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Pearl Jam's rhythm guitarist, who recently recorded with Fags' bassist Barbara Ireland, will join the reunited local early-80s act tonight at the King Cat Theater. (Thanks for the tip, Marlow Harris.) $15 gets you in to see that band (minus original singer Charles "Upchuck" Gerra, who died of AIDS in 1991), Ginger Coyote and the White Trash Debutantes, and the Nasty Habits—and the CD Upchuck: Gone But Not Forgiven, a new collection of Gerra's notable works. Should be muy interesante. Stone's next Seattle gig? Backing Vince Mira at the Showbox on November 1.

Vince Mira's on the rise. We took note of him first because of his disconcertingly good Johnny Cash covers, but the dark-eyed teen is writing and performing his own songs now. He's played full-length sets at all kinds of festivals this year, from Sasquatch to Bumbershoot to the Seattle Tattoo Expo, and the singer/songwriter performs fairly regularly at spots around town.

“With” isn’t exactly accurate—local Johnny Cash-channeling singer/strummer Vince Mira is headlining a show at The Living Room in New York on September 14. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, who recruited Mira to record on his upcoming Hank Williams tribute album, is opening for the teen sensation (and his backers, the Roy Kay Trio). The show, billed as “Walk the Line for HDSA,” is "in celebration of 72-year-old Don Stevenson [a former pastor from Auburn] for walking 13,000 miles to raise awareness and funds” for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Tickets range between $30 (standing room) and $250 (raffle entries and after-party). May we suggest the duo put on a sister show in Seattle? At the Triple Door, maybe? Just a thought.

When we first heard that local Johnny Cash impersonator extraordinaire Vince Mira would be performing on the music stage at Seattle Tattoo Expo this weekend, our reaction was: "Isn't he too young to even have a tattoo?" Mira recently granted us a few minutes on the phone to answer this and all the other questions we had. "I don’t have any tattoos," he told Seattlest, "but I like Tiger Army, so I’m looking forward to playing the show."