Visual Coercion

Bad Rabbits The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Bradford Cox

Errors – 1999, How I’ve Missed You

The new record from Glasgow’s Errors has been bending my ear of late.  Entitled Have a Little Faith in Magic, it’s reminiscent of the promise of Antarctica‘s 81:03, released in 1999, this is the way music was supposed to have gone.  Welcome back to days of future past.

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Welcome to the new world

The British Expeditionary Force release their new record March 26, 2012, long years after they changed my world at first listen.  That’s news that makes for a good day, isn’t it?

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Shitty Cell Phone Photos of The War on Drugs at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle

We made our way last night to the Tractor Tavern in Ballard to take in the War on Drugs show. The sound was great, the band was great, etc. Those guys really love what they’re doing, and the swirling, tinkling ambience they coax out of the combination of guitars, a Rhodes, samplers, a backline, and [...]

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Unjustifiably Shitty Photos of… Deerhunter at the Showbox at the Market, Seattle

Crusading music writer sits down comfortably for entire show, eschews the inconvenience of walking nearer the stage to take nicer pictures! Wednesday evening found me at Seattle’s Showbox at the Market to see a band I talk entirely too much about, Atlanta’s Deerhunter.  Unless you live in a lightless, airless tomb outside of time (I’m [...]

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