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Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. editor@thestranger.com (The Stranger Editor) webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Is "Tribal" a Bad Word? http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/11/is-tribal-a-bad-word http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/11/is-tribal-a-bad-word Kelly O <p><em>From Samuel, on a good ole' fashioned paper, signed with a blue ball point pen:</em></p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/763c/1370981939-letter.jpg" alt="letter.jpg" title="" width="500" height="669" /></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/11/is-tribal-a-bad-word#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=17001915&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/11/is-tribal-a-bad-word?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=17001915&id=comments 0 Is "Tribal" a Bad Word? Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:21:15 -0700 The Stranger About That Decibel Banner Ad... http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/07/about-that-decibel-banner-ad http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/07/about-that-decibel-banner-ad Dave Segal <p>Eagle-eyed <strong>David Schmader</strong> notes that the title for <strong>New Order</strong>'s <em>Power, Corruption & Lies</em> is rendered incorrectly in the <a href="http://dbfestival.com/">Decibel Festival</a> banner ad running on Line Out [see above]. We're trying to get it corrected. Try not to go too crazy in the meantime.</p> <p><a href="http://www.peterhook.co.uk/#/">Peter Hook and the Light</a> will be performing that 1983 New Order LP as well as that group's 1981 debut full-length, <em>Movement</em>, in their entirety at <strong><a href="http://neumos.com/event/peter-hook-and-the-light-9-25/">Neumos</a></strong> Sept. 25. Decibel takes place Sept. 25-29. </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mm3rwxFcCj0?list=PLA62577633C7A7089" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/07/about-that-decibel-banner-ad#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16974146&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Decibel http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/06/07/about-that-decibel-banner-ad?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16974146&id=comments 0 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:42:22 -0700 The Stranger I Need a New Music Calendar Intern! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/22/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/22/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern Megan Seling <p>Do you love local music? Do you have a fairly good knowledge of all the clubs and bars in this town, or do you at least <em>want</em> to have a fairly good knowledge of them? Are you responsible and detail-oriented and <strong>able to meet deadlines</strong>? Can you put up with loud complaining about bad bands? Then this might be the internship for you!</p> <p>With thousands of shows happening in Seattle every month, <em>The Stranger</em>'s comprehensive music listings require constant upkeep, so as the music calendar intern, you will work with me to help ensure all our information is correct.</p> <p>It won't all be data entry, though—there will also be <strong>opportunities to write for Line Out</strong>, our music blog. The internship is unpaid, but I will sign off on school credit, if applicable. Also, I will never ever ever make you go get my coffee.</p> <p>You must be available for about <strong>12 hours per week</strong>, during usual 9-5/M-F office hours (days are flexible), and be able to <strong>commit to a three month period</strong>.</p> <p>To apply, send a quick introduction, your resume, and two SHORT (no more than 400 words) writing samples* to <a href="mailto:megan@thestranger.com">megan@thestranger.com</a> with Music Calendar Intern in the subject. <strong>Please don't send attachments</strong>—text pasted into an e-mail is a-okay with me.</p> <p><small>*Writing samples don't have to be published—you can write a CD review or a show preview specifically for this, if you'd like.</small></p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/22/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16560783&id=comments 0 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:13:20 -0700 The Stranger Theme Wars: The Twilight Zone Vs. Lost in Space http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/06/theme-wars-the-twilight-zone-vs-lost-in-space http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/06/theme-wars-the-twilight-zone-vs-lost-in-space Dave Segal <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YH6j63lhAAc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>In my review of <a href="http://therealspectre.bandcamp.com/music">Spectre</a>'s adventurous 2012 hiphop album <em><a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/30/let-the-end-times-roll-spectre-the-true-and-living">The True & Living</a></em>, I mistakenly wrote that he had sampled the theme song from <em>The Twilight Zone</em> (composed by <strong>Gregor F. Narholz</strong>); in actuality, he'd sampled the <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space">Lost In Space</a></em> theme (composed by <strong>John Williams</strong>). I watched both shows as a lad, but somehow over the ensuing 40+ years, I mixed up the two. I swear it won't happen again.</p> <p>Both pieces are among the best TV tunes in history; the shows weren't bad, either, though I preferred <em>The Twilight Zone</em> because it chilled my blood with more regularity than did <em>Lost in Space</em>. However, the latter's <strong>robot</strong> was the best character on either program.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XVSRm80WzZk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/06/theme-wars-the-twilight-zone-vs-lost-in-space#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15944311&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Classic Television http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/06/theme-wars-the-twilight-zone-vs-lost-in-space?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15944311&id=comments 0 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:30:57 -0800 The Stranger We Need a New Music Calendar Intern! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/we-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/we-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern Megan Seling <p>Happy 2013, everyone! Does your resolution list say "Get an internship at <em>The Stranger</em>"? Then you're in luck! I'm looking for a new music calendar intern who will help me stay sane and organized!</p> <p>First thing worth noting, it is an unpaid internship. But if you're in school, it's possible to get credit (if your school does that sort of thing—I'll happily sign off on it). The internship is about 12 hours a week, with the days and times flexible during the usual Mon-Fri/9-5 office hours, and it requires a three-month commitment. </p> <p>I'm looking for someone who is <strong>organized and reliable</strong>, has a lot of enthusiasm for the local music scene, and knows how to use a computer. (We mostly use Macs in the office.)</p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <p>* Help keep our online music calendars updated.<br />* Compile music news posts for Line Out.<br />* Possibly assist on other music-related tasks like sorting CDs/mail, etc.<br />* Get free cupcakes because I bake a lot and bring treats into the office.<br />* Never ever ever have to bring anyone coffee.</p> <p><strong>You might be able to:</strong></p> <p>*Post other things to Line Out, too, like show and record reviews, thoughts on whatever you're listening to, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9kvXyY5P_M">videos of cats playing the drums</a>, etc.<br />*Get free tickets to shows in exchange for show reviews!<br />*Tell me bad jokes that I will laugh at because I pretty much laugh at anything!</p> <p>If you have a laptop, that's a bonus because a couple of our computers are slow, but it's absolutely not required.</p> <p>If you're interested, e-mail me at <a href="mailto:megan@thestranger.com">megan@thestranger.com</a> and tell me why you want to do it and why you'd be good at it in <strong>10 sentences or less</strong>! (Brevity is awesome.) And, if possible, send a link to a writing sample or two. If you don't have one, that's okay! No published writing is required. In that case, just write 150 words or so about an album you really love (or hate!), as if it were a blog post.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/we-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15654599&id=comments 0 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:42:03 -0800 The Stranger Merriam-Webster Made an Example Out of Me http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me Dave Segal <p>A coworker informed me today that <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-food-words-worth-savoring/borborygmus.html">merriam-webster.com</a> had used a sentence I'd written for <em>The Stranger</em> earlier this year on the band <strong><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/doom-for-improvement/Content?oid=23047">Earth</a>'s</strong> <em>2: Special Low Frequency Version</em> to illustrate its definition for the word <strong><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-food-words-worth-savoring/borborygmus.html">borborygmus</a></strong>. My first thought: How can I monetize this? My second thought: How can I get an easy blog post from it? And here you have it. Now do yourself a favor and listen to <em>all</em> of <em>2</em> to get you in the mood for some serious weekend partying.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ls1OYn_xGzM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15414445&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15414445&id=comments 1 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:53:50 -0800 The Stranger The Sound of Deadline Pressure http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure Dave Segal <p>If you have deadlines in your work, you probably know this feeling: an unbearable tension and crushing pressure under which you either thrive or crumble. For journalists/writers, this is our chase-scene moment. For this writer in particular, the music that scores this sensation is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldon">Heldon</a>’s <strong>“Perspective III.”</strong> Just listen to that OCD bass throb and that panic-attack guitar radiation. This is a prime-time fight-or-flee/write-or-writhe score. This is what it sounds like inside my head when I’m experiencing deadline pressure. No wonder I keep cracking my knuckles so much… </p> <p>By the way, <a href="http://www.richard-pinhas.com/">Heldon</a> are one of the few bands whose entire catalog—seven albums from 1974-1979—you need. Read more about this fantastic French group at <a href="http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1302">Prog Archives</a>. I’d tell you more, but I have some deadlines to deal with.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1DgOYw_-FGA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15387770&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15387770&id=comments 0 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:55:39 -0800 The Stranger Midnight Haiku http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/24/midnight-haiku http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/24/midnight-haiku Sarah Galvin <p>I think filling my entire apartment with compost will help me better understand the house I grew up in. As my first home, it was less a real place than a unit of measurement for all future residences. I can learn the dimensions of the “home” unit by discovering where it ends and the “compost heap” unit begins. This may also provide an opportunity to better understand my first compost heap, but I remember it so fondly that understanding it seems unimportant.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/24/midnight-haiku#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14548632&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/24/midnight-haiku?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14548632&id=comments 0 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:06:33 -0700 The Stranger Grant Brissey Stepping Down as Music Editor http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/22/grant-brissey-stepping-down-as-music-editor http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/22/grant-brissey-stepping-down-as-music-editor Bethany Jean Clement <p>Grant Brissey is stepping down as the music editor of <em>The Stranger</em>. We <strong>already miss him</strong> around here, but he'll keep writing for the paper—here's <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/are-we-not-the-the-men/Content?oid=13968312">his piece on the Men</a> this week, in which he actually makes talking about naming a band interesting (and doesn't even use the word "moniker"!), which seems pretty much impossible. You may also anticipate the return of <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Search?cx=018412283168992679552%3Ayvxwdz723au&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=green+lake+watch&sa=Search">Green Lake Watch</a>. Meanwhile, Grant is going off to <strong>hunt endangered sharks</strong> for sport.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/22/grant-brissey-stepping-down-as-music-editor#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13998305&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/22/grant-brissey-stepping-down-as-music-editor?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13998305&id=comments 19 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:37:38 -0700 The Stranger Please Enjoy This Week's Music Section http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/please-enjoy-this-weeks-music-section http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/please-enjoy-this-weeks-music-section Megan Seling <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:262px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/5bb4/1340208718-music-lead-click.jpeg" alt="music-lead-CLICK.jpeg" title="" width="250" height="298" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">EMILY "WEIRDO" NOKES</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div><a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/20/a-critical-overview-of-the-stranger">Like Slog</a>, Line Out is going to be silent until 11 am, while we partake in our weekly editorial meeting. But do not fret! This week's music section is now posted for your to enjoy. Including:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/justin-bieber-is-not-that-bad/Content?oid=13968287">Justin Bieber Is Not That Bad</a>: Shockingly, the Billboard Top 10 Isn't a Total Shitshow by Dave Segal</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/all-you-wonderful-fuckers-are-straight/Content?oid=13970851">All You Wonderful Fuckers Are Straight*</a>: Local Music-Industry Titans Lead the Fight to Approve Marriage Equality by Dominic Holden</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/pitch-blvck/Content?oid=13968297">Pitch Blvck</a>: The Rise of Garfield High MC and Purrp Protégé Key Nyata by Mike Ramos</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/are-we-not-the-the-men/Content?oid=13968312">Are We Not <em>the</em> the Men?</a>: Brooklyn Noise-Punk Quartet Shows Signs of Maturity by Grant Brissey</p> <p>Plus! All your favorite columns like <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-homosexual-agenda/Content?oid=13969760">the Homosexual Agenda!</a> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/underage/Content?oid=13969778">Underage!</a> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=13969711">Data Breaker!</a> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=13968326">My Philosophy!</a> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/sound-check/Content?oid=13968350">Sound Check!</a> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/music">AND MORE!</a></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/please-enjoy-this-weeks-music-section#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13974398&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/please-enjoy-this-weeks-music-section?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13974398&id=comments 0 Please Enjoy This Week's Music Section EMILY "WEIRDO" NOKES Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:18:15 -0700 The Stranger Common Denominator Corner: Little Boots, Big Beat, Charlotte Hatherley, & SWV http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/common-denominator-corner-little-boots-big-beat-charlotte-hatherley-and-swv http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/common-denominator-corner-little-boots-big-beat-charlotte-hatherley-and-swv Dean Fawkes <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:162px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/8bd2/1339820967-littleboots_headphones.jpg" alt="Little Boots - Headphones" title="" width="150" height="150" /></div>They're all back at it.</p> <p><strong>Little Boots</strong> has been firing out new material from her upcoming follow-up album since the end of last year and her most recent single, "Headphones," is the most promising and playful of the bunch, all flares-in-the-night and la-la-la, reinforced by a video of everyone's inner peep-show, which suggests that her recent unpromising collaboration with <strong>Hercules & Love Affair</strong> might not have bathed her return in boring.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="239" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pJaH2GqT220" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />Meanwhile, the Big Beat sound has been in a revival for some time, particularly with new figures like <a href="http://youtu.be/udfTSoKCa2k"><strong>F-Block</strong></a> and <a href="http://youtu.be/2chaFBVAMtQ"><strong>Run Riot</strong></a> keeping the fire and bass alive. Skint Records, one of the sound's original champions, decided it was time to exterminate any leftover doubts by kicking off a sequel to their late '90s, widely influential and pitch-perfect <em>On The Floor At To The Boutique</em> mix series (DJs: <strong>Fatboy Slim</strong>, <strong>Lo-Fidelity Allstars</strong>, and <strong>Midfield General</strong>). The new series is called <em>Back To The Boutique</em> and the first house-flavored installment is by <strong>Sonny Wharton</strong> with future mixes planned by <strong>Afghan Headspin</strong>, <strong>Ramon Tapia</strong>, <strong>X-Press 2</strong>, and the aforementioned <strong>Run Riot</strong>.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="239" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l--NBfHj2do" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />Elsewhere, after three solo albums, former <strong>Ash</strong> guitarist <strong>Charlotte Hatherley</strong> is in the thick of it again, this time under a new sound and persona called <strong>Sylver Tongue</strong>. Imaginative and evidently revitalized. Like a twitchy, electronic Ziggy Stardust.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="319" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AwkccWaqDtI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />And did you know <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/10/08/i-want-my-swv"><strong>SWV</strong></a> are back? You do now.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="239" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9yqzThl5Cuw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/common-denominator-corner-little-boots-big-beat-charlotte-hatherley-and-swv#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13940542&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> New Releases Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/06/20/common-denominator-corner-little-boots-big-beat-charlotte-hatherley-and-swv?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13940542&id=comments 0 Common Denominator Corner: Little Boots, Big Beat, Charlotte Hatherley, & SWV Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:45:18 -0700 The Stranger Never Heard of 'Em: Love http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/never-heard-of-em-love http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/never-heard-of-em-love Grant Brissey <p>Have you read Never Heard of 'Em by <strong>Anna Minard</strong> this week? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?</p> <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:312px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/04e5/1337700156-loveforever.jpg" alt="loveforever.jpg" title="" width="300" height="297" /></div><br /><blockquote>Back, after a brief break, to the spirit of this column: <strong>I really have never heard of Love</strong> (ha-ha, cue sad spinster joke). Grant handed me this CD, and I didn't even know which was the album title and which was the band name. But the cover is great! Look at it! It's like a trippy coloring-book page.</p> <p><br /><strong>I know it's funnier when I hate everything</strong>, but I loved this album from the very first second I pressed play. That doesn't mean I know what this genre is called1, or what year this is from2, or what the music nerds say about it3, but the first track, "Alone Again Or," pretty much sounds like a <strong>young version of your dad hanging out in a field</strong> with his best friend, his VW bug parked nearby with an acoustic guitar lashed to the front bumper. It sounds like honey and tall grass, and also right away there is so much TRUMPET! I love trumpets!</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/never-heard-of-em-love/Content?oid=13670318"><u>Read the whole thing here >></u></a></p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/never-heard-of-em-love?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13736692&id=comments 0 Never Heard of 'Em: Love Tue, 22 May 2012 08:18:06 -0700 The Stranger Introducing Particle Beam Ensemble http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/19/introducing-particle-beam-ensemble http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/19/introducing-particle-beam-ensemble Dave Segal <p>Well, this is embarrassing. In the current issue's <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/up-and-coming/Content?oid=13385886">Up & Coming</a> section, we list a band playing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/203459836433353/">my birthday-party bash at the Comet on April 20</a> as <strong>Particle Being Ensemble</strong>—but their actual name is <strong>Particle <em>Beam</em> Ensemble</strong>. I swear on a stack of Moog synthesizers that one of PBE’s members emailed me the name as it was printed in the paper (and on the <a href="http://emilypothast.wordpress.com/">Emily Pothast</a>-designed poster—oy!). But no. </p> <p>Whatever the case, Particle Beam Ensemble contain players from mind-expanding units <a href="http://soundcloud.com/brain-fruit">Brain Fruit</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosewindows">Rose Windows</a>, plus <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/east-infection/Content?oid=1032152">Master Musicians of Bukkake</a> keyboardist <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/09/dunn-deal-master-musicians-of-bukkake-interview-and-live-footage">Randall Dunn</a> on saxophone. Can you say “supergroup”? I knew you could. </p> <p>PBE have no online presence yet, so you’ll have to take it on faith that they’re worth your precious time. Even if this weren’t my party, I’d highly recommend catching PBE’s debut performance. It could be historic, or shambolic—or both.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Nu3v80cpQBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/19/introducing-particle-beam-ensemble#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13405208&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Band http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/19/introducing-particle-beam-ensemble?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13405208&id=comments 1 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:01:41 -0700 The Stranger I Need a New Music Calendar Intern! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/09/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/09/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern Megan Seling <p><em>Moved up from last night to catch all the early birds!</em></p> <p>Are you: </p> <p>Detail oriented?<br />Really good at data entry?<br />Familiar (or willing to familiarize yourself) with the local club and bar scene?<br />Interested in doing some possible music blogging?<br />Easy to get along with and maybe even funny?<br />Willing to listen to my jokes that aren't funny and my occasional whining about how some publicists don't know how to send out proper press releases? <br /> <br /><strong>Then you might be just the person I'm looking for!</strong></p> <p>I need a new calendar intern because the fantastic <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/jackson-hathorn/Author?oid=10070621">Jackson Hathorn</a> is going to buy a van and follow Ted Leo around the country (not really, but wouldn't that be cool, Jackson?). I'd love for you to be able to come in two days at a week (am flexible with days, but no weekends), for at least four hours each day (between 10 am and 5 pm), to help keep <em>The Stranger</em>'s music listings updated and accurate. <strong>You will also be in charge of the music news </strong>and maybe get to do some other blogging (show reviews, show previews, etc.)!</p> <p>If you're interested, send a quick introduction and a resume to <a href="mailto:megan@thestranger.com">megan@thestranger.com</a>.</p> <p>This is an unpaid internship and it will last three to four months and I'm looking for someone who can start as soon as next week. <a href="mailto:megan@thestranger.com">E-mail me</a> if you have questions.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/09/i-need-a-new-music-calendar-intern?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13313659&id=comments 0 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:30:25 -0700 The Stranger A Note About Tonight's Raincoats Show http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/a-note-about-tonights-raincoats-show http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/a-note-about-tonights-raincoats-show Dave Segal <p>In <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/26/british-post-punk-greats-the-raincoats-to-play-chop-suey-316">this Line Out post</a> about <strong>the Raincoats</strong>’ show at <a href="http://www.chopsuey.com/index.html">Chop Suey</a>, I wrote that former talent buyer <strong>Matt Moroni</strong> was responsible for the booking. While Moroni initiated negotiations, the deal was finalized, after much hard work, by his replacement, <strong>Devin Floyd</strong>. Respect is due to all at Chop Suey for making this gig happen.</p> <p>Finally, don’t forget to read <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/showers-of-love/Content?oid=13016435">Kurt B. Reighley’s insightful piece</a> on the Raincoats in this week’s paper.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7lGVCFbgZ1E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/a-note-about-tonights-raincoats-show#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13058316&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Tonight http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/a-note-about-tonights-raincoats-show?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13058316&id=comments 0 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:47:54 -0700 The Stranger Create a Stranger Band Page (Or Update the One You Already Have) http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/create-a-stranger-band-page-or-update-the-one-you-already-have http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/create-a-stranger-band-page-or-update-the-one-you-already-have Megan Seling <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:164px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/f624/1331844043-picture_6.png" alt="This could be you!" title="This could be you!" width="152" height="273" /><ul><li class="imageCredit"></li><li class="imageCaption">This could be you!</li></ul></div>Are you a Pacific Northwest-based band? Do you have a <em>Stranger</em> Band Page? If not, you should! You can post photos, a band bio, music, and more, and <strong>it's totally FREE</strong>. </p> <p>Say you have a show in Seattle and it gets listed in <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/EventSearch?eventSection=3208279">our music calendar</a>. If you have a Stranger Band Page your band name will get a little orange headphone icon next to it so readers can find out more information about you with just one click. Neat!</p> <p>Also, the Band of the Week (seen on our <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Music">music homepage</a>) is selected every week from bands with <em>Stranger</em> Band Pages. This week <a href="http://classifieds.thestranger.com/seattle/ViewBand?oid=oid:1321963&ms">it's Encourager</a>. They remind me of early ’00s pop punk. (And they're <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event?event=12239953">opening for Vendetta Red this Saturday</a> at the Crocodile, FYI.) Next week it could be you! </p> <p><strong>To create a <em>Stranger</em> Band Page</strong> for your band/musical project <a href="http://manage.thestranger.com/gyrobase/PostAd?subsection=oid%3A77614&section=oid%3A77569">head over here</a> and fill out the form. Easy peasy!</p> <p><strong>If you already have one</strong>, but you want to edit the information, <a href="http://classifieds.thestranger.com/seattle/SelfPublishingResend">go here</a>, type in the e-mail address you used to create the band page with, and it'll hook you up with instructions via e-mail.</p> <p>Now, a tune from this week's Band of the Week, Encourager:</p> <p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38828353&show_artwork=true"></iframe></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/create-a-stranger-band-page-or-update-the-one-you-already-have#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13045506&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/16/create-a-stranger-band-page-or-update-the-one-you-already-have?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13045506&id=comments 1 Create a Stranger Band Page (Or Update the One You Already Have) This could be you! Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:02:25 -0700 The Stranger Here's How to Get Your Show Listed in The Stranger's Music Calendar http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/15/heres-how-to-get-your-show-listed-in-the-strangers-music-calendar http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/15/heres-how-to-get-your-show-listed-in-the-strangers-music-calendar Megan Seling <p>Hopefully you've had a chance to peruse our <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/rock-and-roll-survival-guide/Content?oid=13017933">Rock-and-Roll Survival Guide</a>, which basically tells you everything you could want to know about existing in the world as a musician.</p> <p>You know what else is good to know? <strong>How to get your show information in our music calendar.</strong></p> <p>DJs, bands, solo musicians, whatever! If you're playing an open-to-the-public show, we want to know about it. Now, if you're playing an established venue, there's a good chance the club will submit the info themselves. <strong>Dozens of venues in Seattle are really great about ensuring that we have the latest</strong>—the Crocodile, Neumos, the Blue Moon, the Sunset, Tractor Tavern, Skylark, El Corazon, the Triple Door, Showbox at the Market and Showbox Sodo, the Comet, the Neptune, High Dive, the Paramount, Chop Suey, Nectar, the Moore, etc. They send us calendars every week so you don't have to!</p> <p>But if you're playing a smaller venue or bar, or if you want to be safe instead of sorry, you can also submit the show info yourself. It's really easy! All you have to do is <a href="http://post.thestranger.com/seattle/AddListing/Page?what=event">fill out this online form</a> and TA-DA! You did it! <strong>Bookmark that web address.</strong> Keep it forever.</p> <p>If you'd rather you can also e-mail your show info to <a href="mailto:music@thestranger.com">music@thestranger.com</a>. (This is where you can send press releases and links to new music, too.) When submitting information via e-mail, be sure to ALWAYS include the <strong>show date, venue, line-up, ticket price, age restrictions (21+ or all ages?), and show time</strong>.</p> <p>Every single day I get at least one show listing that didn't include either the date or the venue. How can it be listed without a date or place? So double and triple check before sending.</p> <p>It's best to submit the info at least <strong>TWO WEEKS prior to the event</strong>. Sooner is even better. (But not so soon that you don't have everything nailed down and are constantly e-mailing with updates—that shit is annoying). </p> <p>And now you know!</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/15/heres-how-to-get-your-show-listed-in-the-strangers-music-calendar#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13027397&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/15/heres-how-to-get-your-show-listed-in-the-strangers-music-calendar?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13027397&id=comments 5 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:00:39 -0700 The Stranger A Note to Our Readers http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/12/a-note-to-our-readers http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/12/a-note-to-our-readers Christopher Frizzelle <p>Two weeks ago, <em>The Stranger </em>published <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/she-makes-beats/Content?oid=12833594">a piece by Charles Mudede about the rapper Katie Kate.</a> <em>Stranger</em> art director Aaron Huffman selected this photo by Jenny Jimenez to go with the article.</p> <p> <div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/59c9/1331594155-katiekategood.jpg" alt="katiekategood.jpg" title="" width="500" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Jenny Jimenez</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div></p> <p>Huffman had some other images Jimenez had taken of Katie Kate, too, including this one below—and when it popped up on Huffman's screen, <strong>Mudede exclaimed that he loved the lines:</strong> the banister, the stripes on the walls, etc. It isn't a better photo of Katie Kate than the first one, but it does show the side of her head shaved (as mentioned in the story) and a little more of her apartment building (the setting for the recording of her album). </p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/066a/1331594527-katiekatebad.jpg" alt="katiekatebad.jpg" title="" width="500" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Jenny Jimenez</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div></p> <p>Between Mudede's enthusiasm for the lines and my inexplicable desire to more accurately show the haircut (?!), to say nothing of Huffman's amazing capacity not to impose his will on other people (the more stressful things get, the more amazing this quality seems)—because of all these reasons, the better image was replaced with the less-good one. Even though, clearly, <strong>Huffman was right all along.</strong> He could have stubbornly insisted on his choice, but that's just not the sort of dude Huffman is. One commenter has been pretty blunt about it though:</p> <blockquote><p>So this is super shallow of me but i can't get over how truly awful that photograph of her is. Posture that gives her a hunchback, tight off the shoulder dress, undershaved head/weird hairstyle i am not cool enough to understand, from a high angle where she almost in the the center of the picture?</p> <p>I applaud people who bravely put the things they've created out there into the world of haters, but man, any other photo of her has to be better than this one. </p></blockquote> <p>Dear commenter: You're totally right. In related news: I'm an idiot! On the article page, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/she-makes-beats/Content?oid=12833594">we've replaced the unflattering image with the image we should have run all along.</a></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/12/a-note-to-our-readers#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13000586&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/12/a-note-to-our-readers?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13000586&id=comments 6 A Note to Our Readers Jenny Jimenez Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:55:53 -0700 The Stranger M.I.AWW. http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/08/miaww http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/08/miaww Dean Fawkes <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="318" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sZyyYScmdZA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/08/miaww#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12952993&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Dancing http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/03/08/miaww?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12952993&id=comments 1 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:03:46 -0800 The Stranger This Week in the Music Section: Pat Thomas's Listen, Whitey!, J. Pinder, Black Bananas, Whitney Ballen, Trent Moorman Takes a Lesbian to the Ballet, the West Launch Party in West Seattle, and HELLA MORE http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/22/this-week-in-the-music-section-pat-thomass-listen-whitey-j-pinder-black-bananas-whitney-ballen-trent-moorman-takes-a-lesbian-to-the-b http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/22/this-week-in-the-music-section-pat-thomass-listen-whitey-j-pinder-black-bananas-whitney-ballen-trent-moorman-takes-a-lesbian-to-the-b Grant Brissey <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/white-mans-book-does-justice-to-black-power-music/Content?oid=12745243">White Man's Book Does Justice to Black Power Music: Pat Thomas's <em>Listen, Whitey!</em> Is History at Its Grooviest</a><br />by DAVE SEGAL </p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/rap-urbanism/Content?oid=12745268">Rap Urbanism: J. Pinder Finds His Place in Urban Hiphop</a><br />by CHARLES MUDEDE </p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/veteran-of-disorder/Content?oid=12745283">Veteran of Disorder: Jennifer Herrema Switches Gears (Sort of) with Black Bananas</a><br />by GRANT BRISSEY </p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/things-youre-not-supposed-to-hear/Content?oid=12745391">Things You're Not Supposed to Hear: Whitney Ballen's Debut Album Is Telling Everyone's Secrets</a><br />by MEGAN SELING</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/sound-check/Content?oid=12737025">Sound Check: Trent Moorman and Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy Go to the Ballet</a><br />by TRENT MOORMAN </p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/granted/Content?oid=12735090">Granted: The West Launch Party in West Seattle</a><br />by GRANT BRISSEY </p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/up-and-coming/Content?oid=12736447">Up & Coming</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/chuckletown-usa/Content?oid=12733638">Chuckletown</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=12733648">Data Breaker</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-homosexual-agenda/Content?oid=12733702">The Homosexual Agenda</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/underage/Content?oid=12733717">Underage</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/poster-of-the-week/Content?oid=12733722">Poster of the Week</a> | <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=12735109">My Philosophy</a></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><em>Line Out will return at 11 am</em></div></p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/22/this-week-in-the-music-section-pat-thomass-listen-whitey-j-pinder-black-bananas-whitney-ballen-trent-moorman-takes-a-lesbian-to-the-b?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12744762&id=comments 0 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:23:51 -0800 The Stranger Audio of a Pumpkin Being Dropped Down a Garbage Chute http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/07/audio-of-a-pumpkin-being-dropped-down-a-garbage-shoot http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/07/audio-of-a-pumpkin-being-dropped-down-a-garbage-shoot Trent Moorman <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:262px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/a835/1328610431-rubbishdoor.jpg" alt="And this bird you can not change." title="And this bird you can not change." width="250" height="279" /><ul><li class="imageCredit"></li><li class="imageCaption">And this bird you can not change.</li></ul></div>To celebrate Tuesday, I dropped a pumpkin down my fifth floor garbage chute, and recorded the audio. The pumpkin was old, large, and greening in patches with rot. (Neighbors were happy for me to take the thing off their hands.) As I carried it, rot-juice ran down my arm like a tear of pumpkin rot-joy, overcome with happiness at finally being thrown away. Previously, I had listened to <a href="http://youtu.be/6dLa2l1tyx0">“Fingerprint File,”</a> the closing track off the Rolling Stones 1974 album <em>It’s Only Rock n’ Roll</em>. Keith Richards’ wah pedal churns the song slinky, and in my opinion, it's one of the Stones’ more underrated tunes. Two years prior, during the Rolling Stones' 1972 North American tour, Keith <a href="http://youtu.be/YqI4CiDQXcM">dropped a television set off a 10th story balcony</a>. Thus, with “Fingerprint File” stuck in my head, seeing my neighbor’s decomposing pumpkin roused images of Keith’s fun with the TV, and Sir Isaac Newton. </p> <p>Newton’s law of universal gravitation is described as the mutual attraction between any two bodies in the universe. Applied here, that mutual attraction would be between a pumpkin left over from fucking Halloween and the dumpster five floors below. </p> <p>I was hoping for more of an explosive, sickening sound when the pumpkin hit, but it ended up just sounding like a basketball being thrown into the hull of a tanker. Except this basketball doesn’t bounce. The dumpster must have been empty. I wanted so much more. </p> <p>Due to the bland nature of this pumpkin’s landing sound, I made some sonic alterations. Here now for you are those sounds:</p> <p><strong>Clean Audio of a Pumpkin Being Dropped Down a Five-Story Garbage Chute:</strong><br /><embed src="/foundation/audio/player/mediaplayer.swf" width="160" height="20" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=20&width=160&file=http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/02/07/1328610823-trash.mp3&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x444444&lightcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0xFFFFFF&showicons=false&usefullscreen=false" /></p> <p><strong>With Alternate Ending 1: Guitar Solo From <a href="http://youtu.be/vIeK1FV273M">Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird”</a> Live at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, 1976:</strong><br /><embed src="/foundation/audio/player/mediaplayer.swf" width="160" height="20" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=20&width=160&file=http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/02/07/1328610945-trashpumpkin.mp3&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x444444&lightcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0xFFFFFF&showicons=false&usefullscreen=false" /></p> <p><strong>With Alternate Ending 2: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/oestrogenix/aunty-jaynes-animal-sounds">Aunty Jaynes Animal Sounds</a>:</strong><br /><embed src="/foundation/audio/player/mediaplayer.swf" width="160" height="20" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=20&width=160&file=http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/02/07/1328610972-trashfarmanimal.mp3&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x444444&lightcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0xFFFFFF&showicons=false&usefullscreen=false" /></p> <p><strong>With Alternate Ending 3: <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/06/14/shotgunning-6-the-burp-of-the-year">Travis Ritter’s Burp of the Motherfucking Year</a>:</strong><br /><embed src="/foundation/audio/player/mediaplayer.swf" width="160" height="20" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=20&width=160&file=http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/02/07/1328611010-trashritter.mp3&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x444444&lightcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0xFFFFFF&showicons=false&usefullscreen=false" /></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/07/audio-of-a-pumpkin-being-dropped-down-a-garbage-shoot#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12358376&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Art Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/07/audio-of-a-pumpkin-being-dropped-down-a-garbage-shoot?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12358376&id=comments 13 Audio of a Pumpkin Being Dropped Down a Garbage Chute And this bird you can not change. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:59:50 -0800 The Stranger Fly Moon Royalty's Action Jackson on J Dilla http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/fly-moon-royaltys-action-jackson-on-j-dilla http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/fly-moon-royaltys-action-jackson-on-j-dilla Dave Segal <p>This week's <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-steve-jobs-of-hiphop/Content?oid=12149491">article on J Dilla</a> features tributes from several local DJs/producers. One such figure, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FlyMoonRoyalty">Fly Moon Royalty</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Action-Jackson/46099924559">Action Jackson</a> (aka <strong>Mike Sylvester</strong>), just missed the deadline, but we're going to include his piece here, because... unlimited cyberspace!</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/electricteagarden">Electric Tea Garden</a> hosts the Dilla tribute tonight. <em>Donuts</em>!<br /> <br /><blockquote>I couldn't exactly pin point the first time I heard a J Dilla production because he crept into my ear without me being aware. What I mean is, I was unaware that most of my favorite tracks from my favorite artists were produced by Jay Dee. I wasn't exactly the type of Hip Hop fan/ DJ that needed to know every goddamn detail about a song to like it. If the beat knocked then you had my attention. So as years passed I started to notice a trend.... like, "oh shit Dilla produced <em>that</em>, too?" I slowly came to realize that I was in fact a huge J Dilla fan without even knowing it. </p> <p>He is the sound of Hip Hop that I fell in love with in the ’90s. He is the master of raw, edgy, neck snapping, Boom Bap. The way Hip Hop is supposed to sound (in my opinion of course). I feel that he never "over produced." What I mean by that is as an artist, when you are creating art you are satisfying something inside of you, it's tough to know when enough is enough when creating a piece of work. Sometimes you can have too much going on and it takes away from the raw essence or soul of the work. He didn't seem to do that. Some of my favorite J Dilla beats are raw and minimal.... and SO powerful. </p> <p>I believe this is why he still is extremely influential. That sound has impacted so many of us and as Hip Hop splinters and changes it becomes more rare and in turn more valuable.... to the true heads. </p></blockquote> <p><strong>[View J Dilla's "Lightworks" after the cut.]</strong></p> <p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6lrtWy6qQNY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/fly-moon-royaltys-action-jackson-on-j-dilla#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12197942&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/fly-moon-royaltys-action-jackson-on-j-dilla?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12197942&id=comments 0 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:47:11 -0800 The Stranger Line Out Will Return at 11 am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/line-out-will-return-at-11-am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/line-out-will-return-at-11-am Grant Brissey <p>Because <strong>Trent Moorman spilled some sort of "Shaman juice"</strong> all over the computer and the screen went blank. In the meantime, please go check out some of this biz:</p> <p>Sample from <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-big-uneasy/Content?oid=12170489">Kelly O's interview with the Pharmacy</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Do little old ladies ever come to your shows and try to pick up their prescriptions?</strong></p> <p>SY: Yes, Bree McKenna.</p> <p>BB: In Iowa, an older lady came to our show and told us she was gonna take a cab back to her apartment and bring us back "her pills." I think she did, and I think I ate one of them. It was terrifying. She looked like a skinny version of [drag queen] Divine.</p> <p>Stefan Rubicz: What about that creepy mom in Switzerland who kept trying to get us drunk on that weird licorice liqueur?</p></blockquote> <p>***</p> <p>For and Against Kore Ionz: <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/for-and-against-kore-ionz/Content?oid=12170711">Is Roots Reggae Still Viable in 2012?</a> Charles Mudede and Dominic Holden discuss.</p> <p>***</p> <p>Is J Dilla the Greatest Producer Ever? <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-steve-jobs-of-hiphop/Content?oid=12149491">DJAO, J-Justice, Supreme la Rock, Alex Ruder, and WD4D wax rhapsodic</a>.</p> <p>As Always: <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/up-and-coming/Content?oid=12173018">All the good shows we could fit into print</a>, not to mention, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=12172259">Data Breaker</a>, in addition to <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=12172294">My Philosophy</a>, which is not the same thing as <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/sound-check/Content?oid=12171742">Sound Check with Diminished Men</a>, which has almost as many jokes as <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/chuckletown-usa/Content?oid=12171851">Chuckletown</a>, and <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-homosexual-agenda/Content?oid=12171937">The Homosexual Agenda</a>, but way more than <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/underage/Content?oid=12172686">Underage</a> or <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/poster-of-the-week/Content?oid=12173121">Poster of the Week</a>.</p> <p>HAPPY HUMP DAY.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/01/line-out-will-return-at-11-am?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12183341&id=comments 0 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:18:34 -0800 The Stranger Line Out Will Return at 11 am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/25/line-out-will-return-at-11-am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/25/line-out-will-return-at-11-am Grant Brissey <p>In the meantime, please do look at:</p> <p>Brendan Kiley <a href="http://admin.thestranger.com/seattle/please-lord-help-me-get-my-shit-together/Content?oid=11985136">on Erin Jorgenson's <em>Redemption</em> at One the Boards</a></p> <p>Dave Segal on Pollens, whose <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/think-vocal-rock-global/Content?oid=11985180">"apestries rival those of Dirty Projectors for sophistication and gender counterpoint and interplay."</a></p> <p>Charles Mudede <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/after-triumph/Content?oid=11985219">on Wu Tang and the state of hiphop after "Triumph."</a></p> <p>Sound Check: Trent Moorman <a href="http://www<br />.thestranger.com/seattle/sound-check/Content?oid=11982444">interviews Black Breath drummer Jamie Byrum</a>.</p> <p>Plus, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/up-and-coming/Content?oid=11982703">all the week's good shows</a> we could fit in the paper, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=11985243">My Philosophy</a>, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-homosexual-agenda/Content?oid=11982493">the Homosexual Agenda</a>, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/poster-of-the-week/Content?oid=11982525">Poster of the Week</a>, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=11982670">Data Breaker</a>, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/chuckletown-usa/Content?oid=11982642">Chuckletown</a>, and <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/underage/Content?oid=11982777">Underage</a>.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/25/line-out-will-return-at-11-am?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12002336&id=comments 0 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:10 -0800 The Stranger Re-Captain Chaos http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/17/re-captain-chaos http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/17/re-captain-chaos Dean Fawkes <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:162px;"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/01/18/1326905594-383619_10100729481689748_10721621_59810973_1672693877_n.jpg" class="zoomable"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/01/18/1326905594-383619_10100729481689748_10721621_59810973_1672693877_n.jpg" alt="383619_10100729481689748_10721621_59810973_1672693877_n.jpg" title="" width="150" height="226" /></a></div></p> <p>In the dead heart of the season, time didn't stand still, even though we wish it did, Chronos-on-a-beach style.</p> <p>We'll weave through the grey.</p> <p>Recap!</p> <p><strong>The 12 Days Of Dankness</strong><br />Running up to The Big Holiday, Seattle's <strong>Lisa Dank</strong> put out a dozen new tracks, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lisa-dank/sets/12-days-of-dankness/">one per day</a>, and it was only irrationally covered here in a minimal fashion in her home-town. The best of which, though, was "Soul Mating." Dance music for busted-tins. Curls of pop urges.</p> <p><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F31069518&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F31069518&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/lisa-dank/the-6th-day-of-dankness-soul">The 6th Day of Dankness - Soul Mating</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lisa-dank">Lisa Dank</a></span></p> <p><br /><strong>Seven Seconds Of Fire</strong><br />Meanwhile, also last month, <em>The Economist</em> <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21541707">valiantly traced</a> the origin, threads, and highlights — including Mantronix's "King Of The Beats," Shy FX's "Original Nuttah," and <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21540676">more</a> — of the juggernaut seven-second 'Amen' break, an under-championed flash in the culture and one of the most irrefutably influential micro-bits of music of the last thirty years.</p> <blockquote><p>The jumpiness of these parts of the break becomes urgent. [Simon] Reynolds talks about the 'panic rush' of <a href="http://youtu.be/GxZuq57_bYM">the break</a> at this tempo, the 'state of emergency' it created among clubbers. [Tom] Skinner draws attention to the way deft producers would emulate drummers' tricks in their manipulation of the break, creating 'ghost notes' — rhythmic shuffles of sound that help the beat swing. Others introduced hyperactive snare rushes or stop-start mini-loops, and deployed the cymbal crash to signify not the beat's conclusion but rather its ongoing pressure.</p></blockquote> <p><br /><strong>Guess That Cunt Gettin' Eaten</strong><br />If the last decade was the sound of <strong>M.I.A.</strong> eddying out into the sub/super-population, from <strong>Madonna</strong>, <strong>Beyoncé</strong>, <strong>Santigold</strong>, <strong>Nicola Roberts</strong>, and <strong>Christina Agueliera</strong> to <strong>Skream</strong>, <strong>Sleigh Bells</strong>, <strong>Rihanna</strong>, <strong>Fergie</strong>, and <strong>Nicki Minaj</strong>, the influence still manages to ebb out, this time with America's <a href="http://www.azealiabanksforever.com"><strong>Azealia Banks</strong></a>.<br /> <br />An earlier collaborator with <strong>Major Lazer</strong> and the latest unsigned discovery to be hat-tipped by professional scene-chatters, <strong>Banks</strong> lets herself get caught in the extended momentum with "212" — self-released back in September — thanks to an unlawful buffalo stance of <strong>Lil' Kim</strong>, "Caught Out There"-era <strong>Kelis</strong>, <strong>Dizzee Rascal</strong>'s mega-watt grime, and the above endearing amateurism of <strong>Lisa Dank</strong>, but still over-poweringly pepper-sprayed with the grinning, old-school NYC block-party circus that is <strong>Rye Rye</strong>.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="246" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i3Jv9fNPjgk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />Which is a platter of references to say "212" is quite a stimulant, absolutely no question, but we fear the unavoidable <strong>James Blake</strong>-styled (mostly trans-Atlantic) pre-hype, and recent signs of her lapping it up, might prematurely wipe her off the map.</p> <p><strong>D.O.T.D.O.A.</strong><br />Or as <strong>Mike Skinner</strong> says, "I feel like Azealia has left me. She was mine."</p> <p>After <strong>Skinner</strong> killed off <strong>the Streets</strong> at a farewell show last October, complete with the entire audience joining him on-stage for a toast, he quickly formed a new project, <strong>the D.O.T.</strong> with <em>Computer & Blues</em> and ex-<strong>the Music</strong> vocalist <strong>Rob Harvey</strong>. Result? Saccharine, so far. At times screeching. And discouragingly underwhelming.</p> <p><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F29619884&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F29619884&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/the-dot/heart-wont-bruise">Heart Won't Bruise</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/the-dot">the d.o.t.</a></span> </p> <p><br /><strong>Wiseguy, If You're Nasty</strong><br />Big Beat veteran <strong>DJ Touché </strong>, now known as <strong>Fake Blood</strong>, salvaged some of his personal experimental mixes made up entirely from underground horror films, too.</p> <blockquote><p>Instead of doing a mix made up of actual records, I decided to do a 5 minute track, but made up SOLELY of samples taken from the so-called 'Video Nasties' (ie: horror films from the '70s and early '80s, mostly Italian and American, that were banned in the U.K. up til the BBFC reviewed the decisions after James Ferman retired), and a couple of other related movies. Every sound in this mix is from these films — even the drums.</p></blockquote> <p><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F29354050&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F29354050&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/fake-blood/touch-video-nasty-minimix-2005">Touché - "Video Nasty" MINIMIX (2005)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/fake-blood">Fake Blood</a></span></p> <p><br /><strong>Down With The Trumpets</strong><br />U.K. hiphop has rarely been more prominent thanks largely to grime's mainstream-modifying staying power, and 2011's most convincing case was Brighton's <a href="http://www.rizzlekicks.com"><strong>Rizzle Kicks</strong></a>, a loved-up digital daisy space-age rap partnership that found a fan in Stephen Fry and took the Caribbean-pop baton from the '70s ska-revival, the city's <strong>Fatboy Slim</strong>, and the most spectacular flash-points of <strong>Lily Allen</strong> and ran off with it, even while they more or less tended to stay in a lane marked <strong>Stereo MCs</strong>.</p> <p><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="425" height="246" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Rc2iUwMpb8Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br /><strong>Twenty Records To Celebrate Instead Of <em>Nevermind</em></strong><br />Leaving Earth <a href="http://earthexit.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-of-1991-20-records-to-celebrate-in.html">writes</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>It's not just a matter of <em>Nevermind</em> being unbelievably overrated as a rock record, or that its 'revolutionary' effect of restoring rock to its gritty authentic essence was such a forced media construct, dreamed up by a poisonous cocktail of record industry and ageing rock journalists who wanted something like <strong>Nirvana</strong> to happen; the ultimate amalgam of the most lame rock authenticity clichés — garage/punk 'rock out'-energy and scruffy/maladjusted indie songwriting.</p> <p><br />Why music that successfully, yet uninventively and predictably, pander to the unchanging taste of this teen demographic, is somehow <em>the</em> sociological signifier — the zeitgeist — of an era, is beyond me, and partly why it's so annoying that old school rock critics manage to sell this ridiculous myth — that they themselves totally believe — to the world.</p> <p><br />The thing is: there indeed <em>was</em>, to put it very mildly, some other stuff around at the time. <em>Nevermind</em> came out during the first year of one of the greatest upheavals in music history, and compared to <em>that</em> it was utterly insignificant, musically conservative, uninventive, and regressive.</p> <p><br />It's not that I think rave culture (or for that matter hip-hop or metal) was more or less sociologically important than grunge, I don't really care and have nothing invested in whether it was so or not, it's that it came up with such unbelievable riches, such endless innovation and astonishingly new and fresh music, that if you're looking back at 1991 and see <em>Nevermind</em>, you're not just missing out, you're simply missing one of the greatest musical revolutions ever, and that in favour of a triviality that just repeats the past.</p> <p><br />And you're <em>definitely</em> missing the zeitgeist.</p></blockquote> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/17/re-captain-chaos#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11664213&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Words Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/17/re-captain-chaos?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11664213&id=comments 0 Re-Captain Chaos Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:35:00 -0800 The Stranger What Do You Do About Noisy Neighbors? http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/13/what-do-you-do-about-noisy-neighbors http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/13/what-do-you-do-about-noisy-neighbors Trent Moorman <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:262px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2012/01/13/1326487448-floor.jpg" alt="My floor. They are down there Greco wrestling and fetishizing baby fetished penguins." title="My floor. They are down there Greco wrestling and fetishizing baby fetished penguins." width="250" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit"></li><li class="imageCaption">My floor. They are down there Greco wrestling and fetishizing baby fetished penguins.</li></ul></div>I have neighbors that listen to industrial metal loudly. Some days, all day long, they crank industrial metal. It sounds like they are throwing plywood around. Or performing some sort of Greco Roman wrestling competition/extreme thrash bondage ceremony on the walls. Sometimes it gurgles. They live below me. When there is gurgling, I picture them sacrificing small animals such as baby penguins, and duct taping themselves to a girl dressed up like Smurfette. </p> <p>I’ve been patient. I like music a lot. On occasion, I crank music as well, even some industrial metal when the bed-of-nails mood strikes. Some music needs to be cranked. Iron Maiden’s <a href="http://youtu.be/QyLVLw7OH44">“Powerslave”</a> for instance. Or Soundgarden’s <a href="http://youtu.be/VGtCf4wwj3g">“Room a Thousand Years Wide.”</a> But cranking music is like anything, and must be done in moderation. Not incessantly. I stomp on the floor sometimes to get them to turn it down. It worked once, I think. But the next day, they were back at it. One thing I don't want to do is piss them off. This could lead to louder more incessant cranking. I had a friend who once had noisy neighbors. He left them a note that said, “TURN YOUR SHIT DOWN.” And he built a satanic altar in front of their door with a helix and a claw and lit candle. His neighbors stopped playing loud music. I don’t want to build a satanic altar though.</p> <p><strong>What do you do about noisy neighbors?</strong> What are my rights? What are their rights?</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/13/what-do-you-do-about-noisy-neighbors#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11680983&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/13/what-do-you-do-about-noisy-neighbors?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11680983&id=comments 49 What Do You Do About Noisy Neighbors? My floor. They are down there Greco wrestling and fetishizing baby penguins. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:38:51 -0800 The Stranger This Week in the Music Section: Seattle Symphony, Theophilus London, Cate le Bon, and http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/12/this-week-in-the-music-section-seattle-symphony-theophilus-london-cate-le-bon-and http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/12/this-week-in-the-music-section-seattle-symphony-theophilus-london-cate-le-bon-and Grant Brissey <p>Read Jen Graves's profile on new Seattle Symphony flutist </p> <blockquote><p>Demarre McGill's first name is pronounced "de-MAR-ay," and on the day I meet him near Benaroya Hall, he is dressed like a prep-school success with the slightest extra flash. He's an easy talker, polite, focused, and with a smile, like his mother's, that spreads the width of his face. "They almost named me Demarrio! Then I'd have had to be an R&B singer," he says, laughing. "I'd have made it work." He's interested in classical music as music, not as "the finest music," he says, and tells me that his regimen for auditions includes choosing an anthem he plays before and after tryouts. For Seattle, it was Lupe Fiasco's "The Show Goes On." "So thanks, Lupe—who's from Chicago, by the way," he says.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/turning-air-into-sculpture/Content?oid=11586158">Continue Reading >></a></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YdivvWR4eBo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Mike Ramos on Theophilus London:</p> <blockquote><p>But like him or not, London is a preternatural modern-day pop star. Not content with just pushing his music, he's creating his own lane and marketing his entire personal brand—a nebulous buzzword to most and a popular one to people who wear expensive suits and stage focus groups. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/how-to-make-it-in-the-music-industry/Content?oid=11586278">Continue Reading >></a>.</p> <p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F24206109&show_artwork=true" frameborder="0" ></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/album-review-indie-rock-it-girl-cate-le-bons-cyrk/Content?oid=11586411">Dave Segal reviews Cate le Bon's latest, <em>Cyrk</em></a></p> <p></p> <p>"Ciocarlia Si Suite"<br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.thestranger.com/flash/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24"><param name="movie" value="http://www.thestranger.com/flash/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="autostart=no&bg=0xCCCCCC&leftbg=0x0056A5&lefticon=0xFFFFFF&rightbg=0x0056A5&rightbghover=0xE87217&righticon=0xEEEEEE&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x6CB112&soundFile=http://www.orkestarzirkonium.com/audio/ciocarlia_si_suite.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object></p> <p><br />Brendan Kiley on <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/album-review-orkestar-zirkoniums-too-hot-for-sleep/Content?oid=11586455">Orkestar Zirkonium's <em>Too Hot for Sleep</em></a>, and, as always, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Music">all your favorite (and least favorite) columns</a>.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/12/this-week-in-the-music-section-seattle-symphony-theophilus-london-cate-le-bon-and?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11652104&id=comments 0 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:46:05 -0800 The Stranger I Want to Tell You About Bob Mays' Dank Record Sanctuary http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/28/i-want-to-tell-you-about-bob-mays-dank-record-sanctuary http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/28/i-want-to-tell-you-about-bob-mays-dank-record-sanctuary Dave Segal <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/12/28/1325111319--3.jpg" alt="Bob Mays, Detroit record-dealer legend, in his goddamn element." title="Bob Mays, Detroit record-dealer legend, in his goddamn element." width="500" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Dave Segal</li><li class="imageCaption">Bob Mays, Detroit record-dealer legend, in his goddamn element.</li></ul></div></p> <p>The words below were originally intended to run in the <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-things-that-music-did-to-us-in-2011/Content?oid=11272279">group feature</a> in this week’s paper about some <em>Stranger</em> staffers’ most memorable musical moments of 2011. Lack of space sent the piece to the cutting-room floor, sadly. Because I think everyone should know about <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bob_mays">Bob Mays</a> and his incredible storehouse of records, though, I’m going to post the thing here. The photos I took don’t really convey the chaos and clutter that inhabited Mays’ Hazel Park, Michigan house and garage, but perhaps a visit to Mike Nipper’s new pad could give you a glimmer of an idea of the <em>Hoarders</em>-like environment in which Bob lived and dealt. Here it is.</p> <blockquote><p>Through a network of word-of-mouth testimonials, people come from all over the country to rifle through Bob Mays’s precariously stacked used LPs and 45s in his shabby Hazel Park, Michigan home. I made a pilgrimage in June based on a tip from a fellow transplanted Detroiter DJ friend [<strong>Jon François Stone</strong>]. (Hazel Park is a suburb directly north of Detroit; locals derisively call it “Hazeltucky” because it’s largely a haven for white trash.) </p> <p>A DJ friend [<strong>Brian Hill</strong>] of my DJ friend graciously drove me to Mays’s decrepit abode. The man was sitting in his living room chain smoking in his short-sleeve shirt unbuttoned in deference to the heat. Balding and white, he looks to be in his late 60s; he says little. As we entered, he was buying vinyl from a 50-something black gentleman. Records in random stacks and singles in boxes dominate the room, which reeks of mold and cigarette toxins. You can be paralyzed with indecision over where to begin; there’s no organization. You realize that you could conceivably spend all day, risking emphysema with each breath, sifting through the museum of music rotting here.</p></blockquote> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/12/29/1325176423-13251114204.jpg" alt="A tiny fraction of Bob Mays stock, in his garage, which didnt smell very good." title="A tiny fraction of Bob Mays stock, in his garage, which didnt smell very good." width="500" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Dave Segal</li><li class="imageCaption">A tiny fraction of Bob Mays' stock, in his garage, which didn't smell very good.</li></ul></div></p> <blockquote><p>The garage out back, though, is a whole other level of claustrophobia-inducing chaos. If your waist tops 38 inches, you’ll need to lube up to move through the narrow paths in this dank sanctuary. One feels pity for these thousands of records, stacked willy-nilly on tables and perched on groaning shelves, mostly neglected. A cornucopia of familiar and obscure greats and duds resides here, arrayed with no regard for searching ease. The quality varies wildly, but I found sweet deals on Dennis Coffey, the Fugs, and Letta Mbulu albums, so the lung cancer I likely contracted from my three-hour hunt was worth it.</p></blockquote> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/12/28/1325111588--5.jpg" alt="My valiant guide, DJ Brian Hill, perusing the goods, risking emphysema." title="My valiant guide, DJ Brian Hill, perusing the goods, risking emphysema." width="500" height="333" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Dave Segal</li><li class="imageCaption">My valiant guide, DJ Brian Hill, perusing the goods, risking emphysema.</li></ul></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/28/i-want-to-tell-you-about-bob-mays-dank-record-sanctuary#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11285319&id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Out of Town http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/28/i-want-to-tell-you-about-bob-mays-dank-record-sanctuary?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11285319&id=comments 2 I Want to Tell You About Bob Mays' Dank Record Sanctuary Bob Mays, Detroit record-dealer legend, in his goddamn element. Dave Segal Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:38:26 -0800 The Stranger Looking for Some Evening Reading? http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/looking-for-some-evening-reading http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/looking-for-some-evening-reading Grant Brissey <p>Read Charles Mudede on Sting, Paul Simon, Gregory Issacs, and Bruce Springsteen shows... <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/random-remembrances-while-watching-sting-at-the-paramount/Content?oid=11182850">a quarter century ago in Zimbabwe.</a></p> International Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/looking-for-some-evening-reading?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11197242&id=comments 0 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:29:24 -0800 The Stranger Line Out Will Return at 11 am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/line-out-will-return-at-11-am http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/line-out-will-return-at-11-am Grant Brissey <p>Because we're all busting our asses on early print deadlines.</p> Housekeeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/21/line-out-will-return-at-11-am?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11190189&id=comments 0 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:23:25 -0800 The Stranger