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Glam-Rock Masterpieces

Emily Nokes — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:55:58 -0800

Don't forget! The awesome Jerick Hoffer and the Hedwig Band are playing tonight at the Sunset!

Get a sneak peek at the cast of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing January 15-27 at the Moore Theatre. Jerick Hoffer (Hedwig) and the show's band, The Angry Inch, will play a special rock show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard on Monday, January 7. The band will play selections from the show's musical score by Stephen Trask plus a few additional glam-rock masterpieces.

Doors at 7pm // $6 (21+ only w/ I.D.)
Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Avenue NW

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"Do You Like Music? Do You Like Performance? Are You Easily Influenced By Powerful, Gorgeous, Intelligent People?"

Bree McKenna — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:46:57 -0700

Attention, Implied Violence fans! Genius Award Winner and performance savant Mandie O'Connell (formerly one of the big cheeses behind the wildly successful Seattle-based experimental theater company Implied Violence) has just formed a new project out of Berlin called La Mission.

La Mission is a record label, a performance group, a cult, a community, a situationist art gang, and an awesome way to spend your time (and some of your money). In 2012 and 2013, La Mission will release five records by Beaner (cult leader/garbage mill/El Jefe). These releases will be celebrated with an experimental performance by Mandie O’Connell/Knuckle Cartel (co-cult leader/Headmistress/Naked Mennonite) and are accompanied by a satirical cult tract/hymn book edited by ethno-musicologist and PhD (the Techno Doctor) Luis Manuel-Garcia.

If you watch the "Sophisticated Booty Call" video above, you will find that they are currently crowd-sourcing for the physical releases and live performances that will accompany their initial debut. (For a mere $7, you get inducted in with a brand new cult membership card and La Mission's Digital Theme Song download. With a contribution of more than 5K, they fly to your location and throw you a private secret society/cult coming-of-age initiation fest with your closest friends, and provide a L.M. themed Quinceañera dress or yarmulke-n-tallit.)

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Bed Snake!

Anna Minard — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:00:33 -0700

One of my favorite live-entertainment experiences of the year was Bed Snake at Washington Ensemble Theater. I reviewed it, then Suggested it, then recommended it again in our Bumbershoot guide. And now I'm here on the Line Outs, saying one more time that you should go see it if you have the chance. It starts at 2 pm today at the Center House Theater.

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This Just In: Kanye Worship to Reach Ridiculous Proportions

Grant Brissey — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:45:37 -0700

I generally expect more out of Australians than this (facebook page):

A musical dedicated to the life of Kanye West is set to be staged in Australia next month.

The production, which has been put together by Philip Rosser, a member of the drama society at Sydney University, is said to tell the story of West's rise from humble beginnings making beats for Jay-Z to ultimately become one of the most famous men on the planet.

Rosser claims that he "really just meant the show to be something fun for [his] friends to see," but that he's really excited about all the attention it's getting. We truly live in terrifying times. I want Kanye to write a rap about this Aussie prating around a stage representing his likeness.

via: NME

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The London Riots: It's Not the Clash, It's Sonic Youth

Brendan Kiley — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:23:10 -0700

People keep making Clash references ("London's Burning," "Guns of Brixton," etc.) when they talk about the riots in Britain. But that's not quite right—it gives the rioters too much political credit. Though the unrest began with a protest against police for killing a man during an arrest (and something about the closing of government-sponsored youth centers), the violence has quickly turned into a riot of opportunity—it's about leather and looting and an angry fuck you to the grownups, whose government's moral authority had been crumbling for years and completely collapsed under the weight of the Murdoch scandal.

Because if Scotland Yard and your biggest public officials are proven to be (not just suspected to be) venal, corrupt, lying, squirrelly shits, then who, exactly, is going to tell the kids what they can and can't do?

The parents, apparently. From the BBC:

Shops in Clapham Junction came under sustained attack from looters on Monday night.

Conservative MP for the area, Jane Ellison, said parents should be asking some tough questions of their children.

You know the state has (temporarily) lost its authority when government officials are calling on parents to end a national urban riot. Just box 'em on the ears and send 'em to bed without supper. That'll sort it!

Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper-nation for you

So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze

And consider this detail from the New York Times:

David Lammy, Britain’s intellectual property minister, also called for a suspension of Blackberry’s encrypted instant message service. Many rioters, exploiting that service, have been able to organize mobs and outrun the police. “It is unfortunate, but for the very short term, London can’t have a night like the last,” Mr. Lammy said in a Twitter post.

The authorities are trying to turn off the technology—that is the best proof that this riot is about youth vs. (doddering, delegitimized) age.

The kids are acting out what the "thankless child" Regan snarls to her father in King Lear:

O, sir, you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine: you should be rul'd and led
By some discretion, that discerns your state
Better than you yourself.

Order will be restored, of course. But this is not about "The Guns of Brixton." It's about "say it/don't spray it/
spirit desire/spirit desire/spirit desire/we will fall."

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