Folks, this is a big one…
Monday, 10/22
Tost (Fremont)
513 N 36th
Micheal Shrieve +guests ::: $5 ::: cheesy one but if you’ve heard his 10 minute drum solo on Santana’s 1974 Japanese only live album “Lotus” it makes it worth it. I’m pretty sure the trumpet player is from Downtown Apostles who I saw last weekend and he’s a psyched super jazz trumpeter dude.
Wednesday, 10/24
608 Club (Ballard)
608 NW 65th
(E-Sphere’s pad)
Popularity: 9%
This ain’t no sea shanty show.
The Comet Tavern on Capitol hill is quickly becoming my favorite spot to catch local music. Just the other night when I was immersed in the audio ocean that is JUSTICE, I stepped outside for a breath and found myself wandering over from Neumos to the Comet just to have a listen to the band playing in there. It’s a small, seedy, cash-only venue with decades of signatures and graffiti carved into the tables and honestly the PERFECT place to see some local rock.
If you haven’t been, this Sat night Oct 20th could be a good one to bust your cherry. Local bands Post Harbor and Born Anchors play with Soft Lights and You May Die in the Desert.
Post Harbor is generally referred to as having a sound akin to Sunny Day Real Estate. There has been a lot of positive press about their album and their recent touring. From what what I’ve heard, I’d have to agree on all counts.
http://www.myspace.com/postharbor
Born Anchors formed in March this year and have already had the cohesive vision put out an EP. Their sound is heavy and tight and bound to make thewalls of the Comet ring. Check them out.
http://www.myspace.com/bornanchors
Popularity: 28%
The Duluth/Era Vulgaris tour keeps rocking along:
17 December at the Roseland Theater down there in the 503.
18 December (Tuesday’s alright for rock n’ roll) at the Paramount
Pre-sale begins today at 10AM.
Let me nip this in the bud: Dean Ween was affiliated with the band for the album Songs for the Deaf.
Popularity: 24%
Hey There Fancy Pants!
Lots of you know that Ween is releasing a new album on the 23rd
of Oct. titled La Cucaracha. For those of you who got the sneak peak with the Friends EP, you know that La Cucaracha will not disappoint. It’s Awesome Sound is unclassifiable, unorthodoxed, unapologetic, and unbelievable. If’n you haven’t heard the Friends EP, I’ll do you one better and be your Johnny on the Spot. A Little Birdy told me that you can preview the ENTIRE La Cucaracha on Ween’s MySpace Page
So all you Pretty Girls and Fat Boys get to listening so you can sing along through your Mutilated Lips at the Paramount on Nov 13 when Gene and Dean come to town.
If you don’t love the Ween, well you can just Piss up a rope.
VIVA Boognish!!!
Popularity: 29%
I just heard about this on KEXP, and it sent me scurrying for Google to find out, well, WTF?!
From Chris Walla’s blog:
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. Mostly it’s because I keep forgetting how to log in. My solo record is coming along nicely, despite the fact that the master drive was confiscated by US Homeland Security at the border (much of the record was recorded between Vancouver and Victoria, BC). I’m told it’s at ‘computer forensics in Quantico’ but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what that means in any real way; you see, there’s exactly no customer service element to our federal government.
My bolds. Note to US government: please drop the fucking paranoia. Please.
It’s not a Kafka novel, and I’m not a prisoner at Guantanamo. My life isn’t so bad. But still, this situation is a concrete and real reminder of what fuels the world we live in: It’s fear and mistrust and suspicion. And oil.
As this country is slowly drained of talent, both technical and artistic, we’re left with nothing save the lonely blue glow of television at night.
Popularity: 11%
With 18 Marshall Stacks, 2 powermacs, a friggen PILE of electronic noisemakers and enough french cigarertte smoke to mask the fog machine, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay of JUSTICE served it up huge at Neumos Fiday night. Universally compared to Daft Punk, tho I thought it much heavier - Justice transformed the floor of Neumos into a seething, pulsing maching with relentless beats and the beconing icon from their new album “cross”. I’ve never seen the place so packed, nor have i seen people so glad to have it that full. The crown that usually peters out about 3/4 back at a show was solid straight to the sound board in the back
Props to the band for their energy, and props to the Seattle crowd for responding by dancin their asses.
Check out Justice on their MySpace Page HERE
Or visit http://www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
Popularity: 15%
Read any national publication, our local press, or tap into the non-existent “collective (un)conscious” and you quickly learn that Seattle is apparantely a live music mecca. I wouldn’t deny this, but for the most part the music supported by these claims doesn’t quite appeal to me, so I end up seeing a bunch of great live shows (many in the last week) which constitute almost no press…or some…or something…
(Author’s note — I booked this gig and my band, Wah Wah Exit Wound, played it…full disclosure and such) What’s great about shows at the Blue Moon? They’re free, folks are friendly, sounds good, and there’s often sweet bands. Fortress of Victory opened the set with some killer crust-Sabbath heavy duo noodlings. Some folks were baffled by the band due, what I can only assume are musical prejudices toward “heavier” elements, but one look at the joy in the faces of show attendees and the metalheads jovially attacking each other next to the water cooler verify that Fortress of Victory were fucking awesome.
“The second guitar was a damn fine idea as this was not only loud, but some most excellent balls to the wall, kick you in the ass, beat you down, and make you gasp in awe rock music.”
Popularity: 9%
This morning I heard about the new Radiohead record being available for download at a you-name-it price.
Immediately, I pointed my browser to radiohead.com but it took me some time to learn that inrainbows.com was the URL where the album could be retrieved, as long as you aren’t running Safari. Ugh.
I am 0:38 into “Videotape”, the final track. A(nother) great record from Jonny, Thom and company. Well worth the five quid I offered.
Nevermind the record industry. So if you are an artist and you have significant notoriety, it seems your reliance upon the traditional structure of the business has been compromised in your favor.
Go Directly to the Internet. Collect $200.
It’s likely that Trent Reznor is next to release an online record now that he has been released from Interscope. Pearl Jam is one album into an independent career; perhaps they could pull it off. Certainly the success of their live shows being available for download mere hours after show (sans artwork and liner notes) is evidence that the demand is there. Nowadays, being a music consumer requires a personal computer as much as money and headphones, so it’s about time that method of dissemination is utilized more fully.
Popularity: 18%
