Visual Coercion

Yet another of Broadcast's set Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Eddie Argos John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats Bad Rabbits

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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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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