoms, The Peculiar Pretzelmen will haunt your hips and scoot your boots with Deacon Marquin’s found art trap drum kit and Kevin Incroyable’s ever-stranging list of noisy instrument gremlins on Thursday evening. This pre-funk Halloween party is for all of those who wish to avoid the craziness of the night itself, service industry pros, and parents who’d like to get their spook on without the young ones.
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen on CBS Man Cave Daily
CBS Man Cave Daily features The Peculiar Pretzelmen as a Dark Cabaret band that you should be listening to. Catch them at Columbia City Theater in Seattle on Nov. 1st for La Petite Mort’s Dark Cabaret.
Tickets here: general admission $23, VIP tables $150 (sold out).
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen on the cover of The Corvallis Advocate
The Corvallis Advocate interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen for this week’s cover story, in advance of their show at Calapooia Brewing in Albany, OR.
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The South Bend Tribune interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen
The South Bend Tribune interviewed The Peculiar Pretzelmen in advance of their show in Mishewaka at Wander Inn.
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Waco Tribune interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen
Waco Tribune interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen in advance of their show at Cinema Lounge.
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Northwest Music Scene previews La Petite Mort’s Dark Cabaret
Northwest Music Scene previews La Petite Mort’s Dark Cabaret in Seattle at Columbia City Theater on November 1st, featuring musical guest The Peculiar Pretzelmen. Get tickets here: general admission $23, VIP tables $150 (sold out).
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Event: La Petite Mort’s Dark Cabaret
Step right up and join La Petite Mort for another dark and decadent evening of variety in many libidinous forms, which Thrillist declares one of the can’t miss events in Seattle this fall!
Hoochie coochie girls, belly dancers, sword swallowers, live music and so much more!
Cherry Manhattan – The ringleader of it all
La Petite Mort – Hoochie Coochie Girl
Andrew J Montaño – Dramatic Drag
Holly Bordeaux – Pole dancer extraordinaire
Tootsie Spangles & Hattie HellKat – Sideshow Sirens
Twisted Trystan – Sword Swallowing Sideshow
Czech Mate and Christine Anne – Conjoined Twins
Danse Carousel – Belly Dance
Anomaly Nymphette – Acrobatics
Bella Luna – Tribal Belly Dance
Tarot readings by An-Magrith ‘Magi’ Erlandsen
Music by The Peculiar Pretzelmen and L’Orchestre D’Incroyable
Tickets start at $23, $25+ ATD and VIP tables will be $150 (Sold Out)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/845544
Tour Dates: The Peculiar Pretzelmen
10/10/14: Provo, UT – ABG’s Libation Emporium
10/12/14: Laporte, CO – Swing Station
10/13/14: Denver, CO – Lion’s Lair
10/14/14: Colorado Springs, CO – Triple Nickel Tavern
10/15/14: Midland, TX – Blue Max
10/16/14: Waco, TX – Cinema Lounge
10/18/14: Austin, TX – Rattle Inn
10/19/14: New Orleans, LA – Siberia
10/20/14: Birmingham, AL – The Nick
10/21/14: Louisville, KY – Highlands Tap Room
10/22/14: Mishewaka, IN – Wander Inn
10/23/14: Pekin, IL – The High Note
10/24/14: Kansas City, MO – Coda
10/25/14: Grand Island, NE – The Glass Bar
10/26/14: Kearney, NE – Gillie’s
10/29/14: Twin Falls, ID – The Anchor
10/30/14: Salem, OR – The Fifty
10/31/14: Albany, OR – Calapooia Brewing
11/1/14: Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theatre (La Petite Mort’s Dark Cabaret feat. The Peculiar Pretzelmen)
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Mardi Gras Madness details on Northwest Music Scene
Mardi Gras Madness is coming to Seattle’s Columbia City Theater on March 4th, presented by Morbid Curiositease and featuring music by The Peculiar Pretzelmen – Northwest Music Scene has the details!
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen perform in-studio at WBEZ in Chicago
The Peculiar Pretzelmen perform in-studio this morning on WBEZ in Chicago!
The slightly sinister sounds of the Peculiar Pretzelmen: In the dark corners of a smoke-filled bar live the Peculiar Pretzelmen. Part Tom Waits, part Zydeco, the Pretzelmen provide fun and fright all in the span of a single song.
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen on the cover of South Bend Tribune’s “In The Bend”
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The South Bend Tribune interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen
The South Bend Tribune interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen in advance of their tour date. Here’s an excerpt on why they build their own instruments:
“You can’t walk into Guitar Center and ask them if they have something that sounds like a robot’s heart exploding. They’ll say, “We have these drum machines.’ No, no, no. I want a bicycle wheel!”
Read the interview here.
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen in Rochester City Newspaper
Rochester City Newspaper features The Peculiar Pretzelmen show:
The Peculiar Pretzelmen is the sort of band that you could imagine drinking absinthe or traveling along the bowels of the carny circuit with. The LA-based duo draws its musical influences from Depression-era barn-burning blues, throwing in an edgy punk ethos. The Peculiar Pretzelmen churns out the devil’s blues as competently as Elmore Leonard cranked out “Pulp Fiction.”…The Peculiar Pretzelmen invokes images of “Murder Ballads”-era Nick Cave or Tom Waits inside a speigeltent. The pair infuses minimalist primal energy into its tunes and makes an occasionally stale genre sound gothic and spooky.
Read the whole piece here!
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen article in The Kingston Times
Kingston Times interviews The Peculiar Pretzelmen in advance of their stop at The Anchor during their fall tour. Here is an excerpt:
“There is no well-tread path that actually gets you anywhere. Get the machete, hit the jungle and walk towards something that smells good…We’re living on the road banging drums and hollering for dollars hoping for the crowd to decode some of our signal. We are always reaching into every nook and cranny of this country. We won’t stop ’til our voodoo is on every frequency in every dimension.”
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen in Larryville Chronicles
Larryville Chronicles previews The Peculiar Pretzelmen show in Lawrence, KS at Replay Lounge:
Sober up before 6:00 pm on Sunday because this weekend’s matinee is a solid triple-bill of rootsy/Americana sounds featuring Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Cowgirl’s Trainset, and very special guests (all the way from California) The Peculiar Pretzelmen!
Read the whole piece here!
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Tour Dates: The Peculiar Pretzelmen
GENTLEMEN SCOUNDRELS 2013 FALL TOUR:
10/3/13: Las Vegas – The Double Down Saloon
10/4/13: Provo, UT – ABG’s Emporium
10/5/13: Colorado Springs, CO – Zodiac Venue & Bar
10/6/13: Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge
10/7/13: Columbia, MO – Roxy’s
10/8/13: Quincy, IL – Club Tavern
10/9/13: Normal, IL – Firehouse Pizza & Pub
10/10/13: Louisville, KY – The Magnolia Bar
10/15/13: Kingston, NY – The Anchor
10/16/13: Rochester, NY – The California Brew Haus
10/18/13: Lansing, MI – The Avenue Cafe (formerly Gone Wired)
10/19/13: Mishawaka, IN – Awesome Place Bar
10/25/13: Sioux Falls, SD – Latitude 44
10/26/13: Spearfish, SD – Killian’s Tavern
11/2/13: Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theater
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