Visual Coercion

Another one of Say Hi at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09 John Darnielle of Mountain Goats The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Broadcast Old 97s at Showbox at the Market, Seattle WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

I Don’t Want No More of this Harmful Life

Tuesday night my copy of Andrew Weatherall’s A Pox on the Pioneers arrived par avion from the UK.  Needless to say, I have been listening to nothing save for this record for about 72 hours. Released September the 14 on Weatherall and his Two Lone Swordsmen partner Keith Tenniswood’s Rotters Golf Club label, A Pox [...]

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unitxt Short Film: Asleep Amidst Wonder

There aren’t many other places as well-matched for this very simple story to have been located in.  A tired-looking blue-collar type approaches a vending machine in a sleeping Japanese village, only to have voice and music issue instead of refreshment.  What does the fellow do?  Well, the machine intelligence suddenly at play in the bank [...]

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David Bazan | Curse Your Branches

David Bazan, the morose and introspective poet of faith and anomie behind the ponderous Pedro the Lion and Headphones, releases today his absolutely incredible solo record Curse your Branches on Barsuk Records. There is a great article from the July 30 Chicago Reader linked to from the cover image below describing Bazan’s return to Illinois’ [...]

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