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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Two-Block Radius / Dust Bin / Conflict of Interest / Upcoming Dealing and Wheeling Records: The Big Dig @ Vermillion Sat. May 19

Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:11 AM

The Big Dig record show happens Sat. May 19 at Vermillion Gallery and Bar. It's open to the public from 3 pm to 8 pm with a $3 entry fee (early entry from 1 pm-3 pm costs $10—and you have to contend with Mike Nipper's elbows). More than 20 dealers from Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and even Detroit will be selling LPs and 45s of many different styles, offering a plethora of gems. The Big Dig always leaves my wallet depleted and my shoulders sore. To soundtrack your digging experience, several DJs—including selectors from the Dug crew, Brian Hill, Explorateur, and yours unruly—will be spinning crucial cuts that you probably won't be able to Shazam (including the Rufus Harley jam after the cut).

More info on the Big Dig here.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Dust Bin Headline Of The Day: "Richard Pryor Invents Black Death Metal In 1977"

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM

Total dust bin score. Thanks, Dangerous Minds! Video after the cut.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Dust Bin Forget Odd Future Lyrics, Remember When The Beastie Boys Were Scary?

Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM

Starring Oprah Winfrey ("Beestizz BOI-zzz!"), Tipper Gore ("They have a 20-foot inflatable penis"), Jello Biafra ("The lyrics flashed on the screen were obviously social satire, and I would interpret it as making fun of idiots would use crack"), Bob Guccione Jr. ("That is their ACT. It is what they SELL"), and random teenage mullet ("If Lionel Ritchie comes out with a song about necrophilia, I'm not gonna buy his record.")

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Dust Bin / Classic Log Cabin Crew - "The Day I Put on My Uniform"

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:40 PM

This track—brought to my attention by rap blogger supreme Noz—is insane. Cut by the obscure Log Cabin Crew (Murs, Radioinactive, Eligh, Scarub, Tom Slick, and others), “The Day I Put on My Uniform” contains Salvia-saliva’d verses delivered with auctioneer-on-amphetamines rapidity over a leisurely bass line from Pharoah Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan” and piddling Jiffy Pop popcorn beats: very anticon.-ventional. The discrepancy between the rappers’ tempos and the rhythm is vast and the track shouldn’t work, but it does. I’ve listened to this six times today and am still not sick of it. Somebody do us all a solid and transcribe these mad lyrics.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Dust Bin The Motherfuckerlode of Jazz-Fusion Boots

Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM

Jazz-fusion heads and those curious about one of the most scorned—yet occasionally one of the most awesome—genres of music can get several lifetimes’ worth of audio at jazzfusion.tv. You can hear live recordings from the '70s and '80s by Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Terje Rypdal, Don Cherry, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Larry Coryell, and several other virtuosi players. Like you have anything better to do?

(Note: Mac users need to download Flip4Mac WMV to hear the music.)

Tip: Wall of Sound

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

New Releases / Dust Bin Remember San Francisco Punks Hickey?

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:07 PM

Who DOESN'T Love a Naked Cult?

Then you probably remember Matty Luv (RIP), Fuckboyz, and all that naked cult stuff too?

1-2-3-4-Go! Records are taking pre-orders for Hickey's Various States of Disrepair two LP set, due out March 20th. The LPs have the original CD releases of singles and comp tracks with an additional nine songs. Also includes previously unreleased song "Lady Naugahyde" and an unheard alternate version of "The Naked Cult".

CHECK IT OUT.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Dust Bin Soggy! Is This Punk or Metal?

Posted by Kelly O on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM

Oh man, this article on Dangerous Minds—"I Wanna Be Your Frog"... Obscure French 80's rock band is being compared to Iggy Pop and the Stooges. But are they punk, or are they metal?

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Dust Bin / Love New Music from Gavin Toler

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:37 PM

Hello, fellow members of the small Cult of Toler—you know who you are and about the many faces of its figurehead: he rocked you as the singer for Bainbridge Island punk-rockers Pud. He gave you dark thrills in Cold Way Walking and as the diabolical vocal half of the hazy, gothic-country-rock band Blessed Light. (Toby Gordon, the angelic-sounding half, is still playing as/with the Blessed Light, but makes no mention of Gavin or the infamous "lost record"—a bootleg copy still exists and gets passed around by Seattle fans—on his website.)

Toler then dove into Los Angeles and "California mystic folk" with Winter Flowers. That's all I heard of Toler for a few years.

But a friend just forwarded me some new Toler recordings released online late last year—he's still singing high and delicately, as he did with Winter Flowers, but some of the dusky, dark shadings of the Blessed Light years has crept back into his voice.

You can listen here.

(And there's yet another version of "White Pilgrim," the gorgeously melancholy song about addiction and madness that Toler has been playing and recording with his different outfits over the years.)

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Dust Bin Concert Ticket Stubs I Found From High School

Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:36 AM

Sorry some of them are hard to make out. They took away my computer with Photoshop on it and replaced it with a word processor when they moved me from the web department to the editorial department (aka, The Room Where Computers Go to Die). I found them in an old box. The rubber band holding them all together just crumbled when I pulled on it.

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The ones that are really hard to see are NOFX and Rockstock '94. All I remember about the latter was that we snuck into the hotel lobby bar, and because I didn't know what to order, I ordered what the older hot girl we were with ordered: a Midori Sour. That and the I think the Beastie Boys and Tool played. The one from Western was to see Good Riddance. We left before Less Than Jake even got on the stage. There you go, a bunch of my musical skeletons in the closet. Have at 'em.

If you can guess the show stub I left off because it wouldn't fit on the scanner bed, you win the next shopping cart I spot on Green Lake Watch and a paperclip!

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Dust Bin The U-Men At The Post-Mortemists Ball

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM

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There's some construction somewhere near 2nd and Vine. A friend of mine snapped this pic of a poster that emerged from a hidden wall.

Welcome to the Post-Mortemists Ball at CZ Gallery on 3rd. It makes me wonder what year this is from. Did Belltown used to have lots of fun shows (at non-Crocodile venues)? Excuse my naïveté, I didn't move here till '98!

Tell you what, if the U-Men were playing, I'd be there.

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Dust Bin / Teh Internets Live 1989 Nirvana Set Unearthed

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:21 PM

Touring in support of Bleach, it's "Sub Pop recording artists Nirvana!" This is a pretty solid recording as far as bootlegs from 1989 go—it even features audible vocals! This is pre-Dave Grohl—Chad Channing is on the drums. "You're in high school again."

01 Live Set by Duane Bruce

Via Mess of Sounds

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Dust Bin German-Engineered to Fit Your Life

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:04 AM

If you like Kraftwerk and Yello, but find them a little too robotic and/or quirky, allow me to introduce another outfit that may meet your need for German synth-pop (assuming you share my need for same): Rheingold. Even if you prefer their better known peers, it's always interesting to hear from fellow musical travelers who found fame domestically, but failed to break out internationally.

Then there's their name, which brings to mind the image of a dry Bavarian beverage, misleading Wagnerian reference, or condescending cartoon character known for wearing a monocle (it's also the name of a Brooklyn brew that featured everyone from Jackie Robinson to the Marx Brothers in their advertisements).

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Monday, October 24, 2011

New Releases / Dust Bin Presenting the Cleaners from Venus

Posted by Chris Cantino on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM

Are you one of those assholes that thinks the '80s were complete shit? Have you always been into the more eccentric British songwriters of the '60s and '70s (Barrett, Hitchcock, Davies) than glammy aesthetics and cocaine? Do you not listen to anything with synthesizers "on principle"?

Get over yourself. Or, since that's not likely to happen, just check out Cleaners from Venus. This could be the your "transition band," the one that makes modern music start to sound palatable. Listen, I'm not saying Ariel Pink isn't completely full of shit. I'm just saying that once you get into this band, you pretty much stop caring about all other music for two weeks.

To be clear, this band isn't just for fence-sitters. Cleaners from Venus are absolutely one of the greatest (and least known) pop bands to come out of Britain in the 1980s. So why haven't we heard more from them? Well, bandleader Martin Newell was basically obsessed with DIY culture and self-releasing his music. After being jilted by the music industry with his former band Plod, Newell retreated and began to self-record albums "on a four track in a bedroom in shameful poverty." The reclusiveness of this approach translated into most of the Cleaners' early stuff being released in small batches of cassettes Newell dubbed in his kitchen, and they've been in heavy bootleg rotation since then. The band never knew any mainstream success, but more and more people are starting to take notice. With the reissue of Newell's Songs for... a Fallow Land earlier this year on Fixed Identity and a growing cult following in the US, it seems the band is finally poised to win over the listeners they've always deserved.

On March 13, 2012, Captured Tracks will release remastered recordings of the first three Cleaners records: Blow Away Your Troubles (1981), On Any Normal Monday (1982), and Midnight Cleaners (1982). The collection will be released on vinyl, CD, and digital, and includes bonus tracks, rare photos, and extensive liner notes.

Check out "Renee (Who's Driving Your Car?)" below, and make the time to do some reading up on your new favorite band.

LISTEN:

Cleaners from Venus - "Renee (Who's Driving Your Car?)"

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Dust Bin / Upcoming / Love Blackalicious: Melodica

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:36 PM

Now I like much of Blackalicious catalog, but my introduction to it was the 1994 Melodica EP. Here is the only track I can find a video for from it, and my CD copy has long since been lost. There's a wonderful track on it called "40 Ounces for Breakfast" that I really wish I could find. The rudimentary beats and hyper-mellow delivery and sharp rhymes grab me more than later-career stuff.

Blackalicious are at Showbox at the Market Saturday night. Tickets here.

h/t: Marcus L. in 1994

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Dust Bin Havin' a Ball with Marie Osmond

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM

Rough Trade #R2902

No, not that kind of ball! If the Osmonds could go wig-out metal, their only sister, Marie, could surely go Dada, right? Well, she could and she did.

I've known about the 1993 soundtrack to Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces ("A Secret History of the Twentieth Century") for awhile now, but I didn't actually listen to the 27-track set until a few days ago, thanks to the keen archivists at UbuWeb. According to Richard Metzger (Dangerous Minds), "A twentieth anniversary edition [of the book] was published by Harvard Press in 2009."

Some of the tracks are great, some merely interesting, but all have some bearing on Marcus's mapping out of the connections between Situationist International, Surrealism, Dada, R&B, punk, post-punk, and other styles and movements.

A few tracks are grating, especially Gil J. Wolman's "Mégapneumies, 24 Mars 1963 (Face 1)" and the Mekons' "The Building," but the biggest revelation is Marie Osmond's recitation of a nonsense-word poem from 1916. (In Lipstick Traces, Marcus describes her as "an over-publicized exponent of traditional values.")

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Shit Talk / Dust Bin / Media A Vicious Collage of Christgau Disses

Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Brian Joseph Davis has collated The Consumed Guide, "a text composed from thousands of negative words and phrases assembled from 13,090 reviews by Robert Christgau and turned into a single review." Christgau, for the unaware, is the self-proclaimed "dean of American rock critics." He's been writing about music since 1967 and is the proud subject of the Sonic Youth song "I Killed Christgau with My Big Fucking Dick," a slight variation on their track "Kill Yr Idols" off Confusion Is Sex. Choice line from The Consumed Guide: "The motherfucker realizes that metalheads will throw money at you long after your hip cachet has gone the way of your hard-on." Sate yourself on the hate here.

(Trivia: I proofread Christgau's Consumer Guide column [typed and sent via snail mail from New York City] when I worked for Creem magazine in 1985. His typewriter seemed pretty janky for an esteemed critic...).

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Dust Bin The First Adele

Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM

Lest we forget.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dust Bin / Business / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz How the Music Biz Used to Do Things

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:43 AM

Back in the pre-internet age, record companies often solicited feedback from consumers by including forms inside LPs. Purchasers of records would fill out the questionnaire with a pen or pencil and then mail it, via the United States Postal Service, to the record company—which didn't even have the courtesy to provide a stamp. From our 21st-century vantage point, we can laugh at such crude methods of info-harvesting, but back in the '70s and '80s, this was a state-of-the-art business strategy in action.

I bring this up because I just found the form below in my copy of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on ECM. Its quaintness (the questionnaire's, not the music's) struck a deep chord of pathos in me. The copy reads:

Dear Record Buyer:

Thank you for adding this recording to your library. We hope you will enjoy it for years to come. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, kindly fill out and mail the coupon below. We appreciate the time you take to send us your comments. They are extremely helpful to us and our artists. Thank you for your patronage.

How much progress we've made since then!

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Dust Bin From the Vault: David Schmader on Lenny Kravitz, circa 1999

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:23 AM

Recently, Buzzfeed dug up this classic. The Westboro Baptist Church wasn't even a household name/national shame yet! Have a look:

Lenny Kravitz burst into public consciousness in 1989 as "that guy who's boning Lisa Bonet." His debut album, Let Love Rule, made enough of a splash to infuse the huckster hippie-wannabe with the deluded chutzpah to believe his own pose. Kravitz has been making a fortune giddily raping the graves of his elders (Jimi, Sly, Prince) ever since.

Ouch.

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