With this week’s rock concerts, it’s a walk down memory lane

Published 1:30 am Friday, August 26, 2016

Let’s take a stroll through the decades.

First, we’ll stop at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, where Heart, Cheap Trick and Joan Jett will bring back the sounds of the ’70s, and sure, some of the 1980s. The two acts will play at 6:30 tonight.

Heart will serve as the headliner, and with good reason: The once-huge group formed in Seattle in the mid-1970s. Back then, hits such as “Barracuda” and “Crazy on You” helped turn them into arena rock stars.

Cheap Trick also hit it big in the 1970s when its breakthrough album, “Live at Budokan,” featuring songs like “Surrender,” turned the Illinois power pop act into a huge success.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, meanwhile, broke big in the early 1980s, after Jett cut her teeth in the 1970s punk-laced act the Runaways. With the Blackhearts, she created hits like “Bad Reputation” and “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll,” which remain jukebox classics to this day.

Tickets are $20.25 to $112 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745- 3000.

But those aren’t the only 1970s acts coming to the Northwest.

Bad Company will headline the Tulalip Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. Sept. 1. The English act became an international success story with its hard rock in the mid-1970s thanks to singles including “Feel Like Makin’ Love.”

Tickets are $45 to $95 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745- 3000.

And the Steve Miller Band, which topped the charts in 1974 with “The Joker,” will play the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville at 7:30 tonight.

Tickets are $49.50 to $89 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745- 3000.

But enough with the 1970s. Let’s move forward in time, to the 1980s, and visit Xfinity Arena in Everett, where Duran Duran are playing a show.

The English model rockers became icons of their era with hits like “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio,” and “Girl on Film.” The band has remained active to this day, with most of its original line-up still intact. It’s touring now after the 2015 release of a new album, “Paper Gods.”

Tickets are $49.95 to $129.95 at xfinityarenaeverett.com.

What can possibly top the 1980s? Well, the 1990s. For a little bit of that music, visit Marymoor Park, which is welcoming the aptly titled “I Love the 90’s” concert.

The show will feature plenty of chart-topping acts from that decade, including Salt-N- Pepa, Coolio, Tone Loc, Color Me Badd, All-4- One, Rob Base and Young MC. The fun starts at 7 p.m. Aug. 27.

Tickets are $59.50 to $89.50 at axs.com.

If 1990s pop radio wasn’t your thing, no worries, the alt-rock era also will get represented with a visit from the reformed Belly, which will play the Neptune Theatre at 8 p.m. Aug. 28.

The acclaimed and dreamy rock act may be best-remembered for its No. 1 rock hit “Feed the Tree,” which climbed the charts back in 1993.

Tickets are $26 at stgpresents.org or 877-784- 4849.

Also in the 1990s, Seattle was the site where a fledgling indie label, Suicide Squeeze Records, got its start. The label is marking its 20th anniversary with a show at the Neptune Theatre at 8 tonight.

The celebration will feature performances by Minus the Bear, This Will Destroy You and David Bazan’s Headphones.

Tickets are $28 at stgpresents.org or 877-784- 4849.

But enough with that millennium. Let’s move into the 2000s with Peter, Bjorn and John, also playing the Neptune Theatre at 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

The idiosyncratic indie rockers from Sweden got together in 1999, but didn’t break into the international spotlight until 2006. That’s when their whistle-driven hit “Young Folks” became a surprise pop hit. It remains in steady rotation on alt-rock radio to this day.

Tickets are $23.50 at stgpresents.org or 877-784- 4849.

NeedToBreathe also came to a wider audience’s attention in 2006, although the group trafficked in Christian rock, not indie. The band will play Marymoor Park’s outdoor amphitheater at 6 p.m. Sept. 1.

The band has only seen its popularity grow since that year, with its albums now routinely topping Billboard’s Christian rock chart. The band is touring behind its latest hit, July’s “Hard Love.”

Tickets are $39.50 at axs.com.

Now that we’re finally firmly planted in this decade, we can check in with Parquet Courts, the buzzed about indie rockers who first got together in 2010.

The group, which won a wider audience with its 2014 album “Sunbathing Animal,” are often lauded as the heir apparent to smart slack rockers like Pavement. The band will play the Showbox at 8 tonight.

Tickets are $22 at stgpresents.org or 877-784- 4849.

Finally, heading back to the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, the modern-day teen pop outfit 5 Seconds of Summer will play a show at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28.

The group has two full length albums under its belt, both of which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It’s touring now behind the latter of those two discs, “Sounds Good Feels Good.”

Tickets are $25 to $79.95 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745- 3000.