Visual Coercion

Bradford Cox David Bazan and his band 10/18/09 at Bowery Ballroom Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA More +/- Bradford Cox Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

Mayor for Life: Sinking Feeling/Snowmobiling 7″

Coerce You Encourages you to feel the power. Chicago’s Mayor for Life is still in office, and they’ve issued their latest edict in the form of an attractive 7″ for sale on their Bandcamp page.  It’s not the same thing as suffering under the despot’s direct, unfaltering, undiverted gaze, but you can give this record [...]

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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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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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