Visual Coercion

The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Versus Plus or Minus Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound Eddie Argos

Nearly-Were Records of 2008

There are three records I thought a lot about including in my best of list this year but didn’t make it…. “We Started Nothing” (The Ting Tings) Bright, optimistic, catchy English electro dance pop. The chanteuse sings with a thick, quite hot British accent.

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Poni Hoax at Studio B

poni_hoax.jpg Last night at Studio B, Tigersushi’s Poni Hoax put on a little party for us. They sounded great, played with an austere setup of two keyboards, a guitar, and a backline, and their singer is balding and wore bad sunglasses…. Leaping around to his own band’s fantastic soundtrack, I remember thinking that I liked that my first reaction to seeing this guy performing was enmity, because despite any visually induced prejudices I may have wanted to bring to the table, there I was on the floor fully dancing with my friends in rapt enjoyment of music that a band was unabashedly good at making.

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Poni Hoax for Real

They are also home to art/synthy rockers Poni Hoax, who just came out with a new album in May called Images of Sigrid . I watched this video of them playing a live set, all Bauhaus and Bowie, and I thought to myself, wow, these guys are kind of good.

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