Visual Coercion

Atlas Sound MHOW 10/21 deerhunter-10_27 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound An early pic of Broadcast's set

Best Music of 2011

“Because my opinion is important.” When Saints Go Machine, Konkylie [!K7] A sweet, sweet Danish act of synthetic daring and vocal experimentation, despite the stupid name.  It’s nice when a group knows how to slow things down while still perching on the razor’s edge of production and programming.           Obits, Moody, [...]

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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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There is a Ridiculous Amount of Stuff Coming Down Out of the Hopper.

Portishead, after almost daily tripping over themselves with their surprise club sets here and there for the past year to tease us with the notion they might be half the way there with their new album, have made it official. Not only playing and curating this weekend’s Nightmare Before Christmas All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, but [...]

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