Thursday, March 26, 2009
??!! Stalk on the Wild Side
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Last night a friend revealed to me that if there were any musician whom he’d like to stalk, it would be Sade. I can understand the impulse, even if I’m not very keen on her music.
His confession made me wonder which musician I would stalk. It’s really not in my nature to do such a thing, but hypothetically speaking, I could imagine getting all creepy over Eye of the Boredoms, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Captain Beefheart, Annette Peacock, Hawkwind ca. 1972 (can you even fathom how potent their acid was?), and, if they were alive, Steve Marriott and Miles Davis. Of all of those, the one I’d most want to stalk (very nicely, of course) would be Miles. After reading his (auto)bio and listening to most of his canon, I feel like he would be the most fascinating character to shadow. Plus, I would enjoy being called a motherfucker in his trademark rasp.
Let’s be clear, though: I don’t condone stalking. I mainly just wanted an excuse to post this video of “Black Satin.”
Still, as long as we’re speculating, which musicians would you stalk, and why?
Tickets On Sale Soon: The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Folds, and More
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM
A quick rundown of when tickets to upcoming shows are going on sale.
Going on sale Friday at 10 am:
The Shins at the Showbox at the Market May 4-5
Xavier Rudd at the Showbox at the Market Jun 26
Ben Folds at the Paramount May 14
Relient K, Owl City at Neumos May 31
Going on sale Friday at noon:
311 with Ziggy Marley at WaMu Theater June 8th
Going on sale Saturday at 10 am:
Melvins, Green River at the Showbox at the Market May 22-23
Mike Watt and the Missing Men at the Crocodile May 22
Going on sale Saturday at 11 am:
Death Cab for Cutie with the New Pornographers and Ra Ra Riot at Marymoor Park July 18
Photo Re-Classical Music
Posted by Dean Fawkes on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM
I meant to pass this along last week, but blame it on fever-induced brain problems.
Now beyond-old in internet years -- posted thirteen days ago -- this article called on people to wedge modern musicians into ancient photographs and is still worth it for those of you who might not have seen it before.
Thank you, Something Awful.
A few favorites.
More here.
Drinking It's Time for Happy Hour
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM
In this week's Happiest Hour, Marti Jonjak visits Serafina on Eastlake:
Description: A remarkably popular Eastlake eatery that serves high-end Italian cuisine.
Happy hours: Mon—Fri 4—6 pm.
Happy-hour drink specials: $6 house red or white wine, $3 tap and bottled beer (Red Menace, Tecate, and others), $4.50 well drinks.
Happy-hour food specials: Discounted small plates, such as $10 salsicce di coniglio (house-made rabbit sausage with red wine sauce and farro) or $6 plin (ravioli stuffed with braised pork, savoy cabbage, and Reggiano cheese).
See many, many more happy hour options at thestranger.com/happiesthour. There are literally hundreds of possibilities, in fact. It's four o'clock. Go get drunk!
Photo by Kelly O.
News / Love / Business Talbot Tagora Sign to Hardly Art
Posted by Eric Grandy on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Awww, sweet! Local mumble punks Talbot Tagora have been signed by Sub Pop spin-off Hardly Art. The Stranger profiled the young trio around this time last year:
Talbot Tagora seem perpetually out of place—as a band, on a stage, in a club, in Seattle, even just in general. They don't look like much of a rock band, even by punk standards. They wear plain jeans, flannels, and generic, monochromatic sweatshirts—thrift-store more in the style of St. Vincent de Paul than Red Light. The trio—Chris Ando, Mark Greshowak, and Ani Valley—range in age from 17 to 21, and they still have a trace of adolescent anxiety about them; Ando and Valley still show it in their complexion.
Read the whole thing here.
And the press release from Hardly Art:
I am thrilled to inform you that Hardly Art will be releasing the next record from Talbot Tagora! The fuzzed out Seattle art-punk trio have just finished their second full-length (and label debut) Lessons from the Woods or a City and we’ll be releasing it on CD and LP on July 21st.We’ve been huge fans of Talbot Tagora for some time now, keeping tabs on their self-released CDRs, 7”s and cassettes and watching them tear apart every underground venue in Seattle (both with local heavy hitters like Past Lives and Bow + Arrow and national acts like Tyvek, Abe Vigoda and No Age). They are fierce proponents of local all-ages shows, and have become the focal point of the Seattle DIY/all-ages punk scene. Their music is driven, manic, and impossibly realized for such a young band.
[...]
More details (a national tour is in the works for July) and of course music is forthcoming, but until then feel free to spread word far and wide. Hardly Art is absolutely ecstatic to be working with Talbot Tagora, and we want the whole world to know about it!Talbot Tagora — Lessons from the Woods or a City
LP/CD July 21st, 2009
1. Mixed Signals through Miles of Pilgrimage
2. Ichthus Hop
3. Bounty Hunter
4. Solar Puppets
5. Hunger Strike
6. Black Ice
7. Mouth Rainboy
8. Hidden Note
9. Hairspray
10. Johnny Lazor
11. Replacing the Northwest
12. Perception Stick
13. Belt of Cancer
14. Ephemeral Summer
Win It! Win Tickets to U.S.E. at the Crocodile
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM
The brand new Crocodile has been the talk of the town since the club's official opening last week. In this week's paper, Christopher Frizzelle paints a beautiful picture of the new space:
Many walls have been knocked down. The false ceiling in the main room is gone, revealing hidden skylights and enough extra space to comfortably fit a proper mezzanine with a bar. The capacity of the club has gone from 381 to 560. The stage is in a different place. The old cafe area is gone. The walls have gone from pale green to a dark, flattering red. There's a long main bar along the south wall, where the wall of windows looking out onto Blanchard Street used to be. That wall of windows is gone, but there is a high, unbroken, two-foot-tall horizontal stripe of windows on that wall now, looking out into treetops and Belltown roofs—referencing the windows that used to be there, giving the room depth, granting the crowd privacy, and reminding you that you're in the middle of the city. The famously inconvenient post is no longer in the center of the room. (It's been preserved, for hilarity's sake, but it's off to the side.) There are new bathrooms, gleaming white, with marble countertops. The build-out, done by GHL Architectural Millworks, is gorgeous. Maybe too gorgeous.
If you've yet to check out the new Croc (or want to see it again), I have the perfect opportunity for you! Line Out and the Crocodile are giving away a pair of tickets to Saturday night's U.S.E. show which, as Eric Grandy says in this week's Stranger Suggests, "...may as well be [the club's] official grand reopening party. You couldn't hope for a Seattle band to christen your new club with more positive vibes and body-moving sounds than electro-rock crew United State of Electronica."
Entering is easy: just send an e-mail to freetickets@thestranger.com with U.S.E. in the subject line. If you're so moved, maybe include a U.S.E. inspired haiku! (That won't improve your chances at winning, but I think if any band could inspire a great haiku, it's U.S.E., and it'd be fun for me to read through them all... blank e-mails get boring.) A winner will be chosen at random and notified via e-mail tomorrow afternoon.
Good luck!
UPDATE: The tickets have been won. Thanks to everyone who entered! See some of the haikus here.
Shit Talk / ??!! Psychedelic Shit Talk
Posted by Eric Grandy on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
The Wasington Post has a hilarious, bizarre interview with Psychedelic Horseshit (or, per the Post's upright standards "Psychedelic Horse[expletive]) about lo-fi and how Wavves and Vivian Girls are "poseurs"—well worth wading through all the redacted [expletive]s:
Do you think it'll be fleeting, or will these bands maintain fans?[...] I don't know, it pisses me off, kind of. We work hard and I feel like we're pretty sincere about what we do. And to have a bunch of [expletive] no-talent clowns come in and just take the easiest way out and [expletive] rip off - not necessarily even - I don't think that any of those bands are ripping off Psychedelic Horse[expletive]. That's like the furthest thing. I wouldn't pay them a compliment like that. I don't even think Psychedelic Horse[expletive] is that good of a band but it's like [expletive] leagues and years beyond any of Wavves and Vivian Girls and [expletive]. That's elementary [expletive]. Like, [Expletive] my [expletive]. I don't know. Just a bunch of poseur [expletive], honestly.
Funny stuff. (ht Jamie)
Song / Shit Talk That Awesome Slim Thug/A Flock of Seagulls Connection
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM
On Slim Thug’s new album, Boss of All Bosses, the Houston rapper interpolates A Flock of Seagulls’ 1982 hit “I Ran” into his Jim Jonsin-produced track “I Run.” Sugary new-wave pop meets Dirty South rap, and mass eye-rolling ensues. I’m surprised Slim didn’t mutter “No homo” after every reprise of the fey signature hook. Actually, perhaps Slim Thug should be praised for having the stones to put his machismo on the line so blatantly. Still, an annoying hook is an annoying hook. Must FFWD.
Whatever the case, could "I Run" be part of mainstream rap’s gradual sashay from macho front into a softer, more effeminate phase? Maybe Swishahouse was more aptly named than initially realized…
News Today's Music News
Posted by Brian Cook on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Another one bites the dust: Blender closes its doors
Curtis’s stock continues to plummet: 50 Cent dropped from Stallone film
Waiting for the Cliff Burton reunion in the afterlife: Jason Newsted does one-off reunion with Metallica
Hating the internet, hating myself: The Shins are up to nothing
Trouser snake on a plane: Grammy winner caught masturbating during flight
Just for you, Megan Seling: Brokencyde has a posse
Song / Love You Don't Need That Shit From Me
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Dear kind readers of Line Out (and even you few assholes out there):
I'm sorry for posting, YET AGAIN, that stupid and terrible Brokencyde video earlier today. You don't deserve that; that was mean. Mean, not only because the song is bad, but also because its badness is addictive and generally one viewing is never enough to fully appreciate its shittiness so it requires multiple viewings and by the time you finally have a grasp of just how awful it is half the day is gone and you're a little dizzy and nauseous and left feeling like the only way to cleanse yourself is to take an industrial-strength power washer to your ear. And that would hurt!
So here, I will post something nice: A small collection of good pop punk songs with good beats that will make you want to dance! Perfect for this sunny day!
The Bouncing Souls - "True Believers"
Armalite - "I am A Pancreas (I Seek To Understand Me...)"
Latterman - "Fear and Loathing on Long Island"
Also, here's a cute picture of baby porcupines hedgehogs (of course they're hedgehogs, I totally knew that) being super adorable:
There. That's much better. I'm glad we could work it out.
Love,
Megan
Shit Talk / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Warped Tour Announces Dates/Line-Up
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM
I haven't given a shit about Warped Tour since 1999 (which is a bummer since NOFX and the Bouncing Souls still make me so happy), but for those of you with a soft spot for the annual "punk" tour, here's the line-up for Warped 2009:
A Day To Remember, Aiden, Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag, Architects, Bad Religion, Bayside, Big D and the Kids Table, Bouncing Souls, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, Dear and the Headlights, Escape the Fate, Flogging Molly, Forever the Sickest Kids, Gallows, Hit The Lights, I Set My Friends on Fire, Less Than Jake, Lovehatehero, Madina Lake, Monty Are I, NOFX, Outernational, P.O.S., Saosin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Streetlight Manifesto, The A.K.A.s, The Ataris, The Devil Wears Prada, Thrice, Underoath, Valencia, Westbound Train, A Skylit Drive, Attack Attack, Black Tide, Breathe Carolina, Brokencyde, Cash Cash, Dirty Heads, Every Avenue, In This Moment, Innerpartysystem, Ivy League, Jeffree Star, Lights, Longway, Meg & Dia, Millionaires, Red Car Wire, Settings, Shad, Shooter Jennings, Sing it Loud, TAT, TV/TV, The Maine, The White Tie Affair, There For Tomorrow, Therefore I Am and Versa Emerge.
And just look at who's playing! BROKENCYDE. The band that has TWICE been declared responsible for The Worst Music Ever on Line Out (#1, #2).
Warped will be at the Gorge August 15th. AND! For those who JUST CAN'T WAIT, Brokencyde will be at the Showbox April 2nd with the Saints and Sinners tour!
And oh, what the hell. Why not post that Brokencyde video just one more time? Just for kicks!
Brokencyde - "Freaxx"
C'mon, Fat Mike. Destroy these dudes.
History Alan Lee Keyes's History of Hiphop
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Today is a good day to start a new list. This one will be the top five hiphop tracks about neighborhood girls with bad reputations—or, to use the language of Emily White, "fast girls." Number five on this list is without a doubt Diamond D's "Sally Got a One Track Mind":
Even if Sally scrubs that ass, I'll still pass.
Tonight Tonight in Music: Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the Bismarck, and Alice Russell
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "I Am Goodbye"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Pillars and Tongues
(Moore) Veteran musician Will Oldham's latest release under his Bonnie "Prince" Billy moniker, Beware, is, like Lie Down in the Light before it, a relatively lush and bright record (especially compared to Oldham's remarkably stark breakthrough, the haunted, minimalist Americana of I See a Darkness). Fourteen musicians are credited on the album, and they provide not only pedal steel, mandolin, organ, accordion, flute, and more instrumentation, but also a dim chorus of voices that fades in and out of Oldham's songs, reinforcing and then countering his own singing voice, which has sounded weary yet steadfast for over 15 years. Videos from this tour show him performing backed by far fewer musicians on drums, stand-up bass, and violin; whatever the arrangements, though, Oldham's voice remains the powerful focus. ERIC GRANDY
The Bismarck, Zion Curtain
(Funhouse) The Bismarck are a rock-and-roll band, plain and simple. They've got blistering riffs, powerful and quick drumming, fist-pump-worthy choruses, aggressive gang vocals, and, most importantly, a sense of humor. Live, they're exciting and a little sloppy, and songs like "Thank You for Not Dancing" and "Curt Flood" (from their full-length Blood of Patriots) drill through your skull even faster and harder than on record. MEGAN SELING
The Bismarck - "This Train Runs On Two Rails"
The Bismarck - "Sandbar Knifefighter Blues"
Alice Russell - "7 Nation Army"
Alice Russell, Big World Breaks
(Nectar) This decade has seen Great Britain produce a fair number of good-to-great white female soul singers: Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Alice Russell, etc. While Russell won't be jostling Aretha Franklin off the throne as Queen of Soul, she does sport a striking tone redolent of sass and carnal knowledge. Her bandmates adhere to the soul tradition that's been winning hearts and minds for over 40 years. Don't expect novel twists on the old formula; do expect reverent replications of it executed with panache, as Russell and crew support her new, fourth album, Pot of Gold (Six Degrees). DAVE SEGAL
Should you want more, all of Thursday's music events are listed in our online calendar.
Video Common Market - "Escaping Arkham"
Posted by Eric Grandy on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Recall that video Common Market debuted at the Program? Well, the track is called "Escaping Arkham," and the video is now playing on mtvU:
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