Northwest Convergence Zone launches regional music fueled NWCZRadio.com

Northwest Convergence Zone Radio (http://nwczradio.com) will officially hit the web at 5pm today, Friday, Feb 18th! They are looking to bring listeners the best northwest artists, local music news, and great, fun programs!

From NWCZ:
If you are a northwest independent artists (solo, band, etc.) or know some, have them contact us at nwczradio@gmail.com. We’ll let them know how to get their tracks to us so we can get them out there for all of you!

Everyone welcome Raymond Hayden to the NWCZradio fold. Raymond will be hosting a one hour program focusing on the coffee house, open mic and lighter side of northwest independent music. His program will start Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 pm. Raymond is the head honcho behind Maurice The Fish Records! Welcome Kingfish!!!!

It’s official! The Northwest Music Scene show is coming to NWCZ Radio on Thursday, March 3rd at 7pm. Hosted by Glen, Brian and Shawn…They will be bringing you music and all things northwest music related every Thursday night live from 7 – 9 pm!

Everyone welcome Dave Samson, veteran of KBCS and The Mountain 103.7 to NWCZradio! Dave will be hosting a blues show every Monday night from 7 – 10pm beginning Feb. 21st!!!! Be sure to tune in for the best in northwest blues every Monday night!!!

Everyone welcome Q-Dot to NWCZradio! He will be spinning the best in northwest rap and hip hop on Fridays 6 – 7 beginning March 4th! Guaranteed good times with Q-Dot!!

More shows to be announced soon!

http://www.nwczradio.com/

http://www.facebook.com/nwczradio

http://twitter.com/nwczradio

We are gonna blow the top of off Northwest Radio!

FREE Compilation Sampler for PNW College & University students – AND you!

Shock Treatment Management has put together this compilation CD/digital download package, using sonicbids.com &their own website and contacts in the South Sound area to fuel artist submissions for this project. They also took art submissions from local college students for the cover and interior pictures of the 12 page CD booklet.

Drop by their site today, and download this genre diverse compilation for your collection:
Click this link to download the compilation!

Track Listing:
1. Junkyard Empire (MN) – Alternative Energy (Remix)
2. SweetKiss Momma (WA) – Mercy Love
3. Allison Gray (CA) – Change
4. The Nico Blues (NJ) – Unprofessional
5. 1776 (WA/OR) – When You Find Us
6. Shep & DJ Stilz (BC) – VW
7. The Selmanaires (GA) – Resonance Alright
8. Twilight Broadcast (TX) – 54321
9. Big Wheel Stunt Show (WA) – Another Shove
10. GoChii (NY) – The College Life
11. Mountain Road (PA) – Friday Night
12. The Fun Police (WA) – Dumpster Diving
13. Adrian West (CA) – Dr. Ellis (Instrumental)
14. Eastern Sunz (OR) – Up in Flames
15. Angie and the Car Wrecks (WA) – Psychobilly Boys
16. Roche Limit (BC) – I AM
17. Wordsmith (MD) – As the Art Fades Away

Seattle Rock Orchestra’s Holiday Spectacular

Saturday, December 11 · 4:00pm – 7:00pm

The Seattle Rock Orchestra returns to the Fremont Abbey on Dec. 11 to perform their last concerts of 2010. We’ll be celebrating the holidays with classic holiday tunes, as well as celebrating our 2nd birthday! With special guest band Poland.

With guest vocals by:
Johanna Kunin (Portland)
Michael Harley, Anna-Lisa Notter and Fidelia Schoolcraft of Hannalee
Tim Franklin of Pillow Army
Ian Bell of Black Swedes
Mark Romanowski of Poland
& Spencer Goll

Afternoon show at 4pm, doors at 3pm
Evening show at 8pm, doors at 7pm

Tickets:
Kids 10 and under are free for AFTERNOON show (sit on floor)
11-19 Years (seats) = $7 advance only ($15 door)

General/adult:
$12 adv / $15 door = both shows
$18 reserved front row (limited 16 tickets)

Buy tickets here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139575

Fremont Abbey
4272 Fremont Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103

Laguna, Live at Tost

Friday, November 12, 2010, 9pm

Laguna will be performing at Tost, opening up for two great bands, Satellite by Night and Bucket of Honey.

Laguna: The music group Laguna is the creation of songwriter/drummer/programmer Shane Peck and vocalist/lyricist Lydia Nor. The music style combines art-pop, electronica, ambient, reggae/dub, soca and some Jazz elements. The band was officially formed in 1998. The current line-up includes bassist/arranger Noah Wilson, keyboardist Markus von Prause and alto saxophone player/percussionist Brian Hartman. They just released a new recording, “Volcano”.
www.lagunamusic.us

Bucket of Honey: This Neoacoustifunk HipHop duo is made up of one part Nate Bogopolsky AKA Nate B, one part Annie Jantzer. Beginning his musical career as a singer, Nate B writes most of his tunes with a simple guitar strumming accompaniment, thus spawned the easy to swallow sound and feel of much of Bucket of Honey’s music. He has been involved in the music scene in Seattle for many years playing in groups such as Seattle Opera Company, The Dickens Carolers, The Peeon Yabutts, and Kickshaw. The other half of Bucket of Honey, flute and vocals, is a brain damaged cocky farm girl who get’s bucked off the horse and gets right back on none the wiser. That same gusto and lack of shame led Annie Jantzer to pursue a career in theatre. With a BA in theatre arts, she moved to Seattle and randomly joined forces with Nate. The rest, as they say, is history.
bucketofhoney.blogspot.com

Satellite By Night: Satellite by Night’s musical influences may be as far reaching as the origins of its members; Okinawa, Chile, and the USA. CJ, Gabe, Mas and Mike cite folk, funk, dub, rock, metal, trance, soul, and ambient musical styles as their personal influences, and the band’s self-labeled “folk-fusion groove” sound is cohesive yet diverse.
www.satellitebynight.com

$5, 21+

Tost
513 North 36th Street
Seattle, WA 98103

Album Review: The Gentry – ‘Sex by the Unit’

Sex by the Unit, by Portland’s The Gentry, danceable fusion-electro rockers, opens with a 10 note tease of down tempo electro-beats, warns you with a tempered siren, launches into a hard hitting blend of meta-influenced electro rock that grabs your attention and body. The opening title song is fueled by the signature driving guitar, beautifully integrated electro-keyboard work, lugubrious bass and driving rhythm punctuated glorious, hi-hat speed work, the lyrics insightfully snarl and bite at pop culture on a rich, soaring and seductive vocal. It only gets better from here.

The Gentry – Sex by the Unit – Official Video

Awkwardness! Opens with big driving drums, a distorted loose bass line, synth bass followed by guitar then powerful vocal that channels both earlier electro-rock influences as well as power groups like Zeppelin. This is as straightforward rock and roll as any one makes, electro punk to the highest degree, and my favorite new road tune.

The Dandy Warhols Present Logan Lynn + The Gentry ON TOUR

Logan Lynn is touring in support of his recently released and critically acclaimed CD, From Pillar to Post, on The Dandy Warhol’s indie Beat The World Records. His three CDs have generated an extraordinary amount of buzz, particularly in the Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, and New York LGBT communities. Additionally, his videos have been well received on MTV, VH1, and LOGO channels. Comparisons ranging from The Postal Service to M83, Lykke Li to Cut Copy, and even Ladytron, Goldfrapp, and indie rockers Metric, are often applied to Logan’s music.

The Gentry, a separate entity providing Rock & Roll to Logan’s emo-tronic sound, also have a new record recently released entitled ‘Sex by the Unit’, which sports an awesome condom-like package which is well worth the $10 I paid for mine. You even have to tear it like a condom package.

Recent shows in the Pacific Northwest have been raucous parties, featuring lines stretching around the block, and satisfied partied-out party-goers filtering out into the early morning. The Oregon Music News recently profiled Logan’s growing impact on the Portland live music scene.

This past Sunday, June 27, marked the launch of Logan’s West Coast tour, starting in Seattle at The Cuff’s Gay Pride Block Party and playing to an estimated crowd of 6,000.

Dates are below – try and catch one if you can.

+TOUR DATES
6.27 – Seattle, WA – The Cuff Pride Street Party
7.13 – San Francisco, CA – Rockit Room with Special Guests The Hugs (Portland, OR) & Little Black Bats (Sacramento, CA) $8
7.14 – Sacramento, CA – Blue Lamp with Special Guests The Hugs (Portland, OR) & Little Black Bats (Sacramento, CA) $8
8.6 – Salem, OR – Flipside Nightclub $10 (tickets here) / $15 at the door
8.20 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios

@funpolicemusic playing tonight @omalleystacoma – Saint Patrick’s Day, Tacoma-style

Tacoma’s own musical Fun Police will be patrolling the St Paddy’s Day merriment at 8 PM along with special guests 10 Miles of Bad Road at O’Malley’s Irish Pub (Google Maps link). The Fun Police, bullies in blue, who are known for delivering energetic give-it-all-you’ve-got, genre-bending performance on any given night, promise an over the top show tonight including a traditional Irish set and an extended set of Fun Police favorites. Enjoy the luck of the Irish with some slow-cooked, corned beef and cabbage along with some Fun Police hijinks for St. Paddy’s Day this year.

The Fun Police have been playing the South Sound for approximately two years, released 2 EPs and a CD, and are currently in the studio. They are well known locally for their energetic stage presence and musical variety including fusion styles of blues, reggae, folk, punk and more. Their 3 song Spring Break EP is available as a free download here.

www.thefunpolicemusic.com

The Harmonica Pocket Gets Loose with Seuss

the harmonica pocket says “Get Loose with Seuss”

Family Concerts Celebrate Words, Music and Play

www.harmonicapocket.com

The Harmonica Pocket celebrates Dr. Seuss’ birthday in March with a series of family concerts. The Harmonica Pocket invites kids and parents to discover the wit and magic of Theodor Seuss Geisel with their original music set to Dr. Seuss’ books. Audiences are invited to sing the words to Dr. Seuss’s ABCs, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and other selected books. They’ll also present a theatrical history about the creation of some of Seuss’ best-loved stories. Of course, to celebrate what would have been his 106th birthday on March 2nd, everyone can join in singing “Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!”

 Keeth Monta Apgar and Nala Walla, are the core duo of The Harmonica Pocket, and will perform at all of these shows. Equipped with a hula hoop, a ukulele, face paint and a suitcase full of simple props and instruments, The Harmonica Pocket family show gently expands the boundaries of family entertainment with swinging, acoustic story-songs, wordplay and acrobatic antics, complete with Nala’s amazing hula hoop artistry.

“Dr. Seuss is the king of creativity and an icon of the power of imagination.  He dreamed up impossible and amusing images (like the Bee-Watcher-Watcher watching the Watcher who’s watching the Bee) and brought them to life with his colorful sketches and meticulous rhymes,” explains Keeth. “He was way ahead of his time.”

The Harmonica Pocket is a Puget Sound based group known for “thoroughly catchy, toe-tapping indie-pop tunes.” Their children’s album LADYBUG ONE  is a collection of original and classic tunes which celebrates the delight of nature. The CD has won national acclaim, including a Parents’ Choice Award and favorable reviews in the Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News, New York Post, Mothering, Cricket, Time Out New York and Cookie  magazines. This truly “green” recording was produced off the grid at the group’s solar-powered studios on an island in Puget Sound.  

The “Get Loose with Seuss” performance schedule includes these dates.    
For complete details please visit:  http://www.harmonicapocket.com/calendar/index.html

• Friday,  February 26, 1 pm – Coupeville Elementary School – free
• Thursday, March 4, 10 am and 4 pm  - Olympia and Belfair libraries – free
• Saturday, March 6, 11 am and 2:30 pm  - Tumwater and Lacey  libraries – free
• Sunday, March 7, 7 pm – Roxy Theater, Morton
• Sunday, March 21, 2 pm – Oak Harbor Library – free
• Sunday, April 11, 11:30 am – Alphabet Soup Children’s Books, Seattle – free

 Check out the “Backwards Song” offer on Twitter! –  @harmonicapocket and visit The Harmonica Pocket online,

The Fun Police Debut Music Video

Follow up to last weeks post. The Fun Police released their first music video at Doyle’s Pub Saturday night in front of a full house. The song is ‘Temporary Lapse of Sanity’ from their debut album, ‘You Better Run’, which was recorded at Egg Studios in Seattle, and produced by Conrad Uno. The video is now available on YouTube, and it would be here, but apparently the only blog that I cannot figure out how to embed YouTube video on is this one. You will have to click the link.

The Fun Police – Temporary Lapse of Sanity Music Video

All Ages: 5 area bands @ The Wagon Wheel

The Wagon Wheel

Google Maps Link

As You Are Entertainment has lined up 5 area bands for our entertainment with an early start time in South Prarie, WA, (near Puyallup) launching at 4:45PM at the Wagon Wheel Restaurant and Lounge. If you live in Seattle’s southern burbs, or Pierce County, you may want check this one out.

The Fun Police (http://www.thefunpolicemusic.com)
Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel (http://www.myspace.com/brotherhoodoftheblacksquirrel)
10 Miles of Bad Road (http://www.myspace.com/tenmilesofbadroad)
Blacktop Nightmare (http://www.myspace.com/blacktopnightmare )
Big Wheel Stunt Show (http://www.myspace.com/bigwheelstuntshow)

Logan Lynn releases CD; ‘From Pillar To Post’

1776 set to release debut CD

Sample mp3: 1776 – We Are Out – mp3(via FensePost)

1776, hailing from Kelso, Washington are hosting a CD release party in conjunction with labelmates (from Beat the World Records) The Dandy Warhols’ Christmas show, December 13th, 2009 at the (Website Link) Wonder Ballroom in Portland, OR. This young band has been quietly earning rapport with audiences all over the Northwest, from their hometowns in Longview and Kelso, WA to Portland/Salem, and Seattle/Tacoma. (Click ‘More’ to continue)

The Fun Police disc release @ Stonegate Pizza & Rock and Roll Bar in Tacoma

The Fun Police celebrate the release of their debut album this Friday the 13th, at Tacoma’s fledgeling (and rockin’ awesome bar) Stonegate Pizza at 54th and South Tacoma Way. Cover is $6, which gets you a copy of the CD (reviewed by Grandma Cat & sample, below).

Quickly cementing themselves as the working mans band in Tacoma, their great blend of folk and rock seeks to make you dance or perhaps just rock back and forth while sampling some beers and enjoying the tunes. Rootsy folk, bluegrass, a slight bit of funk, rock, and some smart comedy and life-experience-thought make this more than an average band – I have caught their great show a few times now (@ Bob’s Java Jive), and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a night out.

Grandma Cat, a local Tacoma rocker, Rock & Roll Historian, and indie music supporter provides a review of the new disc here, or you can click on the “more” link below.

Neumo’s (SEA) & Wonder Ballroom (PDX): The Dandy Warhols’ Xmas shows December 11th-13th, 2009

The Dandy Warhols have announced a mini-series of Pacific Northwest shows (one in Seattle and two in Portland) starting on the 11th of December. The Dandy’s have billed this as a revival Christmas show, or homage Christmas show to the Italian Christmas.

From http://www.dandywarhols.com:

As Dandy Warhols, we like to take a different approach to Christmas: a little more Old World and a lot more jaunty. Take Italy. Their holiday season is comparable in length to the common American holiday season, but with its baked eel and lumps of coal and mash-ups with what we think of as Halloween traditions – La Befana the Epiphany witch, children in costumes going from door to door for treats – it seems a hell of a lot more festive than a fat man whipping flying deer to bring you an iPhone, doesn’t it? We are on a mission to convince Christendom that Italy does it best. But these things take time; Rome wasn’t bilked in a day. Easing into the task we commence this year with our annual Christmas shows with the introduction of a sliver of sunny Italy to the Northwest’s dreary environs. Just a taste, a Fellini twist on the usual Dandys holiday performance, with shows on December 11th at Nuemos in Seattle and December 12th and 13th at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom.

Regardless of how you dress or act for this show, being Fellini inspired, or Italian Christmas inspired, it will likely be one for the memory banks with the promise of their “Little Drummer Boy” cover, as well as the rest of their catalog of great music.

All tickets go on sale Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 10 AM PST.
Tickets to Seattle Show here
Tickets to PDX Shows (12-12-09 21+, 12-13-09 All Ages) here

The Dandy Warhol’s Website

The Dandy’s record label

Lifesavas, Grayskul, Rudy & The Rhetoric, Mic Crenshaw-Sat Apr 4,2009

Lifesavas and Grayskul at the Nectar…this is gonna be a great show. For those of you unfamiliar with Grayskul-they could be described as minimalist gothic hip-hop, which is better than it sounds. They’re on the Rhymesayers, which is a pretty good indication of a high-quality live show, and hail from Seattle. Lifesavas is a lovely complement to Grayskul’s witty gloom n’ doom…Portland-based, positive, upbeat, funky hiphop. Rudy & the Rhetoric are a UW hiphop duo. They’re all on the bill, as well as Mic Crenshaw, a Portland-based social worker by day, hiphop artist by night who’s an anti-racism activist and slam poet. Sounds promising.

Don’t forget…Nectar Lounge has a great happy hour from 4-7!

Lifesavas, Grayskul, Rudy & The Rhetoric, Mic Crenshaw

Sat, Apr 4, 2009, 9pm doors, $12

Nectar Lounge, 412 N 36th St (in Fremont)

206.6322020

The Upsidedown and Spindrift blow the doors off Tacoma, prepare for Seattle (3/8, The Comet Tavern @ 4:00pm)

Jsun Atoms of The Upsidedown has a smile that charms for miles, and it’s widely visable as he strides into the room to greet me. A handshake and man-hug later, we find ourselves on a cozy couch backstage at the Roseland Lounge. Upstairs, The Rebel Drones are cranking out their trademark sound, and Sleepy Sun is rallying in the next room as they take the stage next.

The Mackrosoft – Shirts and Skins

Perhaps none of you know of Aja West, Cheeba, or the Mackrosoft. Allow me to bring you up to speed. Aja West and Cheeba are Funk Masters Extraordinaire, band leaders in the extreme, bringing an eclectic blend of Jazz, Funk, Fusion, and even some steel drums to the mix. Aja and Cheeba, real life brothers, maintain a hectic schedule of recording and releasing their well thought blends on to CD.

Serge Gainsbourg Classic To Be Released Stateside

What’s 38 years? Seattle reissue champs extraordinaire Light in the Attic Records will release French romantic Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 disc Histoire De Melody Nelson on March 24th.

“There’s an ambition, a conceptual depth to Melody Nelson that’s incredibly hard to pull off, but which Gainsbourg does completely. It’s one of the greatest marriages of rock band and orchestra that I’ve ever heard.” – Beck