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Courtney Love at Moore Theatre on Tuesday, July 23, 2013

"Love will be performing songs from Live Through This, Celebrity Skin & Nobody’s Daughter including “Violet,” “Miss World,” “Celebrity Skin,” “Malibu,” “Skinny Little Bitch” and more."


Tickets at LiveNation.com, Tickets.com, ticketing kiosks at the Moore and
the Paramount

I will be out of town later this week, so I'm going to miss this show and I am SO BUMMED. You have to go and mosh and/or pogo in my place.

Most people like music! Some people like sports! Everybody likes a free party! So what are you doing on Monday?

Neumos, Sonicsgate, and Alive and Well are hosting a Bring Our Sonics Back party. Performances by hiphop all-stars Nacho Picasso, Geo of Blue Scholars, Grynch, Dyme Def, Jarv Dee, Tilson, Sam Lachow & Raz Simone, Neema, DJ Nphared and more.

The shindig will be hosted by the legendary Shawn Kemp, and it's free. Free, free, free!

The purpose of this community focused event is to allow Sonics fans to come out and show their support in basketball returning back to Seattle one last time before the NBA makes a final decision on May 15th. Represent that green and gold by hanging out with the best in local hip hop plus NBA greats from the past and present.

Neumos / 6:00pm / 21+

Blank Realm—recent recipient of the esteemed Best Song Ever (This Week) honor back in March for their too-good-to-be-a-hit "Acting Strange"—will play Cairo June 7. (It's a gd shame that this is happening the same night that Art Ensemble of Chicago's Roscoe Mitchell is performing at Benaroya Hall, but whattaya gonna do?) The Australian rock band—who superbly balance melody with dissonance in their well-crafted songs—will be supporting their excellent album, Go Easy (Fire Records). Fire will also be reissuing Blank Realm's ltd.-ed. 2010 LP Déjà What? in June.

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Tomorrow evening at Cairo, go see Brooklyn's Beach Fossils, playing with Naomi Punk and FF. It's $8, and that place is small, so RSVP ASAP before you have to stand outside with your nose pressed against the window.

Starting at 5 pm, both bands will spin their new records—Tullycraft's Lost in Light Rotation and Boat's Pretend to Be Brave—along with some of their other favorite tunes, and all we have to do is sit there, enjoy the music, and maybe indulge in some tasty things from the bar's happy hour menu like parmesan, black pepper, and truffle popcorn and ricotta and pepper jam bruschetta.

Speaking of Tullycraft, here's their new video for "Dig Up the Graves," from Lost in Light Rotation:

The West’s In Low Light opens with “It was Disco and it's Over,” a song that's built on a signature Peter Hook high-toned bass riff, complete with lead singer and guitarist Anthony Darnell doing his best Ian Curtis impression. During the song they play a Joy Division-esque eulogy to the death of disco resolving only to move ahead, like it’s the early '80s and they’re back in Manchester.

Their EP moves on down the timeline of pop just so, synthesizing the rest of the '80s in their own way. Their brand of nouveau-disco follows lead bass lines all the way down to club maximalist. The West slides into step somewhere between the saccharine sweet Roxette and the angrily romantic the Whip—their steely synths make them a freakishly dance-y band to have evolved in this region of the country, a notoriously dance-less, shoegaze-y Sodom of people who love to fuck with music but not be seen loving it in public. That may be the reason they’ve been noticed by blogeratti in Sweden, and France, and then over at KEXP before they got to me, but it may also be just because their sound (despite having been perfected decades ago) is so period unique.

When In Low Light starts to hit its stride—right after their awkwardly rock-pop single you may have heard on the 90.3 called “Slightest Touch”—Darnell is shouting out negatives on “You Won't,” and sharing the microphone with synth player Adrienne Clark, who is allowed to go it alone late in the album on just one song “Call Me A Liar,” but provides an interesting relief when she does. Darnell, Clark, and bass player Jon Swihart encapsulate so much of the 80s they’re hard to not appreciate, and by the end of the album they’ve gone full swing from New Order to INXS, and Darnell is in a full on Michael Hutchence wail.

Heads will bob and hips will roll at their live shows, especially at the point when the set reaches their best song “Hustler.” With an absolutely evil bass line, vibrato guitar ringing in the back, roiling snare, and Darnell hollering at the hot thing next to him on the dance floor, I don’t care what era or city you’re from you’ll have to be dead or just plain dumb to not want to dance to In Low Light.

Check them at one of several upcoming dates: Bellingham (for the Electronic Arts Festival) on April 26th, the High Dive on Sat April 27th, in Tacoma at New Frontier Lounge May 3rd, and headlining the Crocodile on Fri May 24th with Tomten, Prism Tats, and Ozarks.