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Allright you local music lovers/haters!

The Inlander is having their annual music issue which will include their 'buzzworthy' bands series. Normally the Inlander polls Spokane's best and brightest booking agents, promoters, club owners and divas for their top 5 buzz(cut)worthy artists, sorts the numbers and calls it a day.

But this year, you, we, the average joe(s) will be able to cast (y)our vote for the peoples buzz award! Yes we can!

So click this link and nominate your choice for "the hottest, brightest, fastest-rising band or artist in the Inland Northwest."

No idea who to nominate? There are some ideas to the right.

Don't let this get turned into some silly popularity contest. Seriously, who the hell is 6 Foot Swing?

ps. voting ends friday at midnight.

Music For All Ages

The state of the all-ages music scene is in a little bit of limbo right now, as there are some potential city ordinance amendments that will:

1. Require concert attendees to be age 16 and up.
2. Require venues to have $1,000,000 of insurance.

While I'm not sure how much that insurance costs, I do know that all ages venues don't really make much money, and mo' money = mo' problems.

And surely there are kids under the age of 16 that would like something as safe, fun and culturally benificial as enjoying live music. Seriously, this age limit makes no sense to me.

In anticipation of a rumble, the Public Safety Committee will be holding a meeting on Tuesday January 20 at 10:30 in City Hall Room 5A.

Please attend.

The Spokesman Review: Irrelevant as Ever

I was sorry to hear that the 7 (the Spokesman's attempt at a weekly) cut food critic Tom Bowers a few months back.

I was even more sorry to hear that they cut longtime music writer Isamu Jordan a few weeks back.

Now that the 7's going to stop running, I'm not really too sorry.

I know, I know. Its hard to run a newspaper these days! The internets are taking away all their readers!! There's no money in publishing!!!

But I (and many like myself) now have no reason to turn to anything the Spokesman publishes. The internets have all we need. I'm not going to pay 50 cents to find occasional articles about local music/nightlife every Friday. I'd rather look in the Inlander, Out There, the Meeting Northwest, or the myspace pages of local bands/venues.

Oh well.