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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Album / Song Listen to Jherek Bischoff's David Byrne Collaboration, "Eyes"
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Seattle avant-pop bassist/composer Jherek Bischoff (ex-Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls) has collaborated with David Byrne on the track “Eyes.” It comes from his album Composed, a heady orch-pop opus coming out June 5 on the Brassland label that's loaded with impressive guest musicians: Caetano Veloso, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, Craig Wedren, Carla Bozulich, and Wilco's Nels Cline. “Eyes” is a lush, stately processional song featuring serpentine string motifs and tender glockenspiel, and Byrne singing in his late-era heartfelt-balladeer mode.
Song New Black Whales Song, "Vietnam"
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM
The band says: "It's not exactly the sun-bleached summer soundtrack people anxiously await from bands around this time of year, but if you like a little spook with your carefree love making and lazy river floats, then this one will treat you well."
Who doesn't love a little bit of spookiness in their sunshine? It's all about balance. Here, hear:
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Mischief Drunk Tanks, Enlarged Prostates, and Homosexual Necrophilia: An Interview with Greer McGettrick of the Mallard (After Her First Night in Jail)
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- LUIS WOLF
- Greer McGettrick Trash-can abuser.
Greer McGettrick is the Mallard, and whether she's playing alone or with her backing band—currently Dylan Tidyman-Jones ("Boy Dylan") on drums/keys/vocals and Dylan Edrich ("Girl Dylan") on bass/guitar—the vibe is woozy, hallucinogenic garage rock that sounds like it was recorded from the basement through the heat vent in the upstairs kitchen. In other words, they're your new favorite band to listen to while getting drunk. The Stranger spoke with McGettrick the day after she had a minor mix-up with the San Francisco Police Department. Here's what she said on no sleep for about 36 hours.
Film A Band Called Death: The Documentary
Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Drag City
"Ahead of punk, and ahead of their time." —Jack White to The New York Times in 2009
If a documentary about Akron duo the Black Keys seems premature—because it is—a documentary about Detroit trio Death (1971-1977) is long overdue.
Though most people wouldn't discover them until three decades after the fact, the band of (actual) brothers provides the missing link between the virtuosic rock & roll of Jimi Hendrix and the righteous hardcore of Bad Brains. In other words, they were proto-punk, just like their Motor City brethren in the MC5 and the Stooges.
Shit Talk An Unfortunate Song About The OKC Thunder
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Found on 206 Proof, thanks to the homie AB from Sonicsgate:
It's one thing to steal our basketball team... but I draw the fucking line at them stealing our awkward white boy speed rap swag. - Billy The Fridge
Fridge nailed it, too. This is the terrible kind of double-timey commercial-rap mimicry I thought was native to the lands far to the North and East of my lofty perch here on Capitol Trill. Maybe OKC just caught that fever, and now the local lames can let that style go; Seattle-area rappers, if you ever make a song that sounds even remotely like this, you will hereby be deported to the dustbowl quicker than you can tie a baby-blue durag.
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Decibel Decibel Fest to Announce Half of Its 2012 Schedule Wed. May 23 on KEXP
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:19 AM
On Wed. May 23 at 8 am PST, Decibel Fest representatives will announce half of its 2012 lineup on KEXP (90.3 FM in Seattle or http://kexp.org). For now, let's just say that a lot of you are going to be very pleased about many of the acts slated to perform—especially those who may have missed Saturday's Psychic Circle event. I hope that's coy and cryptic enough for you.
Right Now Line Out Will Return at 11 am
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:11 AM
In the meantime, you should go check out this stuff, cause we worked really hard on it and we think it's pretty good.
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News Morgan Henderson Joins Cave Singers
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- Cavesinging.blogspot.com
- Henderson (left)
Morgan Henderson (Blood Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Past Lives, etc.,) has joined Cave Singers on bass. Henderson, who evidently can play no instrument poorly, should be a most welcome addition to the band, and has been working with them for several months in the studio.
Upcoming Northwest Cave Singers dates:
5/25- Tacoma @ The New Frontier
5/28-George @ Sasquatch
7/28- Stanley, ID @ Sawtooth
8/3- Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon
8/4- Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon
Tonight Tonight in Music: Shotty, Hot Seat, the Archelons
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:22 AM
Shotty, Hot Seat, the Archelons
(Rendezvous) There's a string band from Richmond, Virginia, called the Hot Seats, and sometimes one of their guitarists performs in a ruffly pink dress, and that guitarist is a man with a beard. This is not that band! This is Hot Seat from Seattle, who describe themselves as "Sexy. Dirty. Rock. And. Roll." And we'll have to take their word for it, since they don't have music posted on the internet anywhere. FOR SHAME! But the Archelons do have music on the internet, and tonight is their first show ever! You'll definitely want to be there if noisy, fast rock music tinged with psych and punk is your thing. Plus, imagine how cool you'll sound in a year when they're playing the Block Party and you can be all, "Yeah, I was totally there for their first show."
MEGAN SELING
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
206 Who You Calling a Bitch?
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM
I forgive Jay-Z for everything. His wife (and the mother of his daughter) is not a bitch. She is the most beautiful woman in the world.
Song / Video / #1 Fan Azealia Banks's "Jumanji"
Posted by Anna Minard on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:46 PM
I think Line Out may have "slept," as the kids say, on the new Azealia Banks track, "Jumanji," which popped up on the intertubes at the end of last week. Go listen! Azealia Banks is so so so so so much fun! More great than this new one, actually, and one I've been thinking about lately because of our lovely weather and the video's perfect summeriness, is her older song "L8R." You will probably get parts of it stuck in your head. I hope, for your sake, they're parts that are okay to accidentally sing in a grocery store, as opposed to the particularly raunchy awesomeness that will get you weird looks. Enjoy!
Win It! Get Into Tomorrow Night's JK Pop for FREE
Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:20 PM
HOT.
To enter to win free guest list admission just send your first and last name to freetickets@thestranger.com with JK Pop in the subject line.
Good luck!
New Releases / Death Joey Ramone's Hologram* Comes Back From The Grave To Release A New** Album
Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:51 PM
*Okay, not actually a hologram. NOT YET.
**Not a "new" album—a second solo album, that he'd been recording the last fifteen years of his life. Listen to it on Rolling Stone. Preorder it on iTunes.
#1 Fan Bobby Womack Is The Bravest Man In The Universe
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM
May god bless Damon Albarn and Richard Russell for giving The Womack a platform to sing his truth in 2012. I absolutely love this making-of video, and it does my heart glad to see Bobby pick up the guitar again. "I know I ain't the guitar player I used to be, but when I was a guitar player, I was bad. I knew I was, they couldn't keep up with me." Goddamn right.
But, as Guru said, with Bobby, it's mostly the voice: I got hooked on that beautiful, lifeworn voice the second I heard "Across 110th St" on the Jackie Brown soundtrack. Let the record show that he is one of the greatest to ever do it. His new album on XL drops next month, and it will be my first Tuesday afternoon, new music purchases in years. The title track debuted a couple weeks ago. Check it out after the cut.
News Music News for Today May 15, 2012 feat. Refused Visits the Northwest, Screaming Females Cover Sheryl Crow, and a Black Metal Bassist Wins A Seat In Greek Parliament
Posted by Casey Nolan on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:17 PM
What the What What?!: Refused just announced a few dates in Western Canada. One of them is in Vancouver at The Vogue Theatre. If you're too lazy to click the link, the group will be in Vancouver August 27th. As of yet there are no U.S. Northwest dates announced, but Bumbershoot is still announcing artists... All I know is I'm so glad I didn't go to Coachella...
A-dorable: Three kids put together a mock video of the Beastie Boy's Sabotage. Speaking of different "versions" of the song, hardcore band Incendiary (who's playing RainFest next weekend) recently covered the song.
More like "Knarly" Morris: Keith Morris sat down and talked about his current favorite bands, the first record he ever owned, and that one time an exotic dancer "got all up in his grill" while performing with, ironically, the Circle Jerks.
52,000 Angry Ticket Buyers VS One Event Producer: Lady Gaga was officially denied a permit to perform at her sold out show in Indonesia.
This Could Really Go Either Way: Harry Potter's Snape is going to play CBGB's owner Hilly Kristal in an upcoming movie about the start of the legendary club.
A Black Metal Bass Player is Now a Sitting Member of the Greek Parliament: Giorgos Germenis, from the band Naer Mataron has been elected to paraliament. Giorgos is known to be part of the Golden Dawn Party, which is considered to be one of the most extreme and highly active right-winged parties throughout Europe.
Pretty!: New Jersey's Screaming Females did a delightful cover of Sheryl Crow's "If it Makes You Happy." Guitarist Marissa Paternoster was also recently voted at #77 for Spin's 100 Greatest Guitarists.
Metal Meal of the Day: NPR is streaming the new St. Vitus record titled Lillie: F-65!
Last But Not Least: Watch Willie Nelson cover Pearl "Huckleberry" Jam's "Just Breathe."
Upcoming Nü Sensae Announce Sundowning LP on Suicide Squeeze, West Coast Tour
Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM
"Swim"
Wind-tunnel punk-rock trio Nü Sensae announce their second LP on Suicide Squeeze. It's a howling work that speaks highly of what's to come, but hey, I'm biased. WEIRD. These Canucks will be tearing apart their corner of Capitol Hill Block Party. Get on it.
Tour dates after the cut:
Media Have You Read Josh Eells's Story About Tom Gabel Coming Out as Transgender? You Should.
Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:59 AM
This month's Rolling Stone (with Peter Dinklage on the cover) is the first Rolling Stone magazine I've bought in probably half a decade. It's smaller and thinner than I remember. It's pricier, too ($4.99? Really?), but it was totally worth the cost just to read (and re-read) Josh Eells's story about Tom Gabel, the lead singer of Against Me!, who came out as transgender last week. Most people know by now that Gabel is going to start living her life as a woman—she's going to take hormones and eventually change her name to Laura Jane Grace. And while thousands of people have commented on the blog post announcing the news, re-posted it on Twitter and Facebook (and it's been linked to just about every other music-related blog in the world), I hope just as many people read the full story to see the person who's behind the admittedly surprising "Famous Rockstar Is Becoming a Woman" headline.
Eells does a wonderful job telling Gabel's story. I feel so many writers could've taken advantage of her generosity and used this opportunity to write a darker, heavier piece. It's the first time a famous musician has come out as transgender, after all, and her transformation still leaves so many unanswered questions. It'd be really juicy to focus on all of the dramatic possibilities—Will the band stay together? Will the marriage last? Will the fans support her?—but Eells's piece is very straight-forward. He celebrates Gabel's bravery and paints everything in a very optimistic light. He recognizes the dark places she's been over the years, of course, but then ultimately focuses on Gabel's strength and the happiness she feels now that she's being true to herself.
We get to see what it was like when Gabel told her wife (she didn't know which pronoun to use at first either), her bandmates (they got stoned and decided they needed to work out to protect her), and her mom (who sounds awesome). We get to see a very vulnerable side of Gabel, but even more importantly we see her sense of humor, kindness, and excitement. Instead of being all about the adversity, it's about the triumph. It's really, really inspiring.
Basically, it's an amazing story, it's told especially well, and everyone in the world should read it.
This Ain't Yer Daddy's "Superlungs"
Posted by Mike Nipper at 11:35 AM in I'm Still a Virgin
Bumbershoot Adds Gotye and Others to Bill, Announces Partnerships
Posted by Dave Segal at 11:14 AM in Bumbershoot
Don't Call It A Comeback: Cypress Hill x Rusko
Posted by Kelly O at 11:05 AM in New Releases / Crap
I'll Give You a Break, Pt. 43: Joe Henderson's "Earth"
Posted by Dave Segal at 9:55 AM in Tip
Monday, May 14, 2012
This Is What Bassnectar @ WaMu Theater Looked Like
Posted by Kelly O at 5:30 PM in Photo
Stanwood's Slack Fest Tickets On Sale Today
Posted by Grant Brissey at 4:58 PM in Upcoming
I'm Totally Gonna Try This the Next Time My Four-Year-Old Nephew Falls Asleep in the Car
Posted by Megan Seling at 4:28 PM in Love
Stream the New Mount Eerie Album, Clear Moon
Posted by Megan Seling at 3:44 PM in Album
Coachellas Are Back: On Sale Thursday
Posted by Josh Bis at 3:00 PM in News / Out of Town
Jeebus, Y'all, Why Didn't Nobody Tell Me 'bout Charlie & the Moonhearts?
Posted by Mike Nipper at 2:44 PM in I'm Still a Virgin
214 Refixes Plastikman's "Ask Yourself"
Posted by Dave Segal at 2:27 PM in New Releases / Song
Does the World Really Need a Black Keys Documentary Yet (or Ever)?
Posted by Grant Brissey at 12:08 PM in Crap / Film
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