Visual Coercion

Kurt Vile and the Violators, upright. Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA deerhunter-10_27 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07

New Year

The music of 2009, in the order it occurs to me: Screaming Females: Power Move An excellent review can be found here at Impose.  ’70s guitars hearken back to the ’90s, and all your basic dad rock bands are fused into the soul of Ted Nugent, clarified, and injected into the very small guitar-shredding frame [...]

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David Bazan at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09

Here are some shitty phone camera photos of the show I went to last night! David Bazan played last night at Bowery Ballroom, supported by openers Say Hi, who came out and more than earned the crowd’s attention as an opening act and followed that up by performing again as part of Bazan’s band.  On [...]

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David Bazan | Curse Your Branches

David Bazan, the morose and introspective poet of faith and anomie behind the ponderous Pedro the Lion and Headphones, releases today his absolutely incredible solo record Curse your Branches on Barsuk Records. There is a great article from the July 30 Chicago Reader linked to from the cover image below describing Bazan’s return to Illinois’ [...]

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