​This explains why Danny Bonaduce was selling, on Craigslist, his bed, weights, and other knickknacks. He's moving to Seattle, and on November 14, he takes over the morning shift (5:45 to 9 a.m.) on 102.5 KZOK.

In a press release, the former child star and reality TV vet says he met his wife in a Starbucks and can't wait to visit the original!

"Seattle is the most beautiful city I have ever seen," Bonaduce says. "The first time I visited, I thought someone put a major metropolitan city in the middle of Yosemite National Park. I can't believe I get to live and work here."

It's great! Two Starbucks on every block!

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Laura Musselman

​Ten years after Rachel Flotard and Ben Hooker formed one of Seattle's finest rock-and-roll bands, Visqueen, they're going on hiatus. Their Thanksgiving Fare-Thee-Well concert, on Saturday, November 26 at the Neptune, will feature a mélange of songs from their three critically acclaimed albums. Flotard's lately been playing with Rusty Willoughby as Cobirds Unite, but what's the full reason behind Visqueen's end? Here it is, in Flotard's own words:

Ben and I have been playing music together for probably 13 years. He's my dude. Last year I had to tour without him (raising young families and touring sometimes do not coincide). You know what? It WASN'T FUNNY! I mean, the band played great and we rocked it, but for me, personally, it was not the same. Visqueen is about the two of us and our jokes and riding around in the van.

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With the help of Seattle's Detooz (zooted backwards) Films, Midwest/Seattle MC Sez Batters leads things off today with a clever little video for a song called "#BARbarian" in which he roams around town, paying people off with candy bars (implying that respect isn't the only thing his "bars" can buy). There are some nice lines like "I'm goin' hard on the track, boy you light rail," but "Ain't a monster 'cause you comin' out the closet," isn't a cool thing to say, so lyrically it's a wash for me. The video is fun to watch, though.

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Chona Kasinger

​Judas Priest, Black Label Society, Thin Lizzy
Saturday, Oct. 29
WaMu Theater

Not many musicians, let alone ones in their 60s, could pull off dressing head-to-toe in leather and spikes while performing on a stage dense with fog and heavy with lasers. But most bands aren't Judas Priest, the godfathers of heavy metal, who stopped in Seattle Saturday night as part of their Epitaph World Tour, an outing the band is billing as their final global jaunt.

The band has been at it for 40 years, never straying far from the metal sound and aesthetic they helped define alongside Black Sabbath, an influence which can still be heard in all manner of heavy music from Metallica to Mastadon. At the center of the Priest universe is Rob Halford, a bald, badass biker, whose high-pitched wails have retained their power throughout the band's four decades, a remarkable feat. And pretty much nobody but Halford can get away with the things he did on Saturday night. He did more wardrobe changes than Beyonce, donning a different jacket after nearly every song--some long, some sleeveless, some with spikes, some with chains, and, as he's done for many years, he rode his Harley onto the stage during the band's encore.

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​Band: The Jesus Rehab
Single: "No More Tears"
Label: Self-released
Release Date: Out Now

This single is genuine, 1999 End Music, an earnest, irony-free Weezer homage. It's mosh-pit light, and The Jesus Rehab's owning every ounce of it. If Red Jacket Mine spins oldies circa 1970-75, The Jesus Rehab unself-consciously recreates the sound of the waning years of the Clinton administration, when rap-rock was big, the Internet was a novelty, and everything was going nowhere but up. It seems almost quaint today.

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Champagne Champagne will play a free show tonight at Neumos.

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If you're still in need of Halloween plans, look no further than Neumos, which for the second straight year is collaborating with Stoli to put on a free Halloween event. This year's extravaganza will feature Champagne Champagne (as well as Sean Cee, Zeta Barber, and Chocolate Chuck), and it's also free. Erin Thompson reported that the show will likely feature new material--and some swanky costumes--from the local hip-hop trio:

At press time, Champagne's DJ Gajamagic told me that he, Thomas Gray, and Pearl Dragon were debating between dressing up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or "Mario Brothas," and that, Halloween partying aside, people should show up just to hear some brand-new material--"newer than the other new stuff, like just-made-them-this-week new."

The show starts at 8 p.m., and is, again, free to the public.

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​Mac's Triangle Pub is a Friday- and Saturday-night karaoke venue located in the heart of White Center where Delridge Way, 16th Avenue Southwest, and Southwest Roxbury Street meet. It's a little dive that packs in a big, diverse crowd of regulars who love to watch each other sing.

The bar stretches along the right side of the room, and a long narrow table stretches along the left side. There are tables throughout the floor, and the singers perform in the back. I caught up with some friends there just before midnight last Friday. I normally prefer to arrive at a bar before the show starts to settle in, to get a buzz going and look through the book. It's a more relaxing way to go about it, but there is something to be said for arriving at a party already in full swing. I knew I wasn't going to sing more than a song that night, and at that point it didn't matter.

We were celebrating my friend Cary's sister Meredith's visit to town. She was here to meet her new niece, Lucinda. Meredith is one of three people outside of the state of Washington who I know read this column regularly, and we've all had this night in the works for a long time. They'd been at Mac's since the show started at 9 p.m., and had slurped down $60 worth of dollar Jell-O shots. It was my first time singing and drinking with Cary in almost a year, and she was officially back in the saddle.

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Todd Hamm

Schew Aquarium

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Jodie Watts, Schew Aquarium, Will Wakefield
Thursday, October 27
The Sunset Tavern

A buddy called me last night at 6:51 and asked if I wanted to hit the Sunset for a show at 9. Sure, I said. I'm a sucker for the mere possibility of a pleasant surprise: Sign me up. There's always a risk of course, on the off Thursday or Tuesday like this that you'll run into career bar bands, novelty acts, or rehearsal-caliber gigs if you're not careful; bands who are just out for a few laughs. Valid concerns, I suppose, but I was able to put my fears to rest entirely when an omen-bearing man wearing a chicken helmet wandered in and eased his way to the front of the crowd...

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John Roderick, right, seen here with his worship team band the Long Winters.

​The following is a taste of John Roderick's upcoming column in Wednesday's edition of Reverb Monthly, Seattle Weekly's new music magazine.

Q: I was at a show recently and I thought I had been magically transplanted into Mars Hill. It's not the music. It's the vibe. And all the people who really love Jesus. Am I the only one to notice that part of Seattle's local music scene is beginning to look decidedly Christian?

--D. Ball

Roderick: There are several forces at work here. On the one hand, Evangelical Christians realized a few years ago that their strategy of condemning rock 'n' roll as "Satan's Negro Jungle Rape Music" wasn't really filling the pews with young people. Suddenly, those same "taboo rhythms" were deemed appropriate church music, as long as the lyrics were ambiguously about Jesus rather than ambiguously about teens humping in cars.

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Still haven't fully decided how to spent your Halloween weekend? There's a very special show going on tomorrow (that's Saturday, October 29) night at Seattle's most happening basement--Decades Cover Night will feature 20 local bands, each performing their own versions of their favorite songs from an assigned decade. The 50-year time warp will go something like this:

• Stephanie, King Dude, Spurm, and Pleasure Beauties will plays songs from the 60s.
• Pony Time, Footwork, Neighbors, and Virgin Blood will play songs from the 70s.
• Punishment, The Balloons, and Dude York will play songs from the 80s.
• Stickers, Hot Freaks, Orcateers, and Twomp will play songs from the 90s.
• Naomi Punk, Haunted Horses featuring USF, and Special Explosion will play songs from the '00s.

Curious about who's playing what? Reverb's got a bit of a preview for you, after the jump.

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