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Sunday, July 31, 2011

RIP Eugene McDaniels, 1935-2011

Posted by Dave Segal on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:09 PM

American soul singer/songwriter Eugene (aka Gene) McDaniels passed away July 29. He was revered by hiphop producers and other crate-diggers for his classic LPs Outlaw and Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (from 1970 and 1971, respectively). A powerful vocalist with a tendency for quirkily over-the-top emoting, he scored a hit single in 1961 with “A Hundred Pounds of Clay” and also wrote “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” which reached no. 1 on the charts for Roberta Flack in 1974. McDaniels reportedly died in his sleep in his Maine home. He was 76.

RIP, Eugene McDaniels.

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Video FRED Wildlife Refuge Presents: "Dog Napper"!

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:20 AM

Dog Napper from Fredwildliferefuge on Vimeo.

So I'm not at all a fan of the much-discussed situation that produced this, but that's something best saved for a face-to-face conversation. In the meantime, this shit is RICH. We are very much anointed.

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BOOKS

Stacey Levine

Due to various dumb publishing-industry-related mishaps, Stacey Levine's latest story collection, The Girl with Brown Fur, has debuted three times in two years. But let's pretend it's gotten three debuts because it's such a fucking great book.

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Tonight Tonight in Music: High School Shootings, Buttercream Gang, Prawnyxx, Badluck, Iceage, Cult of Youth, Grave Babies, King Dude

Posted by Dan Oberbruner on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:00 AM

Iceage - Broken Bone by What's Your Rupture?

Iceage, Cult of Youth, Grave Babies, King Dude

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<a href="http://bcgband.bandcamp.com/track/i-know-bout-you">I Know 'bout You by The Buttercream Gang</a>

High School Shootings, Buttercream Gang, Prawnyxx, Badluck

(Comet) I first heard the Buttercream Gang's "I Know 'Bout You" in 2008, and it remains the only BCG song I've ever heard, so I can't exactly claim to be an expert on the Napa band. But in three years, I've never gotten sick of that track, and I still spin it all the time. The song cropped up on my radar right around the time that Animal Collective's influence was unmistakably proliferating among the indie music underground, and the song—while hardly derivative—clearly belongs to that post–Strawberry Jam era, with its thunderously tribal drums, aqueous guitar, hummed hook, creepy bird-sex sounds, and outlandish, clattering outro. At five and a half minutes, "I Know 'Bout You" is a euphoric epic in the vein of like-minded performers Blastoids or Truman Peyote, with an ecstatic chorus that never fails to elevate. Here's hoping it sounds that good live. JASON BAXTER

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

New Releases Footwork Self-Titled EP Now Online

Posted by Jason Baxter on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:24 PM

Thrash/"dance punk" trio Footwork are among my favorite local bands (or, "bands I won't shut the fuck up about"). Their new six-song EP is online now at their bandcamp page. I recommend giving "Get Lost" a spin—it's got a barbed, post-Flexions grooviness and a serious sense of momentum. The second half of this track is a rager; let's "get lost" together in it's swarming mosquito-storm of hard-edged decibels:

<a href="http://footwork.bandcamp.com/track/get-lost">Get Lost by FOOTWORK</a>

Unfortunately, the band's not around to be high-fived on behalf of a grateful city—at the moment, they're touring the west coast with cassette copies of the EP. To follow their "tour twitter," check them out here.

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#1 Fan / Young Ones Rain City Rock Camp For Girls: The Summer Camp Showcase @ Neumos

Posted by Kelly O on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM

I think watching a bunch of 8-year old girls play on the Neumo's stage—fighting back stage fright, nervousness, and insecurity was one of the top ten neatest things I've ever seen. And when the group "Another Name For Awesome" got everybody to chant "GIRLS ROCK! GIRLS ROCK!"—I got a little teary eyed—and I don't even have kids!

Find out more Rain City Rock Camp For Girls right here. My great-biggest high-fives to all the girls who played today. YOU. ARE. AWESOME.

Kelly O

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MUSIC

The Divorce

The Divorce were once one of the Northwest's most promising pop bands—fans loved them for their smart pop songs laced with catchy keyboard riffs and snide lyrics. So good!

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Show Review Loud Fast Rules: Ty Segall at the Crocodile

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:54 AM

What Segall didn't sound like last night.

When I listen to Ty Segall on record, I hear garage-rock in the vein of the Troggs, but the live experience is something else altogether. The Bay Area multi-instrumentalist likes Seattle, and vice versa, but I've missed every one of his shows until last night at the Crocodile, where all the tracks I knew became harder, faster, louder. It's a mixed blessing, because the guy can write a song.

Oh, and he can also play, but I didn't feel as if his guitar strumming got short shrift. It's more that I wanted more from each selection. Not more energy, just more build-up and release. There was a lot of the former, but not a lot of the latter, which kept things humming along, and the crowd ate it up. It's an interesting dichotomy, because the 24-year-old sounds wise beyond his years in the recorded context, but in the live arena, he plays up the bratty punk angle. I'm not suggesting that it's an act: the man contains multitudes.

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Tonight Tonight in Music: Willie Nelson, Smooth Sailing, Great Falls, Android Hero, Monogamy Party, Matisyahu, Tea Leaf Green, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Samothrace, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon, Barn Owl, The Divorce, Viper Creek Club

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Video Re: Hiphop and the Terrorist

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:04 PM

Philly legend Schooly D, the first gangsta rapper, responds to being quoted in Breivik's manifesto. (H/T Sean Nelson)

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Show Review / Last Night Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet @ Rendezvous

Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:06 PM

Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet came in from the Bay Area to drop a ton of weirdness on the Rendezvous' Jewelbox Theatre last night. A husband/wife duo, HGK crouched over a mind-boggling array of effects units and a Korg keyboard while wearing odd headgear shaped like a house. It looked very uncomfortable. Thus outfitted, HGK proceeded to unleash a grotesque stream of mutated electronics, something akin to '80s/'90s Nurse With Wound gone gangrenous. At its most chaotic, the set sounded like a busy day at the abattoir or like a crisis at the chicken-rendering factory. The performance concluded with a guy (Sean Curley from the Midget and the Druggies) dressed in a tree-stump costume, getting into the faces of people in the audience, and singing a cantankerous version of Black Flag's "Rise Above." It was a baffling end to a uniquely perverse show. Please come back soon, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet.

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Lists Why 2011 is Another Fucking Amazing Hiphop Year for Seattle

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM

1) Shabazz Palaces Black Up
2) OC Notes Secret Society
3) Katie Kate Flatland
4) Physics Love is a Business
5) The Good Sin and 10.4 Rog Late

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Win It! Win Tickets to See Iceage at the Croc on Sunday!

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:07 PM

Look. Grant Brissey wants you to see Iceage at the Crocodile.

They play this Sunday, and Cult of Youth, Grave Babies, and King Dude are also on the bill—tickets are available here.

But you could also win them!

We have an extra pair of tickets that we would just love to give to you. All you have to do is e-mail freetickets@thestranger.com with Iceage in the subject line. A winner will be chosen at 5 pm tonight! And then notified by e-mail.

Good luck!

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Death Hiphop and the Norwegian Terrorist

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM

Anders Behring Breivik sprawling 1500-page manifesto European Declaration of Independence has a section that expresses his thoughts on the culture of hiphop, a culture he participated in as a teen in the mid 90s. His opinion? What will his pure Europe, the Europe without Arabs and other brown people, do with hiphop? Surprisingly, It's nothing like the Nazi's "entartete kunst" (degenerate art). It's in fact the kind of opinion you'd expect from an underground head: "separate the good stuff from the junk."

As for the fate of the hiphop industry; banning it altogether is not the optimal solution as it would cause overwhelming short term outcry and it would eliminate positive aspects as well. However, I believe significant restrictions in the rights of media companies which will include censoring negative and destructive lifestyles. An alternative is to limit such marketing to future “liberal zones”. Certain positive aspects of the hiphop movement should be allowed to survive such as break dance and positive genres of the music as long as it positively influences the self confidence of European youths and only if it can be re-defined as a European tradition and not portrayed as a ghetto/ethnic/multiculturalist lifestyle.

Many of us also want the positive aspects of the culture to build the confidence of our inner city youths. This murderer is one strange fish.

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Housekeeping This Week in the Music Section!

Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM

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Dave Segal on Ty Segall! The show is tonight.

"You Make the Sun Fry"

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Brendan Kiley on the sad death of Amy Winehouse.

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Some idiot on four Danish teens who comprise Iceage!

Iceage - New Brigade by What's Your Rupture?

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And, Willie Nelson's publicist won't talk to Brendan Kiley about weed!

And tons more after the jump!

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Two-Block Radius / Business Everyday Music Has a Message for You

Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM

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News of goodness.

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Street What Are You Listening To?

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:47 PM

This summer, trusty and persistent Unpaid Intern Tyler King has been dispatched to the city streets with a digital camera to ask people what they're listening to on their headphones. We will periodically post some of his findings.

This guy was listening to a film podcast called Battleship Pretension.

This guy was listening to a film podcast called Battleship Pretension.

This young man is enjoying some K'naan.

She's listening to Sarah Groves.

Guess what this guys listening to? Answer after the jump.

Guess what this guy's listening to? Answer after the jump.

All photos by Tyler King.

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News Today's Music News: Morrissey Explains, Hum Returns, and Flaming Lips and Weezer Jam

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Morrissey Explains Norway Shooting vs. Fast Food Comments: "If you quite rightly feel horrified at the Norway killings, then it surely naturally follows that you feel horror at the murder of ANY innocent being. You cannot ignore animal suffering simply because animals 'are not us.'"

Guess Who's Been Added to the A.V. Fest Lineup: Motherfucking HUM!

Jay-Z and Kanye West Have Pissed Off the Record Stores: Their new collaboration, Watch the Throne, will only be sold via iTunes and Best Buy.

Hollywood Riot: Kaskade invited fans to come to the Electric Daisy Carnival Experience film premier and it nearly caused a riot. With glowsticks.

Didn't He See What Happened to MC Hammer?: Soulja Boy bought a $55 million jet.

How Not to Behave at a Concert: Four men are being arraigned today for their connection with nearly beating a man to death at a Tim McGraw concert.

Just In Time For Christmas: In November Lady Gaga will release a photo book with the creepy Terry Richardson. The book will include over 350 pictures of Gaga.

Weezer + the Flaming Lips =

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MP3 More Case Studies Songs, The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night Out August 16

Posted by Dan Oberbruner on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:48 AM

Jesse Lortz upcoming solo debut as Case Studies, The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night, drops August 16 on Sacred Bones. Individual tracks have been appearing on the internet since last last year, which isn't surprising. The record is a collection of new material, demos, and unused material from previous projects. In an interview we did with Lortz way back in September of 2010, he had this to say about Case Studies, "we had just put out a D/D record, so if I wanted to do anything with it, it had to be a solo thing. Now it has turned into a crazy project that is integrating lots of parts of my life and skills that I wasn't really exercising Turning into an art project." Read the whole thing here.

Check out new tracks "Lies" and "My Silver Hand" via Stereogum and MTV Hive. And if you haven't seen the video for “Daggers,” then check that out, too.