Godzilla Plays the Tango

As her record company tells it, Cleveland-born Colleen Duffy “created Devil Doll one late, smoky evening, many blue moons ago, with the mission of putting sex back into rock and roll. Deciding that the world of music had not heard the truth since Joan Jett and Johnny Cash and hadn’t blushed since Mae West, she grabbed her bass, a microphone, and hit ‘record.’” What she played was her own take on rockabilly with a punky twist. Now living in L.A. she has a new album just out, The Return of Eve, and a pair of local gigs coming up: Sunday she’s at the Pearl, Monday at the Jambalaya.

The two Associated Students shows this week have been sold out for weeks. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Canadian alt. folk-rockstars the Quin sisters, Tegan and Sara (identical twins), play Saturday in the Kate Buchanan Room. Monday it’s Death Cab For Cutie at the Van Duzer, with fellow Seattle residents The Cave Singers opening. Death Cab, on the verge of releasing a new disc, Narrow Stairs, played an unusual gig in Seattle last Friday, sharing the stage with Dave Matthews and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who was interviewed by Matthews about music and compassion among other things. Let’s hear it for compassion.

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