Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Weather / Song / Love / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Modest Mouse & 764-HERO - "Whenever You See Fit"
Posted by Eric Grandy on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:24 PM
So epic and gray:
Now I must go find my old copy of Get Here and Stay.
Tonight Sarcastic Disco DJ Harvey @ Flammable
Posted by Dave Segal on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Disco magus/Black Cock Records co-founder DJ Harvey plays Re-bar's Flammable weekly tonight. Harvey has more records than you've had hot meals, and most of 'em are rare and precious.
I had the good fortune to meet Harvey in Orange County last year, and the man is a delightful raconteur and treasure trove of musical knowledge. Chat him up, if you end up going. He'll be the graying, bearded, long-haired dude who's having a better time than you.
(It's hard to find good audio quality vids of Harvey's sets; sorry.)
Upcoming / Interview It's Raining MEN
Posted by Gina Young on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM
JD Samson was one of those characters that populated the periphery of my New York existence when I lived there in the early Oughties: she made life more interesting. (So did the red-haired lady with the melted face that I once saw on three different subway platforms in one day, but, um... JD I can prove was real.) When not performing with Le Tigre at Irving Plaza, she would be DJing Lower East Side parties with names like XXY and Moustache, or releasing a calendar called JD's Lesbian Utopia.
JD's new project MEN plays Chop Suey this Tuesday July 14th, so I used everybody's favorite medium— gchat, naturally— to throw together some questions, so fast it almost felt like free association.
Gina Young: Last time MEN came to Seattle, it was you and Johanna [Fateman, also of Le Tigre] in what was essentially a DJ set...
JD Samson: True that, true that.
Tell us how it'll be different now?
Sure. Jo and I started men as a DJ remix team and quickly began writing our own material. Then we kept touring and one day Jo said, JD, I'm preggers!
Haha... I think I saw the shower invitation.
I had been writing music with Jo, and also with Michael [O'Neill, Princess/Ladybug Transistor] and Ginger [Brooks Takahashi, LTTR/Boys of Now] and Emily [Roysdon, artist] in a separate band called Hirsute. When Jo decided touring was not in her future, the two bands merged. MEN is now a live band with dance elements as well as rock/pop/noise...
Tonight Tonight in Music: Super Sonic Soul Pimps, Grynch, Sol
Posted by Chris Govella on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM
West Seattle Summer Fest: Super Sonic Soul Pimps, Green Pajamas, more(West Seattle Junction) This year, the West Seattle Summer Fest will celebrate its 27th year with two stages of music, hundreds of artists, food, an old-school video-game gallery, skate demos, a Rat City Rollergirls dunk tank, and more.
What makes West Seattle Summer Fest so great is that it really does feel like a neighborhood celebration.
"It's all about the community," says festival director Oliver Little. "Everything we plan is based on what West Seattle residents say they'd like to see. Our primary goal is to show off the neighborhood and get people out on the street together. Musicians and artists seem to dig this message and think of this as 'their' neighborhood festival. It's pretty incredible how many Seattle musicians live in the West Seattle area and are willing to play on the street."
Also in Up & Coming:
Grynch, Sol, Tunji, Rockwell Powers, DJ Marc Sense(Nectar) Grynch refuses to sleep. His new EP, Chemistry, displays a hiphop mind that is carefully, brick by brick, developing a form of music that can withstand any kind of challenge or change in the hiphop climate. On the EP, Grynch maintains his leading theme, his leitmotif, which is how to be a rapper in a world that offers few commercial prospects. Meaning, how can you be happy just making hiphop? In the past, it was all about money and mass appeal. That is no longer the case. There's no more money to be made, and national recognition is elusive. In such conditions, does the rapper give up or make melancholy hiphop? Grynch says no. You can find happiness simply in making music and sharing it with those who really care about the art. CHARLES MUDEDE See also My Philosophy.
For more live music and shows, check our searchable online calendar.
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