If you’re interested, my review of the Angels of Light show at the Tractor Tavern here in Seattle. You’ll find it and a whole lot more in the new issue of Creem Magazine.
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Part One:
Finally, a moment to myself where I can sit, sip my coffee and think.
A friend once said to me that she looked forward to final exams (or any other imposed deadline) because it ensure that her apartment would be clean. As I sit in front of a list of creative goals I’d like to [...]
So this isn’t the newest news ever. Excuuuuuse me.
Prompted by an interview in the Columbia Spectator with Vice Records GM Adam Shore, Stereogum took the liberty of holding a “You Might Be An Indie-Yuppie If…” contest. The original winner: “If your jeans cost more than an iPod, but your t-shirt cost less than a pack [...]
Today was a good day for music.
Sleater-Kinney’s new full length The Woods: a little more raucous, but still unmistakeably SK!
Gorillaz CD + DVD Demon Days: yes, yes, I know Damon is SO wonderful.
Death In Vegas’ last album Scorpio Rising was all over the place, more of a compilation than an [...]
A belated thanks to Dan way back at the beginning of April to confirm that the Faunts indeed signed to Friendly Fire and are due to release an album later this summer. In the meantime, you’ll just have to be content with hanging out at the site and listening to Memories of Places We’ve Never [...]
Where does the time go?
Last Thursday I hit the M.I.A. in-store at Sonic Boom (my home away from home) with Heff and Mark. The in-store was due to start at 7pm, but based on her show and in-studio at KEXP I was fairly certain this was not going to happen on time. Checked in at [...]
A message from Alan posted on the Low messageboards at Chairkickers.com:
dear friends,
the following is a lot of sentences starting with ‚Äúi‚Äù. i‚Äôve heard this is bad form and it tends to paint a very egocentric picture of the writer. good thing i‚Äôm a musician…
low has to cancel the shows we have booked in may [...]
I’m quite tired, and yet I am waiting to leave for the Tractor for the Angels of Light / Akron | Family show. I saw them (i.e. Michael Gira) a few years back at the old Fenix Underground (before the earthquake caused it to move locations). I remember getting a strange dusty prairie feeling from [...]
I’m crushing your head. I’ll give you one guess at what came in the mail from Netflix today. And while on that subject, has anyone noticed a recent lag on the delivery of DVDs? Ah well, either way the alternative is a scam.
Anyway, onto the new music for this week. Maktub has a new (and [...]
I know I always say I love bands. I heart Nick Cave, I heart Graham Coxon, blah, blah, blah. So you may be tempted not to believe me. You might think that I say that about everybody, but you would be wrong. It’s just that there are so many bands out there to love! [...]
Back from a rather long day at work with the highlight definitely being the Graham Coxon in-studio over at KEXP. He’s so damn cool in a way only a British boy can be. His four song set included: Latte (from The Kiss of Morning), Life It Sucks (from the Spectacular single), Freakin’ Out and All [...]
where has the time gone? i woke up this morning to find it was the Ides of March. when i went to bed, it was 2004.
i have been neglecting the blog in favor of working. working on what? i thought you’d never ask.
working on work: working on a super secret development project at work that [...]
yipee yahoo! the next Cure reissues has been given a release date of April 26th. this brings us just a little bit closer to the release date for Disintegration. next in line: Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. the breakdown is as follows:
Seventeen Second’s rarities disc:
01. I’M A CULT HERO (vinyl single by CULT HERO)
02. I [...]
some random sonic bursts for you:
working and watching The Arcade Fire live at KCRW at the same time. talk about multi-tasking. i’m watching in moderation though so as not to throw myself back in to the vicious cycle of listening to Funeral over and over again.
walked over to Tower at lunch today (sorry Sonic Boom!) [...]
i was over at Dunbarius’ LJ reading a quick post about Brendan Benson and it caused a minor flashback to the first time I’d heard of him. and now i must bore you with my stories of days long gone.
about 9 years ago i used to work in Royal Oak, MI the self proclaimed ‘hip’ [...]
look people, you might as face it … i’m going to be posting about The Cure as long as they are putting out music (mediocre or not). our CDs could use some shiny new replacements and these reissues have been the opportunity to retire the old ones. oh the horror that Disintegration won’t be out [...]
things have been a little slow as of late, but i managed to scrape a little from the bottom of the plastic bin.
Low’s new album The Great Destroyer was released late last month and they are touring to support it. i’m not sure how i feel about it. they have definitely moved to a heavier [...]
as the end of the year draws to a close, i start to feel the need to sum up what i’ve digested and expelled. it’s more selfish than anything else and allows me to make the yearly promise to listen more, read more and write more in 2005.
out of the hundreds of movies released in [...]
so it occurs to me after just writing that last post that top 5 shows of all time is of course, relative. for example, maybe my top 5 shows of all time include John Tesh, David Hasselhof and other TVcore. BTW just kidding about that nickname. my best show of all time could be that [...]
despite being ill on Friday, i managed to yank myself together for a show i was definitely not going to miss (unlike Slayer Friday night). there has been so much hype about the band Arcade Fire that you might dismiss them as the next hot thing (see Scissor Sisters). but i’m here 2 tell you, [...]
