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Friday, May 17, 2013

Two-Block Radius / Shit Talk / ??!! / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz In Case Your Oughties Rock Band Bookshelf is Lacking

Posted by Mike Nipper on Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:59 PM

For you rabid fans, there is a copy of the ~~Dorkness~~ Darkness Permission To Rock bio currently on sale at the Capitol Hill Value Village.

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Seriously? Seriously.

If I'd written this y'all know it woulda been titled Permission To Rock? Permission... DENIED! Heh. Yeah. Also: They're still an active band? Who knew.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Two-Block Radius / Upcoming Get Your Wax In: The Next Big Dig Is May 11 @ Vermillion

Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM

Records that you can buy and enjoy for the rest of your life.

Records that you can buy and enjoy for the rest of your life.

The record-geek magnet known as Big Dig happens Saturday May 11 at Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar. Early entry is at 1 pm ($10 fee), general admission runs from 3 pm-8 pm ($3).

As always with Big Dig, there’ll be DJs, beer, food, and a plethora of vinyl in lots of genres. Plus, the always scintillating bloviating about obscure music and inner-label minutiae by people with way more records than friends. This is definitely one of the area's finest record shows. Budget your life accordingly.

More info here.

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Two-Block Radius Value Village Record Bin Watch

Posted by Mike Nipper on Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:27 PM

FINALLY! Until this week the records at our local ValVil were basically resting ON THE FLOOR, spine out, and on a single rack, which made browsing way more time consuming and REALLY awkward. Seriously, you had crouch down and duck walk the length while pushing a few hundred crappy records back and forth just to see the artist/titles. Oof!

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Thanks ValVil, now my daily record creep won't be so ass cracky for the rest of your shoppers.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Two-Block Radius / Hellevant / Upcoming Killer Easter Sunday Show at the Cha Cha

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM

This Sunday! Free! With happy hour all night! And some really excellent bands!

I'll bring jellybeans.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Two-Block Radius Get Witchy Tonight @ Chop Suey

Posted by Emily Nokes on Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM

NYC's White Ring are returning to Seattle tonight in support of their new album Gate of Grief. If you are so excited for this, then please enjoy this press release!

NO SLEEP presents White Ring playing their first show seattle show in over a year. White Ring’s first full length Gate Of Grief is set for release in early 2013 and explores new directions for the project including pop influences while maintaining their dark ambience. The band will be playing brand new songs off the forthcoming record at this show.

White Ring, Rxch Wxtch, YourYoungBody // Chop Suey // $8 advance, $10 DOS 21+ 9pm

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Two-Block Radius / Video / 206 TH3RDZ - "Boobiewho's"

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:03 PM

Behold this this Sonny Bonoho-featuring, 10.4 Rog lounger from TH3RDZ (the tandem of Candidt, XP, and JFK), dealing with the Boobiewho phenomenon:

Boobiewhos
[boo b whos] noun, verb, bobbiewhoing.
noun
1. A person who plays you small until you blow up.
2. Catcher of the vapors.
3. Shallow person.
4. Bandwagoner.
5. Snake in the basket awaiting charming.

Consider yourself brought up to speed.

Sonny is a master of the nonsensical hook just as Candidt is one of minting pimp-uncle slang; hard to say which one of them thought up the title of this song and it's meaning—but I'd guess Candidt, who takes point when it comes to the vibe of TH3RDZ. Also, OBVIOUSLY, his dramatic turn as "Thirsty" is incredible. JFK finally puts to rest any rumors that he and Bonoho are the same person. XP just got off a two month tour with some guy named Macklemore, and is no doubt fully charged from a string of sold-out packed shows, so expect more—such as their long-awaited This, That & TH3RDZ LP—from these three in 2013.

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Nightlife / Two-Block Radius / Booze Best New Place For Sunday Night Karaoke!

Posted by Bree McKenna on Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:35 PM

"Where have all the cowboys goooooonnnnnnneee..."

Sometimes those little rooms in Rock Box can get stupid expensive, and the Crescent (although always glorious in its own right) gets too crowded and takes forever to get your song in. Luckily I found my new favorite Karaoke place on Capitol Hill, Lucky 8's China House (next to Chop Suey.) Karaoke happens every Sunday, plus they serve super delicious organic Chinese food without MSG all late so you don't get food-tired while you are drinking a million cheap beers. The lovely staff didn't even get mad at me when I was the annoying drunk person who accidentally broke a beer bottle during the singing of Paula Cole's hit "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone."

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Two-Block Radius / Tonight / Dust Bin Wax Ecstatic: Big Dig Record Show @ Vermillion

Posted by Dave Segal on Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08 AM

In conjunction with Emerald City Soul Club's Rare Soul Weekender, the Big Dig record swap happens at Vermillion today, 1 pm-3 pm for early admission ($10), 3 pm-8 pm for regular admission ($3). There’ll be dealers from Seattle, Portland, Detroit, LA, and other places, and drinks and DJs will also be on the premises. Don’t forget to wear your hygienic, crate-digging gloves and surgical mask. It’s going to be a long, dusty afternoon/evening.

Boast about your scores in comments, playa.

My haul:

Sandy Bull – Demolition Derby
Curtis Mayfield – Sweet Exorcist
Alice Coltrane – Radha Krsna
Brian Eno – On Land
Tony Joe White – Tony Joe
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon
Barrabas – Wild Safari
Jimmy Castor Bunch – Phase Two
Nucleus – Snakehips Etcetera
Annette Peacock – X-Dreams
George Duke – The Aura Will Prevail
Various – Cinemaphonic: Electro Soul
Harold Budd – The Serpent (In Quicksilver)
The Sons of Champlin – Loosen Up Naturally

More info here.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Two-Block Radius Dance Party Capitol Hill

Posted by Emily Nokes on Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:34 PM

Capitol Hill around 10th and Pike was HAPPENING last night. On our way home, Pike was blocked off at Broadway by a beautiful sea of drunk and happy revelers. You don’t drive by a giant street party without stopping, obviously—we parked and RAN INTO THAT FUN PILE.

A red hatchback was parked in the middle of the crowd with speakers bungeed to the roof. The brave, mobile DJ was playing all the hits—"I Will Always Love You" being the most tearful—while everyone danced, threw up, sang, frenched, took their shirts off, smoked weed, drank 40s, ate Fritos, and swayed through the madness on each others’ shoulders.

Last night was awesome. The future finally looks like… the future! Way to go everyone!

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Two-Block Radius / Video / 206 Thaddeus David - "Sir Lancelot" (f/ Nacho Picasso & Avatar Darko)

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:45 PM

Here's some spooky, slow-drag rap from the former 1/3rd of SOTA, now on his second solo album, the just-released Trapital Trill (whose name alone qualifies this post for a "Two Block Radius" tag). Thad is havin' visions in the water closet, or just tripping balls while his date plays dolphin. Nacho who's opening line "Dark" plays perhaps the most cocky and self-assured suicide victim—though it is homegirl who kicks the chair out from underneath his Sub Pop edition SB Dunks, so maybe it's a murder, or at least a collaboration. Lastly, Av is like Sam The Butcher, bringin' Alice the meat—making an unholy mess out of some poor animal's former ribs. BBQ, anyone?

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Two-Block Radius 13th and Pine and the Lipstick Lady

Posted by Emily Nokes on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:27 PM

A few years ago, I was driving up East Pine Street, just about to pass 13th, when I almost wrecked my car into the Cuff because SEQUIN COATED TUTUS were hanging from the parking-lot trees across the street. I immediately pulled over (safety first) to get a better look. It turned out there was a WHOLE ENTIRE STORE of gaudy nonsense!

And the Lipstick Lady. I wish I could remember her name. She had the brightest pink lipstick smeared across her lips (and also teeth). We mostly talked about the zodiac's personality assignments. I mentioned my October birthday was coming up, and the next thing I knew, she was wrapping a giant piece of gold lamé around me and insisting I try on that lipstick. "Libras and metallic fabric make an ESPECIALLY good match."

The junk store didn't seem to have regular hours, or even a name. I meant to go back, but never got around to it. When I was walking to work, I watched the building get torn down.

More empty condos!

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Art / Two-Block Radius / Shit Talk "...we are notifying Poster Giant Inc., of our desire to have them remove our property from sites they poster."

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:07 PM

Fuck, yeah!

Facebook group Poster Giant is scum. posted this pretty fantastic letter today, addressed to Leigh Stone, the owner of Crybaby Studios who is part of the crew constantly painting over Poster Giant's ugly poster collages on the corner of 11th and Pine:

(Thanks for the tip, Lar!)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Art / Two-Block Radius / Graffiti / Street GIRL ARMY!!! Cranks It Up 10 Notches

Posted by Anna Minard on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:27 PM

This is what's across the street today:

WHAT IS RAPE CULTURE? Rape Jokes. Fear culture. Dinner ≠ Booty. Disney??? Why is the victim on trial? One No is rape. Because it happens & did to me.

KELLY O
WHAT IS RAPE CULTURE? Rape Jokes. Fear culture. Dinner ≠ Booty. Disney??? Why is the victim on trial? One "No" is rape. Because it happens & did to me.

I thought I had a lot to say about it. I thought I had something insightful to offer, to add to the conversation. Something about solidarity. Something about how it's hard and painful to read a giant wall full of words about rape. Something about how it makes me feel or what it makes me think. Something about how art that makes you uncomfortable, art that makes you confront things, is a good thing. But I guess I don't have much to say; I just want people to see this. This is why I live here. This makes me proud. This conversation is bigger than the poster wall, it's bigger than a blog. Let's keep having it. Thanks, Girl Army. I love coming to work every day and seeing what new madness you're exploding on that wall and around the hood. I like that it makes people uncomfortable. Rape should make you uncomfortable. Thanks to the people who are sharing personal stories on the wall, too. That's intense. Thank you.

What is rape culture? Rape culture is where rape & sexual violence is an accepted & expected norm. It supports violence against us & makes rape seem okay. It tells us its our fault & tells the perpetrators its their nature. Complicity in silence = rape culture. Rape jokes are not funny. How we dress does not mean yes.

KELLY O
What is rape culture? Rape culture is where rape & sexual violence is an accepted & expected norm. It supports violence against us & makes rape seem okay. It tells us it's our fault & tells the perpetrators it's their nature. Complicity in silence = rape culture. Rape jokes are not funny. How we dress does not mean yes.

KELLY O
"No" does not mean "convince me."

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Two-Block Radius Seattle Grrrl Army is Back!

Posted by Emily Nokes on Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM

Indeed.

I was walking home last night when I saw a group of girls and guys on the corner of 11th and Pine, in front of the ever-changing poster wall. It was Seattle Grrrl Army of course! A fresh bucket of pink paint was being stirred next to a pristine pile of white metal clothes hangers. One girl was holding a stack of regular looking posters (commercial posters advertising Erykah Badu or something, that looked to be the same as the 50 or so already stapled to the wall in a grid). I asked her what they were for, and she said she was moving some of them to another wall because, "we aren't trying to hurt the venues these posters are advertising."

This morning, I saw their finished work—the best new addition to the wall is the tangle of gruesome hangers dripping with red fabric and paint.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Two-Block Radius In Non posterGiant News: Drummer Looking For A Band!

Posted by Kelly O on Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:08 AM

If I had a band, I'd have this hard-hitter join it, just so he could draw "M"s that look like they have hairy chests on every single flyer our band ever made.

kelly o

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Two-Block Radius / Graffiti GIRL ARMY Fights Back!!!

Posted by Timothy Rysdyke on Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM

After PosterGIANT covered and destroyed Girl Army's manifesto the girls took to the streets once more.

And this is Doug Cox, the company president and founder of PosterGIANT. What's that you're holding in your hand Mr. Cox?

More pics after the jump..

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Art / Two-Block Radius / Graffiti / Nerd / Politics Re: GIRL ARMY!!!!!

Posted by Anna Minard on Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:31 PM

As commenter Seattle Peach points out, "Poster Giant can't exist without their clients." So if those posters really are for/connected to PAX Prime, as other commenters and bloggers have noted, I wonder what PAX thinks of the Poster Giant controversy? PAX has a reputation for being a relatively safe/lady-friendly nerd con, due to its anti-booth-babes stance and for having a decent anti-sexual-harassment policy (and apparently decent enforcement of both). Although, they did get taken to school last year over a but-I-though-our-rape-joke-was-hilarious situation (just google "dickwolves" for more info). So... I wonder if they'd mind that they're now maybe part of the current poster wall brouhaha? I have some e-mails out to see if I can get an answer.

UPDATE: The posters are for Hawken, a game by Adhesive Games, who have a booth at PAX Prime, which they direct you to on their poster. But the posters don't seem sponsored in any way by PAX itself. Poster Wall War 2012 continues. PAX's involvement = pretty dang nonexistent.

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Two-Block Radius / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz / Street Re: GIRL ARMY!!!!! (Is Back to Kick Poster Giant in the Balls)

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:31 PM

Posts about today's battle in the ongoing war between Poster Giant—a poster company largely regarded as a gorilla-bully—and everybody else in the city are below. Poster Giant routinely wallpapers the building across the street from Stranger HQ with whatever is the going concern: concert ads, car ads, convention ads. They even have a reputation for covering up posters for shows and events that haven't happened yet, which is extraordinarily poor form.

But some people think that Poster Giant, which doesn't pay rent on those walls, nor owns those walls, nor has any kind of legitimate legal claim on those walls, needs a kick in the nuts. Last night, somebody put up a bunch of feminist posters with the words "girl army" scrawled in spray paint. This morning, some dude from PG covered up some of that with some posters for some video game. A few minutes ago, a woman showed up to fuck with PG by spray-painting "OH POSTER GIANT, UP YOURS!" (I'm sure you all get the reference, but here's the song anyway, in case you haven't enjoyed it in awhile.)

The spray-painter identified herself as "Sam—I'm a fucking feminist and have some fucking taste in public fucking space!" That's enough credentials for me.

What's your next move, PG? If I were you, I'd avoid grandstanding, give the people what they want on 11th Ave, and keep making money while earning social capital.

But I'll be curious to see what you decide to do.

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Art / Two-Block Radius / Street Re: GIRL ARMY!!!!! (Has Already Been Covered Up)

Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:11 PM

Last night's work didn't even make it until noon today. Here's a picture of the poster hanger (presumably from Poster Giant, although he packed up his stuff and walked away before I could go outside and ask) photographing the freshly hung posters: