Visual Coercion

Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Eddie Argos Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Another one of Say Hi at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09 Love is All, MHOW June 2009

Ted Leo at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 2/25/11

The indefatigable Ted Leo was at a small auditorium at the Henry Art Gallery on Friday, February 25 doing a solo show put on by UW’s Rainy Dawg Radio. Indefatigable may be a hyperbole, considering his recent comments, however clarified and defused, hinting at retirement and his postponement of about 2 weeks of dates at [...]

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Shitty Cell Phone Photos of Mountain Goats

Meany Hall Auditorium, University of Washington, 2/15/11 I had the pleasure of seeing John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats play a solo show at the Meany Hall Auditorium at the University of Washington in Seattle this past Tuesday, and aside from the warm memories of his always entertaining and eloquent between-song banter and the soulful [...]

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Old 97s at the Showbox at the Market, Seattle 01/24/11

Some facts of secondary relevance: I’ve only ever seen or heard alt-country labeled bands at shows that are the provenance of guilty, guardedly fearful financial organizations (Son Volt upwards of 3 times during New York’s summer-long outdoor River-to-River festival, popularly known as “The-City-Makes-a-Nearly-Empty,-Painless-Gesture-to-the Sucker-Hopeful-Future-Bourgeois-Paying-the-City’s-Rents Concert Series”), as part of a neighborhood arts organization’s summer to-do [...]

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Igor Listens to Gatekeeper’s Giza

Igor sez: “Listen to anything on Waxtrax! instead.” The other day I sat down before my computer, excited to write about the new Gatekeeper EP, Giza, released this past December 13 on UK’s Merok Records.  What happened instead was that I spent the next few days reveling in Front 242′s back catalog.  How could a [...]

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