Visual Coercion

James Baluyut of Plus or Minus The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

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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Bear Claw – No Band Can Be this Good

During the chilliest years of the Cold War a secret project was undertaken here in the United States of A. to develop the most obviously superior rock music ever conceived for export to countries whose youths were sustained with with inferior rock knockoffs and black market Finnish socks.  It was hoped that this would so [...]

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Summer Living/Summer Listening

I’ve been marinating in my own musky grown-up smells with the ample help of 90 degree 100% humidity weather all summer as I work on reacquiring my foreign language skills.  My bar slouch is turning into a desk slouch. That’s where I’ve been. I have managed to listen to just a very few things since [...]

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