Can't Miss It: Tuesday
Allo Darlin' will be playing at The Vera Project tonight. Image taken from their website.
THE RETURN OF TWEE: British twee-pop quartet Allo Darlin' is playing at The Vera Project tonight. Oh, and if you think you're too cool for some good ol' fashioned cutesy indie-pop, just calm the eff down - even Pitchfork gives this group a pass. Of their 2010 self-titled debut release, the online tastemakers say, "[Allo Darlin'] don't rewrite the formula for wistful bedsit charm as much as show that it can still be carried out masterfully... Rather than the cloying infantilism of some twee bands, Allo Darlin' focuses its tunefulness on the simple pleasures and modest melancholies of young adulthood." See? Now you can like them, too.
7:30 pm // The Vera Project // $9 (All Ages)
SEX AND OTHER STUFF: Prudes (or the easily offended) should probably stay away from this event. Everyone else? You'll love it. Susie Bright, the sex-positive feminist known for (among many other accomplishments) co-founding the first women's erotic magazine, On Our Backs, is reading from her memoir, Big Sex Little Death, at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. Her autobiography touches on divorce, mental illness, her dangerous involvement with the International Socialists' Party, the launch of On Our Backs, motherhood, and more. "Susie Bright's real life is just as compelling - more compelling - than her sex life," says Dan Savage. Now that's an endorsement.
7 pm // Elliott Bay Book Company // FREE
YODELING TWINS AND THEN SOME: You still have a few days to see this movie about lesbian yodeling, country-singing, comedian twins from New Zealand. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls is playing at the Grand Illusion until Thursday. Need we say more? Okay, maybe just a little: this documentary about Jools and Linda Topp premiered in Seattle at SIFF last year and has been making the festival rounds since to some wonderful critical acclaim. They are very successful among the Kiwis for their combination of comical characters and catchy ditties. Prepare to become a Topp Twins fan.
7 & 9 pm // Grand Illusion Cinema // $8
