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Monday, May 14, 2012

This Is What Bassnectar @ WaMu Theater Looked Like

Posted by on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM

Rave on! More photos from this past Saturday's show RIGHT HERE. All photos by Michael Holden.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Queerview Mirror: The Citizen Phirom Fundraiser @ Chop Suey

Posted by on Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:45 PM

Hello! For this week's peek into queer life around town, check out photos from last night's Citizen Phirom benefit show at Chop Suey. "Citizen Phirom" is a benefit project to help a local queer (and all around rad person!) move through the impossible immigration system to gain citizenship. The benefit featured local queer bands Glitterbang, Wishbeard, and The Fancy. Also, look at all these hot people wearing their own Citizen Phirom shirt. Mine's in the mail! —Adrien Leavitt, #1 must have

Order a shirt, and read Phirom's whole story at: citizen-phirom.tumblr.com

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  • Phirom, left.

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  • Adrien Leavitt

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Ogle SST Records Producer Spot's Photo Gallery

Posted by on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM

If you were into American underground rock in the '80s, SST Records probably was your primary source of godhead music. The California label issued crucial works by Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Slovenly, Black Flag, Descendents, and many others. The producer/engineer behind many of these records was Spot, who maintained a prolific photography hobby on the side during this fertile creative period. Now you can peruse the fruits of said activity on Spot's blog. Unfortunately, he does a disservice to his pictures by putting the captions and copyright watermark over the images. Regardless, this one of Henry Kaiser and Diamanda Galás is one of my favorites.

Tip: Chicago Reader

Friday, May 4, 2012

Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe

Posted by on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:20 PM

Anton Newcombe, Austin 2012
  • Jake Clifford
  • Anton Newcombe, Austin 2012


Ole Anton just keeps firin' 'em off. I can't believe some of the things that fall out of his mouth. He allegedly talked trash about the Black Angels during last week's Austin Psych Fest, and here, amoungst hundreds of quotable quotes in an interview with Trent Moorman, he has this to say about ATL garage rockers the Black Lips:

I'm deceptively successful. I'm more successful than almost all my peers. I brought the Black Lips to Bomp Records. I'm a co-owner of Bomp. We put out the Black Lips. People like what they do, but they're juvenile. They were hanging out with Jay Reatard, who killed himself, and everybody loved him. Seeing Black Lips piss and shit on a handicapped seat and make a video of it is not cool. I'll kick their ass for that. We're only as strong as the weak among us.

What'll he say next?!?

On a related note, interested parties should check out this set of excellent photos from the 2012 Psych Fest, by Seattle photog and Stranger contributor Jake Clifford. Many say APF rivals SXSW in best Texas music festivals. It does seem grow bigger every year.

Brian Jonestown Massacre play the Neptune Theatre, tomorrow, Sat May 5 at 8 pm.

Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who needs a guitar, when you can have a sitar?
  • Jake Clifford
  • Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who needs a guitar, when you can have a sitar?

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Opeth, Mastodon, and Ghost @ Showbox SODO

Posted by on Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM

I am just a sucker for a gimmick, or is Sweden's Ghost real-deal scary?!

Ghost is the name of a devil worshipping ministry, that in order to spread its unholy gospels and, furthermore, trick mankind into believing the end is ultimately a good thing, have decided to use the ever so popular rock music medium as a way to achieve their ends. —bio on FB

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Monday, April 30, 2012

Queerview Mirror: Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography @ PCNW

Posted by on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM

Hello again! For this edition of Queerview, I went to the opening of the current exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest, Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography. The exhibition is a nod to, as well as a response to, the nationally touring exhibition, currently at the Tacoma Art Museum, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The PCNW exhibition features 10 contemporary queer photographers, including some of my personal favorites (Sophia Wallace! Molly Landreth!), as well as some of my work from #1 must have upstairs. Check out some images from the opening, which was more big gay party and less stuffy art opening (score!). The show runs until May 27th, is free, and is conveniently located on Capitol Hill. —Adrien Leavitt

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Coachella Photos: Weekend Two

Posted by on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:48 AM

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When Goldenvoice announced that they were going to put on two identical Coachella festivals on consecutive weekends, a lot of people were skeptical that they could pull it off. Yet, as far as I could tell, they more than made good on their promise. All the bands returned for sets at the same times, with many spending the intervening week playing shows elsewhere (e.g., Pulp went to San Francisco, Radiohead went to Mexico, Jeff Mangum visited Seattle) or just frolicking in the desert (the Head and the Heart retreated to Joshua Tree and covered Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name"). The whole thing came across like an massive theatrical production so confident in itself that no one needed to have, let alone call in, an understudy so that the show could go on without a hitch for a fresh audience hungry to see what they'd missed from the previous weekend's live broadcast.

The only difference, which turned out to be kind of major, was outside even Paul Tollett's hands: the extreme contrast in weather between the two events. While weekend one opened with fans bundled in hastily-procured hoodies and rain gear, by the second time around temperatures soared above 100 degrees at the peak of each scorching day, dramatically shaping the character of the twin weekends.

Some photos from & a few quick thoughts on Weekend Two after the jump.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

The People of Walmart Coachella

Posted by on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM

California's Coachella Music and Arts Fest kicks off weekend number two today. Will Paris Hilton show up again? Or David Hasselhoff? Will Tupac rise from the dead, JUST ONE MORE TIME?

Most importantly, though: WHAT TO WEAR?! The fashion choices of adult humans really floored me last weekend. And unlike People of Walmart, these folks have great big buckets full of money to shop wherever they choose.

More photos after the jump! All were taken on the festival grounds last Saturday, April 14, 2012.

Gee, I wonder what his penis looks like?
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  • Gee, I wonder what his penis looks like?

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Coachella Photos: First Sunday. Dr. Dre, Hologram Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Wild Flag, and more.

Posted by on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM

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  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

Sunday was the warmest and most crowded of the first three days of Coachella, and, yes, it did conclude with a hologram of Tupac performing on the mainstage. His technological resurrection launched a thousand twitter jokes and a few ghost accounts (I'm hoping for a virtual Beatles reunion next year), but "he" was just one of the many guests who arrived after Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg emerged from the stage onto a virtual Compton to host a festival-capping party / history lesson / variety show. Since the entire festival was turned over to their performance in what might have been a festival first — even Prince had to compete with other acts — almost everyone attendance surrounded the stage, waving their hands in the air like they just didn't care on command. Other guests included Wiz Khalifa, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Warren G, plenty of giant joints, and maybe also a Nate Dogg hologram.

The day also featured a infectiously theatrical early afternoon set by Santigold who performed with a pair of dancers, modern oompa loompaesque rhythm section, a stuffed horse, and a stage full of kids pulled up from the audience that included a couple of toddlers and maybe also recently "freed" Earl Sweatshirt. Wild Flag turned the midday temperature up even further for a modest but devoted audience; the Hives returned to Coachella after nine years with no noticeable dampening of energy or hilarious egomaniacal attitude; Goyte held a tent full of people hostage waiting to hear "Somebody That I Used to Know", the song that catapulted a twenty year career into overnight international success; the Weeknd spun drearily cinematic Noir & B to a massive crowd of kids who've never needed to pay a cent for one of his albums; and Florence + the Machine bewitched hordes of devotees. Seriously, with the flowing cape, barefoot dancing, and incantations, she might be one of the good ones, but I'm pretty sure that she is (or believes herself to be) some sort of mystical creature.

Returning from Beirut (my predictable, but always beloved festival favorite) to catch some of the fiery At the Drive In reunion, I wondered whether Justice had raptured the massive audience away to dance heaven with their glowing white cross. Either that, or maybe everyone sprinted over to catch the end of Girl Talk. I'd worried that the massive audience for the French DJs would leave no one to pile onto the Outdoor Stage to dance with Greg Gillis and his mixtape masterpieces, but he seemed to be doing just fine from the look of the confetti explosions from across the field.

Oh, and celebwatch. I'll have to try harder next weekend because I only managed to see two yesterday: HBO werewolf Joe Manganiello (who merited a dedication from At the Drive In) gamely posing for photos with fans between tweets and WB vampire Ian Somerhalder (BOONE!) trying to get some fries to go with Dre & Snoop's performance. The poutine wagon, though, was closed and neither of us were famous enough to convince them to throw one last batch in the fryer. Good stories, right?

A bunch of photos of bands and fans after the jump. As I said, I'll be returning next week to see how it looks and feels to photocopy an entire festival. While I expected to be a bit more exhausted, I have to say that as I was filing into the parking lot I was relieved that I'll get to do it all over again in a few days.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Coachella Photos: First Saturday. Radiohead, tUnE-yArDs, the Head and the Heart, and more.

Posted by on Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:10 PM

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Radiohead: I'm pretty sure that when I picked up my first Radiohead album as an impressionable youth, the idea of seeing them perform may not have even occurred to me, let alone being able to see them and their giant aqualuminescent stage show three times in the span of a month each time being ushered to the front of the crowd for the chance to point heavy photographic equipment in their general vicinity for a few songs. So the great personal thought experiment of last night's very good career-spanning plus-brand-new-material show was reconciling the thrill of seeing a band that I love leading tens of thousands of people in a "Karma Police" singalong with the very real world concern of how a pleasant springlike desert afternoon turns into a very cold evening by the time midnight rolls around and the band's only about halfway through their set. After our designated three song photo time, I floated around in the crowd, zoning in and out while pre-editing photos, gawking at some of the more creative costuming (feltcraft Deadmau5, neon wolverine) through first encore's "Everything in its Right Place" showstopper of a closer, returning to the warmer embrace of the more distant VIP viewing cage for the second encore (aside: a million thank yous to Goldenvoice for situating the press tent among the very important; more festivals should do this please). Given their vast catalog, I'm still a little bit excited to see what they brew up from next weekend.

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  • the crowd for the Head and the Heart

Various observations: I was pleasantly surprised to see that Seattle's the Head and the Heart drew an impressive midday crowd (above).

Department of the Kids Are Alright: The lightly stoned kids in front of me wiping away so many secret silent tears during Jeff Mangum's set. Although this was my third time seeing him, I was right with those dudes. The previous Radiohead digression applies perhaps even more strongly here, particularly since Neutral Milk Hotel was long defunct by the time someone shoved In the Aeroplane Over the Sea into my hands. Although Jeff Mangum doesn't want to be photographed or have video recordings of himself made, he's seeming more and more relaxed with every performance, cajoling the audience to sing along, and asking everyone whether they're happy (they are) throughout the set. This show was maybe the first time in history that a crowd went wild with applause at the mere appearance of a French Horn player on stage. By the end, he'd called out a miniature Balkan-style band, complete with accordion, drum, and various muted horns to spectacularly close out the hour with "Two Headed Boy / Fool."

Other observations: St. Vincent has grown up from cheery Sufjan acolyte in to a dark eyed rock goddess. At one point, diving into the crowd to furiously sing not-yet-released "Crocodile". I love Bon Iver. His (their?) doubly self-titled album was one of my favorites of 2011. But I was pretty shocked when the massive audience went wild at just the opening chords of sleepy "Holocene". But still, it's an impressive graduation from his spinning platform guest spot last year at this time during Kanye West's epic festival showstopper. As much as I like him, I did leave early to make sure to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor for the very first time. There, I learned that it turns out that the thing that appeals to the fewest Coachella attendees is listening to a Canadian post-rock collective sitting in the dark while playing gloomy symphonies that conjure visions of dire survival after the apocalypse. There were some phenomenal moments, but staying for their whole performance was among the luxuries of knowing that I'll be back next week to catch the more upbeat likes of Miike Snow.

Similarly, the knowledge of repeating the festival made me more comfortable chilling out with Andrew Bird's golden hour set, laughing as devotees in the audience had the audacity to try whistling along, pondering whether any other living human musician is more suited to covering Kermit the Frog's "It's Not Easy Being Green", and appreciating his hit-packed closing montage with a vision of nuclear-induced environmental collapse much sunnier than Godspeed's. I'll take snacks, dancing bears, and adderall over large barges and radio discharges any day.

More photos after the jump. I'm gearing up to head back for the final day of the first festival weekend where Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg will be closing out the festival. If you're not here, tune in to Coachella's incredible videography, which should streaming the hits all day.

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Coachella Photos: First Friday. Pulp, Refused, M83, Hasslehoff, & more.

Posted by on Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:02 PM

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For the first time that I can remember, arriving in Palm Springs for Coachella yesterday morning felt a whole lot like Seattle: cool temperatures and the omnipresent threat of rain. By the time we arrived at the Polo Grounds, the much ballyhooed (by certain Southern Californians) wind and wetness had arrived, making the parking lots a hilarious mud field and helping the merch booths to move a whole lot of sweatshirts. Trendspotters from another planet might have assumed that matching event hoodies constitute the major festival fashion outlook for 2k12.

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  • PULP, Coachella Mainstage

In some sort of delusional ambition, I'm going to both Coachellas—this weekend's original recipe and next week's expected clonechella zombie apocalypse. As such, I'm trying to make each of them less hectic by checking out bigger chunks of sets rather than sprinting from stage to stage to see little bits of everything. Though it makes me feel supremely uncritical, like a fawning American Idol judge, pretty much I saw yesterday was top notch. Everyone's in it to win it, slaying the biggest fish, wanting to have it, killing it, etc.

That said: Pulp! Are an extremely good band, right? And have you heard that Jarvis Cocker is ridiculously charming? A thrower of poses, grapes, and banter. The recent reunitees brought all of this to the mainstage along with a pretty major laser and light show, holding everyone's attention through a lull through back catalog wanders until a triumphant "Common People" finale.

Also spectacular: the Rapture, back from the bloghaus era with just enough cowbell. It was nearly impossible to get anywhere near the tent (let alone the stage) where churned up an undeniable dance party that boiled over with "House of Jealous Lovers". M83: you already have your tickets to see them at the Paramount, right? This is the first time that I've managed to see them touring behind Midnight City and they're playing at a staggering level of cosmic.

I also enjoyed: the ever-reliable and increasingly strong (and very well attended) sets by world conquering Black Keys, seeing that Arctic Monkeys seem thoroughly over their dejected-with-fame era, and noticing that GIRLS have added a trio of hype-women soul-chorus backup singers to enliven their stage presence; the tortured vocals over optimistic post-rock discordance of WU LYF; and the return of Refused: still insistent after seventeen years, but now with a power-to-the-people in place of a world conquering agenda.

And finally, CelebWatch: spotted David Hasslehoff posing for every possible camera, hamming it up with fans; more excitingly, Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul (not pictured) all over the place.

A bunch of pictures from day one after the jump. Today looks sunnier, watch along on the Coachella YouTubes and let me know what I would be a fool to miss.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Queerview Mirror: Party Schmarty @ Orient Express

Posted by on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM

HAY QUEERS. Soooo, I went to PARTY SCHMARTY! last Friday night at the Orient Express. For those of you not familiar with the Orient Express, it's the supposedly-haunted train-car-turned-restaurant-slash-gay-party-venue down in SODO. PARTY SCHMARTY! is put on by my dear friend Ben DeLaCreme (who I've only had a crush on my whole life), Kitten LaRue, and Lou Henry Hoover. The evening included DJ Nark, Twister, and a performance with chips and dip. All on a magical train car! What more could you ask for?! I don't know when this queer party on the haunted traincar will happened again, but I can only hope it's soon. -Adrien Leavitt

More photos after the jump, and more Queerview Mirror here and here.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Queerview Mirror: THEESatisfaction @ Neumos

Posted by on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:34 PM

Editor's note: Adrien Leavitt is an excellent photographer shooting all things positive on Seattle's queer scene. This is the second installment of a new weekly photo column called Queerview Mirror.

Last night I went to the THEESatisfaction record release show. I've loved THEESatisfaction since I met them a few years back. I've had the honor of booking them to play LICK!—my awesome queer party night at Chop Suey that I run with my friend Slaven—and I've photographed them for my zine. Highlights of last night's show: THEESats rocking the sold out crowd and meeting Cat's and Stas' parents at the show, who got to watch from right next to the stage. —Adrien

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  • Adrien Leavitt

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Have You Ever Wondered Why There Isn't A Photo Book About Thrash Metal?

Posted by on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM

Well, wonder no more, because now there is...

MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW, by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew, is a stunning collection over 400 color and black-and-white photos of the birth of thrash metal in San Francisco, capturing historic moments including the earliest shows by Slayer, Metallica, and Megadeth, and events such as the first night Slayer met the young members of Metallica. The book also includes passionate personal accounts by Bay Area veterans Harald Oimoen, Brian Lew, Ron Quintana of Metal Mania, Gary Holt of Exodus, Alex Skolnick of Testament, and Robb Flynn of Vio-lence/Machine Head. From DIY origins to world domination, the Bay Area thrash metal scene screams to life in these fearless pages.

There's a quickie unpublished interview with Slayer in the book too, circa yee ole 1983:

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L.A. is still full of posers (with the exception or Lindy West).

New Column: Queerview Mirror

Posted by on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM

Editor's note: Adrien Leavitt is excellent photographer shooting all things positive on Seattle's queer scene. This is the first installment of a new weekly photo column called Queerview Mirror.

For the last several months, I've been working on a queer zine project called "#1 must have" We're really interested in telling stories and illustrating narratives; the project represents community/ies, support, self-expression, and love—all must haves for us. Each photoset is representative of time we spent with people, and I'm excited to continue this journey in The Stranger documenting queers around town. I'm also excited to let the pictures do the talking... —Adrien

Alice of Seattle band Royal Eyes and Slaven, co-producer of #1 must haves
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  • Alice of Seattle band Royal Eyes and Slaven, co-producer of #1 must have

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Photo Roundup: of Montreal @ Showbox

Posted by on Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM

Who saw of Montreal play the Showbox Market this past Saturday? I did not, but from the look of these photos, I dare say their live show seems to have mellowed out? No more hot pants and horses?

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All photos by Saumaya Sharma. More after the jump...

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Photos: Cloud Nothings at the Crocodile

Posted by on Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM

Cloud Nothings
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  • Cloud Nothings

It had been a while since I've been to a good old fashioned rock show; so seeing Cloud Nothings tearing up the Crocodile on Tuesday felt a certain kind refreshing. Although their sleeves are festooned with a whole collection of references, there's something refreshing about hearing so many vaguely familiar/half forgotten sounds rebooted by a generation for whom ambition isn't necessarily a slur.

As another newcomer to the band (yes, the best-new-music designation helped catapult it out of the endless Spotify soup and into heavy rotation), I took their decision to open their set with "Stay Useless," the most obvioulsy catchy track on Attack on Memory, as something like a boast that they immediately satisfied by turning a broken amp into an excuse for a seamless segue into a blistering instrumental extended finale for "Fall In" during which bandleader Dylan Baldi jumped in on drums while drummer Jayson Gercyz slipped backstage to borrow some gear from openers Mr. Dream.

Despite Baldi's occasional apologies for the equipment difficulties, the whole transition appeared to be coordinated by telepathy and the audience was in capable hands for the rest of the show. After playing everything else on the album, the show thundered to a close with howls of sleepy-eyed disaffection anthem "No Future/No Past" the crowd seemed unsure of whether to even think to ask for an encore. Eventually, though, senses were regained and enough cheers were mustered to bring the band out for just one more song (that I couldn't identify from its seemingly Hopelandic lyrics. update: a helpful commenter gi wins the prize for identifying the closer as "Hey Cool Kid" from 2010's Turning On).

Earlier, Mr. Dream's bassist and co-vocalist Matt Morello mused nostalgically about seeing shows at the Crocodile's old showroom. As much as I'll forever miss that cluttered room with its view-obstructing poles and pristine sound, I was happy to see that the fancified back bar remains a site of after-show weeknight hilarity. Last night included a bartender veejaying all the hits of the 90s, both bands lingering to redeem drink tickets, and various tribes of international travelers from the downtown hostels clumsily coming onto strangers, desperately seeking the next party, or sheepishly making requests for songs like "Kokomo" or "Since U Been Gone" from the back of the room.

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Friday, March 2, 2012

The Pink Carpet Project Fashion Show @ Fred Wildlife Refuge

Posted by on Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:53 PM

Were you at this sold-out event last night? If so, here are your pictures! Taken by the amazing Shena Lee! Click here to see them. Some maybe NSFW.

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  • Shena Lee

Monday, February 20, 2012

THEESatisfaction @ Town Hall

Posted by on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM

More photos (see Saturday's review) of kids loving THEESatisfaction.

I wish I could have seen hip hop this good when I was still wearing Pull-Ups® Training Pants...

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  • Saumaya Sharma

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