DATZ COLD, SMP
Datz Cold (Seattle MC Jeremy Moss) released one of the city's finest hiphop albums last year, A Green Hell (Zerobpm). Listening to it is like being trapped in a moss-covered casket while Gravediggaz and El-P concoct sludgy funk backdrops darker than a coal miner's lungs. Datz Cold has a track on the forthcoming Word on the Street compilation, which also features Kurupt, Redman, and Just Blaze. He says his new material "is dipping deeper into dank, electro-hiphop territory," and is heavy on the Depeche Mode and Skinny Puppy samples. SMP, with whom Moss has collaborated, are reputed to be one of Seattle's toughest industrial rock acts. With Noxious Emotion. The Catwalk, 172 S Washington St, 622-1863, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $8.
CRITTERS BUGGIN
The Seattle collective--saxophonist Skerik, bassist Brad Houser, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and percussionist Mike Dillon--sizzle, bubble, and squeak with ethno-funk-jazz-electronic freakouts geared more for jam-band amphitheaters than stuffy improv venues. (For good reasons, I always confuse these guys with another talented bunch of Seattle genre-blenders, Ponga. They all should go on tour with Medeski, Martin and Wood and clean up.) Tonight's bash celebrates the reissue of Critters Buggin's soul-patch-scorching, four-disc back catalog. This show also benefits YouthCare. With Piece of Meat Theatre. Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9442, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $12 adv, $14 DOS.
MONDAY APRIL 19
FOURTHCITY
Tonight's event goes by the inflammatory name of Dubya Warfare. Through powerful subsonic bass frequencies and Washington Monument-sized reverb, dub/reggae musicians Ali, Introcut, and others hope to raise awareness of the manifold evils perpetrated by the Bush administration. It's not quite Allen Ginsberg and co. trying to levitate the Pentagon during the Vietnam War, but it beats bitching into the void. Deep Down Lounge (below Temple Billiards), 126 S Jackson St, 369-1663, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $2.
