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One of my favorite West Coast bands, Kickball, is playing in New York this week with French band Clara Clara. You can catch them tonight at the Cake Shop or on the 29th at the Woodser in Williamsburg. Like you’d expect from an Olympia, WA band, Kickball have a bit of a hippie vibe — thankfully not in a jam band kind of way — but in a totally in love with life way. Also, I’ve heard that their drummer Lisa was in LL Cool J’s backing band while she was still in high school. I couldn’t find any info to verify this on the internet just now, but she’s still bad ass enough to have put out her own instructional drumming book. You can read my friend Casey’s Willamette Week review of the band here.