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Friday, May 24, 2013
Sasquatch Spotted above the Mainstage...
Posted by Anna Minard on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:08 PM
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Who's the shoe curtain for? All signs/guesses point to Rhymes-with-Shmacklemore.
Sasquatch Whatcha Eatin', Sasquatch?
Posted by Derek Erdman on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:00 PM
It's not commonly known that there's a discerning group of foodies that travel from music festival to music festival to taste what America's top trailer chefs are serving to the masses. Luckily, I stumbled onto an extra friendly Canadian as soon as I arrived who was happy to give me a rundown on the mound of fried chunks that he was holding.
- Derek Erdman
- Edible Gold
Hey man, what's your name?
Chris Ulmer.
What are you eating, Chris?
Boneless chicken wings and curly fries.
What do you think happened to the bones?
I don't know.
How is the food at Sasquatch?
It's really tasty, actually! Very tasty!
How is the price of the food at Sasquatch?
Uh, it's a little pricey. But that's expected at a festival.
Where are you from?
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Can you get this caliber of food in Edmonton?
Yep, probably.
What's better, America or Canada?
Oh, you're going to put me in the spotlight. Right. I'd have to say Canada.
What's the main reason that Canada is better than America?
I'd say happy people! The people are happier!
BEWARE: BONUS HOT PIX AFTER THE JUMP.
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Party! / Sasquatch The Windy Grounds of (S)asquatch
Posted by Emily Nokes on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:46 PM
Alright! We are HERE! Your "Sasquatch Team of Excellence Oh Thirteen" will be yours truly, Derek Erdman, Anna Minard, Kelly O, Josh Bis, and Bree McKenna, with an assists from Jon Essinger (he brought a whole keg!).
So far, it's really windy with a little rain/sun combo, and everyone we have encountered is insanely wasted! And colorful! But mostly wasted.
Kelly O stepped outside the press hut for three minutes and already found these wonderful revelers:
- Kelly o
- Rainbow! Anatomy! Belly-button rings!
- Kelly o
- 'Squatch sprite!
- kelly o
- Time-travel safari boys
Sasquatch On the Road to Sasquatch, Part Two: Show Us Your What?!
Posted by Anna Minard on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:02 PM
The drive was beautiful. This truck was telling us something...
- Anna Minard
What's that, truck?
- Anna Minard
- SHOW US YOUR SQUATCH
Oooooooh. Kelly O thought it said "SHOW US YOUR SNATCH!" I dunno if this is much better. Jon says, "Well, technically it says 'Show us your Squusatch." Noted.
GFY / I'm Still a Virgin / Shit Talk It's May 24th, 2013 And You're in a Rad Garage Band - The King Bees
Posted by Mike Nipper on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:30 PM
"On Your Way Down The Drain" is a fantastic fuck-you song, perhaps my fave.
Although the New York group the King Bees sound like teens in a garage here, they were in fact a working blues band. In late '66, after three singles and no breakthrough, they split; members Danny Kortchmar (gtr) and Joel O'Brian joined James Taylor's Flying Machine, while organist John McDuffy replaced Al Kooper in the Blues Project.
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Books / Hellevant The Road to Sasquatch!
Posted by Emily Nokes on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:08 PM
It wouldn't be the road to Sasquatch without a stop at Bob's Summit Deli* at the pass. And wouldn't you know they have the best book selection! Do I get both? They also had one called Northwest Disasters, but I can't imagine anything more boring than reading about forest fires and fully-clothed firemen.
- Bob's Summit Deli Lit
*100% gas station, 0% deli.
Tonight Wiggle Wiggle at the Bob Dylan Tribute Night
Posted by David Schmader on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:01 PM
(Sunset) In honor of Bob Dylan's 72nd birthday, a whole bunch of local musicians—including Garth Reeves, Kevin Murphy, Fredd Luongo of the Swearengens, Ian Moore, and Kim Virant—light up the Sunset with a show devoted to the beyond-amazing Dylan songbook. I imagine there will be the requisite standards—"Knocking on Heaven's Door" is practically mandatory for cover bands—but here's hoping they get into some weird stuff. (I don't mean lesser-known "Sign on the Window" stuff. I mean weird-ass "Wiggle Wiggle" stuff.)
Tonight / 206 Half Stadium Pop, Half Lo-Fi, Half-Breed!
Posted by Bree McKenna on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM
(Cafe Racer) At times, Half-Breed sound like a rough sketch for stadium pop. Like if they had big production money behind them, their sound could be huge and super slick. Which makes the contrast all the better when these delightful pop songs are filtered and presented in the lo-fi/K Records aesthetic while still simultaneously lending themselves to a larger sound. The upbeat, queercore, guitar/drum duo gave an impressive show to a lot of first-time listeners during their slot at this year's 'Mo-Wave festival and gained a bunch of new fans. Plus, it's always fun to see an on-the-rise Capitol Hill band like Half-Breed play the flourishing U-District DIY music scene at Cafe Racer.
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Mix / 206 Start Your Three-Day Weekend With This Champagne Champagne/Cave Singers Mix
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Champagne Champagne just posted a mixtape "to hold you over while your boys are on studio lockdown working on a new album." This "Cave Singers Pop Rocks" sounds like sunshine:
BSE (TW) Best Song Ever (This Week): The Clark Sisters' "Overdose of the Holy Ghost"
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
The Clark Sisters’ “Overdose of the Holy Ghost” provides the title of a new compilation of ’70s and ’80s gospel curated by David Hill of the Ballistic Brothers and Nuphonic Records. It’s the best track on the collection (which Z Records released April 30), which includes contributions from Shirley Caesar, Sharon Johnson, Norman Weeks & the Revelations, and Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark (Twinkie!). If you like your Jesustastic music inspired by disco and boogie, then Overdose of the Holy Ghost might just be your bible. However, this agnostic dabbler likes his gospel a bit more gritty and brimstoned—check out Numero Group’s Good God! comps for examples. Is that such a sin?
Buuuut, how about those Clark Sisters? Their “Overdose of the Holy Ghost” track sounds like a cross between L.T.D.’s “(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again”—one of the most inspirational songs ever— and a slowed-down “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)” by Parliament. Plus, a vocal inflection reminiscent of Lyn Collins' in "Think (About It)." In other words, very dope. Believe it!
Jazz / Crap / ??!! / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz So...Patricia Krentcil AKA "Tan Mom" Now Has a Pop Song?
Posted by Mike Nipper on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:25 PM
I suppose we all remember "Tan Mom?" Maybe? She was a mom who was arrested for allegedly taking her six-year-old into the tanning bed with her. In all her public appearances she had tanned/self tanned to the point of being brown, like it was fucked up, hence her nickname "Tan Mom." Kelly O posted about this as it happened. Anyways, now "Tan Mom," Patricia Krentcil, has a single out...
Fake famous people make me regret the internet.
Very Great / HAS-BEEN / Booze Today's Music News: Festival Woes, Roth Goes Tarantino, and More
Posted by Kyle Fleck on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Festivus for the Rest of Us?: Abby Johnston at Salon ponders the lack of female-led bands at festivals this summer, while FACT worries that British music fests are becoming "unaffordable, corporate, and middle-aged."
David Lee Roth Wrote a Short Film: In which he plays a shirtless assassin who enjoys strawberry milk. Sample line: "In the name of the Moon, I shall right wrongs and defeat all evil." Makes sense.
Maybe She's a Tea Partier: R&B icon Mary J. Blige is facing some pretty serious IRS scrutiny, apparently owing about $3.4 million in back taxes. Between this and Lauryn Hill's recent troubles, it's starting to feel like some sort of conspiracy targeting our favorite ’90s hiphop divas.
American Stabbing: For your feel-good Friday story, a Pennsylvania couple are facing assault charges after they got incredibly drunk and stabbed one another following an argument about who should win the American Idol finale. First world problems, I guess.
The National's Matt Berninger Wonders How Hip You Can Be at 42: In a pretty funny, awkward interview with Stephen Colbert. And then the National played some great music.
Tonight Give A Fuck About Yevtushenko
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:01 AM
(Lo-Fi) I was recently handed a sticker that said nothing more than "Yevtushenko. ROOM FULL OF FUCKS." Well, lemme tell you, because my brain is partially that of a horny 15-year-old boy, I immediately ran for a computer to find out WHERE this room could be and WHAT, in fact, was "a yevtushenko." Instead of being an exotic... well, I'm not going to TELL you what I thought (because then you would tell me my brain is fried from too many years of watching HUMP! The Stranger's amateur porn fest), Seattle's Yevtushenko are a new, unsigned, female-fronted indie-rock band. They list their influences as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Florence and the Machine, and listening to them proves this is true. They're good! You should give 'em chance or, rather, "give a fuck."
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Tonight / Interview Kelly O Gets Down with the Clown
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Insane Clown Posse play El Corazon tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are still available here.
- Violent J, the Duke of the Wicked, is on the left. Whoop, whoop!
You're playing El Corazón May 24 and 25. Why the two ICP Seattle shows?
Well, it's a small club, and it's been YEARS. No one would book us in Seattle for many, many years. Juggalos have a bad reputation, so for a long time, the closest we could come was Portland.
I have to ask. Your songs mention it, your fans guzzle it... why Faygo?
You gotta remember, we started out way back in the early '90s, comin' off the heels of the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. DMC rapped about Adidas, and that was kinda like their thing, and the Beasties, at least back on their first album, used to mention White Castle hamburgers. Those things would link you to a group back then. When we were sitting around working on our very first songs, we wanted to incorporate who we were. We always drank Faygo.
Why not Vernors? That's from Detroit.
Vernors was expensive! Faygo Cola was only 69 cents for a two-liter. We used to leave the house and walk to the store with no money, and by the time we walked through the alley to get there, we would find at least seven empty bottles on the ground—then we'd walk away with a new ice-cold two-liter of Faygo, for free.
Tonight What’s Going on at Northwest Folklife Festival?: Your Tiny Guide to Music, Art, Dance, and Avoiding Drum Circles
Posted by Emily Nokes on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM
- Lures: Playing the Fin Records Showcase on Friday at 6 pm on the Fountain Lawn Stage
Bollywood Show (Fri, 7 pm, International Dance Stage) Yes, yes, YES.
Sleeping in Seattle: A Bed-Making Contest! (Sat, 2 pm, Olympic Room) A bed-making demonstration (?!), where experts show you how to wrangle bedsheets into beautiful origami. If you're like my grandmother, and already know how to make a bed so tight you can't actually sleep in it, then show 'em what you've got for the chance to win prizes!
Fin Records Showcase (Fri, 6 pm, Fountain Lawn Stage) Ballard label Fin Records brings you an indie-roots showcase, with performances by Lures, Davidson Hart Kingsbery, Red Jacket Mine, and Low Hums.
The Soul of Seattle (Sat, 6:30 pm, Mural Amphitheater) Saturday's festivities close with a dance party soul get-down hosted by Eldridge Gravy and the Court Supreme with Soul Senate, Kissing Potion (best band name!), the Braxmatics, and Little Big Band.
The Northwest Folklife Festival starts today and goes through Monday at the Seattle Center. It's free and all ages. A full schedule is at nwfolklife.org.
Mix Vast Times : Panabrite's Mysteries of the Deep Mix
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:49 AM
Seattle synthesizer sorcerer Panabrite (Norm Chambers) is also a highly knowledgeable collector/selector in his domain of electronic/ambient/drone music. Below is another of his excellent Mysteries of the Deep mixes (now in its 13th edition), which highlights the intriguing work of a lot of superior but way-below-the-radar composers/producers.
Chambers elaborates: "A collection of some of my favorite current artists, people whose work really stands out in an endless ocean of synth and drone. I also included one of my upcoming tracks, an edit from a longform piece coming later this summer, since I feel it fit the overall mood and tone of the other tracks."
Panabrite released his Xenon District cassette May 21 on VCO Recordings.
Mysteries Of The Deep, Chapter XIII. Physical Continuum Tracklist:
N Chambers - Descent Overture
Piotr Kurek - Goddess Eye
Samantha Glass - Return to the Sky pt.3
Günter Schlienz - Presentation Two - Tape echo & Modular synthesizer
Bastian Void - Rotating Wave Display
Bitchin Bajas - Water 2
Giant Claw - Radiation Poisoning
Three Legged Race - Locked Eyes
Jan Jelinek - Jackdaw
Piotr Kurek - Becoming Light
Günter Schlienz - Presentation Five - Spring Reverb, Phaser & Modular Synthesizer
Brette Naucke - Rilea
Koen Holtkamp - Hoosick
Portland / Tonight Dragging An Ox Through Water: A "Folk Freak of Nature"
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:35 AM
(Cairo) Brian Mumford's Dragging an Ox Through Water is not your little brother's Americana outfit. The Portland folk freak of nature sounds like he's more enamored of Arthur Russell than Gram Parsons, as he upends rustic folk-rock tropes with unexpected structural fissures and injects textural oddities that blast away the form's ho-hum-iness. He also sings like a bedridden Tim Rutili (of Califone), which may be a taste you can acquire. Marcus Price makes unpredictable, disorienting electronic music that obeys no allegiance to any scenes or conventions, which is why he's one of my favorites in the region. Huge Rock is a new collab between the Numbs and Secret Colors, which portends strange and wonderful things.
And a Sasquatch! in a Pear Tree
Posted by Emily Nokes at 8:59 AM in Tonight / Sasquatch
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Will Danny Brown Get Another On Stage Blowjob @ Sasquatch?!?
Posted by Kelly O at 4:45 PM in Sex / Sasquatch
It's May 23nd, 2013 And You're in a Rad Garage Band - The Saints
Posted by Mike Nipper at 4:36 PM in GFY / I'm Still a Virgin / Shit Talk
King Crimson Guitartist, Robert Fripp, Quits Music Now Hangs Out With Lawyers
Posted by Mike Nipper at 3:45 PM in Business / Exit Interview
Hella Elegiac: Boards of Canada's "Reach for the Dead"
Posted by Dave Segal at 2:59 PM in Song / Video
Listen to White Hawaiian's Eerie Elliott Smith Cover
Posted by Megan Seling at 2:22 PM in Song
New Weather: Like Stereolab If They Were Sponsored By NASA
Posted by Dave Segal at 1:36 PM in Tonight / 206
Underage: Rainy Dawg Radio Turns 10 with Pony Time, Naomi Punk, and More
Posted by Megan Seling at 1:09 PM in Party! / Tonight
Tacos! (The Rambunctious Heavy-Metal Duo, Not the Delicious Food)
Posted by Grant Brissey at 12:35 PM in Tonight / 206
The Jazz Diaspora: Gabe's Dirty Blues
Posted by Jeffery Taylor at 12:29 PM in History
Sean Nelson Makes Pop Dreams Come True
Posted by Megan Seling at 12:27 PM in Tonight
Today's Music News: Paris Hilton Back to Ruin Music, DJs Take Control, Ke$ha Drinks Pee
Posted by Kyle Fleck at 12:01 PM in Breaking News / Lists / 206
Rain Fest 2013 is (Almost) Here
Posted by Kevin Diers at 11:57 AM in Hardcore / Interview
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