Visual Coercion

Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus The Destroyer, His annoyance.

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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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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