Get Your Jig On: Backbeat Seattle Presents Spinning Whips and More at Columbia City Theater

St Patty's Day is just around the corner and we're sure there's tons of options out there that will get you drunk enough to be embarrassed the next day. Why not add some music to that party so you can get your Irish (or whatever nationality you're feeling at the moment) dancing shoes on and shake it like no one's watching?

Back Beat Seattle is offering up what you're craving at Columbia City Theater; the Spinning Whips are headlining with Ancient Warlocks and Koko and the Sweetmeats starting the night off. None of these are your typical Seattle folk-rock, but more like outright rock and roll bands. If you haven't checked out the Spinning Whips before, they sound something like Hot Bodies in Motion with a lead singer's voice like Presidents' Chris Ballew (we swear, it's like he's channeling him somehow).

As for the openers, you should definitely get to Columbia City in time to check them out. Koko and the Sweetmeats takes us back to seventies and maybe even some eighties style rock heavier on the drums and tambourine. It's the kind of music you yell-sing in the car while you whip your hair around (only at stoplights though, let's avoid rock-related accidents, we've all had too many of those). Usually Mychael from Campfire OK joins the band on keyboards, but he's out at SXSW where the rest of us wish we were. We're sure, they'll still rock your socks off.

Ancient Warlocks sound pretty much like you'd expect with a name like that. They've channeled a bit of Ozzy and a bit of Metallica with other random 80s and 90s hard rock bands mixed in to create a Frankenstein monster sound of pure hardcore rock. Talk about your hair-swinging music, there's bound to be at least a couple fans up front with their long man-locks spinning out of control until they puke up green beer.

Thursday, 9 p.m. // Columbia City Theater // $6