LESBIAN is back! They’ll be bringing Grayceon (SF) with them for three nights of NW BOOM! If you haven’t heard Grayceon, do it right now http://grayceon.bandcamp.com, then come out to the Jinx in Bellingham on Thursday May 5th, Chop Suey in Seattle on Friday May 6th, and Plan B in Portland Saturday May 7th.
This Friday and Saturday night at the Josephine, Dead Accents Recordings will be showcasing live sets by a ton of their bands:
Fri, Sept 3rd
Tiny Vipers
Crystal Hell Pool
Demian Johnston
Sparkle Girl
Blouse (u.s.a.)
Sat, Sept 4th
Dried Up Corpse
Shining Ones
This Blinding Light
Ardent Vein
The first 30 people to come in each night get a special cassette. Each one is unique to each night. You will want both.
Here is footage of Blouse (u.s.a.) earlier this year. They open the Friday night show at 8:30
Thats right. They are done after 11 years. Come say goodbye:
Comet Tavern FRIDAY Feb26th
with Lozen, Sugar Sugar, Sugar and Evangelist.
This Saturday February 13th, the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre will be flushed with a turd-load of weird fun. The Stranger described Ladies on a Fence as “much more listenable than should be fairly expected from a band rife with theatrics and giggling, and the duo’s oddball humor rose far beyond punchlines. If the WTF genre of music is a real thing, then Ladies on a Fence—ha, that spells LOAF—might be on to something.”
BLOUSE (u.s.a.), who you can hear at: http://blouseblouse.bandcamp.com is Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy’s awkward, new-age, musical, multimedia, dance performance with puppets and costumes and lessons about the planet.
Damn this is going to be fun.
Live L.O.A.F.
MPMF!
While on an east coast tour in November of 2007, CONIFER (Important Records) and LESBIAN (Holy Mountain) drove to Richmond, Virginia arriving at 5a.m. and ended up crashing at the Sound Of Music recording studio for two nights. There to play a show with SOUVENIR’S YOUNG AMERICA (Crucial Blast) at the Nara Sushi, all three bands (11 members total in one live room) entered the studio on very little sleep and recorded roughly two hours of improvised music… very loosely structured and minds somewhat altered… These sessions birthed what will be known as “Space Mountain Forever.” France’s MusicFearSatan label presents a beautiful 12″ red vinyl recording of MACHU PICCHU MOTHER FUTURE!!
Grab it here! http://www.musicfearsatan.com/fr/reference/6051.html
Finally, Up the Excaliber. Seattle’s the Abodox return with a digital LP of uncompromising tech-metal which pleases the most discriminating listeners of all things heavy. Destroying the Pacific Northwest for the better part of a decade, the Abodox construct progressive extreme metal symphonies. Grab it in the I-Tunes store.
The Seattle International Film Festival is providing some great live music events this week…
FIrst, we have My Suicide. In the film Archie Williams is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he’s going to kill himself- on camera- for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra- the most beautiful girl in school, and a “Shady Bunch” of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Rocky Vololato provided music for the film’s sound track and he will be performing live before the screenings. The director is scheduled to attend. The film is also one of that final appearances by the late David Carradine.
Screenings take place at Pacific Place Cinemas – June 10, 2009 9:30 PM and June 11, 2009 4:30 PM
Next, this Friday June 12th we have a very exciting event at the Triple Door featuring Sub Pop recording artists No Age providing a live soundtrack to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Bear. The 7pm screening is all ages, 9:30pm screening is 21+
This Friday June 5, local psyche-prog doomers LESBIAN support local prog-grunge rockers PATROL for an evening of beautiful and blessed volume. The opening acts BRONZE FAWN and WILDILDLIFE promise tons of animalistic amp use. Join them.
Friday June 5th 9pm @ Sunset Tavern in Ballard WA.
myspace.com/lesbianwitch myspace.com/patrol
As part of the Seattle International Film Festival, the daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra will be performing at Neumos on Saturday.
daKAK presents real hip hop music done from a true hip hop mindset, knocking down boundaries while respecting this broad culture’s roots. They blend thick beats with breakbeat-worthy soul, jazz, funk, rock, classical, symphonic fat shit. Bringing it to you thoroughly live, fresh from the guts, hearts and brainstems of Dakonductor Geoff “Double G” Gallegos and 80-or-so close musical friends.
The show will follow a screening of a great film about jazz called Icons Among Us, a dynamic and engaging document of many of the greatest jazz musicians of today. Subtitled “Jazz in the Present Tense”, it contains interviews and performances from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Bad Plus, and many others.
Icons Among Us shows at the Egyptian at 6:30 May 30th. Doors for the Neumos show are at 8pm. Advance tickets on sale now at: www.ticketswest.com, Moe Bar, Rudy’s Barbershops, select QFCs.
Next week was to be the kick off of the band LESBIAN’s 2008 West Coast Tour with Conifer. As luck would have it, drummer Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy tore a muscle in his forearm while playing with his dangerous thrash-grind project The Abodox. As a result Conifer will be braving the road alone on LESBIAN’s gear with LESBIAN’s bass player Dorando behind the wheel.LESBIAN fans need not fret though, this Friday November 7th, Conifer and LESBIAN (all of them save for one of Ben’s arms) will be joining forces at Seattle’s Comet Tavern and playing simultaneously as Machu Picchu Mother Future. Machu Picchu Mother Future recorded a record in Virginia last year during the LESBIAN/Conifer east coast tour. The album includes all these guys plus the members of Richmond’s Souvenirs Young America. The album should be out early next year on Hyperrealist. Come witness this psychedelic event on Friday at the Comet in Seattle. Opening with be Hemingway and Wasted Baby (featuring a bunch of guys from the Master Musicians of Bukkake). Machu Picchu Mother Future plays again on Sunday November 9th at Kelly’s Olympian in Portland with Saros.
“coco bobo in your e ho like a homo in your a ho” explains coconut bonanza on their debut ep montel montel. if that doesn’t clear things up for you, come out on saturday to the rendezvous jewel box theatre in belltown for the crew’s first ever live performance in their 6 year career. also, popping their live cherry will be local wtf band ladies on a fence. i can’t really explain it, but i can promise it will make an impact on you. go to myspace.com/coconutbonanza to download some hot cutz and i will see you on saturday!
This Friday LESBIAN had to back out of their benefit show at the Funhouse because their dumb-ass drummer busted up his foot and can’t kick his kickers. Instead, LESBIAN’s rhythm guitarist Dan LaRochelle is unleashing his new project on us. Peep this shit: OMNIA MUTANTOR which means: “All things change.” The set will conceptually be sort of a fugue comprised of three themes: Abgrund Irrgaten and Nacht ….each of the performers will represent one of the three themes: Dan LaRochelle (from LESBIAN) guitar.(Nacht-night) Nihilist (from In Memorium) on vokills.(Abgrund-Abyss) Andrew McInnis (from Lemons & Stallions) on drums.(Irrgaten-Labyrinth)……wow!!
Tennessee Choice Presents: Astronautalis, Ladies on a Fence, Coconut Bonanza @ Rendezvous Jewel Box Theatre, Seattle WA
Tonight at the Sunset The Curious Mystery will be sharing their unique brand of psychedelic americana. If you haven’t heard them, do it right now: myspace.com/thecuriousmystery. Also on the bill are Seattle’s surf darlings Diminished Men. The drummers for these two acts are worth the ticket price alone. This is some of the best shit happening in Seattle right now. Get in on the ground floor and never get out of the elevator.
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Christina Antipa. t I just discovered her for myself a couple of weeks ago. Normally performing at DIY house shows, Ms. Antipa is doing Seattle a big favor by sharing her beautiful voice and gifted songwriting with the rest of us this Sunday at the Vera. Yes its part of Folklife, but she is joined on the bill by other very interesting acts including Calvin Johnson. So don’t worry; there will be hippies there but they won’t be all grey-bearded and tie-dyed. They will be young and beautiful just like you. Seriously, check Christina’s music out for yourself: myspace.com/christinaantipaVera Project located on the corner of Warren & Republican Ave N, next to the Key Arena in Seattle Center. Christina is on at 5:15 on Sunday afternoon 
I know its late notice but this will be amazing!!! These is some quality sonic shit!!! Google these musicians get psyched. Or just show up and be exploded.
