SUN CITY GIRLS: FOLK SONGS OF THE RICH & EVIL AND IT’S TIE IN TO SOREN KIERKEGAARD’S “EITHE/OR”

 (Where are they now under random slapdash psych groove - demanding of the audience, “Don’t you see how short the distance is?  The nothing.  It’s not that the ruler isn’t there, or that it doesn’t correspond to a fact, or that this knowledge can’t have parcitcal and useful applications.  It’s just that we must admit”…”You think I’m kidding?”)…not to mention sick feeling’n'dehydrated and yes I guess I’m a pack through it today ’cause only bought that pack when Patrick [whose a 40-something ex-engineer of many years who goes to underground freak shows]…wait, why’d it break to some schizophrenic elf singing about gypsies,’n'what?  “I will give you daggers bright/And I will give you swords.”  “I will turn you onto death” => also references to little people’n'leprechauns, so maybe the elf concept makes sense.

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All the way from Brunswick, Maine…

It’s the pulsating sac of sound! Or in other words, that’s my old friend Chris Felax’s live radio show broadcast from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Chris spins new indie rock, electro, 80’s dance, pop culture snippets, new wave, techno and anything else that fits his fancy. Most music is so new that it hasn’t been released yet. Ever since I’ve known Chris (this goes back over 15 years ago) he’s been on the cutting edge of the music scene and owned more CDs than anyone else I knew in college (now having thousands of albums on his computer). He even taught me how to play Plush by the Stone Temple Pilots on the guitar. I know, I know, not cutting edge but I couldn’t resist mentioning. He also had this luscious long hair that would make the best of grunge rockers jealous. Oh, the early 90s! He was also in a short-lived band at the University of Michigan with Don Blum of The Von Bondies and Josh Tillingast of Transmission. Chris also goes by DJ Throatslice come October and has recorded his own home-brewed horror music made especially for Halloween and all things creepy that you can find on iTunes.

So lemme reel myself in here back to the point of this blog, the pulsating sac of sound! You should definitely check it out!

Station: WBOR 91.1 fm
Show Time: Tuesdays 8pm-10pm EST (or for us westcoasters: 5pm – 7pm PST)
Click here for the Live Webcast and here for the Show Blog

He even takes requests at: 207-725-3250. Chris, I want so more cowbell, play some LCD Soundsystem for me??? Please?

NOTE - 5/6/08. Just heard from Chris and he’s on vacation right now. He’ll be back on the airwaves beginning May 13!

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Up the Excaliber

This Saturday is the all-ages debut of the new four piece line up of Seattle’s The Abodox (myspace.com/theabodox).  A few months ago, the band’s three mulish founding members were joined by Blaine Patnode of the legendary Swarming Hordes (RIP).  This will be a damn good time.   The Helm, Heiress, and Carbon Arc open the show on May 10th at Ground Zero in Bellevue.

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The Abodox at Ground Zero

This Saturday is the all-ages debut of the new four piece line up of Seattle’s The Abodox (myspace.com/theabodox).  A few months ago, the band’s three mulish founding members were joined by Blaine Patnode of the legendary Swarming Hordes (RIP).  This will be a damn good time.   The Helm, Heiress, and Carbon Arc open the show on May 10th at Ground Zero in Bellevue.

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Awesome Show, Great Job!

Everyone has always known that musicians are funny.  Even if it isn’t intentional (or even if its the second hand “smoke”), you will usually get more laughs in a rock club green room than you will at a local comedy club.  Lately, artists like Flight of the Conchords are inviting all of us into their world of rock gags by simultaneously having a comedy show on tv as well as a record on a rock label.  Tim and Eric are more subtle than that.  They most likely won’t be showing up on the SubPop roster anytime soon; but they have roped a rock booking agent into put them in rock clubs all around the country.  I saw them last year at the crocodile and I have never been so compelled by two dudes in make up dancing to inside jokes they recorded in GarageBand.  They have really tapped into the most wonderful aspect of things that suck.   If you think they are funny, you will become obsessed.  If you aren’t sure what the fuss is about, you probably never will.  Check out their antics at timanderic.com and if you love a good Kelsey Gramar quote as much as I do, you will be at Neumos tonight to witness this.

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blake/e/e/e at Comet

Notice, that’s blake/e/e/e (pronounced Blake-EEEEE)
NOT the Blakes.
Very Different. Just listen.

New Millennium’s Lack Of Self Explanation

Sunday May, 11 2008 at The Comet Tavern
w/ The Music Of Grayface, (SEA)
Yarn Owl (Pullman)
Shenandoah Davis (SEA) Another Seattle gem yet to surface

Blake/e/e/e are touring in support of there upcoming full length debut Border Radio (FreeFolk Records). They are very free spirited and almost impossible to classify, thus making them intriguing and interesting to listen to. Some would say it’s folk, but only as much as the Pacific is “some water”.

Blake/e/e/e was born from the ashes of Franklin Delano. After many years, 3 full length albums and hundreds of shows around the globe, Franklin Delano came to its end, having reached the limits of the project as it was. Goodbye Franklin Delano.

Everything is wet in a folky mood, but it is no longer an American folk, it is rather an ancient type of folk, a campfire solitary strumming, there where you can watch the stars at night, and feel the scare of the darkness, generated by the wind blowing in the woods, like trees talking to your ears.

I dunno where that leaves us but I’m on board. It’s a helluva night for a school night but should be worth it. Check out the links above to everyone’s MySpace (esp Blake/e/e/e and Shenandoah Davis) you’ll probably agree.

Update————————-
Here’s a track from Shenondoah Davis

Our Favorite Idols

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Thee Emergency-The Hands and The Valley at King Cobra

Thee Emergency (Record Release),
The Hands,
The Valley
9pm

Three of Seattle’s Superstars are gathered up here at Capitol Hill’s hottest new digs, King Cobra. Be sure to get here early and stay late. Nothing on this bill is going to disappoint. Thee Emergency is going to be celebrating the release of their new CD Solid due out in May

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Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon at the Blue Moon 5/3 @ 9

NWMB favorites Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon will be making an appearance at the Blue Moon Saturday May 3rd. Dive bar, PBR, MSMS — sounds like a rockin’ good time to me.

Here’s the bill in order of performance

Bill Sundt and the Cold Hard Truth

molly shannon, molly shannon

The Curious Mystery

Waves

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