STG Announces Upcoming Events: Sasquatch! Launch Party, The Joy Formidable and More

Sasquatch! Launch Party

Date: February 4, 2013 @ 8:00pm

Venue: The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

Price: FREE!

Seating: General Admission

Tickets Available: Sat. February 2, 2013 @ noon

Ticketing Information: Tickets are FREE and available Sat. February 2, 2013 @ noon at the Neptune Theatre box office only. Limit 2 tickets per person. More info available atSTGPresents.org.

Date: March 27, 2013 @ 8:00pm

Venue: The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

Price: $18.50 advance, $20.00 day of show, not including applicable fees

Seating: General Admission

On Sale: Friday, January 25, 2013 @ 10am

Ticketing Information: Available online atTickets.com, or in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount, Moore & Neptune Theatres, charge by phone at (877)784-4849, Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (10am-10pm M-Sa, 10am-7pm Sun) or online atSTGPresents.org.

Not a lot goes down in Casco, Maine. In the winter months, this sequestered hamlet around 30 miles from Portland in the North Easternmost tip of the United States acquires a Siberian stillness as suffocating snow descends and carpets this eerily remote and reclusive region. Yet it was to a forest just outside Casco that The Joy Formidable singer/guitarist Ritzy Bryan and bassist Rhydian Dafydd retired at the start of 2012 to dream up their magnificent second album, Wolf's Law, a record that teems with imagination, yearning and a Carpe Diem restlessness. Wolf's Law is a driven, hugely emotive record, an alluring and attitudinal follow-up to The Joy Formidable's keenly received 2011 debut, The Big Roar. It's an album that was recorded in very different circumstances to its predecessor, both geographically and emotionally.

Ticketing Information: Available online atTickets.com, or in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount, Moore & Neptune Theatres, charge by phone at (877)784-4849, Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (10am-10pm M-Sa, 10am-7pm Sun) or online atSTGPresents.org.

Actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo has been an American institution since she burst on the scene in 1992. Janeane has had many memorable and critically acclaimed roles in films such as "The Truth About Cats and Dogs," "Wet Hot American Summer," "Ratatouille," "Steal This Movie," "Reality Bites," "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion," "Mystery Men," "The Ten" and "The Cable Guy". Janeane also co-authored the best seller "Feel This Book," with Ben Stiller. Janeane was a cast member of the Emmy Award-winning Ben Stiller Show and played the role of Paula, the acerbic talent booker, on "The Larry Sanders Show," for which she received an Emmy nomination. During the fall of '94 she joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live." Some of Janeane's other television work includes two specials for HBO, FOX's "24," "Mad About You," and the final season of NBC's "The West Wing," where she played Democratic campaign strategist Louise Thornton. In addition to acting in film and television, Janeane is an outspoken activist, spoken word performer and stand-up comedy entertainer known and respected around the world. She was instrumental in the successful launching of the first liberal radio network, Air America Radio, where she hosted her own talk show, "The Majority Report." A lightning rod for controversy, Janeane's well informed opinions and unflinching honesty have inspired laughs, as well as striking a chord with the left, right and everyone in between.

Ticketing Information: Available online atTickets.com, or in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount, Moore & Neptune Theatres, charge by phone at (877)784-4849, Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (10am-10pm M-Sa, 10am-7pm Sun) or online atSTGPresents.org.

The late Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard famously defined the ingredients of a great song as "three chords and the truth". Every songwriter knows three chords, but laying bare the truth? Now that can be an altogether trickier affair... On January 18, 2012, The Gaslight Anthem piled into their old tour van and headed across the New Jersey state line for a 14 hour road trip to Nashville on their own quest for the truth. Their destination was 2806 Azalea Place, Nashville, Blackbird Studio, where the New Brunswick quartet had booked five weeks recording time with producer BrenDan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC). Their mission: to reconnect with rock 'n' roll in its most feral, pure, stripped-raw form. Brian Fallon was thirteen years old when he discovered The Clash's self-titled debut album in the racks of Sound Effects Records in Hackettstown, New Jersey: the owner of the store promised the young teenager that the record would change his life. He wasn't wrong. But there was a time, not so very long ago, when The Gaslight Anthem's frontman had grown weary of the sound of electric guitars. After three albums of soulful, impassioned, hearts-on-fire punk rock - 2007's Sink Or Swim, 2008's The '59 Sound and 2010's American Slang - Fallon needed a change of pace, a change of scenery. And so, in January 2011, together with TGA guitar tech Ian Perkins, he formed The Horrible Crowes, a darkly melancholic side-project inspired by his love of The Afghan Whigs, Tom Waits and PJ Harvey. After the band's acclaimed debut album Elsie dropped in September, Fallon joined fellow punk rock troubadours Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) on the acoustic Revival Tour, airing stripped-down versions of Gaslight Anthem and Horrible Crowes songs to packed rooms across Europe. And then he returned home to New Jersey and Gaslight, re-energised, renewed and ready to make a full-tilt rock 'n' roll record again. "After six weeks of that there's nothing you want to hear more than a Marshall stack turned all the way up," he says with a laugh. The result is Handwritten, the most committed, affecting and compelling album of The Gaslight Anthem's career to date. Introduced by muscular lead-off single 45, which received it's world premiere on BBC Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's Hottest Record In The World on April 30, it finds the Jersey boys in inspired form, decanting '60's soul, '70's stadium rock, '80's hardcore and '90's grunge into eleven white-knuckle, blue-collar everyman anthems. Brian Fallon likens its incandescent electrical storms to "Tom Petty songs [being] played by Pearl Jam". Put more simply, it's a supercharged American rock 'n' roll classic.

Ticketing Information: Available online atTickets.com, or in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount, Moore & Neptune Theatres, charge by phone at (877)784-4849, Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (10am-10pm M-Sa, 10am-7pm Sun) or online at STGPresents.org.

From deep in the heart of Texas, armed with the home-grown mantra "Turn On, Tune In, Drone Out," The Black Angels ring real and rugged like a crimson full moon-lit night. Formed in May of 2004, the band's sanctified holy racket was breech-born out of life-long friendships drawn up in blood and sealed with a kiss. Their self proclaimed "Native American Drone 'N' Roll" genre has progressed from communal living and the members' eclectic upbringings. Bassist Ryan was born on a cult compound, guitarist Bland is the real deal son of a Texas preacher man, and drummer Bailey and vocalist Maas believe a little girl in a red linen dress haunts the group's home. Taking their name from the classic Velvet Underground tune "The Black Angel's Death Song," these Angels are far more than classic revisionists with extensive record collections. This is heavy-duty psychedelic rock with an incessant primitive beat that echoes the spirit of the 13th Floor Elevators and early Stones. Calling the outskirts of Austin, TX their HQ, these hungry-to-create touring nomads crave taking their love for music out on the road. Their densely-layered songs feature Bland's acid-infused finger-painting guitar and the melodic incantations of lead singer Mass within guitar/bass labyrinths from Ryan and Kyle Hunt. The music is martial-drummed into apocalyptic bliss by garage-punk goddess Stephanie Bailey. Following the success of the band's self-titled debut EP and the 2006 full-lengthPassover comes Directions To See A Ghost over seventy minutes in length and the band's mind-numbing psychedelic opus. DTSAG was brilliantly recorded by Passover's Erik Wofford at Cacophony Recording Studios in Austin, Texas.

Ticketing Information: Available online atTickets.com, or in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount, Moore & Neptune Theatres, charge by phone at (877)784-4849, Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (10am-10pm M-Sa, 10am-7pm Sun) or online at STGPresents.org.

These classically-trained musicians create sophisticated new arrangements of everything from Beethoven's 5th Symphony to Coldplay's "Paradise," often weaving seemingly disparate pieces together to create something totally new. Add to that their gorgeous panoramic videos shot everywhere from the top of a mountain in Utah to the beaches of Hawaii, and it makes sense that over 55 million people have viewed their work and 350,000 of those have subscribed to the You Tube Channel. In a recent fundraising campaign for their next crop of videos, they raised over $400,000 from their fans in just 2 months.