R.I.P. Showbox???

I heard it from a reliable source that the block that the Showbox currently resides is going to be razed in the name of “downtown development.” Can anyone confirm or deny? Any dates on this?
This would be a real blow to local music, no?
I wonder if they’ll save that etched-glass wall in the Green Room in a new club…
Chop Suey and Neumo’s have great sound, but there’s no alternative for a ~800-1000 person show. Not every mid-size show can cross over to The Moore or Paramount, and El Corazon, Neumo’s, the Croc, Chop Suey and Studio 7 cannot handle that capacity. Plus, the location has been great. (Close access to the Lusty Lady and Downtown Harley, which curiously does not sell motorcyles.)
I wonder if The Premier will pick up the slack? I have always had a good experience at that venue.

While I am thinking of it, if the Showbox closes, that’s also bad news for Pike Pub bartenders for those show nights.

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Microphone check 1-206

• Silversun Pickups in studio today at 3pm Left Coast Time on KEXP.
• I’m not a big fan of hip hop, or reggae, but I’ll hear some gems every now and again and take notes. Blue Scholars‘ Inkwell is one of those. Mixed with Modest Mouse’s Float On and sprinkled with home-team-fan Seattle references (and the near-mandatory mention of Sir Mix-a-Lot), it’ll move your bones. Of course Blue Scholars is a Seattle band. (sorry, no YouTube vid found)

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Deftones’ “Saturday Night Wrist”

A first spin (if MP3s spin…) and it’s good.
Detailed review to follow.
Disappointed that they had the chance to use “Santorum” in a Dan Savage-approved way, but dropped the ball on the track “Pink Cellphone”.
Their show at the Fenix is next Sunday night. Puzzling venue choice, especially for a Sunday I think.

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Recommended Shows for November

Rock-Tober might be finished but that does not meant it is time for the rock to stop. It might even be said that one cannot stop the rock.

So November is no where near as Hip-Happenin as October was, but there are some true gems that are worth braving the crappy fall weather for. The #1 of the month being this:

Nov 10th at the Tractor $12
Split Lip Rayfield - nuthin but breakneck neo-bluegrass with a pissed off guy on a one stringed gas tank bass.
WITH extra super special guest
I Can Lick Any Son of a Bitch in the House - enilightened anti-establishment rednecks with a Portland sound stripped from the mud bogs of Arklansas

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Upload/Offload 2006

Best Album of the Year: Silversun Pickups’ ”Carnavas” (thanks, Jules for the adv copy!)
Worst Album of 2006: DJ Shadow’s “The Outsider” (I wish iTunes Music Store had a return policy)

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Top Ten Most-Played on my iPod

1. “On the Dub-ble”, DJ Krush from ”Krush”:  26 plays
2. ”Midnight in a Perfect World”, DJ Shadow from ”Endtroducing” also 26 plays
3. “Hott Bizness”, Lyrics Born, from “Later That Day” with 25 plays
4. “Vicarious” by Tool, from “10,000 Days” with 24 plays
5. “Digital Bath”, Deftones, from “White Pony” played 23 times
6. “The Hollow”, A Perfect Circle, from “Mer De Noms” with 22 plays
7. “I Am The Highway”, off Audioslave’s first album has 22 plays
8. A Bob Marley cover: “Sun in Shining” by DJ Krush from Ki-Oku with 22 plays
9. “Chicken Bone Circuit” from RJD2’s “deadringer” LP was played 20 times
10. “Building Steam w/ a Grain of Salt” by DJ Shadow from “Endtroducing”: 20 plays

Got these figures from my 10-month-old 30GB video iPod.

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When I Think of 1980s Videos…

I think of Lucky in Love.

And a few others, but this Mick Jagger vid comes to the top of the heap for some reason. Maybe it’s because he puts his chips on 13 in roulette, or the lyrics:

late at night I lay in bed/with a pistol to my head
swear I couldn’t take no more/then she walks right through my door

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Devin the Dude

My fav artist of 2004.

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