Visual Coercion

The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Bradford Cox Eddie Argos lockett-deerhunter-10_27_10 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

A Saturday Playlist for Weekend Afternoons that Turn into Evenings

Time does get away from one.  When living a life you keep under your hat inarticulate, sometimes you fall back on making lists of songs that would go well with a chilly autumn Saturday afternoon.  Don’t you know it. What have I been doing?  I managed to get out to see Jesse Malin and Gaslight [...]

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Top Records of 2008

I have no further information about this band and I kind of like it that way, but if I had to give them a one-sentence summation, it would probably be something like: Having nothing to do with the army that fought on behalf of the United Kingdom in WWI and WWII, and neither carrying any formal associations with the other famous BEF, Human Leaguers’ Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh’s early ’80s electronic music outfit British Electronic Foundation that later became Heaven 17, Erased Tapes Records’ The British Expeditionary force are softly tearing the world a fantastic new asshole through which to waft the otherdimensional winds bands like Múm and Schneider TM sailed in on in the early part of this decade…. I wrote a long, confused metaphor a few issues back in Heso about how exciting I thought this record was, a metaphor that involved erotic weather patterns on the isle of Lesbos, but I think I will just say that this record stands out by being really different in its staccato bursts of rhythm from the nu-folk and boojie ivy league naptime garbage that people are shitting themselves for these days (I’m talking about vapid garbage like Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend, maybe even Bon Iver?- full disclosure).

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Going to the Fest: A Weekend of Marathon Drunks, Cheap Beer, and Creddy* Times

Image Added 12.2.07 I shot down to Orlando, Florida a few Fridays back to get in a car and drive up to Gainesville for The Fest 6.  The Fest is a 3-day punk and post-hardcore extended, gassy and creddy drunk-on.  The kids were there in force and in full uniform, mocking my earlier vintage constitution [...]

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