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Take note of the bands playing at the Yakima Sports Center tonight -- Prize Country, To The Waves and With A Bullet -- because you'll hear them again on a forthcoming compilation to be released by Left Arm Tan Records, a fledgling local label founded by Scott Abrams and his longtime friend Nick Cearlock, also a Yakima boy who now lives in New York.
Abrams, a 1986 West Valley High School graduate, started making musical connections when he booked shows in Yakima back in the early 1990s, and was an owner of the former Liquid Lounge in Ellensburg. The 41-year-old now spends his daytime hours as a real estate agent, as well as a dad and husband.
"It's 20 years of this stuff coming together," he says.
"I have no delusions of grandeur," adds Abrams. "It's about good times with your friends."
The first release from Left Arm Tan Records -- the name is a Wilco reference but also means getting out there and promoting your music; it's what happens when driving the van too long on tour -- will be the latest disc from Yakima's With A Bullet, due out the end of July.
"(The label) will be a lot more legit with a first record," says Abrams.
The compilation will follow in the fall. In addition to several other bands, it will include tonight's bill of Portland's Prize Country, whose '90s post-hard core sound makes you want to bust out your Jesus Lizard cassettes; To The Waves, featuring members of Northwest bands Seaweed, Polecat, Leuko and Pipefitter; and, of course, the hard-hitting -- and incredibly sarcastic -- With A Bullet. (Disclosure: I'm friends with the WAB boys.)
"I've convinced the band to turn semi-pro, but that doesn't mean the drunken antics will end -- thank God," laughs Abrams.
"Absolutely there's a sense of humor that runs through this whole thing, but we're taking it very seriously," he says. "Whereas 10 years ago, we may not have."
Tonight's show starts about 9 at the Sports Center, 214 E. Yakima Ave. Cover is $5.
-- Kim Nowacki
* For more on Left Arm Tan Records, visit www.myspace.com/leftarmtan.
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