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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Drugs / Fashion Tunnel™ / Out of Town What Kind of Drugs Should You Take While at Graceland?

Posted by Mike Force on Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:31 AM

Do not try to go upstairs where Elvis died. Security lives there now.

Andy P. Smith
Do not try to go upstairs where Elvis died. Security lives there now.

You will go to Graceland—located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116—at some point. It's just a matter of time.

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Elvis's front lawn view before the bus takes you back to the massive gift-shop compound and airplane parking lot.

I have heard so much about the famous interior designer Elvis Presley that I obvs had to stop by. I did not know this, but Elvis was also a drug hobbyist and musician? So many talents! If you decide to visit the mini-mansion and you plan to do drugs, here is a recommended list. You will feel claustrophobic at times, and most of the tour does not allow you to roam free. You will feel trapped, and the mirrored ceilings might make you confused about which way is up. But the narrator on your headphones has a soothing Sam Elliott cowboy cadence, so if you go against my recommendations, just listen to the man.

Do take:
Pills (uppers—there's a lot to see and do)
Weed (there's a jungle room and horses in the pasture)
Cocaine (A LOT TO SEE AND DO AND TALK)
Booze (but be careful chugging to much, you're not allowed to visit the bathroom upstairs because Elvis entered heaven through the toilet)
Nothing (Graceland is awesome on its own)

Do not take:
Mushrooms (again, jungle room and horses)
Acid (see previous)
Pills (downers—unless you really want to commune with Elvis)

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The jungle room.

More beautifully disturbing photos after the jump!

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Drugs / Hellevant / Classic / Mailbag Breaking Sublime News

Posted by Emily Nokes on Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:09 PM

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"Set for release on June 18, 2013, the package marks the first-ever complete Sublime concert to be officially released on DVD and CD. This new release also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the seminal Long Beach, CA band, who performed their first official show on July 4, 1988 and went on to release a string of critically acclaimed hit singles."

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Drugs / #1 Fan Iggy Stooge and The Stooges on Last Night's Colbert Report

Posted by Mike Nipper on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM

Iggy blames Link Wray for everything.

And then the Stooges played "Job," a track off'a their new LP, Ready To Die.

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Life / Drugs / Staying In Wisdom Tooth Weekend: Songs For Percocet and Pain

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:33 AM

UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH. On Wednesday I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled and I am NOT excited about it. I've never had a tooth pulled before. I hate going to the dentist. I'm terrified.

Thankfully I have a very radical husband who'll help take care of me by making sure the house is stocked with frozen yogurt and pain meds, and I suppose I could look at the bright side and be stoked about the fact that I can catch up on my Netflix queue (it's excusable, ney, preferable to watch shit like Bridalplasty when high on percocet, right?), but until it's time for naps and drugs, I'm filled with anxiety. What if my teeth don't come out? What if ALL my teeth come out?* What if my whole jaw comes off? What if I wake up during the surgery? WHAT IF I DON'T WAKE UP AT ALL!?

Along with the crippling anxiety, I have also had this song stuck in my head for the past week:

Are there any other wisdom tooth tips and/or songs I should know about? I'll make a playlist to listen to when I get tired of watching crappy TV!

*Seriously. I've had nightmares about this.

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Drugs / Death / Tonight Music Forecast: Cloudy as FCK! BLKHRTS and Keyboard Kid at the High Dive

Posted by Sean Jewell on Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:03 AM

Is that Debbie Harry?

Based Tumblrs unite! Vice President of the Based House Keyboard Kid will be performing a very RARE show at High Dive tonight with goth-rap group and fellow cloud-rap virtuosos BLKHRTS.

Denver outfit BLKHRTS keep showing up in music writers' dreams as the unbelievably musically literate rap startup who sample '80s synth pop and art house films (as if that's never happened before), but what they do differently for me is effortlessly combine the excruciating aesthetic of goth/black metal with rap (an idea which has previously only been fit to set on fire and roll down a hill). Embodying the original spirit of Ice-T's pig-hating hardcore project Bodycount—afropunk sans gutiars, poetic at their densely black center—BLKHRTS' lust for heavy, shortness-of-breath causing synth and percussive raps are establishing them as the gothic architects of the cloud rap church (or CHRCH, as it were).

Keyboard Kid, as you may know, is a local hero and co-founder of the very influential, infinitely positive based movement, who's sensitivity to popular culture invades his every beat. His prolificacy has moved his music beyond the based movement and into the purview of every rapper —from Seattle to Oakland, Miami to New York, and parts inbetween— who hopes to someday release a mixtape, by offering his beats to bidders high and low (true story: I even bought a beat from him once). His latest Based In The Rain 3 and Rare Drops From The Water experiment with his Water God persona and it's control over the foggy sounds that are the life giving elements of the cloud.

Also making an appearance are Jewels Hunter and Iron Mic. 8pm, $7

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Drugs / ??!! / Video Trippin' Balls, The Svelteness of Boogietude, and Other Brother JT Effluvia

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:05 PM

Mood-elevating psych-garage lifer Brother JT has joined the Thrill Jockey roster and will be releasing his new long player, The Svelteness of Boogietude, May 14. (There will not be a better album title this year; bank on it.) You can check out a track from Boogietude—"Celebrate Your Face"—after the jump. But first, feast your senses on Brother JT's hallucinogenic talk show Trippin' Balls, featuring musician/space case Twig Harper. If you thought The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder was far out, brace yourself for the absurdity banquet that is Trippin' Balls.

Bonus: Thrill Jockey' s provided an illuminating interview with Brother JT (aka John Terlesky, former leader of the Original Sins) after the jump.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Drugs Sizzurp + Revenge of the Nerds

Posted by Derek Erdman on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:27 PM

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Drugs / Booze High or Drunk: YOU DECIDE, Part Deux!

Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:20 PM

Why and what?! Click the photo to find out what-the-fucks...

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Sex / Drugs / #1 Fan / 206 {{{¡DISTORTIONS!}}} @ Lo-fi Is TONIGHT!

Posted by Mike Nipper on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:51 PM

I swear to GOD, I think residents Explorateur and Veins' sike/prog/weirdo/rock night, {{{¡DISTORTIONS!}}}, are destined to take over the Emerald Shitty and turn our grey, dank reality into some type of technicolor dream full of sunlight, flowers and smiles. Seriously. They seem to be playing every other night, and thusly are ownin' it like they BONIN' it. It's quite awesome, actually. That said, it is no surprise tonight's {{{¡DISTORTIONS!}}}, at Lo-Fi, is LOADED!

Right, so, in addition to Explorateur and Veins spinning, tonight's Lo-Fi edition features a LIVE music set from space-rock cadets, Tokyoidaho. But...that ain't all!! Tonight's special guest DJ is THEE Don McGreevy, who himself has a Monday night residency at West Seattle's West 5, as well as manning the drum thrones for Earth, Yada Yada Blues Band, and Master Musicians Of Bukkake. ALSO: tonight is acting as a CELEBRATION of THEE Don McGreevy's 40th birthday! Happy birfday and welcome to the club, Mac!

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Drugs / Booze High or Drunk: YOU DECIDE!

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:45 PM

This comment, was posted to thestranger.com/drunkoftheweek on January 19th, 2013, at 1:46 pm.

Read it "Weenies" and then Rage Against The Machine:

Yo, my alcoholic brothers and sisters, your watering hole is about to shutter its doors soon, so drink up, you weed hating yuppies! Drown those sorrows of fucking up your code writing and passing it off as some new form of art grunge. Face it, you're a weenie if you need to face the day with a Martini (plus one for your pet monkey friend(s), and start smoking as much weed as humanly possible. Seattle needs more THC and less alcohol to keep our local government officials from killing this sleepy fishing village (remember: Free Ballard!), and turning it into some lame cousin to Boston, minus the blue-bloods and landed aristocracy.

Great article about the Zeitgeist of modern day Seattle...home of the Velvet Foam, expensive condos, and a culture of youth who consider anything with a ball played on a field or in a stadium, "art." Yes, that's you, you Martini mamby pambies. Rage against the machine, don't sit at your desk at Amazon and think you're a genius for figuring out a way to take out Barnes and Noble. Turn on, tune in and drop out. Uh, huh! I'm talkin' Timothy Leary here, a real intellectual who was a tenured Harvard professor who would never lower himself to a two Martini high. Go deeper, man! Don't aim for the floor (you inebriated fools) aim for the sky, as Seattle's own Jimi Hendrix implored. That takes an expanded mind, one that is educated, and appropriately filled with any manner of drugs that help you see, you can't make it out of this life alive. Swing for the fences. Roll a fat one, kick back, and turn up Soundgarden's "Outshined" (not "moonshined") to ten, and buck the lemming trend. Free your mind, and your sorry ass will follow.

—Posted by LastSeattleHipsterTurnTheLightsOff

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Drinking / Drugs / Death / Booze / Video Antwon: End Of Earth

Posted by Sean Jewell on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:34 AM

I completely slept on rapper Antwon last year, but thanks to the announcement from Greedhead kingpin Himanshu on "the twitter" that the San Jose native would be releasing an album on his label, I've been listening ever since.

His latest release, End Of Earth, is a pleasant cross pollination of the by-now-practically-patented Seattle drug n' thug style and a mellow-hyphy Bay Area tone. Rapping over production by the likes of the rising Steel Tipped Dove and the recently retired Big Baby Gandhi (sad face) dude paints a typical tough guy persona over horror movie score on one track, then drops a some red cup party rhymes over new jack era beats the next:

Old guard hiphop sentinels have developed the annoying habit of labeling these cats '"Tumblr rap", but I call it enjoyable, and Antwon calls it free over on his bandcamp, so have a listen.

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Friday, January 11, 2013

Drugs / Teh Internets Forget Going Platinum or Performing on Ellen, Inspiring a Parody Video Is How Macklemore Knows He's Made It

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:45 PM

This parody of "Thift Shop" is appropriate, given Washington's new law (it even has an appearance by Mr. "Thrift Shop" himself!):

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Drinking / Drugs / Nightlife / Band / Hardcore / Loud / Shit Talk Four Bands, One Drummer and a Loud Goodbye

Posted by Pamela Sternin on Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:12 PM

Poster by Aaron D.C. Edge

Legend tells of a drummer whose talent for remaining upright and functional behind his drum kit after inhaling copious amounts of weed and downing what could amount to a kiddie pool full of Pabst Blue Ribbon, was known throughout the land. His resume consists of being in some of the finer underground punk and metal bands in the Seattle area. Ben McIsaac, the lab rat of drummers, has never been one to commit to a single band. He's always entertaining three or four at a time thus the long running, annual blooper reel event humbly known as Ben Fest, which pits all of McIsaac's bands on one quaint bill for one destructive evening.

Here comes the sad news, Ben McIsaac will be relocating from our little rain-city of a village to the glamorous, yet roach-ridden drags of Brooklyn, New York. Now before you “Booooooo” and throw your rotten tomatoes, you have to hear my good news! All four of McIsaac's bands are burning a hole in his pocket and there's still time for one final Ben Fest! You want crusty, thrash punk? Have a friend babysit your bandana'd dog and get to the show on time for the reunion/demolition of Enforcer. Hopefully they'll bust out their fierce rendition of Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer." Next we have the catchy pop/punk coating over a surf rock candied center which is Sweet Pups. Erica Brunner (McIsaac's better half) lays down the tasty guitar riffs, coaxing your feet to move to the effervescent beat. Did I mention there's a fucking keytar?

Then there's this douchebaggery of a hardcore band called Don Peyote. I highly recommend you save your choice heckling and empty cans purely to hurl at these folks. My only request is that you take it lightly on the guitar player as she, me, is currently undergoing cosmetic surgery to become the next Vanna White and my botox injection sights are still healing. At this point in the evening, those in the gambling community can place their bets on how much longer McIsaac will be able to stay upright under his own power. Perfect timing for one of the most beer-scented, forked tongued, almost seven years strong straight up punk bands, Shit Gets Smashed to take to the streets and play their LAST SHOW EVER. It's gonna be a slobber knocker and it's all going down this Saturday, the 12th at the Black Lodge. Come bid Ben McIsaac bon voyage and bring a plastic poncho, things may get a little weird.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

International / Drugs / Celeb / I'm Still a Virgin / Rick Springfield / Song / Dust Bin / History / #1 Fan RE: Is Coloured Balls' "That’s What Mama Said" Oz Rock's Zenith?

Posted by Mike Nipper on Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:13 PM

Yesterday Mr. Segal asked "What’s the greatest rock song by an Australian band?" His answer, obviously, was Coloured Balls' "That’s What Mama Said." I LOVE that song!! However, it's a tough call to pick the BEST Oz rock track, but I'm gonna TRY - my pick is Zoot's heavy sike jam "Strange Things." It's a bit of spring, 1968 released in 1970.

Also of note: The D-Coys "You're Against" and Robbie Peters' SLAYING of the Zombies' "She Does Everything For Me."

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Friday, January 4, 2013

New Releases / Drugs / Hardcore / Portland / News / History / Video Today's Music News: Portlandia, Motorheadphones, and Weed

Posted by Pamela Sternin on Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM

Brutal Vaginas: Author Laina Dawes sheds light on being a black female in the metal scene with her new book, What Are You Doing Here?.

Buy, Buy My Darling: The Misfits are releasing a new live album, Dead Alive on February 5th!

Get Your Snark On: New Season of Portlandia starts this Friday!

Punk Money Burning A Hole In Your Pocket?: Good! Cause for $199 you can purchase the new NOFX box set including ALL released material and a pair of Fat Mike's fudge-tracked boxers* (*Fat Mike's fudge-tracked boxers may or may not exist).

Send Your Eardrums to Rehab: You love Motorhead. You love headphones. Then you'll love Motorhead headphones.

Pot Head: Lil Wayne gets the word "BAKED" tattooed on his head. He's just doing what we're all thinking.

I Can't Drive...65!!!: Driving 90mph in a 65mph zone while possessing marijuana doesn't bode well with CHIP. Watch Frank Ocean sweeten the deal with a suspended license.

Trippy Canvas: What can you make out of ink, white-out and, coffee? This psilocybin of a video.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Drugs / Tonight / Out of Town / 206 Riff Raff Explains The "Versace Baby Rattle"

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:52 PM

Do you remember that rapper Riff Raff, who's coming back to Nectar tonight for all ages (5pm) and 21+ (9pm) shows, made a song about Seattle?

The chorus: "VERSACE BABY RATTLE GOT ME SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE."

When we encountered him at the NADA party in Miami last week, I brought up this 206-centric masterwork, and he very graciously broke down the science.

"Y'all know what 'molly' is? Well when you get really pure molly, from Germany or Australia, it's in little rocks. So when you have a little bottle of those, and you shake it"—here he imitates the motion—"it's a Versace baby rattle. So 'Versace baby rattle'"...he trailed off. "Got me Sleepless In Seattle," we finished, in unison. "Yeah", Riff Raff said. Around his neck was the mixed-fruit colored diamond Cheshire Cat chain Diplo gave him for signing to Mad Decent. His hair was in crisp curls, like translucent blonde bacon, his Miami-hued Brian Bosworth BluBlockers smudgeless, his Picasso jacket very rare. Hit up Nectar tonight, you might see "Griffey Junior, Griffey Senior in the limousine-a."

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

New Releases / Drugs / Death / News Today's Music News: RIP, Hipster Award, and Molly

Posted by Pamela Sternin on Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM

Yeah, Boiiii!: Completely overdue for this belated honor—Heart, Rush, and Public Enemy among others are inducted to Rock Hall of Fame.

And, the Award Goes To...: Just a reminder, Seattle beats out Portland as the #1 hipster capitol of these United States. Let's have a big round of applause for our American Spirit spirit.

Down in It: No longer laying dormant, Trent Reznor busies himself with the release of Nine Inch Nails greatest hits collection and, something that may interest you Spotify users, an up-and-coming music streaming service called Daisy.

Get Your Ears Wet: Santa plans on destroying your stocking hung with care by hastily shoving Hot Water Music's Live In Chicago 3 LP/2 CD/1 DVD release into it. Santa will also drop a deuce in the toilet and not flush.

MDMA in the U.S.A.: The hiphop community is reportedly getting their kicks off a derivative of ecstasy called Molly, which is enjoying a popular uprising. Wasn't the Chronic good enough?

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