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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) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/did-the-teen-idles-record-the-best-stooges-cover http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/did-the-teen-idles-record-the-best-stooges-cover Mike Nipper <p>When I was younger, just a budding record nerd, it was SOOOOOO much easier to find a copy of the <strong>Teen Idles </strong><em><a href="http://youtu.be/ct-si746NTY">Minor Disturbance</a></em> EP and/or the DCHC compilation <em> Flex Your Head</em> than to find ANYTHING by the <strong>Stooges</strong>. Of course, it was the '80s and I was in North Carolina. That said, the <strong>Teen Idles </strong>hardcore version of "No Fun," found on <em> Flex Your Head</em>, was so different when compared to the Stooges' original slow paced and attitude-filled "<a href="http://youtu.be/SomQX54qhz0">No Fun</a>," when I finally DID hear the original I didn't think it was the same song! DERP! </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lARll8NrTpk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>I hafta admit I'm <em>SLIGHLTY</em> trolling, or rather being kinda cheeky, when I suggest the Teen Idles produced the best Stooges cover, but DAMN, I do love this song. Also: the <strong>Damned</strong>'s take on the Stooges' "1970" as "<a href="http://youtu.be/i5hV3x-DGDU">I Feel Alright</a>," the <strong>Dictators</strong>' "<a href="http://youtu.be/xuKd65C6jvU">Search And Destroy</a>," <strong>Sonic Youth</strong>'s "<a href="http://youtu.be/vAYNQPWSwFk">I Wanna Be Your Dog</a>," <strong>Birthday Party</strong> "<a href="http://youtu.be/GLzMdbKGmhc">Loose</a>," <strong>Radio Birdman</strong> "<a href="http://youtu.be/p1tp04KlJh0">TV Eye</a>," <strong>Hanoi Rocks</strong> "I Feel Alright," and like <strong>all of what anyone ever called </strong>(ahem) <strong>grunge</strong>. </p> <p>Am I missing any quality <strong>Stooges</strong> covers, from like PRE-1990...?! And yes, I AM on purpose ignoring the <strong>Sex Pistols</strong>' version of "<a href="http://youtu.be/6RPvfJXh-n0">No Fun</a>;" I hate the Sex Pistols. Gimme some danger in the comments, y'all.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/did-the-teen-idles-record-the-best-stooges-cover#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16337471&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Loud Nerd Song ??!! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/did-the-teen-idles-record-the-best-stooges-cover?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16337471&id=comments 5 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:47:23 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/04/stealing-a-break-from-segaljamul-all-you-have-left-is-me http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/04/stealing-a-break-from-segaljamul-all-you-have-left-is-me Mike Nipper <p>As I've said before, I'm not <em>really</em> a part of <strong>Segal</strong>'s ongoing "<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Search?cx=018412283168992679552%3Ayvxwdz723au&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=ill+give+you+a+break&sa=Search">I'll Give You a Break</a>" series, but <strong>I am an awkward record nerd who sometimes THINKS he can add to the melee of beats/samples and whatnot</strong> and I'm willing to hi-jack Segal's action, occasionally! Uh, yeah..so, dig them first eight seconds of <strong>Jamul</strong>'s "All You Have Left Is Me."</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nNCuOY0OiBA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Originally known as <strong>Jamul City Funk Band</strong>, <a href="http://crotchbat.blogspot.com/2007/04/jamul-1970.html">Jamul</a> was a heavy blues/boogie trio of long hairs from San Diego. Their verion of "<a href="http://youtu.be/nncmr5wgy8M">Tobacco Road</a>" is quite nice, and a cheapy&#8212;you can find the 45 for less than ten bones!</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/04/stealing-a-break-from-segaljamul-all-you-have-left-is-me#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16158471&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Loud Nerd Song http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/04/stealing-a-break-from-segaljamul-all-you-have-left-is-me?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16158471&id=comments 0 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:12:32 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/28/the-message-of-the-matrix http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/28/the-message-of-the-matrix Mike Nipper <p>For years, bands have scratched messages into the run off grooves of their records. I first noticed it on punk/hardcore records in the '80s. It was cool to suss out the shit cause it made the band seem that much MORE in the know and connected to who they were playing to. </p> <p>Here's <strong>Bl&#8217;ast</strong>'s message from their <em>Power of Expression</em> LP...what does it MEAN!?!</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Side A:</strong> I DIE LAUGHING AT YOU WHEN YOU LAUGH AT ME<br /><strong>Side B:</strong> SCREAM FOR TOMORROW</p></blockquote> <p>If you have time to eyeball <a href="http://publiccollectors.org/MatrixMessages.htm">THIS PARTIAL LIST</a> of matrix messages do it, it's a time suck, but entertaining! <strong>Please add any other found matrix messages in the comments! </strong></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/28/the-message-of-the-matrix#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16110715&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> I'm Still a Virgin Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/28/the-message-of-the-matrix?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16110715&id=comments 3 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:36:26 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/attention-nerds-who-love-to-gorge http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/attention-nerds-who-love-to-gorge Pamela Sternin <p>Are you shitting me?! Highline has made all of my dreams come true!! ALL YOU CAN EAT SPAGHETTI and <strong>$5 off regional beer pitchers</strong> PLUS a showing of <em>Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</em>!! Dude, you can't beat it!! <strong>Gorgeasarus Rex Fest comes at you this Sunday</strong>, the 6th starting at 7pm. Put your wizard staff skills into action!</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/attention-nerds-who-love-to-gorge#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15653785&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nightlife Party! Nerd Booze ??!! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/attention-nerds-who-love-to-gorge?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15653785&id=comments 0 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:23:53 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army Anna Minard <p>As commenter Seattle Peach <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army-has-already-been-covered-up#comments">points out</a>, "Poster Giant can't exist without their clients." So if <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army-has-already-been-covered-up">those posters</a> really are for/connected to <a href="http://prime.paxsite.com/">PAX Prime</a>, as other commenters and <a href="http://tendervalidations.com/post/29985203158/poster-giant-can-suck-my-dick-or-seattle">bloggers</a> have noted, I wonder what PAX thinks of the Poster Giant controversy? PAX has a reputation for being a <strong>relatively safe/lady-friendly nerd con</strong>, 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 <strong>google "dickwolves"</strong> for more info). So... I wonder if they'd mind that they're now maybe part of <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/girl-army">the current poster wall brouhaha</a>? I have some e-mails out to see if I can get an answer.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The posters are for Hawken, a game by <a href="http://www.adhesivegames.com/">Adhesive Games</a>, 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. <strong>PAX's involvement = pretty dang nonexistent.</strong></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14538443&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Art Two-Block Radius Graffiti Nerd Politics http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/22/re-girl-army?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14538443&id=comments 0 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:31:21 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/13/teenbeat-mayhem http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/13/teenbeat-mayhem Mike Nipper <p><em>Teenbeat Mayhem</em> IS the end all-be all, an UNFUCKWITHABLE history/discography of EVERY American beat/garage record from the '60s. Uh...DAG!! This is the loving result of Mr. <strong>Mike Markesich </strong> AKA <strong>MopTop Mike</strong>'s decades of research and obsessive collecting, and its DONE, printed and available to own. <strong>FUCK YES</strong>!!</p> <blockquote><p><strong>It&#8217;s finally here!</strong> The ULTIMATE guide to garage rock in the 1960s. A massive A-Z discography documenting every known garage/teenbeat 45 release &#8212; over <em>16,000 songs</em> by thousands of teenage rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll groups from across the USA. Also includes a detailed history of the mid-60s teenbeat explosion and its lingering impact on popular culture. Plus the Top 1,000 '60s Garage Tracks, <strong>as voted on by a panel of experts</strong>. Lavishly illustrated (in black &amp; white and full-color) with rare band photos, label shots, picture sleeves and more. ESSENTIAL!</p></blockquote> <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:316px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/0bc2/1344884361-teanbeat.jpg" alt="Sorry for the crap pic, it was carelessly taken in my dim assed kitchen." title="Sorry for the crap pic, it was carelessly taken in my dim assed kitchen." width="304" height="363" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Nipsh</li><li class="imageCaption">Sorry for the crap pic, it was carelessly taken in my dim assed kitchen.</li></ul></div> I just got my copy on Saturday, but have yet to find any time to crack it open. Attention record nerds: MINE IS CURRENTLY STILL SEALED! Right, this thing is huge and instead'a kinda getting a quick passing gander I wanna find an afternoon to soak ALL the info up. Or...really (ahem) to just drool over all the label scans...HOLY CRAP!! </p> <p>The first run is small, so if you want one, get it while the gettin' is good. <strong>I have no idea if there will be a second printing.</strong> <em>Ugly Things</em> magazine <a href="http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/uglythings/the-171/TEENBEAT-MAYHEM-by-Mike/Detail">has copies on offer</a> or you can go direct to <strong>Markesich</strong>'s <a href="http://teenbeatmayhem.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. If you do visit <strong>Markesich</strong>'s <a href="http://teenbeatmayhem.blogspot.com/">blog</a> scroll down and read a bit of his story, do it...<em>seriously</em>, about the trials of a record collector in way deep collecting not only records, but the STORY of each record.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/13/teenbeat-mayhem#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14448270&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> I'm Still a Virgin Nerd #1 Fan http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/13/teenbeat-mayhem?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14448270&id=comments 0 !!<em>TeenBeat Mayhem</em>!! Sorry for the crap pic, it was carelessly taken taken in my dim assed kitchen. Nipsh Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:14:57 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/06/an-old-rocker-with-a-pompadour-is-the-guy-who-got-us-back-on-mars http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/06/an-old-rocker-with-a-pompadour-is-the-guy-who-got-us-back-on-mars Megan Seling <p>Last night, as I watched footage of the new Mars rover, Curiosity, I developed quite a crush on <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/157597270/crazy-smart-when-a-rocker-designs-a-mars-lander">Adam Steltzner</a>. He's the NASA engineer who lead Curiosity's Entry, Descent, and Landing team. But did you know he also used to be a bass player in Bay Area bands, nearly flunked out of school, and initially passed on college to be a rockstar? </p> <p>It's true! <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/157597270/crazy-smart-when-a-rocker-designs-a-mars-lander">NPR.org recently profiled him</a>, saying:</p> <blockquote><p>Steltzner's path to becoming team leader for this new Mars lander was hardly direct. Unlike many successful engineers, he struggled at school. An elementary school principal told him he wasn't very bright. His high school experience seemed to confirm that.</p> <p>"I passed my geometry class the second time with an F plus, because the teacher just didn't want to see me again," he says.</p> <p>His father told him he'd never amount to anything but a ditch digger, a remark he still carries with him years later.</p> <p>Maybe that's because school wasn't a priority, particularly with the distractions of the flower-power era in the Bay Area.</p></blockquote> <p>He had a <strong>&#8217;69 Cadillac with a bed in the back</strong>. He was living a life of, as he says, "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." But after looking at the stars and noticing Orion one night, on the way home from a show, Steltzner was inspired. He enrolled in a physics course at a local community college. <strong>Then, he put a fucking magical robot on Mars.</strong> </p> <p>So the next time your parents flip you shit about playing music, you tell them about Steltzner, <strong>just one more freakishly smart musician</strong> who can join the growing list of rock and roll geniuses, which includes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May">Brian May</a> of Queen (PhD in astrophysics), <strong>Greg Graffin</strong> of Bad Religion (PhD in zoology, teaches at Cornell University, and has a new species of bird named after him), <strong>Milo Aukerman</strong> of the Descendents (PhD in biochemistry), and <strong>Mira Aroyo</strong> of Ladytron (PhD in molecular genetics). And there are plenty more where that came from.</p> <p><strong>Who's your favorite rock and roll smartypants?</strong></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/06/an-old-rocker-with-a-pompadour-is-the-guy-who-got-us-back-on-mars#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14382729&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd News http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/08/06/an-old-rocker-with-a-pompadour-is-the-guy-who-got-us-back-on-mars?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=14382729&id=comments 2 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:48:14 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/were-number-13-were-number-13 http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/were-number-13-were-number-13 Megan Seling <p>According to the delightfully nerdy <a href="http://musicmachinery.com/2012/05/20/what-is-the-most-musical-city-in-the-united-states/"> MusicMachiner.com</a>, <strong>Seattle is the 13th most musical city in the US</strong>. Here's how they got that statistic: </p> <blockquote><p>I gathered up the top 50,000 or so U.S. artists, found their city of origin and tallied the number of artists per city. From this tally I calculated the number of artists per 1,000 inhabitants in each city. The more artists per 1000 inhabitants, the more musical the city.</p></blockquote> <p>Neat idea with some unexpected results. Beverly Hills is #1, San Francisco is #2, and Nashville is #3, but New Orleans, which I assumed would be in the top 10 at least, is all the way down at #36. And New York City is #37! I suppose if it were just kept to Brooklyn it'd be a much different story. If you throw a rock in Brooklyn, you hit a musician. (But it's not nice to throw rocks, so don't do that.)</p> <p>See the top 25 cities (and find out more <a href="http://musicmachinery.com/2012/05/20/what-is-the-most-musical-city-in-the-united-states/">about how they got the data) here</a>.</p> <p><small>(Thanks for the tip, Ben H.!)</small></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/were-number-13-were-number-13#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13738326&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Sort of News Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/22/were-number-13-were-number-13?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13738326&id=comments 0 Tue, 22 May 2012 11:03:49 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/04/a-nerdy-contribution-to-the-beastie-boys-lovefest http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/04/a-nerdy-contribution-to-the-beastie-boys-lovefest Anna Minard <p>I know I've never heard of any music, but if pressed to name my favorite album of all time, I'd probably say <strong><em>Licensed to Ill</em></strong>. If you are like me, and love both the Beastie Boys and random knowledge, I highly recommend checking out the <a href="http://www.beastieboysannotated.com/">Beastie Boys Annotated</a>, a totally impressive fan project where one dude went through and <strong>annotated the lyrics and samples of every song</strong>&#8212;noting what they're sampling and what pop culture or literary references they're making. For example:</p> <blockquote><p>Because mutiny on the Bounty's what we're all about <br /> <em>A reference to the mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1789. Used commonly in popular vernacular to indicate subversion.</em></p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda <br /> <em>Abe Vigoda is probably best known for his character Detective Fish on the television show </em>Barney Miller<em> which aired in the 1970s.</em></p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Thunderbird is the word and you're light as a feather <br /> <em>Thunderbird Wine is a cheap wine.</em><br /> <em>"Bird is the word" comes from the surf/rockabilly classic "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen (1964)</em></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.beastieboysannotated.com/">Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out</a>, especially if you're going to spend the rest of the day listening to the Beastie Boys, which you should. RIP, MCA.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/04/a-nerdy-contribution-to-the-beastie-boys-lovefest#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13556531&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Words Nerd RIP http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/05/04/a-nerdy-contribution-to-the-beastie-boys-lovefest?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13556531&id=comments 3 Fri, 04 May 2012 12:13:11 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/12/may-the-4th-be-with-you-or-a-rock-show-for-nerds http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/12/may-the-4th-be-with-you-or-a-rock-show-for-nerds Megan Seling <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:212px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/75e1/1334270555-kithkin_star_wars.jpg" alt="Kithkin_Star_Wars.jpg" title="" width="200" height="309" /></div>Heads up, <em>Star Wars</em> fanatics:</p> <blockquote><p>Kithkin will be playing a special show at Chop Suey with Tomten, Nude, and Feet on May the 4th. In honor of this most galactic of holidays, we will be celebrating "May the 4th Be With You" by promising <strong>at least one Star Wars cover per band for each set</strong>. The show is all ages, begins at 8 pm, tickets are $8 adv, $10 at the door.</p></blockquote> <p>Unless you wear a <em>Star Wars</em> costume at the door, then it's still only $8! (And in that case, <a href="http://io9.com/5392964/diy-star-wars-costumes">this might come in handy</a>.)</p> <p>Also worth noting (via the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/277732698974582/">Facebook event page</a>):</p> <blockquote><p>*Anybody dressed as Jar-Jar Binks gets a special gift from Kithkin. <br />*No toy light sabers, this is not a joke. </p></blockquote> <p>Pre-sale tickets are <a href="http://www.strangertickets.com/events/4799849/kithkin-tomten-nude-feet">available here</a>.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/12/may-the-4th-be-with-you-or-a-rock-show-for-nerds#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13342459&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/04/12/may-the-4th-be-with-you-or-a-rock-show-for-nerds?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=13342459&id=comments 0 May the 4th Be With You (Or: A Rock Show for Nerds) Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:47:14 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/08/whats-in-a-name-sons-of-warren-oates http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/08/whats-in-a-name-sons-of-warren-oates Kelly O <p><strong>Dear Sons of Warren Oates: </strong>You're a local band that I've never seen, except for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBm2ueUSs9I">this video from Magma Fest 2011</a>. Now I'm not a really a folk rocker, but I think your acoustic sets are excellent! I realize you're made up of members of the Maldives and the Moondoggies, so you know what-the-F you're doing. One thing I ask though, is PLEASE do right by the real Warren Oates (RIP)? He's one of my favorite actors of all time&#8212;making three, count 'em three, of my very favorite films. (<a href="http://cinematicobsessive.blogspot.com/2011/09/tuesdaya-overlooked-films-race-with.html">ONE</a>, <a href="http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/cockfighter/poster.htm">TWO</a>, <a href="http://betweentheseats.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-bring-me-head-of-alfredo-garcia.html">THREE</a>). Anyway, don't do anything <a href="http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2257">the real Warren</a> wouldn't do (and maybe Neumos should have a drink special in his honor at your next show?) &#8212;LOVE, Kelly O</p> <p><small>"The Warren Oats," circa 1974's <em>Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia</em>:<br /></small><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4OMoZNdz1v4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><em><small>Sons of Warren Oates, with Kevin Murphy (of the Moondoggies), and Davidson Hart Kingsbery, @ Neumos, 2/22, 8 pm, $8, 21+ </small></em></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/08/whats-in-a-name-sons-of-warren-oates#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12406472&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd #1 Fan http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/02/08/whats-in-a-name-sons-of-warren-oates?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12406472&id=comments 1 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:49:18 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/31/stealing-a-break-from-segalmontroses-rock-candy http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/31/stealing-a-break-from-segalmontroses-rock-candy Mike Nipper <p>Okay, obviously I'm not really part of <strong>Segal</strong>'s ongoing "<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Search?cx=018412283168992679552%3Ayvxwdz723au&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=ill+give+you+a+break&sa=Search">I'll Give You A Break</a>" series, but I am an awkward record nerd who sometimes THINKS he can add to the melee of beats/samples and whatnot...so, dig the first twelve seconds. </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="320" height="215" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lUeuAnMNDhA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>"Rock Candy" is from the first <strong>Montrose</strong> LP, <em>Montrose</em>, it was also the first rock record I ever bought. That is, a rock record not like <strong>Bo Diddley</strong> or <strong>Elvis</strong>, but for reals LONG HAIR shit. My Uncle had this, so I had to get it. And when I say I bought it on "record" I um, actually bought it on cassette. I didn't actually start buying records like a proper record nerd until someone broke into my car at a high school party and stole all my cassettes!!!! GAH!! After that I figured if I bought LPs and taped 'em THEN I'd never lose 'em. It worked. All the subsequent times my car has been broken into NO ONE took my HUGE box of homemade tapes.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/31/stealing-a-break-from-segalmontroses-rock-candy#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12141130&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/31/stealing-a-break-from-segalmontroses-rock-candy?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12141130&id=comments 1 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:19:22 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/26/a-record-player-that-plays-trees http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/26/a-record-player-that-plays-trees Kelly O <p>This is all over the interwebs. I can't believe it's real. A record player that can <a href="http://vimeo.com/30501143">play slices of wood</a>? Makes me wonder what a monkey tail, or as Charles Mudede would call it a <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-sexiest-trees-in-seattle/Content?oid=1705587"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-sexiest-trees-in-seattle/Content?oid=1705587"> "monkey puzzle tree"</a> would sound like...</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30501143?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/26/a-record-player-that-plays-trees#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12036125&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Gear Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/01/26/a-record-player-that-plays-trees?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=12036125&id=comments 3 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:39 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/23/add-a-ball http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/23/add-a-ball Mike Nipper <p>Okay, so I just moved to Fremont, up the hill and EAST of 99, natch, and last night was the first time I had a chance to go out and exactly what the fuck did I find? <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Add-a-Ball-Amusements-Bar-Arcade/283349448367651?sk=info">ADD-A-BALL</a></strong>!! An ARCADE?! In godamn FREMONT?! Yup, AND...by the way, they serves the beer, so 21 and over, kids. In fact, <strong>Add-a Ball</strong> ain't nothing but an arcade, it's NOT a club with an arcade, it <strong>is solely an arcade</strong>. Right, so, holy shit I had fun, even tho' <strong>I royally SUCK balls when it comes to video games</strong>. Um, as I'm a record nerd I dunno exactly the huge awesomeness of the games they evidently have, but the "World Cup Soccer" game was some serious kick ass. The jams were sweet too, they had their RADIO dial set to 104.5, so both <strong>Spirit</strong> AND the <strong>Sonics</strong> buzzed my ears. <strong>The atmosphere is "perfect hang out."</strong> It's the basement you wish you could'a had when you were 14, if you were 14 in 1983, AND with a beer option, so, <strong>a TOP CLASS HANG OUT all 'round</strong>. </p> <p>As for any other details...um, well, <strong>I was quite wasted when I showed up</strong> so I have no idea their hours or shit like that, but I can tell you where <strong>AaB</strong> is located...it's BEHIND, and under, <strong>Piece of Mind</strong> (315 N. 36th St.) in Fremont. Just head down the hill, parking lot/taco truck side, towards the alley look to your right and you'll see a real bright blue and red sign that says "Arcade". Okay?! Dig?! Now <strong>go, hang, and be stoked.</strong></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/23/add-a-ball#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11222369&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nightlife Nerd Last Night #1 Fan http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/23/add-a-ball?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11222369&id=comments 9 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:01:02 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/20/the-falls-nate-will-not-return-from-ersatz-gb http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/20/the-falls-nate-will-not-return-from-ersatz-gb Grant Brissey <p>So what if it's just a picture of the album cover with the song playing. It's <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/fall-video-of-the-day/">Fall Video of the Day</a> because "Nate Will Not Return" is one of the stronger points off <em>Ersatz G.B.</em>, and <strong>G.B. does NOT stand for Grant Brissey</strong>. How does Mark E. Smith continue to make good music at this point? I'm pretty sure he's just a <strong>songwriting robot that runs on alcohol</strong>, an extremely non-lucrative creation of some crazy/genius scientist. Sure the robot has slipped up a couple times, but this album, which dropped December 6, and the last one I heard, 2005's <em>Fall Heads Roll</em> are both tits.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="369" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CLQvrck2RsU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/20/the-falls-nate-will-not-return-from-ersatz-gb#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11179920&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Fall Video of the Day Nerd Album http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/20/the-falls-nate-will-not-return-from-ersatz-gb?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=11179920&id=comments 1 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:25:44 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/29/lets-talk-holiday-music-dave-segal-avert-your-eyes http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/29/lets-talk-holiday-music-dave-segal-avert-your-eyes Megan Seling <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:262px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/11/29/1322603775-santacat.jpg" alt="Even my cat loves Christmas!" title="Even my cat loves Christmas!" width="250" height="352" /><ul><li class="imageCredit"></li><li class="imageCaption">Even my cat loves Christmas!</li></ul></div>There's nothing I love more this time of year than holiday music. I will even listen to shitty holiday music, like Mariah Carey's Christmas album, because that is how much I love holiday music. (I draw the line at Michael Buble&#8212;fuck that guy.) But thankfully, for every cheesy, awful, boring Christmas song out there, there's also some good stuff! It's just a little harder to find. Right now, for example, I'm listening to the Parenthetical Girls' "<a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/12/10/merry-christmas-love-the-parenthetical-girls">Thank God It's Not Christmas</a>."</p> <p>And while I have a pretty impressive arsenal that I've collected over the years, there's always plenty more to uncover. Any other holiday music nerds out there have any favorites I definitely need to add to my collection? Yesterday <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/28/songs-for-the-holidays-shannon-and-the-clams-fat-daddy">Kelly O shared</a> the new Shannon and the Clams holiday hit with us. <strong>Is the new She &amp; Him Christmas album any good?</strong> I'm not usually a fan of S&H, but maybe I will like them when they sing about presents and snow? I know Exohxo is working on their <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/12/13/holiday-music-round-up-iii-exohxmas-kris-orlowski-the-puppini-sisters-and-more">annual holiday EP</a>, but are there <strong>any other local bands getting in on the action</strong> this year?</p> <p>Tell me everything you know about holiday music! I will sit here and wait, while listening to Stevie Wonder tell me what Christmas means to him (candles burning low/lots of mistletoe!).</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/29/lets-talk-holiday-music-dave-segal-avert-your-eyes#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10886712&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/29/lets-talk-holiday-music-dave-segal-avert-your-eyes?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10886712&id=comments 47 Let's Talk Holiday Music! (Dave Segal, Avert Your Eyes) Even my cat loves Christmas! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:52:30 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/16/the-end-for-twi-rock http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/16/the-end-for-twi-rock Bree McKenna <p>A few years ago, I started hearing about a fan genre called <a href="http://twirock.livejournal.com/869.html">"Twi-Rock."</a> Similar to the way the genre "Wizard Rock" produced &#8220;Harry and the Potters," Twi-Rock gets its lyrics from the themes/heroes from Stephenie Meyer's <em>Twilight</em> series. I became obsessed with the whole Twi-rock phenomenon because, despite the series&#8217; weak female characters and thinly veiled religious values (Meyer has wiped Mormonism all over those books,) I couldn't help loving the fact that they were mostly nerdy teenage girls writing weird acoustic rock songs based on books (for instance, the guitar, bass and tambourine combo in one of the "Bella Cullen Project" videos I watched can almost be a weird love child of Kum-bay-yah generic Christian acoustic and The Fabulous Stains). </p> <p>So I guess <em>Twilight</em> couldn&#8217;t be all that bad if it was encouraging young girls to be passionate enough to write their own music within the safety of their romantic/vampire book sub-culture, right? For a while, bands with names like <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22125797239">"Bella Cullen Project</a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://forkshighschool.blogspot.com/">Forks High School</a>", "<a href="http://www.myspace.com/bellarocksmusic">Bella Rocks</a>," &#8221; and "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/twilightmusicgirls?sk=info">The Twilight Music Girls</a>" started getting national attention, playing major chain bookstores, the Hot Topic Tour, and getting shout-outs from the likes of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1593000/harry-potter-vs-twilight-music.jhtml">MTV.com</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bellarocksmusic">Seventeen Magazine.</a> <br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p82HNcveOxk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>But then, I forgot about Twi-rock for a while. And when when I checked back on it this week, I noticed new bands had stopped cropping up, and existing bands stopped posting new music or playing shows. According to the most recent post on the <a href="http://twirock.livejournal.com/60964.html">Twi-Rock Livejournal</a> fan page: &#8220;Well, it appears that twirock is sort of winding down; hasn't been anything new to post, that I know of, in quite awhile. With the last movie(s) coming out soon, we may see a few more but it does appear getting it's on it's way out of fashion. That's okay, though, because all things come and go in their time.&#8221; </p> <p>Was Twi-Rock so intrinsically short-lived because because it is based on the most puerile adolescent emotions? Or because the material from the <em>Twilight</em> pool was too shallow to keep getting material from? Well, goodbye Twi-Rock. Maybe the new movie coming out this week will motivate some more of these bands to do stuff...if not, fans can find solace in the fact that 63-year-old Stevie Nicks has released a <em>Twilight</em>-influenced song called "Moonlight (A Vampires Dream)" on her solo record this year. <br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ri-euoXzpIA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/16/the-end-for-twi-rock#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10735947&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Guilty Pleasure History http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/11/16/the-end-for-twi-rock?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10735947&id=comments 2 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:44:52 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/31/seattle-interactive-conference-music-events http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/31/seattle-interactive-conference-music-events Grant Brissey <p><a href="http://www.seattleinteractive.com/">Seattle</a> Interactive is a two-day event concerning "the convergence of online technology, creativity, and emerging trends in one of the world's most innovative cities." It's in its first year, starts tomorrow, and it's got some <a href="http://www.seattleinteractive.com/after-parties">afterparties</a> you may be interested in (if you're a registered SIC attendee). Ladies, if you're looking for a well-to-do nerd man, they'll be concentrated at these places:</p> <p>First of all: <strong>Shabazz Palaces</strong>, who reignited my allegiance to their live show at the Triple Door City Arts Fest performace (<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/granted/Content?oid=10406818">as I've said</a>, it's the ideal venue for them), Showbox at the Market Wednesday night, and <strong>Mudhoney</strong> play the official closing party at Showbox Sodo. Tomorrow night, <strong>Battle of the Geek Bands</strong> at Showbox SODO. See the release after the jump.</p> <p>Also, Thursday at noon:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Digital Music Panel</strong><br />Nick Harmer - Death Cab for Cutie<br />Tim Bierman - Pearl Jam Fan Club Manager<br />Sir-Mix-A-Lot - Rhyme Cartel Records<br />Aaron Starkey - KEXP<br />Hosted by Ross Reynolds - Senior Host/Producer at KUOW-FM</p> <p><strong>Transforming the Digital Music Frontier</strong><br />Join entertainment luminaries for an introspective look at the digital music frontier. Get true insiders&#8217; perspectives on how interactive technology and platforms have disrupted the music industry&#8212;and how the industry has responded and adapted in an environment of apps, pirates, file sharing sites and storage in the cloud. Other discussion topics will cover what ownership and access means in the world of DRM (Digital Rights Management), varied online subscription models and where the music industry goes from here.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Well, the votes for the fifth and final slot for SIC's Battle of the Geek Bands sponsored by FILTER are in: 'Afraid of Figs' will be the final entrant, having won a vote-off with the<strong> 'Baudboys,'</strong> the undisputed kings of <strong>'Geek A Capella'</strong>. More than <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-finalists-battle-geek-bands">1,800 votes</a> were tallied at <a href="http://www.geekwire.com">GeekWire.com</a> since Friday. All five bands will compete in the Battle of the Geek Bands, set for Tuesday, November 1 at 8:00 pm, at downtown Seattle's Showbox Sodo. The event is open to all registered SIC attendees as a pre-show party, with a special performance by The Presidents of The United States of America to follow the competition. Early registration badge pickup is at Showbox Sodo from 5-7pm, with doors to party opening at 7pm.</p> <p>The Four Previsouly Selected Finalists:</p> <p>Band Name: Kirby Krackle<br />Band Members: 6<br />Video URL: http://<a href="http://www.youtube.com/kirbykracklemusic">www.youtube.com/kirbykracklemusic</a><br />Bio: KIRBY KRACKLE is a nerd rock duo comprised of two life-long pop-culture<br />junkies, Jim Demonakos and Kyle Stevens, who create songs dedicated to the<br />nerdiest aspects that self-same culture and have performed their unique<br />style of pop rock around the world. Since 2009, KK has self-released four<br />albums.</p> <p>Band Name: Half Acre Day<br />Band Members: 5<br />Video URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfCfiMCUVsM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfCfiMCUVsM</a><br />Bio: Half Acre Day is comprised of web/graphic/flash artists, a high school<br />video teacher, and music nerds. We play all original music. We have<br />performed with the likes of The Presidents of USA, Pedro the Lion, and The<br />Long Winters, as well as numerous times at KEXP and KGRG. halfacreday.com</p> <p>Band Name: Clutch Douglass<br />Band Members: 2<br />Video URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawOSozwWlk&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawOSozwWlk&NR=1</a><br />Bio: We are a geeky electropop duo from Seattle. Our songs are about<br />mermaids, aliens, and partying. The band consists of theater geek Rachael<br />Ferguson and band geek Corey Paganucci. The Weekly called our 1st EP "a<br />maelstrom of aggressive vocals, driving guitar, interspersed keys, and heavy<br />drum sounds".</p> <p>Band Name: Stay Tuned<br />Band Members: 3<br />Video URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUl1l-hLks">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUl1l-hLks</a><br />Bio: Stay Tuned is the world's only rock tribute to classic TV themes -<br />performing everything from a punk inspired version of The Golden Girls to a<br />reggae version of Happy Days to an Iron Maiden / Styx inspired Gilligan's<br />Island.</p> <p>Wild Card Winners:<br />Band Name: Afraid Of Figs<br />Band Members: 1<br />Video URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmjZTHX8EKg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmjZTHX8EKg</a><br />Bio: With driving beats, off-the-wall lyrics (&#8220;Don&#8217;t Wanna Be Your<br />Facebook Friend&#8221;, &#8220;I Ate A Vegan&#8221;, &#8220;Ritalin Barbie) and high energy<br />stage shows (think: Barenaked Ladies, Presidents), Afraid Of Figs are making<br />a loud stamp on the Seattle Indie music scene.</p></blockquote> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/31/seattle-interactive-conference-music-events#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10546204&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Business http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/31/seattle-interactive-conference-music-events?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10546204&id=comments 0 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:03:39 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/28/the-field-dave-segal-turns-me-on-to-some-electronic-music-for-the-second-time-in-as-many-years http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/28/the-field-dave-segal-turns-me-on-to-some-electronic-music-for-the-second-time-in-as-many-years Grant Brissey <p>As anyone who reads this weblog on any sort of regular basis has surely surmised, <strong>I don't know a damn thing about electronic music</strong>, except that I know when I hear something I like. The last thing Segal got me into was Fuck Buttons' <em>Tarot Sport</em>, which has not left heavy rotation in <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/08/17/fuck-buttons-tarot-sport-almost-a-year-later">more than a year</a> (and it's crucial in its utility as an aural <strong>writing and concentration aid</strong>). This time, it's <strong>the Field</strong>'s <em>Looping State of Mind</em>. This stuff doesn't feature the bold major chord changes of <em>Tarot Sport</em>, but it's <strong>driving and innocuous</strong> at the same time. In short, another excellent writing and concentration aid. Segal hooked me with these words as I edited next week's <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=12963&category=15276">Data Breaker</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The results sound like what My Bloody Valentine or Cocteau Twins might be doing if they were 21st-century Scandinavians immersed in European underground club culture</p></blockquote> <p>Here's a sample:</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="369" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YVNqWZPqxDE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><em>The Field play Chop Suey, Thursday, November 3.</em></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/28/the-field-dave-segal-turns-me-on-to-some-electronic-music-for-the-second-time-in-as-many-years#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10512350&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/28/the-field-dave-segal-turns-me-on-to-some-electronic-music-for-the-second-time-in-as-many-years?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10512350&id=comments 4 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:08:41 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/27/my-favorite-music-website-of-the-week http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/27/my-favorite-music-website-of-the-week Anna Minard <p>So I was looking around the interwebs researching <strong>musical-genre prefixes and suffixes</strong>, which I have recently become rather fascinated by (mostly suffixes, e.g., -step, -wave, and -core), when el Google answered my "music suffixes" search with this: <a href="www.educationalrap.com">www.educationalrap.com</a>.</p> <p>I have to say, a lot of it is waaaay better than I thought it was going to be when I saw the url. (But not all of it; there is some terribleness.) I definitely <strong>moved my head from side to side</strong> while listening to "50 States, 50 Capitals."</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F5289619"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F5289619" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/educationalrap/50-states-50-capitals">50 States, 50 Capitals</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/educationalrap">educationalrap</a></span> </div></p> <p>I also like "44 Presidents." Maybe lists of things are easier to rap about than grammatical and scientific concepts?</p> <p>The song that led me to the site is <a href="http://www.educationalrap.com/song/prefixes-suffixes-roots.html">"Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots,"</a> which says, "Let me break this down, we start with root words, the truest/Not a full word, just a linguistic unit." Word. (Har har!)</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/27/my-favorite-music-website-of-the-week#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10492789&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Teh Internets http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/27/my-favorite-music-website-of-the-week?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10492789&id=comments 0 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:02:06 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/26/here-i-am-rock-you-like-a-herman-cain http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/26/here-i-am-rock-you-like-a-herman-cain Mike Nipper <p><a href="http://www.katzwinkel.com/blog/rock-you-like-a-herman-cain/">I'm sorry to get all POLITICAL on Line Out!</a> No really, I'm sorry.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/26/here-i-am-rock-you-like-a-herman-cain#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10492329&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Drinking Drugs Celeb Fashion Mischief Crap I'm Still a Virgin Nerd Guilty Pleasure Media Classic #1 Fan Teh Internets Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/26/here-i-am-rock-you-like-a-herman-cain?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10492329&id=comments 1 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:36:02 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/30/blue-man-group-interview http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/30/blue-man-group-interview Trent Moorman <p>I interviewed a member of <a href="http://www.blueman.com/">Blue Man Group</a>. Very briefly. His name was &#8220;Theorem&#8221; or something like that. Blue Man Group play the Paramount Oct. 7-16:</p> <p><strong>So, you guys are blue?</strong></p> <p><em>Theorem (or whatever he was called), in an English accent)</em>: Yes, we&#8217;re called Blue Man Group.</p> <p><strong>What the fuck is wrong with you guys? Doing this shit?</strong></p> <p>&#8212; click. <em>End of call</em>.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/30/blue-man-group-interview#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10163314&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Drugs Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/30/blue-man-group-interview?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10163314&id=comments 6 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:46:07 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/20/seattle-pop-festival-july-25-to-july-28-1969 http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/20/seattle-pop-festival-july-25-to-july-28-1969 Grant Brissey <p>So, I grew up in Woodinville. I used to work out at Gold Creek Country Club, which has this weird dome building that looks like a <strong>giant ping-pong ball buried five-sixths of the way underground</strong>. Inside there's a basketball court where, as a 10-year-old, I learned to slam dunk from a Sonic (can't remember which one). By high school I wasn't going there any more because I was too busy warming the bench for my football teammates, but as a kid I remember <strong>lots of sweaty old dads</strong> (my sweaty old dad still works out there). But I digress. Anyway, the Seattle Pop Festival was huge. Unless I'm mistaken, this was <strong>the only time the Doors and Led Zeppelin ever played together</strong>. Reportedly, 50,000 people showed to this festival organized by <a href="http://www.boydgrafmyre.com/">Boyd Grafmyre</a>. This was the lineup:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Chuck Berry</strong>, Black Snake, Tim Buckley, <strong>The Byrds</strong>, Chicago Transit Authority, Albert Collins, Crome Syrcus, <strong>Bo Diddley</strong>, <strong>The Doors</strong>, Floating Bridge, The Flock, <strong>The Flying Burrito Brothers</strong>, <strong>Guess Who</strong>, It's A Beautiful Day, <strong>Led Zeppelin</strong>, Charles Lloyd, Lonnie Mack, Lee Michaels, Rockin Fu, Murray Roman, Santana, Spirit, Ten Years After, <strong>Ike &amp; Tina Turner</strong>, Vanilla Fudge, Alice Cooper and The Youngbloods.</p></blockquote> <p>Holy shit. I want a time machine. SPF took place a month before Woodstock (where 400,000 people showed). </p> <p>After the jump: an account of the night the Doors and Zepplin played from <em><a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a></em>, where Zepp unsurprisingly showed up the Doors almost exactly two years before Jim Morrison's death.</p> <blockquote><p>More than 50,000 rock fans gathered at Woodinville&#8217;s Gold Creek Park over the weekend for a practically non-stop three-day festival of music, events and exhibitions. The first annual Seattle Pop Festival was a marvel of crowd control and smooth organization.</p> <p>Sunday night was supposed to belong to The Doors but <strong>it was stolen right out from under them by the great English blues group, Led Zeppelin</strong>.</p> <p>Coming onstage about 11:30pm, immediately after <strong>the forced extravaganza of The Doors</strong>, the Zeppelin faced a jaded and uncomfortable audience that had been standing in the cold all evening. But the electricity of lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page quickly warmed them up.</p> <p><strong>Plant has a voice that is controlled hysteria</strong>. Anguish pours from his every note; his voice is an epitome of the blues.</p> <p>Page is an amazing guitarist. His runs and fingering are magnificent, his control of the instrument pure genius.<br />They were aided by a fine drummer, John Bonham and bassist John Paul Jones. <strong>Few who experienced it will forget Led Zeppelin's performance</strong>, especially their smashing encore of Communication Breakdown. [<em>P. Macdonald, SeattlePost-Intelligencer. July 1969</em>]</p></blockquote> <p>Anyone out there go to this festival? I doubt Line Out's got many readers in their sixties or seventies, but would great to get some first-hand accounts.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Gold Star Comment from Jessica:</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:429px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/09/20/1316550964-screen_shot_2011-09-20_at_1.31.43_pm.png" alt="Screen_shot_2011-09-20_at_1.31.43_PM.png" title="" width="417" height="327" /></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/20/seattle-pop-festival-july-25-to-july-28-1969#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10035260&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd History http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/09/20/seattle-pop-festival-july-25-to-july-28-1969?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=10035260&id=comments 15 Seattle Pop Festival: July 25 to July 28, 1969 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:31:56 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/30/new-sports-vitamin-c http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/30/new-sports-vitamin-c Jason Baxter <p>Is a remix/rework/retitled jam sort of like a "requel"? If so, does that make this <strong>re-interpretation of the Cyclist's "CAN"</strong> the <em>X-men: First Class</em> of MP3s that have dropped this week? Or is it more like the <em>Rise of the Planet of the Apes</em>? Or is it more like [insert other nerdy reference]?</p> <p>Pop-culture comparisons aside, this track serves as another good reason to join <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sportsband">SPORTS</a>'s figurative electro-dance "team," with its <strong>thirst-inspiring chorus and deliciously groovy intersections of vintage synth and guitar</strong>. Headphones up! Commence chair-dancing:</p> <p><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://jherievans.com/mp3/SPORTS%20-%20Vitamin%20C%20(The%20Cyclist%20Cover_Rework).mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/30/new-sports-vitamin-c#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9741167&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Song http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/30/new-sports-vitamin-c?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9741167&id=comments 1 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:43:15 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/18/dispatch-from-disneyland http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/18/dispatch-from-disneyland Jason Baxter <p>I recently went to <strong>Disneyland, the most magical and evil place on earth</strong>. While I had a complete blast (even if I paid out the ass for it, and never once saw Goofy), I didn't have the time or resources to scope out Disneyland's sister park, California Adventure, which is, apparently, equally insane. I was most interested in the fact that there is a whole <em>TRON</em>-themed section of the park, with a nightclub, shitty games, a ton of neon, and <strong>more <em>TRON </em>merchandise than you can huck an identity disc at</strong>. </p> <p>This photo really tells you everything you need to know about Disney's "ElecTRONica":</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:462px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/08/18/1313692714-troncrap.jpg" alt="troncrap.jpg" title="" width="450" height="600" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Collider</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div></p> <p>HOWEVER, I did hear one AMAZING, UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR REGARDING CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE AND DAFT PUNK: apparently, <strong>on a handful of nights per year, the infamous French house duo make unannounced appearances at the Disney <em>TRON</em> nightclub and DJ</strong>. Are you fucking kidding me? Can anyone corroborate?</p> <p>In related news, digitally de-aged Jeff Bridges continues to haunt my dreams.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/18/dispatch-from-disneyland#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9564011&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Out of Town ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/18/dispatch-from-disneyland?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9564011&id=comments 4 Dispatch from Disneyland Collider Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:41:51 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/16/lord-of-the-rings-inspired-music-mostly-awful http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/16/lord-of-the-rings-inspired-music-mostly-awful Travis Ritter <p>Having a best friend who <strong>watches the LOTR trilogy at least thirty times every year</strong> and yells at me to be quiet whenever it's on isn't the worst thing. What's worse is all the terrible music that has been inspired by Tolkien's great story of tiny men in capes following <strong>a talking fetus</strong>, an old hippy and <strong>Gunnar Nelson fighting retarded monsters</strong> made of sewer by-products, and a giant <strong>flaming butthole </strong>from hell. </p> <p><strong>Exhibit A: Rick Wakeman "Helm's Deep" </strong></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXcizGmoIfw?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXcizGmoIfw?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></p> <p>Yes? Oh hell no! While Rick Wakeman was tricking a bunch of Yes fans into buying instrumental new age, Sauron was creating an army of Orcs to crush their spirits.</p> <p><br /><strong>Exhibit B: Enya "Lothl&#243;rien"</strong></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fissRZIw4c?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fissRZIw4c?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></p> <p>Of course Enya helped The Fellowship of the Ring earn an Academy Award nomination for a film soundtrack, for it is she, the gilded maiden of spirited songs that belong in Middle Earth, and only Middle Earth.</p> <p><p><strong>Exhibit C: Battlelore "Sons of Riddermark" </strong><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/THLQt8kNiX0?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/THLQt8kNiX0?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></p> <p>In LOTR-inspired music, it's either soft or it's hard. Here's an example of "hard." I just call it "bad." </p> <p><strong><br />Exhibit D: Flight Of The Conchords "Frodo, Don't Wear The Ring"</strong><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0lHNCiiXGo?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0lHNCiiXGo?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></p> <p>I'll admit that this parody by kiwis Flight of the Conchords is hilariously spot on, playing into the folk and fantasy metal influences of the many folk and metal acts influenced by LOTR itself. But the little 2-bit booty rap verse toward the end is simply unnecessary. Conjuror of cheap tricks, indeed.</p> <p><br /><strong>Exhibit Never: Pearls Before Swine "Ring Thing" </strong></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0Ji_Aya7C4?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0Ji_Aya7C4?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></p> <p>The closing track to the great <em>Balaklavas </em> is one of the only LOTR-influenced songs that actually rules.* It predates Dead Can Dance by nearly three decades, and it sounds exactly like how Mordor smells: charred and dead. Though literal interpretation isn't easy to pull off in song, Pearls Before Swine succeeded where the Nazg&#251;l failed. Their music possessed powers only possible with the One Ring.</p> <p>*<em>A lot of people say Led Zeppelin were inspired by Tolkien and LOTR, especially on </em>Led Zeppelin IV<em>. But aside from a couple song titles with LOTR references, the lyrics are still very open to interpretation. </em></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/16/lord-of-the-rings-inspired-music-mostly-awful#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9527366&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/16/lord-of-the-rings-inspired-music-mostly-awful?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9527366&id=comments 9 Lord of the Rings-Inspired Music: Mostly Awful "Let's name our band Black Speech." Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:45:00 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/02/if-the-spirit-of-john-lennon-gives-you-a-song-ask-for-a-refund http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/02/if-the-spirit-of-john-lennon-gives-you-a-song-ask-for-a-refund Jason Baxter <p>At a recent stop at LA comic store Meltdown Comics as part of the promotional tour for his incredible new comics history/memoir <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Supergods-Vigilantes-Miraculous-Mutants-Smallville/dp/1400069122/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312304210&sr=8-1">Supergods</a></em>, Scottish scribe Grant Morrison (arguably <strong>the most successful and controversial comic book writer of all time</strong>, and author of <em>the Invisibles</em>, <em>Arkham Asylum</em>, <em>Animal Man</em>, and the upcoming starting-from-scratch Superman reboot) picked up an acoustic guitar and&#8212;a<strong>t the urging of friend and fellow musician-cum-comics writer Gerard Way</strong> (My Chemical Romance)&#8212;performed a song that was "given to him by the spirit of John Lennon," with whom Morrison communed in the mid-'90s, as seen in the pages of <em>the Invisibles</em>. </p> <p>Personally, I would have told Lennon he could keep it, because <strong>this song kinda blows</strong>.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="450" height="286" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xUo_8KOtVOQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />Ironically, <strong>Morrison's old band the Fauves are cra-mazing</strong>, so I choose to blame the floating Lennon godhead. Check out the Fauves' "Hello Cruel World" and "Tortured Soul" below. The latter's opening guitar riff is intoxicating, and both romp with a pleasingly post-punky energy that will totally brighten your morning.</p> <p>"Hello Cruel World"</p> <p><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&amp;bg=0xCCCCCC&amp;leftbg=0x0056A5&amp;lefticon=0xFFFFFF&amp;rightbg=0x0056A5&amp;rightbghover=0xE87217&amp;righticon=0xEEEEEE&amp;righticonhover=0xffffff&amp;text=0x666666&amp;slider=0x666666&amp;track=0xFFFFFF&amp;border=0x666666&amp;loader=0x6CB112&amp;soundFile=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ulric.kennedy/Spirophone/Hello_Cruel_World.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><br /><iframe width="450" height="286" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wuUUkPCZTBg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/02/if-the-spirit-of-john-lennon-gives-you-a-song-ask-for-a-refund#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9319112&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Song ??!! Teh Internets http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/02/if-the-spirit-of-john-lennon-gives-you-a-song-ask-for-a-refund?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9319112&id=comments 0 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:58:27 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/15/the-human-torch-fucking-sucks-at-rapping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/15/the-human-torch-fucking-sucks-at-rapping Jason Baxter <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="450" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DpBDqPYVuO4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><br />"This is for you, Melinda. I hope you like it."</p> <p>Yes, that is <strong>the Fantastic Four's Johnny Storm rapping</strong> from the (mercifully) long-forgotten '90s F4 cartoon*. Thanks to a particularly enlightening installment of Comic Book Resource's <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/15/comic-book-legends-revealed-323/">"Comic Book Legends Revealed"</a> column, I've learned (and cannot unlearn, despite how I may wish to) that Storm was voiced on the show by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Austin_Greene">Brian Austin Greene</a>, better known as <strong>Megan Fox's husband</strong> and onetime star of <em>Beverly Hills, 90210</em>. </p> <p>He also released a rap album produced by the Pharcyde's Slimkid3.</p> <p>CBR investigated <strong>the rumor that Slimkid3 wrote or produced the above song</strong>, and the man himself said he had nothing to do with it but he does remember "the beat itself from the time that he and Green were working together." Whew. Guilt absolved. </p> <p><br />*I will go to the mat with any nerd who think Marvel has ever produced a quality animated series</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/15/the-human-torch-fucking-sucks-at-rapping#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9068342&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd ??!! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/15/the-human-torch-fucking-sucks-at-rapping?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9068342&id=comments 6 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:26:18 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/11/capitol-hill-block-party-iphone-app http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/11/capitol-hill-block-party-iphone-app Grant Brissey <p>Yo, download this sucka right <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chbp/id447616679?mt=8">here</a>.</p> <blockquote><p>The Capitol Hill Block Party App is now in the iTunes store. Put the schedule in your pocket! Use it to see when your favorite bands are playing, view a map of the stages or check-in on facebook.</p></blockquote> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/11/capitol-hill-block-party-iphone-app#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9010826&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd Block Party Teh Internets http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/11/capitol-hill-block-party-iphone-app?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=9010826&id=comments 8 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:35:41 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/08/kiss-vs-the-village-people-in-post-apocalyptic-new-york-and-more http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/08/kiss-vs-the-village-people-in-post-apocalyptic-new-york-and-more Jason Baxter <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:212px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/07/08/1310142496-dazzler.jpg" alt="As this beautiful Bill Seinkewicz Dazzler cover demonstrates, the character somehow lasted into the 80s and beyond" title="As this beautiful Bill Seinkewicz Dazzler cover demonstrates, the character somehow lasted into the 80s and beyond" width="200" height="303" /><ul><li class="imageCredit"></li><li class="imageCaption">As this beautiful Bill Seinkewicz Dazzler cover demonstrates, the character somehow lasted into the '80s and beyond</li></ul></div><a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/07/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/">This article </a>by Chris Sims of Comics Alliance on onetime-Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter's <strong>failed pitch for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler">Dazzler</a> film</strong>&#8212;if not the pitch itself&#8212;is required reading. Dazzler, for all you non-geeks, was a Marvel mutant character with some form of disco-related abilities that I never bothered to learn much about. I know she wore a white jumpsuit and rollerblades, and was essentially the '70s equivalent of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_(comics)">Vibe</a>&#8212;a poorly conceived cash-in fad-based character. Anyway, I'll let Sims do the explaining:</p> <p><br />"[Shooter's] 11-page treatment [featured] Spider-Man, the Avengers and a handful celebrity guest stars that he wrote in four days. And having read it, I have come to the conclusion that it's one of the craziest things I've ever read. I say that a lot, but trust me on this one: <strong>Rodney Dangerfield plays four characters and KISS fights the Village People</strong>...The guest stars, as Shooter explains, were mandated by the record label that Marvel was working with to create a character that would be "portrayed" by a studio musician on albums. The Disco Dazzler, as she was originally known, would make her debut in&#8212;and I cannot stress this enough&#8212;a feature-length film guest starring the label's other artists as <strong>a gigantic festival of cross-promotion</strong>."</p> <p>Sims subsequent rundown on Shooter's pitch is comedy gold (and, I promise, at least tangentially music-related). You can read the whole thing <a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/07/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/">here</a>, but these are my two favorite out-of-context excerpts:</p> <blockquote><p>"<strong>The unicorn warriors are after Robin Williams</strong>, who escapes with an unconscious Dazzler after Rodney Dangerfield, to use Shooter's exact terms, clonks her on the head with a club."</blockquote<blockquote>"Dazzler finally manages to contribute something to her own movie by using her powers to turn the noise of battle into a disco light show that calms everyone down, and <strong>they get zapped back to their own time by the combined magic of Cher and Donna Summer</strong>."</p></blockquote> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/08/kiss-vs-the-village-people-in-post-apocalyptic-new-york-and-more#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=8969659&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Nerd ??!! http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/07/08/kiss-vs-the-village-people-in-post-apocalyptic-new-york-and-more?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=8969659&id=comments 2 KISS vs. The Village People in Post-Apocalyptic New York (and More!) As this beautiful Bill Seinkewicz Dazzler cover demonstrates, the character somehow lasted into the '80s and beyond Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:29:44 -0700 The Stranger