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Aberdeen Skins Never Say Die

October 8, 2013 0 Comments

“Awww put your clothes back on, faggot!” A handful of skinheads swirled around the pit, shielding their eyes from my nakedness. For some reason we were playing in Aberdeen, Washington. The promoter was a chubby kid with a floppy green Mohawk named Phil. Phil seemed to have mild Down’s syndrome and he spoke with a stutter. “Ther…ther… ther…are no real skinheads in America. The… the only real skinheads are in England.” The Aberdeen skinhead crew didn’t take kindly to Phil’s […]

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Contradictory Name, Decisive Music: Positive No Debuts

October 7, 2013 0 Comments

Among the albums I’m most excited about this year is Via Florum, the debut from Richmond, Virginia’s Positive No. These five songs head more into the “cathartic post-punk” territory: melodic in places, emotionally exhausting in others.

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Jim White, Excellent Lute Playing, and Curious Dogs Equals Pure Joy

October 2, 2013 1 Comment

As drummers go, Jim White is one of the best working today, equally at home playing frenzied fills in Dirty Three, taking a more restrained approach with his work with White Magic a couple of years ago, or providing the backbone of the all-star band providing the music for Jem Cohen’s We Have an Anchor at BAM. All of which has us especially eager to hear Xylouris White, his new project with lute player George Xylouris.

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Band Booking: Talking Chiptune and Cyberpunk with Infinity Shred

September 26, 2013 0 Comments

Last week, the highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto V was released, making almost $1 billion on its first day. Coupled with the fact that gross revenue from video game sales eclipsed that of the film industry in 2005, it seems logical that video game culture would have begun making inroads into other realms of pop culture. Digital music has always made reference to the midi tracks of early video games; as technology changes the tools we use to make music, the impulse to revel […]

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Band Booking: Talking Pynchon and DeLillo with Grooms

September 19, 2013 0 Comments

I saw Grooms play their album release party for their new full-length Infinity Caller at Death By Audio on August 31st. It was maybe the first time I’d been to the venue since the summer began where it didn’t feel like a sauna. The gig was full without being packed in a way that would encourage belligerence. Like a lot of their 90’s throwback peers, Grooms and their fan base nurture a kind of slacker-oriented, music nerd atmosphere at their shows, […]

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Band Booking: Talking Indonesian Folktales with Trabajo

September 9, 2013 0 Comments

The best music makes you hear sounds in new ways, reframing and re-contextualizing the components of a song so that they create something novel and hopefully unique. In the same way that David Bowie took funk music and gave it an arch, English twist, good music proceeds in a zig-zag, sourcing known materials to produce something that moves the art form forward. It’s rare enough to find a band that genuinely tries to do that, and that’s totally fine. A lot […]

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Band Booking: Jenn Ghetto on Silly Goose, Covering Blink-182, and More

September 4, 2013 0 Comments

Listening to her work as part of the ornately melancholy band Carissa’s Wierd, or her solo work as S, you might not expect to find Seattle’s Jenn Ghetto fronting a Blink-182 cover band. And yet. Silly Goose, Ghetto’s latest group, just released their debut seven inch, featuring a trio of faithfully-played covers bolstered by Ghetto’s distinctive voice. For this writer, at least, much dancing in a desk chair ensued. I checked in with Ghetto to learn more about the project’s […]

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Video Premiere: Sunglasses and Surreal Imagery in Adam Lareau’s Power-Pop “It’s Too Late To Be Yesterday”

August 27, 2013 0 Comments

We’re pleased to bring you the debut of Adam Lareau‘s “It’s Too Late To Be Yesterday,” from his new album Vacation Transportation. Fans of classic power-pop will find much to enjoy here, and Lareau’s creative process — described below — is also fascinating. Brace yourselves for crashing waves and a barrage of sunglasses…