Visual Coercion

The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA lockett-deerhunter-10_27_10 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Plus or Minus John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats David Bazan and his band 10/18/09 at Bowery Ballroom

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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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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