Visual Coercion

The Destroyer, His annoyance. Atlas Sound MHOW 10/21 Atlas Sound Bad Rabbits Old 97s at Showbox at the Market, Seattle WA David Bazan and his band 10/18/09 at Bowery Ballroom

I can get behind this. True Widow: As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth

Following in the slow rock tradition of Austin brethren American Analog Set, Slow Widow wonder aloud, “what would happen if I played this shredding Black Sabbath riff more slowly than if I were asleep while playing this shredding Black Sabbath riff?  One friend described them as being Torche songs reduced in speed 3 or 4 [...]

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Obits: If You’re Not Listening, You Should Be.

Obits is the latest in a long series of great projects from Rick Froberg of Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes.  These are slow murder ballad surf blues with untraceable analog parts.  It’s like Radio Birdman slowed through those angular Holtzman forcefields in David Lynch’s Dune.  It’s like dread coming on inexorable, blood dry by [...]

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Destroyer at the Crocodile Seattle, WA 3/18/2011

Coerceyou captures the all the glory the failing 2 megapixel sensor on a shitty cell-phone camera can- Now within actual discernable range! It is true.  On a day within the last range of days I attended the performance of Dan Bejar and his enormous band here in Seattle, in a club, and I was not [...]

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Bottomless Pit

This week I had a Deerhunter moment.  Tweaking from overstimulation on all fronts, unable to find pleasure in anything, turning away from myself and my tasks in ever tinier right angle spirals of repeated procrastination, it was suggested to me that I give Chicago’s Bottomless Pit an innocent listen.  Jaded and beyond hope and seeing [...]

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