Visual Coercion

John Darnielle of Mountain Goats Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Real Estate Looking Down The Destroyer, His annoyance. Atlas Sound

I Don’t Want No More of this Harmful Life

Tuesday night my copy of Andrew Weatherall’s A Pox on the Pioneers arrived par avion from the UK.  Needless to say, I have been listening to nothing save for this record for about 72 hours. Released September the 14 on Weatherall and his Two Lone Swordsmen partner Keith Tenniswood’s Rotters Golf Club label, A Pox [...]

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My Music Picks for ’07

In the midst of all that music coming out that’s demanding an equal amount of your diminishing time and attention (that amount is 100%, if you weren’t aware) there are still gems…. In no particular order, the records I liked the most this year are: Private Lives – Private Life (can still be bought as part of the Soul Jazz Records singles compilation.)

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Andrew Weatherall: The Bullet Catcher’s Apprentice

I was a huge fan of “From the Double Gone Chapel” by Two Lone Swordsmen with its filthy noir, reverb drowned distorted intensity. I loved the follow-up to Double Gone Chapel, the Big Silver Shining Motor of Sin EP, with its remix of their cover of Gun Club‘s “Sex Beat” and two new original tracks [...]

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