Visual Coercion

The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA More +/- Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

Think like Us

The very simple structure of this final song on Solvent‘s 2004 backwards-looking Ghostly International release “Apples + Synthesizers” propels the listener toward a place more uneasy than that occupied by the rest of the poppy, happy, or wistful tracks on the record.  It contrasts strongly “My Radio”, the much-remixed lament for the dear departed radio [...]

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The Beginning of the End

The larders and the panties have all been raided, and the master of the house has suffered the indignity of having his liquor reserves ransacked by the help and the riff-raff and imbibed out of doors, on the street, away from properly rich mahogany.  The empty bottles of The Macallan 12 year litter the streets.

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Mayor for Life Elected in Landslide

Chicago’s Mayor for Life continue becoming more amazing.  Posted here is a video from their April 25 show at the previously mentioned (and in that mention not nearly sufficiently fêted) Union Rock Yards. Three guys whose displays of confidence and technical skill as they play are only rivaled by the amazing sound they produce. This [...]

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Re-feeling Oats, Reeling in Years

I visited NPR’s site today and was surprised to see a Swervedriver song posted as part of NPR’s Song of the Day feature.  There it is.  “Rave Down” off of the recently re-released Raise.  And here I had only recently listened to the band for the first time after a friend suggested I check out [...]

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