Live Music Roundup: Thursday, July 9
Etana performs at the Columbia City Theater tonight with the Abyssinians, if you're looking for quality reggae music (more on that from Jonathan Cunningham right over here.) 
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head: not quite as wholesome as they appear here
Shane Tutmarc is playing a CD release show at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne tonight at 7 p.m. that is free and all ages.
Huma, Shenendoah Davis and Speaker Speaker side project Exohxo will all be performing at the Jewelbox tonight at 7 p.m., in other early show news; that costs a mere $5.
And if you're looking for an inexpensive way to work up a sweat, you can go see one of Seattle's best party bands, the Coconut Coolouts, at the Funhouse tonight with Mean Jeans and Little Cuts. It starts at 9:30 p.m., and costs $7.
Finally, there's also hometown party-band-turned-major-label-act Natalie Portman's Shaved Head with Hey Champ and Glint at the Crocodile, 8 p.m., $12 adv
Party people always come in crowds - take Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, a posse of five kids who love all things neon and funky. NPSH's hook-filled electropop shook up Seattle last year with the release of Glistening Pleasures, an exultant array of vocals, keyboard, claps, guitar and shakers. Fast-forward a year and the band has now completed a tour with Lily Allen, won praise from Village Voice and SPIN and inked a deal with Warner Bros. Records. Outwardly, NPSH's dance tracks are nutty little odes to everything from voyeurism ("You should really close the blinds/Whose fault is it, yours or mine?") to the do's and don'ts of facial hair ("Eat with it, but don't get messy/The only rule is, keep it classy"), but somehow the songs are able to relate back to tangible themes of youthful rapture and coming of age. Whatever your interpretation, it's music that always makes for a bitchin' party. ERIN THOMPSON
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