Visual Coercion

David Bazan and his band 10/18/09 at Bowery Ballroom Atlas Sound MHOW 10/21 The Destroyer, His annoyance. Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Bradford Cox

Having Danced

Having danced last night to Love is All, tickets to which I received free of charge by responding to a Time Out New York ticket giveaway blog post, I am thankful that I sweat as much as I did.  I think it did something to ameliorate the hangorative effects of all last night’s imbibing. I [...]

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Poni Hoax at Studio B

poni_hoax.jpg Last night at Studio B, Tigersushi’s Poni Hoax put on a little party for us. They sounded great, played with an austere setup of two keyboards, a guitar, and a backline, and their singer is balding and wore bad sunglasses…. Leaping around to his own band’s fantastic soundtrack, I remember thinking that I liked that my first reaction to seeing this guy performing was enmity, because despite any visually induced prejudices I may have wanted to bring to the table, there I was on the floor fully dancing with my friends in rapt enjoyment of music that a band was unabashedly good at making.

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A Vision of HIM, Galilee Stylee OR I’M ON UR EARZ DYIN’ 4 UR SINZ

In the full eventuality of everything, so goes the notion of ergodicity, all possible things must be. The most popular metaphor used to describe this ergoditic necessity of the universe to, over time, fulfill all the possibilities it has laid out for itself is the notion that, if one put 1000 monkeys in front of [...]

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