Wednesday, May 6, 2009
History Going to Burning Fight Turned Me Into a 16-Year-Old
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Since this weekend (and before this weekend, actually, in preparation), I've been revisiting old favorite hardcore bands, songs, and records. And, more importantly, listening to bands I never got around to listening to back in the day, like Reach the Sky, who I've been in love with since this weekend.
So now I wanna know: who were some of your favorite ’90s hardcore bands? And do you still listen to them today? Let's share our old hardcore crushes in Questionland!
Tonight She'll Spin You Right Round, Baby!
Posted by Adrian Ryan on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:12 PM
If you think drag queens are dreadful and you wouldn’t put your penis near a bartender if it meant world peace and a cure for bacon thighs, but you’re still indiscreet enough to party on a Wednesday, you should know that DJ Colby B of "Comeback" and "Hot Mess" fame will be spinning tonight at the W Hotel (1112 4th Avenue)—which should also be fairly crawling with adorably overeager SIFF folk in clever eyewear just about now, by the way. The event is called SIP ("Social Interactive Playtime"—it happens every week!) and it begins circa 8PM, which is soon, I know, but Colby doesn’t get rolling until 9ish, and I can’t vouch for the first DJ because I have no fricking clue who he and/or she is anyway. So. But it's a fact that Colby is fabulous, and she is always followed by a retinue of hot, hot fags, and porking SIFF volunteers is an earthly pleasure too tremendous to express, so if your not busy getting brain surgery or burning or something, you’d be wise to check it out…
To reiterate: COLBY! The W HOTEL! 8ish! TONIGHT!
And thank you.
Tonight Sonic Frontiers @ Grey Gallery
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Sonic Frontiers with Made Like a Tree DJs Struggle and D'Jeronimo happens tonight at Grey Gallery (1512 11th Ave, Capitol Hill).
Their most recent mixes can be heard below. (Thanks for the track listings.) I'm listening to Struggle's mix now, and it's typically heady and adventurous.
Sunflower by D'Jeronimo
1. Power to the People Intro [Unreleased]
2. Mikkel Metal - Jeman (feat. Paul St. Hilaire)
3. m83 - In Church
4. Andrea Parker - Freaky Bitches
5. Craig Alexander - Phenomenal Woman
6. Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Honey
7. m83 - Run Into Flowers
8. Martyn - Yet / Right Star!
9. Terre Thaemlitz - House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own
10. Partial Arts - Trauermusik
11. Dj Koze - Let's Help Me
12. Jose James - Desire (Moodymann Remix)
13. Softly I Walk Outro [Unreleased]
Struggle in Progress 3 by Struggle
1. Move D & Benjamin Brunn-After The Rain-Smallville
2. STL-2 Deep-Something
3. Tommaso Cappellato-The Knight-Elefante Rosso
4. Bjørn Torske-Kan Jeg Slippe?-Sex Tags Mania
5. Ra.H-Spacepops-Morphine
6. Scott Grooves-Detroit 808 (Beats)-Natural Midi
7. Patrice Scott-Do You Feel Me-Sistrum
8. Juju Christian Treuter-Earth People-Juju Music
9. Wireman-Armour (Move D Remix)-Prime Numbers
10. Marbert Rocel-Beats Like Birds (Trus'me Vocal Mix)-Compost
11. Move D-Quit Quittin'-Uzuri
12. Scott Grooves-Detroit 808 (Original)-Natural Midi
13. Tony Lionni-Deep Odyssey-Wave
14. Levon Vincent-Invisible Bitchslap-Deconstruct
15. Even Tuell-Untitled(B2)-Workshop
16. Kassem Mosse-Untitled(A)-Workshop
17. Bocca Grande-Procedere-Mathematics
Song "Seattle"
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM
When you go to YouTube and type in "Seattle" this is the first result.
Not really PIL's best work ever.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz The Key Word in this Press Release About Ted Nugent
Posted by Eric Grandy on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Is the word "even" (emphasis mine, obvs):
TED NUGENT continues to make a difference in the lives of others and, in his words, connect with “people who matter.” Yesterday, a young Florida girl suffering from a life-threatening medical condition traveled with her family to Texas to spend four days with NUGENT at his SpiritWild Ranch with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As reported in the South Florida Sun Sentinel (May 5, 2009): “Brianna Curry, 6, of Jupiter, is battling a brain tumor and became a fan of Nugent by watching his reality show ‘Spirit of the Wild’ on the Outdoor Channel. Make-A-Wish Foundation officials say Brianna even enjoys the rocker's music.”
Fashion / Media "Does Kanye Dress Too Gay?"
Posted by David Schmader on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM
That's the title and instigating question of this Daily Beast blog post by Elizabeth Gates—"a former intern at Vogue [whose] interest in image, art, and fashion has driven her desire to contribute to the vast narrative of modern culture in America and abroad"—who consults both Harvard professor Marcyliena Morgan and hiphop style guru Fonzworth Bentley in her search for an answer.
Here's her opening:
When Kanye West and his sartorial cohorts left the Comme des Garcons show during Paris Fashion Week, it was business as usual. Dressed to the nines, they were quickly met with the customary sparkling of paparazzi flash bulbs and fashion enthusiasts, stray wanton women, and BlackBerry buzz. However, as images of the internationally mod clan hit gossip blogs back on the mainland, things started to get ugly.“Only gays wear that [crap]!” wrote blog reader “TheTruth,” while another reader advised that they should “go taste the rainbow.” “Bootylishious” wrote that he/she simply “feel(s) sorry for all those gay dudes,” and sadly, the list goes on. It seems that just as we settle into our most modern America yet, the tradition of black fashion has been lost.
Gates soon gets to this:
If young audiences would dare to conduct a comparative study, they'd inevitably find that Kanye West’s 2007 Grammy outfit really had nothing on Eddie Murphy’s red-leather get-up in his 1987 stand-up film Delirious, and that Prince and his bedazzled unitards would quickly render André 3000’s Top-Siders and patterned suspenders meek and perhaps even typical. So what’s gone wrong? How did the community that once welcomed Little Richard become so violently judgmental?
The problem with all of this: Both Prince and Little Richard were roasted mercilessly for their perceived fagginess. The "welcoming" they received from the community was primarily financial—hit records, sold-out shows. This exact same "welcome" is bestowed on Kanye West, who has yet to release a record that hasn't sold in the multi-millions. The real difference between what happened with Little Richard and Prince and what's happening with Kanye and Andre 3000 is the internet, which provides a permanent, cached home for the same kind of homophobic chatter that's swirled around Prince and Little Richard their entire lives.
Despite the faulty premise, Gates' piece touches on some interesting ideas (perceived gayness versus actual homosexuality, for one), and features this quietly amazing Fonzworth Bentley quote:
"I was raised with confidence. If I’m walking down the street and a man and a woman are kissing on one side, it wouldn’t bother me if on the other side two men were kissing. I’d just keep going forward. I believe that if you pay too much attention to all that, it says more about you than them quite honestly. ”
Read the whole thing here.
Drinking / Last Night / Photo Cinco de Mayo at the Cha Cha
Posted by Matt Hickey on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM
The Cinco de Mayo party at the Cha Cha last night was pretty insane. Have a look:
More photos after the jump.
Decibel Decibel Fest's Fate Precarious
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Decibel Fest director Sean Horton has expressed doubts about the feasibility of holding this year's event if significant funds can't be raised by mid June. It was hoped that tonight's concert at Triple Door would earn enough revenue to allow the organization to maintain its world-class program. However, ticket sales for the show have been far below projected figures. Below, Horton details Decibel's precarious situation.
It's no secret that the majority of Decibel's funding comes from personal credit cards, which the credit crunch has cut in half over the past year. In an effort to fund the festival through other avenues, I recently applied for a home equity loan, only to find out my house is worth less than I owe on it (I've owned my home for over 5 years btw). The application was denied.It's easy to blame the slumping economy, but similar festivals (i.e. MUTEK, DEMF and Communikey) are showing an increase pre-sales and attendance. Perhaps Seattle's tastes have changed or the city is suffering from the ecomonic slump more than Montreal, Boulder or Detroit, but I find that hard to believe. So far 2009 hasn't been a very good year for Decibel in terms of attendance at our one-off events, which isn't a good sign for the 2009 festival. Not sure what to make of it, but if we can't raise the necessary money by the middle of June, the 2009 festival program will be cancelled.
We were hoping to raise community awareness outside of the electronic music community through events like tonight's fundraiser at the Triple Door, which features classic music, visual art and incredibly accessible music in a dinner theater environment of the highest caliber. After 6 years of promoting events of all types (educational workshops, panel discussions, film, A/V installations, dance, hip hop, experimental, dub, indie, ambient, etc) we had hoped to be able to attracted city officials, sponsors and supporters along with the regulars that come out to our events. As it turns out, tonight's funderaiser is likely to lose money, which a huge embarrassment. If your fundraiser events are losing money, that tells you something.
I've put more blood, sweat and tears into Decibel than I care to recount, as has our staff, all of which volunteers their time to make the festival happen (nobody gets paid). The last thing I want to do is cancel the festival, but if it's going to cost me my job, my house and my creative passion, I'd rather put it to rest and get back to composing music, which is ultimately what got me into promoting in the first place.
Tax-deductible donations to Decibel can be made to its fiscal sponsor Shunpike (www.shunpike.org) at 3518 Fremont Ave N, #118, Seattle WA 98103, or via Paypal to iamnordicsoul@hotmail.com.
(Photo by Sami Khoury via Horton's MySpace.)
MP3 Another Song From Jeremy Enigk's New Record
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Jeremy Enigk's new record OK Bear will be in stores this Tuesday, and he's giving you another sneak preview with the song "Life's Too Short." (He released the opening track, "Mind Idea," about a month ago.)
Jeremy Enigk - "Life's Too Short"
Enigk is playing a CD release show at Neumos on May 14th with the Lonely Forest and Baby Panda.
Tonight DRINKY-SEXY-GAY!
Posted by Adrian Ryan on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Wednesday is the Gay Friday. This is a fact. And if you, like me, are very spectacularly gay, slightly alcoholic, and a frisky gush of springtime is gaily rushing through your blood (read: balls)…tonight is a night is a night of love!
DRINKY-SEXY-GAY love!
A booze-drenched sex-slave auction of (hopefully) beautiful local gay bartenders from local gay bars is to be held this very night. (Um, locally.) Allegedly sexy cocktail-mixers from places including, but not limited to, RPlace, eNeighblers, Martin’s, The Eagle, The Cuff, Changes and even (pay attention ladies!) The Wildrose will auctioned off for your unspecified pleasure. It’s for, ugh, CHARITY (God save us all), but don’t let that stop you. It’s at Purr (1515 11th Avenue), but don’t let that stop you, either. Proceeds or whatever go to Rise n’ Shine, the booze goes to your liver, and your bartender goes all the way. (If you’re lucky—otherwise the date is just dinner, yawn.) The event is to be glamorously hosted and/or facilitated by the ever-towering GLAMAZONIA. (Give her back her BINGO!) Are you ready, fag? Faggette?
8PM TONIGHT!
Tonight Also Tonight: Grudge Rock at Re-bar!
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Tonight the Hard Money Saints take on Dragstrip Riot in Seattle's premier rock 'n' roll Family Feud game show! Just like in the traditional Family Feud, both bands will try to guess all the answers to questions like "Name an all girl rock band" or "Name songs with a color in the title." The band who gets all the points at the end of two rounds, walks away with ALL THE DOOR MONEY. The loser gets consolation prizes that don't suck.
It's always fun—the band (and audience) get a little more drunk and little more fun as the evening goes on.
Also as an added bonus, gone are the days of the "moo" and "oink" buzzers! Host Jake Stratton says they have all new buzzers for tonight's show!
(Read more about Grudge Rock here.)
Tip Music Can Drive You Sane
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM
It’s a couple weeks old, but here’s an interesting article by Ian Grey you may have missed about how music can often ameliorate mental illness. I had a close call with hallucinogen-induced insanity 11 years ago, and listening to Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, Pharoah Sanders’ Karma, and (it’s hilarious in retrospect) the Monkees helped to bring me back to reality (or what I considered “normality”). Perhaps you can relate to this piece.
News Today's Music News
Posted by Brian Cook on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
I am trying to break your heart: Jeff Tweedy responds to Jay Bennett lawsuit
My black ass: Rapper Tef Poe moons Nazi rally
Movie adaptation of the sequel to the story of your life: Nick Cave's script for Gladiator 2 surfaces online
Break up your band: Radiohead's management advised quitting
Ain't no goddamn son of a bitch: Danzig preps new album
Tonight Tonight in Music: Napalm Death, Ball of Wax Release Party, Destroyer, and Decibel Festival Benefit!
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Napalm Death - "When All Is Said and Done"
Napalm Death, Abigail Williams, Kataklysm, Toxic Holocaust, Trap Them, Gravenloch
(Studio Seven) Back in the late '80s, I used to ride around with this kid who'd sell marijuana joints out of an old beat-up Chevy Citation. Napalm Death's From Enslavement to Obliteration was the only cassette he ever had in that shit car. We listened to it forever. One day, the car smelled of terrible smoke. When I checked the glove box, a spontaneous electrical fire shot out and burned my legs. Instant blisters. It's been over 20 years since the glove-box incident—and over 20 more albums from grindcore kings Napalm Death. I just heard the brand-newest, Time Waits for No Slave, and, call me crazy, but my legs tingled a little bit. Instant blisters, baby, all over again. KELLY O
Ball of Wax Release Party
(Sunset) When something happens on a regular basis, it's easy to take it for granted. So it might be with Ball of Wax, Levi Fuller's quarterly anthology of music. Now on its 16th edition, Ball of Wax is one of those clockwork pleasures that are always good. So maybe it's time to reignite your passion for BoW with tonight's show, which features the ethereal, pretty Secret Highways and also Jeremy Burk, who's an exciting new banjo-playing up-and-comer with an album on the way. BoW is the best way to learn about local new music that I can think of. PAUL CONSTANT
Helios - "Halving the Compass"
Decibel Festival Fundraiser Gala
Eat, drink, chill out, and, in the process, lend a financial boost to Decibel, the local organization that hosts a world-class electronic-music fest every September. Tonight's gala features eliosH, an elite purveyor of beautiful, meditative ambient music, and Seattle's Lusine, whose productions exude emotional depth and variegated textural splendors. Classical violinist/electronic-music composer Rena Jones and the Seattle Pianist Collective also appear, along with electronic-music-enhancing pan-Asian cuisine courtesy of Wild Ginger. (Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333. 7 pm, $50 [includes food/beverage], all ages.) DAVE SEGAL
Destroyer, Azita
(Crocodile) Dan Bejar's Destroyer project allows the Vancouver guitarist/vocalist/lyricist to indulge his most heartfelt Ziggy Stardust fantasies. As Bowie manqués go, Bejar is among the best, if sometimes annoyingly adenoidal. But you can't deny the man's melodic sophistication, orchestral-arranging prowess, and passion, which he'll probably flex more strenuously than usual in this solo performance. Azita is one of Drag City's slickest artists—verging on Steely Dan slick. Which is shocking in light of her past as part of the Scissor Girls and Bride of No No, neo—no wave units whose music radiates a stark, unsettling aura. Azita's latest album, How Will You?, finds her writing engaging tunes sung with the blunt gravity of Patti Smith and early Liz Phair. It's a case of a challenging artist "maturing" into more conventional modes, but the results surprisingly don't rankle—although her cover of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" raises WTF red flags. DAVE SEGAL
See all the rest of tonight's listings here!
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