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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Upcoming / Love This Afternoon in Throw Me the Statue News

Posted by on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM

Two block radius hack alert: I just ran into darling indie rockers Throw Me the Statue outside the Stranger offices and have a few things to report:

1. Scott Reitherman and co. still put up their own posters—the indie rock lifestyle is not what I thought it would be!

2. Those posters they were slavishly toiling with—seriously, Secret Canadian, where is your legion of street teamers?!—are for tomorrow night's crazy-stacked and Stranger-Suggested bill at the Crocodile:

Throw Me the Statue, Telekinesis, Say Hi
Seattle bands Throw Me the Statue, Telekinesis, and Say Hi have all released good-to-fucking-great indie-rock records in the last year or so. Throw Me the Statue's Moonbeams is a bedroom-pop masterpiece full of precisely illustrative lyricism, deft instrumentation, and terribly catchy melodies, and Say Hi's Oohs & Aahs is a winning realization of the band's sometimes too-precious songwriting quirks. Telekinesis, the drummer-led project of Michael Benjamin Lerner, is the newest of the bunch; his self-titled, Chris Walla—produced debut is a fine collection of sunny, classicist pop rock. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, www.the crocodile.com. 8 pm, $10, 21+.) ERIC GRANDY

No room in that Suggest, but local band the Banyans round out the night's bill.

3. The band has just finished mastering their sophomore album, which should be out this August. (Hooray!)

4. Their debut album, Moonbeams, still sounds fantastic.

 

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1
my shit had corn in it
Posted by more exciting news flash people! on April 16, 2009 at 4:55 PM
2
So who won the free ticket to the show, eh?
Posted by Simone on April 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM
3
rad. still need to get a copy of purpleface. august will be rad for seattle sophomore music releases...TMTS + cave singers.
Posted by captain underpants on April 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM
4
still one of my fave albums to come out in the last two years.
Posted by alithea on April 17, 2009 at 2:13 AM
5
they are my neighbors, so i dig them.
Posted by dacoach on April 17, 2009 at 9:09 AM

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